Definition of "covid"

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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