Bid vs Repeat - What's the difference?
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(medicine) Bis in die : twice a day, two times per day.
Commonly written as: "amoxicillin 500 mg BID ", read as: "amoxicillin totalling 500 milligram dosage (daily total), taken two times a day".
(intransitive) To do or say again (and again).
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(obsolete) To make trial of again; to undergo or encounter again.
(legal, Scotland) To repay or refund (an excess received).
An iteration; a repetition.
A television program shown after its initial presentation -- particularly many weeks after its initial presentation; a rerun.
Patterns of nucleid acids that occur in multiple copies throughout the genome.
In obsolete terms the difference between bid and repeat
is that bid is to proclaim (a bede, prayer); to pray while repeat is to make trial of again; to undergo or encounter again.As verbs the difference between bid and repeat
is that bid is to issue a command; to tell while repeat is to do or say again (and again).As nouns the difference between bid and repeat
is that bid is an offer at an auction, or to carry out a piece of work while repeat is an iteration; a repetition.As an initialism BID
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Verb
(en verb)- (Waller)
Noun
(en noun)- We gave up after the third repeat because it got boring.