vid.
abbreviation
vide.
vid.
Americanabbreviation
vid
British
/ vɪd /
noun
Usage
What does vid. mean? The abbreviation vid. (with a period) is a shortening of the word vide, a Latin term meaning “see” or “refer to.” Vide is used in texts to direct a reader to a specific place elsewhere in the text or in another text. Vide is used in phrases like vide ante (meaning “see before”), vide infra (“see below”), vide post (“see after”), vide supra (see above), vide ut supra (“see as above”), and quod vide, which indicates a cross reference. Vide is also sometimes abbreviated as v. and vid without the period. The word vid without a period is more often used as a short version of the word video. Example: Additional information can be found in the preceding chapters (vid. pp. 44–48).
Example Sentences
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“I can tell you that we pulled surveillance vid. . . ”
From Washington Post ● Dec. 5, 2019
The Semicolon is used before words and abbreviations which introduce particulars or specifications following after, such as, namely, as, e.g., vid., i.e., etc.:
From How to Speak and Write Correctly by Joseph Devlin
M. Auzout's Objections to a part of it; vid. the new way of grinding Spherical Glasses by a Turn-lath, 4.
From Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 Giving some Accompt of the present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in many considerable parts of the World by Henry Oldenburg
The sense is quite plain if we remember that soldiers degraded on account of misconduct were made "pioners": vid. commentators on Othello, iii.
From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1 by A. H. (Arthur Henry) Bullen
A specimen is before us: it is a lepidoderma! in shining, scaly armor dressed; vid. under L. carestianum.
From The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species by Thomas H. (Thomas Huston) MacBride
“I meant die; I’m dying, I love this vid so much! I meant slay but I forgot the word.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 4, 2024
“Some may scoff at the vid of profits but some, like me, may see this and decide to change their life as I did by just knowing it’s possible,” he added.
From New York Times ● Dec. 14, 2022
My mate just sent me this vid of the queues in Bolton for a vaccination.
From BBC ● May 17, 2021
Promoting her video on her Instagram account, Sally wrote: “After many requests I finally filmed a vid on my ‘housewife’ hair soft, bouncy curls.”
From Fox News ● Sep. 25, 2019
“Den I go down, go down in bottom. Ees farm vid peeg trees all round, on liddle hill. You know?”
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
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