covid

1. abbreviationcolloquialellipsisuncountableEllipsis of COVID-19, the disease caused by Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus 2.

   Instead I invite you to use the disruption of covid as a chance to disrupt your busyness. That as you navigate your journey through this crisis, you also guide your life onto a path of more colour, more impact and more joy.

   2020, Tony Crabbe, Busy@Home: How to thrive through the covid crisis, Piatkus, →ISBN

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   We all have such grand plans, when covid is over. Some of us want to get back to packed concert halls, while others want to relax comfortably at our favorite restaurants. […] It can also bring to mind other painful waiting periods — so vividly, in fact, that in the past few days it’s become a meme to compare the phrase “once covid is over” to other events that might never arrive.

   2021 January 26, Travis M. Andrews, “‘When covid is over’ sounds like ‘when I meet Harry Styles’: The new pandemic meme, explained”, in The Washington Post, archived from the original on 27 Jan 2021

plural covids

1. archaicunits of measureA cubit.

   But the usual dimensions of a piece of muslin were 40 x 2 covids, the lower and the upper bounds being 36 x 1 and 48 x 3 covids, respectively.

   2014, Om Prakash, The Dutch East India Company and the Economy of Bengal, 1630-1720

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   In weights and measures one hundred catties were equivalent to one picul, or 133½ English pounds; in cloth or long measure ten “poontas” to one covid, and two covids to thirty-six inches English.

   1908, William Babcock Weeden, Early Oriental Commerce in Providence

2. archaicunits of measureA chi.

   A measure of length, the Chinese cubit, by Europeans called covid.

   1815, A dictionary of the Chinese language, in three parts

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   From east to west it was nine covids, and from south to north seven yen, (63 covids).

   1852, Li Zhou, translated by William Raymond Gingell, The Ceremonial Usages of the Chinese, B. C. 1121, page 4

alternative Covid

1. abbreviationclippinguncountableClipping of COVID-19.

   COVID is tough, but Pennsylvanians are tougher. Together we can make a difference, slow the spread of the virus, and save lives.

   2020 January 28, “COVID-19 in Pennsylvania”, in Pennsylvania Department of Health

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   Every year on 31 May we celebrate World No Tobacco Day to draw global attention to the tobacco epidemic and the preventable death and disease it causes. This year, the national theme is COVID is no joke, it gets worse with smoke.

   2020 May 28, “COVID is no joke, it gets worse with smoke”, in Pan American Health Organization

1. abbreviationellipsisuncountableEllipsis of COVID-19.

   For quotations using this term, see Citations:COVID.