ide

plural ides · alternative id

1. A freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae, found across northern Europe and Asia, especially Leuciscus idus.First known use 19th c.

   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 […]?’

   1989, Elias Lönnrot, translated by Keith Bosley, The Kalevala, section XLVII

   Synonyms: orfe, silver orfe

plural IDEs

1. abbreviationcountableinitialismbiochemistryInitialism of insulin-degrading enzyme.
2. abbreviationcountableinitialismcomputingInitialism of integrated development environment.
3. abbreviationinitialismuncountablebusinessInitialism of integrated drive electronics.

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).

1. contractionobsoleteObsolete form of I'd.

   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: […]

   1605, The Trial of Chivalry, (a play of uncertain unauthorship)