Ide
contraction, name, noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae, found across northern Europe and Asia, especially Leuciscus idus.
"a pike says to the pike-folk / a whitefish asked an ide, a / salmon another salmon: / ‘Have they died, the famous men / have Kaleva's sons been lost […]?’"
- 2 Initialism of insulin-degrading enzyme. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism
- 3 Initialism of integrated development environment. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism
- 4 Initialism of integrated drive electronics. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
- 1 Obsolete form of I'd. alt-of, contraction, obsolete
"Were it to search the furthest Northern clime / Where frosty Hyems with an ycie Mace / Strikes dead all living things, Ide find it out, / And borrowing fire from those fayre sunny eyne / Thaw Winters frost and warme that dead cold clime: […]"
- 1 A surname transferred from the given name.
- 2 A village and civil parish in Teignbridge district, Devon, England, named after Saint Ida (OS grid ref SX8990).
Example
More examples"You use your IDE in light mode? Everyone uses dark mode. What kind of psycho are you?"
Etymology
Borrowed from French ide, from Scientific Latin idus (species name), from Swedish id.
From the medieval male (and less often female) given name Ida.
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