Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • intransitive verb See. Used to direct a reader's attention.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In music, especially in orchestral scores, an indication of an omitted passage or cut.
  • In violin music, a direction to play a note upon an open, unstopped string.
  • noun See: a word indicating reference to something stated elsewhere: as, vide ante, ‘see before'; vide supra,'see above’ (that is, in a previous place in the same book); vide post, ‘see after’; vide infra, ‘see below’ (that is, in a subsequent place); quod vide, which see (usually abbreviated q. v.).

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • imperative sing. of L. videre, to see; -- used to direct attention to something.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin vidē, sing. imperative of vidēre, to see; see weid- in Indo-European roots.]

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Aphæretic form of divide by aphesis.

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From Latin vidē ("see!"), second-person singular present active imperative form of videō ("I see").

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Examples

  • On various explanations of the Hebrew word vide Dict Bib.

    NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works 1895

  • Sous vide is also very useful for seasoning or marinating meat — the process transfers flavor so efficiently that even artisan-bacon producers, for example, brine and flavor their pork bellies in a vacuum.

    Out of the Frying Pan 2006

  • Sous vide is also very useful for seasoning or marinating meat — the process transfers flavor so efficiently that even artisan-bacon producers, for example, brine and flavor their pork bellies in a vacuum.

    Out of the Frying Pan 2006

  • Sous vide is more technical and persnickety, but it's not gussied up, as such.

    Cupboard Love Lindy 2005

  • Ustream is one of the more popular services for streaming live vide from a webcam, and Jane’s nightmare was a technologically updated twist on one of the older slasher movie tropes, with a laptop and internet connection replacing the telephone clutched in the shaking hand of the the terrified victim as a friend shouts “he’s behind you!”

    A ‘rainbow-coloured Godzilla’ 2009

  • Thomas Keller, the chef at the French Laundry, in Napa Valley, says that sous vide is not a mingy time - and labor-saver; it’s a tool that gives chefs another worthy kitchen tool.

    Out of the Frying Pan 2006

  • In France sous vide is a part of everyday life for discriminating shoppers, who buy haute cuisine meals from gleaming white-tiled frozen-food markets, and don’t hesitate to serve them at elegant parties.

    Out of the Frying Pan 2006

  • Thomas Keller, the chef at the French Laundry, in Napa Valley, says that sous vide is not a mingy time - and labor-saver; it’s a tool that gives chefs another worthy kitchen tool.

    Out of the Frying Pan 2006

  • In France sous vide is a part of everyday life for discriminating shoppers, who buy haute cuisine meals from gleaming white-tiled frozen-food markets, and don’t hesitate to serve them at elegant parties.

    Out of the Frying Pan 2006

  • In France sous vide is a part of everyday life for discriminating shoppers, who buy haute cuisine meals from gleaming white-tiled frozen-food markets, and don’t hesitate to serve them at elegant parties.

    Out of the Frying Pan 2006

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