different between fidelity vs bide

English

Etymology

15th century, from Middle English [Term?], from Middle French fidélité, from Latin fid?lit?s, from fid?lis (“faithful”), from fid?s (“faith, loyalty”) (English faith), from Proto-Indo-European *b?id?-, zero-grade of *b?eyd?- (“to command, to persuade, to trust”) (English bide). Doublet of fealty.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f??d?l.?.ti/, /fa??d?l.?.ti/

Noun

fidelity (countable and uncountable, plural fidelities)

1. Faithfulness to one's duties.

2. Loyalty to one's spouse or partner, including abstention from extramarital affairs.
3. Accuracy, or exact correspondence to some given quality or fact.
4. The degree to which a system accurately reproduces an input.
   • 2003, Proceedings of the Twenty-ninth International Conference on Very Large Databases, Berlin, Germany, 9-12 September, 2003, page 58:

     By placing them closer to the source, we can reduce the number of messages in the system and this in turn is likely to improve the fidelity of the system.

Quotations

• 2004, High-Fidelity Medical Imaging Displays (Aldo Badano, Michael J. Flynn, Jerzy Kanicki, ?ISBN
• 2008, David L. Nelson, Michael M. Cox, Absolute Ultimate Guide for Lehninger Principles of Biochemistry ?ISBN, page S-305:

  The isoleucyl-tRNA synthetase has a proofreading function that ensures the fidelity of the aminoacylation reaction, but the histidyl-tRNA synthetase lacks such a proofreading function.

Antonyms

• infidelity

Derived terms

• fidelitous
• fidelity bond
• high fidelity

Related terms

• affidavit
• bide
• faith

Translations

Further reading

• fidelity in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• fidelity in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

English

Etymology

From Middle English biden, from Old English b?dan (“to stay, continue, live, remain, delay; wait for, await, expect; endure, experience, find; attain, obtain; own”), from Proto-West Germanic *b?dan (“to wait”), from Proto-Germanic *b?dan? (“to wait”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?éyd?eti, from *b?eyd?- (“to command, persuade, compel, trust”). Latinate cognates (via PIE) include faith and fidelity.

Pronunciation

• (UK, General American) IPA^(key): /ba?d/
• (US)
• Rhymes: -a?d

Verb

bide (third-person singular simple present bides, present participle biding, simple past bode or bided, past participle bided or bidden)

1. (transitive, chiefly dialectal) To bear; to endure; to tolerate.
   • c. 1570, Anonymous, Sir Clyomon and Sir Clamydes

     And doubting naught right courteous all, in your accustomed wont: And gentle ears, our author he is prest to bide the brunt

2. (intransitive, archaic or dialectal) To dwell or reside in a location; to abide.
3. (intransitive, archaic or dialectal) To wait; to be in expectation; to stay; to remain.
4. (transitive, archaic) To wait for; to await.

Usage notes

• The verb has been replaced by abide in Standard English for almost all its uses, and is now rarely found outside the expression bide one's time.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:bide.

Synonyms

• (to bear): put up with; See also Thesaurus:tolerate
• (to dwell or reside in a location): live; See also Thesaurus:reside
• (to wait): stand by; See also Thesaurus:wait
• (to wait for): await; See also Thesaurus:wait for

Derived terms

• bide one's time
• abide

Related terms

• bid
• faith
• fidelity

Translations

Anagrams

• Bedi, EBID, dieb

Basque

Pronunciation

• (standard) IPA^(key): /bi.de/

Etymology 1

Noun

bide inan

1. path, track, way
2. way, manner, method, procedure
3. journey
4. line

Declension

Derived terms

• bidea galdu
• bideari lotu
• bide eman
• labur bide

Etymology 2

Particle

bide

1. apparently, seemingly

Further reading

• “bide” in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia, euskaltzaindia.eus
• “bide” in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia, euskaltzaindia.eus

Danish

Etymology

From Old Danish bitæ, from Old Norse bíta, from Proto-Germanic *b?tan?, cognate with English bite, German bissen, Dutch bijten. The Germanic verb goes back to Proto-Indo-European *b?eyd- (“to split”), cf. Latin find? (“to cleave”), fissi? (“breaking up”) (hence fission).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?b?i?ð?]
• Rhymes: -i?d?

Verb

bide (imperative bid, infinitive at bide, present tense bider, past tense bed, perfect tense har bidt)

1. bite (to cut off a piece by clamping the teeth)

Inflection

French

Etymology

From bidon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bid/
• Rhymes: -id

Noun

bide m (plural bides)

1. fiasco, flop
2. (colloquial) paunch, belly
3. (uncountable) Something fake.

Synonyms

• (fiasco): fiasco, flop, four
• (belly): bedaine, brioche, panse
• (something fake): bidon

Derived terms

• faire un bide

Further reading

• “bide” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Japanese

Romanization

bide

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

bide n (definite singular bideet, indefinite plural bide or bideer, definite plural bidea or bideene)

1. alternative spelling of bidé

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse bíða.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²bi?.d?/ (example of pronunciation)

Verb

bide (present tense bid, past tense beid, supine bide, past participle biden, present participle bidande, imperative bid)

1. (intransitive) to exist

   Synonym: vere til

Etymology 2

From French.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bi?de?/ (example of pronunciation)

Noun

bide n (definite singular bideet, indefinite plural bide, definite plural bidea)

1. alternative spelling of bidé

References

• “bide” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• bidé, bedi, beid

Scots

Etymology

From Old English b?dan, from Proto-Germanic.

Verb

bide

1. to dwell, to live

   Tae bide somewhaur: to dwell somewhere.

   Tae bide: to dwell.

   Whaur dae ye bide?: where do you live?

2. to stay, to remain

   "Bide and fecht!" (traditional Scots phrase meaning "Stay and fight!")

Derived terms

bydand

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From French bidet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?de?/
• Hyphenation: bi?de

Noun

bìd? m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. bidet

Declension

References

• “bide” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal