bid
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English bidden, from Old English biddan (“to ask, demand”), from Proto-West Germanic *biddjan, from Proto-Germanic *bidjaną (“to ask”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰedʰ-. Conflated with Old English bēodan (“to offer, announce”) (see Etymology 2 below).
Compare West Frisian bidde, Low German bidden, Dutch bidden ("to pray"), German bitten, Danish bede, Norwegian Bokmål be.
Inflected forms:
form: bids
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bidding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bid
pos: verb
tags: past
form: bade
pos: verb
tags: past
form: bad
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
form: bid
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bade
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bad
pos: verb
tags: archaic
participle
past
form: bidden
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bids
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To issue a command; to tell.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He bade me come in.
Shylock: [...] Why Jessica, I say!
Launcelot: Why, Jessica!
Shylock: Who bids thee call? I do not bid thee call.
Launcelot: Your worship was wont to tell me that I could do nothing without bidding.
gloss: To invite; to summon.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: She was bidden to the wedding.
Jessica: Call you? What is your will?
Shylock: I am bid forth to supper, Jessica: / [...] But wherefore should I go? / I am not bid for love; they flatter me;
In his cloak of words strode the ringmaster, / Bid me join the parade
gloss: To utter a greeting or salutation.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Portia: If I could bid the fifth welcome with so good heart as I / can bid the other four farewell, I should be glad of his / approach; […]
The last train—a three-coach A.E.C. unit—from Belfast to Crumlin and back, was bade farewell with fog signals as it carried a capacity crowd of last-trip travellers.
gloss: To proclaim (a bede, prayer); to pray.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: All night she spent in bidding of her bedes, / And all the day in doing good and godly deedes.
gloss: An offer at an auction, or to carry out a piece of work.
pos: noun
examples: His bid was $35,000.
The company tendered a bid for a lucrative transport contract.
gloss: A (failed) attempt to receive or intercept a pass.
pos: noun
examples: Nice bid!
gloss: An attempt, effort, or pursuit (of a goal).
pos: noun
examples: Their efforts represented a sincere bid for success.
She put in her bid for the presidency.
He put in his bid for office.
Then, as the Sunderland fans' cheers bellowed around the stadium, United's title bid was over when it became apparent City had pinched a last-gasp winner to seal their first title in 44 years.
[Running,] Doyle had passed up a dozen chances to go underground. He was swinging east again making another bid for Arcade.
gloss: A particular route that a driver regularly takes from their domicile.
pos: noun
examples: I can’t stand this new bid I’m on, even if the mileage is better.
gloss: A prison sentence.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: So we ‘lawyered up’. That’s how they say it in the bucket, son, where I did an eight-hour bid.
Derived words: bid adieu
bid beads
counterbid
overbid
prebid
rebid
underbid
upbid
autobid
beadle
bid-ask spread
biddance
bid hook
bid price
bid rigging
bid shading
bid size
bid wanted
bid whist
bidworthy
commission bid
cuebid
donkey bid
dummy bid
leadership bid
limit bid
megabid
sealed bid
straw bid
takeover bid
vendor bid
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