bid
Translingual
Symbol
bidCategory:Translingual lemmas#BIDCategory:Translingual symbols#BIDCategory:Translingual terms with redundant script codes#BIDCategory:Translingual entries with incorrect language header#BIDCategory:Pages with entries#BIDCategory:Pages with 13 entries#BID
See also
English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Category:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#BIDCategory:English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *gʷʰedʰ-#BIDFrom Middle EnglishCategory:English terms derived from Middle English#BID bidden, from Old EnglishCategory:English terms derived from Old English#BID biddan (“to ask, demand”), from Proto-West GermanicCategory:English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic#BID *biddjan, from Proto-GermanicCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Germanic#BID *bidjaną (“to ask”), from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#BID *gʷʰedʰ-. Conflated with Old EnglishCategory:English terms derived from Old English#BID 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.
Verb
bid (third-person singular simple present bids, present participle bidding, simple past bid or bade or (archaic) bad, past participle bid or bade or (archaic) bad or bidden)Category:English lemmas#BIDCategory:English verbs#BIDCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#BIDCategory:Pages with entries#BIDCategory:Pages with 13 entries#BID
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#BID) To issue a command; to tell.
- He bade me come in.Category:English terms with usage examples#BID
- c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene v]:
- Shylock: [...] Why Jessica, I say!Category:English terms with quotations#BID
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.
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#BID) To invite; to summon.
- She was bidden to the wedding.Category:English terms with usage examples#BID
- c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene v]:
- Jessica: Call you? What is your will?Category:English terms with quotations#BID
Shylock: I am bid forth to supper, Jessica: / [...] But wherefore should I go? / I am not bid for love; they flatter me;
- 1970, King Crimson, “Cirkus (including "Entry of the Chameleons")”, in Lizard:
- In his cloak of words strode the ringmaster, / Bid me join the paradeCategory:English terms with quotations#BID
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#BID) To utter a greeting or salutation.
- c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
- 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; […]Category:English terms with quotations#BID
- 1960 November, L. Hyland, “The Irish Scene”, in Trains Illustrated, page 691:
- 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.Category:English terms with quotations#BID
- (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#BID) To proclaim (a bede, prayer); to pray.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- All night she spent in bidding of her bedes, / And all the day in doing good and godly deedes.Category:English terms with quotations#BID
Usage notes
The inflected forms bade, bad, and bidden are becoming less common (outside certain set phrases like “bade farewell”) than uninflected bid.[1]
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
Category:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#BIDCategory:English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *bʰewdʰ-#BIDFrom Middle EnglishCategory:English terms derived from Middle English#BID beden, from Old EnglishCategory:English terms derived from Old English#BID bēodan (“to offer, announce”), from Proto-GermanicCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Germanic#BID *beudaną (“to offer”), from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#BID *bʰewdʰ- (“be awake, aware”). Conflated with Old EnglishCategory:English terms derived from Old English#BID biddan (“to ask, demand”) (see Etymology 1 above). Compare Low German bieden, beden, Dutch bieden, German bieten, Danish byde, Norwegian Bokmål by. More at bede.
Verb
bid (third-person singular simple present bids, present participle bidding, simple past and past participle bid)Category:English lemmas#BIDCategory:English verbs#BIDCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#BIDCategory:Pages with entries#BIDCategory:Pages with 13 entries#BID
- (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#BID) To make an offer to pay or accept a certain price.
- Have you ever bid in an auction?Category:English terms with usage examples#BID
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#BID) To offer as a price; to tender.
- She bid £2000 for the Persian carpet.Category:English terms with usage examples#BID
- (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#BID) To make an attempt.
- He was bidding for the chance to coach his team to victory once again.Category:English terms with usage examples#BID
- (ambitransitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#BIDCategory:English intransitive verbs#BID, card gamesCategory:en:Card games#BID) To announce (one's goal), before starting play.
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#BID, intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#BID, trucking) To take a particular route regularly.
- I can’t believe he bid the Syracuse turn; that can be brutal in the winter!Category:English terms with usage examples#BID
Derived terms
Translations
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Noun
bid (plural bids)Category:English lemmas#BIDCategory:English nouns#BIDCategory:English countable nouns#BIDCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#BIDCategory:Pages with entries#BIDCategory:Pages with 13 entries#BID
- An offer at an auction, or to carry out a piece of work.
- His bid was $35,000.Category:English terms with usage examples#BID
- The company tendered a bid for a lucrative transport contract.Category:English terms with usage examples#BID
- (ultimate frisbee) A (failed) attempt to receive or intercept a pass.
- An attempt, effort, or pursuit (of a goal).
- Their efforts represented a sincere bid for success.Category:English terms with usage examples#BID
- She put in her bid for the presidency.Category:English terms with usage examples#BID
- He put in his bid for office.Category:English terms with usage examples#BID
- 2012 May 13, Alistair Magowan, “Sunderland 0-1 Man Utd”, in BBC Sport:
- 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.Category:English terms with quotations#BID
- 1967 May, William F. Nolan, George Clayton Johnson, Logan's Run, Bantam Books, published 1976, →ISBN, page 16:
- [Running,] Doyle had passed up a dozen chances to go underground. He was swinging east again making another bid for Arcade.Category:English terms with quotations#BID
- (trucking) A particular route that a driver regularly takes from their domicile.
- I can’t stand this new bid I’m on, even if the mileage is better.Category:English terms with usage examples#BID
- (prison slangCategory:English prison slang#BID) A prison sentence.
- Synonym: bit
- 2007, Psych (TV series):
- So we ‘lawyered up’. That’s how they say it in the bucket, son, where I did an eight-hour bid.
Derived terms
Translations
References
- ↑ “Bid, bade, bidden”, Grammarist
Anagrams
Category:English strong verbs#BIDCategory:English irregular past participles#BIDCategory:English irregular simple past forms#BIDCategory:English irregular verbs#BIDCategory:English 3-letter words#BIDAfrikaans
Etymology
From DutchCategory:Afrikaans terms inherited from Dutch#BIDCategory:Afrikaans terms derived from Dutch#BID bidden.
Pronunciation
Verb
bid (present bid, present participle biddende, past participle gebid)Category:Afrikaans lemmas#BIDCategory:Afrikaans verbs#BIDCategory:Afrikaans entries with incorrect language header#BIDCategory:Pages with entries#BIDCategory:Pages with 13 entries#BID
- to pray
References
- 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.
Cimbrian
Etymology
Noun
bid mCategory:Cimbrian lemmas#BIDCategory:Cimbrian nouns#BIDCategory:Cimbrian entries with incorrect language header#BIDCategory:Cimbrian masculine nouns#BIDCategory:Pages with entries#BIDCategory:Pages with 13 entries#BID (plural biddar, diminutive biddale)
Declension
References
- “bid” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974), Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo
Danish
Etymology 1
Category:Danish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#BIDCategory:Danish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *bʰeyd-#BIDFrom Old NorseCategory:Danish terms derived from Old Norse#BID bit n, from Proto-GermanicCategory:Danish terms inherited from Proto-Germanic#BIDCategory:Danish terms derived from Proto-Germanic#BID *bitą. Derived from the verb *bītaną (“to bite”).
Pronunciation
Noun
bid n (singular definite biddet, plural indefinite bid)Category:Danish lemmas#BIDCategory:Danish nouns#BIDCategory:Danish entries with incorrect language header#BIDCategory:Danish neuter nouns#BIDCategory:Pages with entries#BIDCategory:Pages with 13 entries#BID
- bite, biting
- sharpness, force (having a strong effect)
- (dentistryCategory:da:Dentistry#BID) occlusion
- Synonym: okklusion
- Coordinate term: tandstilling
- (datedCategory:Danish dated terms#BID) bit
- Synonym: bidsel
Declension
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Category:Danish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#BIDCategory:Danish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *bʰeyd-#BIDFrom Old NorseCategory:Danish terms inherited from Old Norse#BIDCategory:Danish terms derived from Old Norse#BID biti m, from Proto-GermanicCategory:Danish terms inherited from Proto-Germanic#BIDCategory:Danish terms derived from Proto-Germanic#BID *bitô, cognate with German Bissen. Derived from the verb *bītaną (“to bite”).
Pronunciation
Noun
bid c (singular definite bidden, plural indefinite bidder)Category:Danish lemmas#BIDCategory:Danish nouns#BIDCategory:Danish entries with incorrect language header#BIDCategory:Danish common-gender nouns#BIDCategory:Pages with entries#BIDCategory:Pages with 13 entries#BID
Declension
See also
References
- “bid” in Den Danske Ordbog
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈb̥iˀð], [ˈb̥iðˀ]Category:Danish terms with IPA pronunciation#BID
Verb
bidCategory:Danish non-lemma forms#BIDCategory:Danish verb forms#BIDCategory:Danish entries with incorrect language header#BIDCategory:Pages with entries#BIDCategory:Pages with 13 entries#BID
- imperative of bide
Dutch
Pronunciation
Verb
bidCategory:Dutch non-lemma forms#BIDCategory:Dutch verb forms#BIDCategory:Dutch entries with incorrect language header#BIDCategory:Pages with entries#BIDCategory:Pages with 13 entries#BID
- inflection of bidden:
Lashi
Pronunciation
- (Waingmaw) IPA(key): [bit̚˧˧]Category:Lashi terms with IPA pronunciation#BID
- (Mongko) IPA(key): [pej˥˧]Category:Lashi terms with IPA pronunciation#BID
- Hyphenation: bid
Noun
bidCategory:Lashi lemmas#BIDCategory:Lashi nouns#BIDCategory:Lashi entries with incorrect language header#BIDCategory:Pages with entries#BIDCategory:Pages with 13 entries#BID
- Sun
- 2005, “Yoshu 10:13 [Joshua 10:13]”, in Jhoem꞉ mougsougˮ [The Book of the Bible], page 613:
- Bid gi moug꞉ gung moo꞉ theing꞉ joꓹ wigi danyidˮ goinˮ avang nghoid da꞉.Category:Lashi terms with quotations#BID
- The Sun rested in the sky and did not set for a whole day.
Derived terms
References
- Qingxia Dai; Jie Li (2007), 勒期语研究 [The study of the Leqi language], Beijing: Central Institute for Nationalities Publishing House, →ISBN, page 274
- Mark Wannemacher (2011), A phonological overview of the Lacid language, Chiang Mai: Payap University., page 21
- Hkaw Luk (2017), A grammatical sketch of Lacid, Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis), page 17
Old English
Pronunciation
Verb
bīdCategory:Old English non-lemma forms#BIDCategory:Old English verb forms#BIDCategory:Old English entries with incorrect language header#BIDCategory:Pages with entries#BIDCategory:Pages with 13 entries#BID
Old Irish
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Verb
bidCategory:Old Irish non-lemma forms#BIDCategory:Old Irish verb forms#BIDCategory:Old Irish entries with incorrect language header#BIDCategory:Pages with entries#BIDCategory:Pages with 13 entries#BID
- inflection of is:
Noun
bidCategory:Old Irish non-lemma forms#BIDCategory:Old Irish noun forms#BIDCategory:Old Irish entries with incorrect language header#BIDCategory:Pages with entries#BIDCategory:Pages with 13 entries#BID
- accusative/dative singular of buith (“being”)
Mutation
Polish
Pronunciation
Noun
bid fCategory:Polish non-lemma forms#BIDCategory:Polish noun forms#BIDCategory:Polish entries with incorrect language header#BIDCategory:Pages with entries#BIDCategory:Pages with 13 entries#BID
Volapük
Pronunciation
Noun
bid (genitive bida, plural bids)Category:Volapük lemmas#BIDCategory:Volapük nouns#BIDCategory:Volapük entries with incorrect language header#BIDCategory:Pages with entries#BIDCategory:Pages with 13 entries#BID
Declension
Synonyms
Derived terms
Welsh
Pronunciation
Verb
bidCategory:Welsh non-lemma forms#BIDCategory:Welsh verb forms#BIDCategory:Welsh entries with incorrect language header#BIDCategory:Pages with entries#BIDCategory:Pages with 13 entries#BID
Synonyms
Mutation
Zhuang
Pronunciation
- (Standard Zhuang) IPA(key): /pit˧/Category:Zhuang terms with IPA pronunciation#BID8
- Tone numbers: bid8
- Hyphenation: bidCategory:Zhuang 1-syllable words#BID8
Noun
bid (Sawndip forms 䖩 or 𧏻, 1957–1982 spelling bid)Category:Zhuang lemmas#BID8Category:Zhuang nouns#BID8Category:Zhuang entries with incorrect language header#BID8Category:Pages with entries#BIDCategory:Pages with 13 entries#BID
Category:za:Insects#BID8