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Definition: HID |
HID1. Imp. & p. p. of Hide. See Hidden. Imperative1. Of Hide |
Date "HID" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | HID Human Interface Device. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
HID is an abbreviation of:
- High intensity discharge
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "HID."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
HID | English | Helium Ionization Detector | N/A |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Concealment | Behind the veil; beyond mortal ken, beyond the grave, beyond the veil; hid from mortal vision; into the eternal secret, into the realms supersensible, into the supreme mystery. |
Be concealed; Verb: suffer an eclipse; retire from sight, couch; hide oneself; lie hid, lie in perdu, lie in close; lie in ambush (ambush); seclude oneself; lurk, sneak, skulk, slink, prowl; steal into, steal out of, steal by, steal along; play at bopeep, play at hide and seek; hide in holes and corners; still hunt. | |
Latency Implication | Verb: be latent; Adjective: lurk, smolder, underlie, make no sign; escape observation, escape detection, escape recognition; lie hid. |
Neglect | Abandoned; buried in a napkin, hid under a bushel. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: HID |
| English words defined with "HID": Because of ♦ Delitescent ♦ hoarded wealth ♦ Latibulize, Latitancy, Latitant, Lote ♦ Miche ♦ Secretness ♦ treasure. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "HID": Achan ♦ Basilisk, Bermoothes ♦ Cluricaune, Curetes ♦ Fire-drake, Freemasons ♦ Ginevra ♦ Hareth, High-Pressure Sodium Lamp ♦ IrDA Control ♦ Jamshid' ♦ lion food ♦ Nidhogg ♦ Obadiah ♦ Perceforest. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "HID": Latitat. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "HID" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Danish (here, hither, this way). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I hid. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) A box without hinges, key, or a lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid. (The Hobbit; writing credit: J.R.R. Tolkien; Romeo Muller) They were too scared, so they hid it away from the public (Akira; writing credit: Katsuhiro "tomo) You hid in that ditch because you think there's still hope (Band of Brothers; writing credit: Stephen Ambrose; Erik Jendresen) You hid those heads in our room then pinned them on my Dick (8 Heads in a Duffel Bag; writing credit: Tom Schulman) | |
Lyrics | I hid my soiled hands behind my back (Foolish Games; performing artist: Jewel) Now, I don't blame him cause he run and hid (A Boy Named Sue; performing artist: Johnny Cash) Her pretty face she hid from the world (Absolutely (Story Of A Girl); performing artist: Nine Days) You can't hid your lyin' eyes (Lyin' Eyes; performing artist: The Eagles) The music of her laughter hid my father's words from me. (Lemon Tree; performing artist: The Kingston Trio) | |
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![]() | She dropped down into his shabby college arm-chair and hid her face in the scattered papers on his desk. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | "Crow Butte." Near Ft. Robinson, Neb. and F.E. & M.V. R.R. -- In battle, the Indians drove the "Crows" up on the mountain and camped on the only approach, intending to kill or starve their enemy. The "Crows" killed and skinned one of their ponies. The hid. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Ovid | Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair. |
Sir John Denham | Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid. |
William Blake | My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt; helpless, naked, piping loud, like a fiend hid in a cloud. |
William Shakespeare | For precious friends hid in death's dateless night. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | A slouched leather cap half hid his face, bronzed by the sun and wind, and dripping with sweat |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | He hid under the table |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | He hid from people, and by gifts tried to make up to all people for himself |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Human Rights | Russia | Authorities asserted that Robinson distorted the true nature of the state of affairs and that Russia never hid the truth about the situation in Chechnya. (references) |
Afghanistan | According to refugees who fled Kabul, Taliban forces took cover among the civilian population and hid their military equipment in mosques and schools to avoid U.S. air strikes. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | BASILISK, n. The cockatrice. A sort of serpent hatched form the egg of a cock. The basilisk had a bad eye, and its glance was fatal. Many infidels deny this creature's existence, but Semprello Aurator saw and handled one that had been blinded by lightning as a punishment for having fatally gazed on a lady of rank whom Jupiter loved. Juno afterward restored the reptile's sight and hid it in a cave. Nothing is so well attested by the ancients as the existence of the basilisk, but the cocks have stopped laying. |
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| "HID" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 97.55% of the time. "HID" is used about 693 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 97.55% | 676 | 9,770 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 2.45% | 17 | 85,106 |
| Total | 100.00% | 693 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "HID". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Ish-pan | N/A | Biblical | Hid |
| Sethur | N/A | Biblical | Hid |
| Shophan | N/A | Biblical | Hid |
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Expressions using "HID": hid under a bushel ♦ lie hid. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "HID": hid-back. | |
Ending with "HID": half-hid. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
hid | 324 | hid h4 | 10 |
hid light | 170 | grow light hid | 9 |
hid kit | 92 | hid system | 9 |
hid headlights | 61 | hid headlamps | 9 |
hid conversion kit | 53 | philips hid | 8 |
catz hid | 51 | hid light bulb | 8 |
hid lighting | 49 | hid card reader | 8 |
hid bulb | 31 | 8000k hid | 8 |
hid xenon | 30 | hid card | 8 |
hid corporation | 29 | hid reader | 8 |
hid conversion | 28 | hid xenon kit | 8 |
hid lamp | 27 | hid headlight | 8 |
architectural commercial fluorescent hid incandescent industrial led lighting recessed residential | 21 | hid replacement bulb | 8 |
hid ballast | 19 | hid light kit | 8 |
phillips hid | 18 | hid electronic ballast | 7 |
hella hid | 17 | philips hid kit | 7 |
flashlight hid | 17 | hella hid kit | 7 |
mcculloch hid | 15 | hid 9006 | 7 |
corp hid | 12 | catz hid kit | 7 |
hid plus | 10 | hid fog light | 7 |
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| Language | Translations for "HID"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | أخفى (cloak, conceal, cover up, harbor, harbour, hill, hush, keep, obscure, obstruct, palm, receive, secrete, shelter, smother, stash, stow, suppress, wrap). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | крия (conceal, hide, keep away from). (various references) | |
Chinese | 掩藏 (hidden, hide, hiding). (various references) | |
Farsi | مخفی شده , مخفی (Clandestine, Closet, Invisible, Secret, Slinky, Undercover). (various references) | |
German | versteckte (cached, ensconced, stashed), verheimlichte (dissimulated). (various references) | |
Greek | αόρ. του hide. (various references) | |
Hungarian | takar (hidden, to cover, to hide), rejtőzve elhelyezkedik (hidden, to hide), rejtőzik (hidden, to hide, to hole up, to keep out of sight, to lie low, to lurk, to play injun), rejt (hidden, to hide), eltakar (be in eclipse, cover, mantle, overlie, to blot out, to enshroud, to hide, to mask, to shield, to shroud, to wimple), elrejt (conceal, disguise, ensconce, hidden, hide, hide away, obscure, secrete, smother, to cache, to conceal, to disguise, to eloign, to enshroud, to hide, to recess, to screen, to secrete, to shelter, to smother up, to squirrel away, to stash, vail), eldug (hidden, hide, to cache, to hide, to secrete, to squirrel away), elbújt, elbújik (go in, hidden, to abscond, to go home to one's woods, to hide). (various references) | |
Korean | 숨기" (hidden, secretive, sheltered). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | idhay.(various references) | |
Romanian | trecut de la hide. (various references) | |
Russian | прятать (conceal, cover up, hide, put away, secrete). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | proš. vreme od hide. (various references) | |
Spanish | pret de hide. (various references) | |
Swedish | gömde. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 2, Verse 4 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai ean zhthshV authn wV argurion kai wV qhsaurouV exereunhshV authn |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Si quaesieris eam quasi pecuniam et sicut thesauros effoderis illam |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | If thou shalt sechen it as money, and as tresoris deluen it out; |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures; |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures; |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | If you are looking for her as for silver, and searching for her as for stored-up wealth; |
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| Language | Proverbs Chapter 2, Verse 4 |
| Cebuano | Kong ikaw mangita kaniya ingon nga salapi, Ug magapangita kaniya ingon sa tinipigan nga mga bahandi: |
| Chinese | 尋 找 他 如 尋 找 銀 子 、 搜 求 他 如 搜 求 隱 藏 的 珍 寶 、 |
| Croatian | ako ga potražiš kao srebro i tragaš za njim kao za skrivenim blagom - |
| Danish | søger du den som Sølv og leder den op som Skatte, |
| Dutch | Zo gij haar zoekt als zilver, en naspeurt als verborgen schatten; |
| Finnish | jos haet sitä kuin hopeata ja etsit sitä kuin aarretta, |
| French | Si tu la cherches comme l`argent, Si tu la poursuis comme un trésor, |
| German | so du sie suchest wie Silber und nach ihr froschest wie nach Schätzen: |
| Haitian Creole | Kouri dèyè konesans tankou moun k'ap kouri dèyè lajan. Chache konesans tankou moun k'ap chache ja lajan. |
| Hungarian | Ha keresed azt, mint az ezüstöt, és mint a kincseket kutatod azt: |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Carilah itu seperti mencari emas, dan kejarlah itu seperti mengejar harta yang terpendam. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | jikalau engkau mencahari dia seperti perak dan menyelidik dia seperti mata benda yang tersembunyi; |
| Italian | se la ricercherai come l'argento e per essa scaverai come per i tesori, |
| Maori | Ki te rapua hoki ia e koe ano he hiriwa, ki te kimihia ano he taonga huna; |
| Norwegian | dersom du leter efter den som efter sølv og graver efter den som efter skjulte skatter, |
| Portuguese | se o buscares como a prata e o procurares como a tesouros escondidos; |
| Rumanian | dacq o vei cquta ca argintul, wi vei umbla dupq ea ca dupq o comoarq, |
| Russian | ЕУМЙ 'Х"ЕЫШ ЙУЛБФШ ЕЗП, ЛБЛ УЕТЕ'ТБ, Й ПФЩУЛЙЧБФШ ЕЗП, ЛБЛ УПЛТПЧЙЭЕ, |
| Spanish | si como a la plata la buscas y la rebuscas como a tesoros escondidos, |
| Swedish | Om du söker efter henne såsom efter silver och letar efter henne såsom efter en skatt, |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "HID": hidable, hidalgo, hidalgos, hidden, hiddenite, hiddenites, hiddenly, hiddenness, hiddennesses, hide, hideaway, hideaways, hidebound, hided, hideless, hideosities, hideosity, hideous, hideously, hideousness, hideousnesses, hideout, hideouts, hider, hiders, hides, hiding, hidings, hidroses, hidrosis, hidrotic, hidrotics. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "HID": aphid, chid, cryptorchid, glochid, monorchid, orchid, outchid, phosphid, sulphid, sylphid, syrphid, whid. (additional references) | |
Words containing "HID": amphidiploid, amphidiploidies, amphidiploids, amphidiploidy, aphides, aphidian, aphidians, aphids, archidiaconal, bushido, bushidos, chidden, chide, chided, chider, chiders, chides, chiding, cowhide, cowhided, cowhides, cowhiding, cryptorchidism, cryptorchidisms, cryptorchids, echidna, echidnae, echidnas, glochidia, glochidium, glochids, guanethidine, guanethidines, horsehide, horsehides, hyperhidroses, hyperhidrosis, monorchidism, monorchidisms, monorchids, mujahideen, ophidian, ophidians, orchidaceous, orchidlike, orchids, outchidden, outchide, outchided, outchides, outchiding. (additional references) | |
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"HID" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ghid, hada, hadd, hadg, hadi, haid, hd, hdb, hdn, hed, hedo, hedy, heid, heyd, Hfi, Hgi, Hhi, hia, hib, hibd, Hida, Hidab, hidd, hidn, hido, hids, Hidy, hied, hif, hig, higd, hii, hij, hik, Hild, Hio, hiod, hiq, hird, hiu, hiv, hix, hiy, hiz, hki, hmd, hnd, hodd, hodz, hoid, hoidy, Hoxd, hrd, hrdd, hudd, hudo, hvid, hyd, hydr, hyv, ih, Ihf, Ihr, jid, phid, qid, rhid, thid, uid, Uidh. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "HID" (pronounced hi"d) |
| 2 | -i" d | amid, bid, counterbid, did, kid, lid, forbid, grid, id, mid, quid, rebid, redid, rid, skid, slid, squid, undid. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-h-i" | |
-1 letter: hi, id. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-h-i" | |
+1 letter: chid, dish, hide, hied, hind, whid. | |
+2 letters: aphid, chide, child, dashi, dhobi, dhoti, dhuti, dight, dishy, ditch, hadji, halid, hided, hider, hides, hiked, hinds, hired, hived, humid, hyoid, jihad, khadi, shied, third, whids, width. | |
+3 letters: aphids, behind, chadri, chided, chider, chides, chield, childe, chimed, chined, dahlia, danish, dashis, dhobis, dhooti, dhotis, dhutis, dights, dinghy, dirham, dished, dishes, dither, dovish, dreich, dreigh, driegh, dryish, dudish, fished, hading, hadith, hadjis, hailed, hairdo, haired, halide, halids, haloid, heiled, heired, hemoid, herdic, hidden, hiders, hiding, hilled, hilted, hinder, hinged, hinted, hipped, hispid, hissed, histed, hoddin, hoiden, hoised, honied, hoodie, horrid, howdie, hybrid, hydria, hydric, hydrid, hyoids, inched, itched, jadish, jihads, khadis, kithed, miched, modish, niched, nighed, oddish, oldish, orchid, pished, pithed, radish, rhodic, sandhi, shaird, shield, shindy, shined, sighed, thirds, tithed, whidah, whiled, whined, whited, widish, widths, wished, withed. | |
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