vide

[ wee-de; English vahy-dee, vee- ]

/ ˈwi dɛ; English ˈvaɪ di, ˈvi- /

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verb Latin.

see (used especially to refer a reader to parts of a text).

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How to use vide in a sentence

In her 2005 New York Times Magazine story “Under Pressure,” Amanda Hesser posited that sous vide—at the time a technique used almost exclusively by top and experimental chefs—would “probably trickle down to the home kitchen someday.”
The kitchen of the future is here, it’s just not evenly distributed|Katie McLean|December 18, 2020|MIT Technology Review
The deportation faced by Generals Garcia and Vides Casanova may not seem like justice to some.
Bringing El Salvador Nun Killers to Justice|Raymond Bonner|November 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Bina vides parvo discrimine juncta sacella,Altera pars Musis altera sacra Deo est.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series|John Addington Symonds
Sed retineo meum Latinum—ut tu vides—et invenio id facile esse excellens in chemicis odoribus et in Cicerone simul.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93, December 24, 1887|Various

Elle portait un panier plein sous un bras et deux autres vides dans une main.
Histoires grises|E. Edouard Tavernier
Men quarrel and struggle about all these things—ecce vides quanta mundus laboret insania.
The Mediaeval Mind (Volume II of II)|Henry Osborn Taylor
Jupiter est quodcunque vides, quocunque moveris—Whatever you see, wherever you turn, there is Jupiter (Deity).
Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources|James Wood

British Dictionary definitions for vide

vide

/ (ˈvaɪdɪ) /

(used to direct a reader to a specified place in a text, another book, etc) refer to, see (often in the phrases vide ante (see before), vide infra (see below), vide post (see after), vide supra (see above), vide ut supra (see as above), etc)Abbreviation: v, vid

Word Origin for vide

C16: from Latin

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