"vide" meaning in English

See vide in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

IPA: /vaɪd/ [Received-Pronunciation] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-vide.wav [Southern-England] Forms: vides [present, singular, third-person], viding [participle, present], vided [participle, past], vided [past], 'vide [alternative]
enPR: vīd [Received-Pronunciation] Rhymes: -aɪd Etymology: See divide. Head templates: {{en-verb}} vide (third-person singular simple present vides, present participle viding, simple past and past participle vided)
  1. (US, African-American Vernacular, ambitransitive) Clipping of divide (to split or separate into two or more parts.). Tags: US, abbreviation, alt-of, ambitransitive, clipping Alternative form of: divide (extra: (to split or separate into two or more parts.).)
    Sense id: en-vide-en-verb-pYEiKvai Categories (other): African-American Vernacular English, American English, English entries with incorrect language header, English links with manual fragments Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 41 28 32 Disambiguation of English links with manual fragments: 59 41
  2. (parliamentary jargon, used in the imperative) Clipping of divide! (an order for the members of a legislative assembly to divide into two groups [the ayes and the nays] for the counting of the members’ votes). Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping Alternative form of: divide! (extra: an order for the members of a legislative assembly to divide into two groups [the ayes and the nays] for the counting of the members’ votes)
    Sense id: en-vide-en-verb-e5428yY~
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Verb

IPA: /ˈvaɪdi/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈvɪdi/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈvidi/ [General-American], /ˈvideɪ/ [General-American] Forms: videte [plural], v. [alternative, abbreviation], vid. [alternative, abbreviation], vidê [alternative]
enPR: vī′dē [Received-Pronunciation], vĭd′ē [Received-Pronunciation], vē′dē [General-American], vē′dā [General-American] Rhymes: -aɪdi, -ɪdi, -eɪ Etymology: From Latin vidē (“see (thou)”), second-person singular imperative of videō (“to see”). Etymology templates: {{der|en|la|vidē||see (thou)}} Latin vidē (“see (thou)”), {{lg|imperative}} imperative Head templates: {{head|en|verb|singular imperative verb||plural|videte}} vide (singular imperative verb, plural videte)
  1. A remark directing the reader to look to the specified place for epexegesis; see; consult; refer to. Tags: imperative, singular, verb Related terms: vide antea (english: see before), vide infra (english: see below), vide post (english: see after), vide supra (english: see above), sous-vide
    Sense id: en-vide-en-verb-en:see_consult
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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