verb
definition
To issue a command; to tell.
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He bade me come in.
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To invite; to summon.
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She was bidden to the wedding.
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To utter a greeting or salutation.
noun
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An offer at an auction, or to carry out a piece of work.
example
His bid was $35,000.
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(ultimate frisbee) A (failed) attempt to receive or intercept a pass.
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Nice bid!
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An attempt, effort, or pursuit (of a goal).
example
He put in his bid for office.
verb
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To make an offer to pay or accept a certain price.
example
Have you ever bid in an auction?
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To offer as a price.
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She bid £2000 for the Persian carpet.
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To make an attempt.
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He was bidding for the chance to coach his team to victory once again.
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To announce (one's goal), before starting play.
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To proclaim (a bede, prayer); to pray.
Examples of bids in a Sentence
Everything is bright because of promises fulfilled, and the future bids fair to be brighter still.
With, however, recent experiments in brown and skunk coloured dyes, it bids fair to become a popular fur.
The divine law which bids us keep fast what is our own forbids us to make any claim to what is not ours; and while enjoining us to make use of whatever is given to us, it bids us not long after what has not been given.
He claims that " the pope bids his collectors go into the whole world, saying, ` He that believeth, and payeth the tenths, shall be saved.'
He bids her " Do not touch Me, for I have not yet ascended "; but to tell His brethren " I ascend to My Father and to your Father, to My God and to your God."
Bichloride of tin, having chemical affinity for silk fibre, bids fair to extinguish the use of sugar, which, from its hygrometric qualities, has a tendency to ruin the silk to which it is applied, if great care be not taken to regulate the quantity.
Bids them not to swear at all nor to expect any intercession of the departed saints for sinners.
On the Danube the amount was 2 millions, but this total bids fair, under normal conditions, to be easily passed, inasmuch as the work of developing the port of Bratislava, the construction of docks, warehouses and shipbuilding yards, was already proceeding energetically.
When Latin grammar has been mastered, he bids the teacher lead his pupil " into the sweet fountain and spring of all Arts and Science," that is, Greek learning which is " as profitable for the understanding as the Latin tongue for speaking."
The Council of Trent, while it commands all bishops to teach "the sound doctrine of purgatory handed down by the venerable fathers and sacred councils," bids them exclude from popular addresses all the "more difficult and subtle questions relating to the subject which do not tend to edification."
One of the most remarkable features of modern financial development has been the growth of the complementary system of local finance, which in extent and complication bids to rival that of the central authority.
In what follows, then, we shall, indeed, venture to present a wholesale appreciation of the religious idea as it is for primitive man in general; but our account will respect the modern anthropological method that bids the student keep closely to the actualities of the religious experience of savages, as it can with reasonable accuracy be gathered from what they do and say.
This disease is of recent introduction into Great Britain, but bids fair to become very troublesome.
She offers to release Orestes if he will carry home a letter from her to Greece; he refuses to go, but bids Pylades take the letter while he himself will stay and be slain.
The finances of the country in the early summer of 1864 were in a critical condition; a few days before leaving office Secretary Chase had been compelled to withdraw from the market $32,000,000 of 6% bonds, on account of the lack of acceptable bids; gold had reached 285 and was fluctuating between 225 and 250, while the value of the paper dollar had sunk as low as 34 cents.
The first council of Toledo (398) bids the faithful restrict himself "to a single wife or concubine, as it shall please him"; 2 and there is a similar canon of the Roman synod held by Pope Eugenius in 826.
She thus bids adieu to all her friends, and having previously taken the white veil, the betrothal, she now assumes the black, and for ever forswears the world and its pleasures.
The Didache bids us " pour water on the head," and Christian pictures and sculptures ranging from the 1st to the 10th century represent the baptizand as standing in the water, while the baptizer pours water from his hand or from a bowl over his head.
The higher reason only has unconditional authority, and the Bible must justify itself before its tribunal; we find the history of divine revelation and its fulfilment in the Bible alone, and reason bids us regard the Bible as the only authority and canon in matters of religious belief.
Since the middle of the 19th century the system of photographing the heavenly bodies has been introduced, step by step, so that it bids fair to supersede eye observations in many of the determinations of astronomy.
The production of edible fats (margarine, lard compounds, and vegetable butters) has taken root in this country, and bids fair to extend largely.
Canada is likely to outstrip the United States in the trade of fish and blubber oils, and in tie near future Japan bids fair to become a very serious competitor in the supply of these oils.
Your son bids fair to become an officer distinguished by his industry, firmness, and expedition.
There was an opportunity for networking between institutions with the objective of putting together collaborative bids.
The Government Offices will be encouraging future bids aimed at raising levels of educational achievement.
Now over 70 projects have been asked to submit full bids.
You may think you can outsmart the management team by inviting competitive bids from trade buyers.
The budgetary process results in funding bids being assessed against priorities, with many not being accepted.
Most presidential re-election bids become a referendum on the incumbent's performance in the Oval Office.
Company just to Louisiana farm bureau in the lease bids back to.
Those bids are not coterminous with bids for assisted area status, but the core criteria are, in many cases, coupled.
Our online auction enables employees from around the world to place bids on items donated by suppliers or charities.
For a time he bids fair to attain a high and original development.
Lily's place is with Charlie and she bids Sophie a tearful farewell.
The London-based left-hander is looking forward to his third appearance in the Games as he bids for a third gold medal.
Any country that bans psyching of either conventional or weak bids will hate this, but I can see no impropriety.
If someone else bids later, Ebay will automatically outbid them, as long as it's still less than your bid maximum.
If you wish to be kept informed of any bids exceeding yours, enclose a postcard or SASE with your bid.
Progress in the Parliament on Takeover Bids has been temporarily postponed to allow the Council of Ministers to reach an acceptable compromise.
Twice he made bids to become lord provost of Glasgow, but without success.
Better than Leicester University, which is solely reliant on BIDS.
Having operated this service for a decade, BIDS and ISI had become practically synonymous.
The exact timing for the bid assessment process will depend to some extent on the volume of bids received.
Snail A snail bids you to continue on your path slowly but surely and can also indicate a very sexually uninhibited person!
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Deadlines for bids closed at 5pm yesterday (Wednesday ).
Few things are finer in music or literature than the end of the second act of Die Meistersinger, from the point where Sachs's apprentice begins the riot, to the moment when the watchman, frightened at the silence of the moonlit streets so soon after he has heard all that noise, announces eleven o'clock and bids the folk pray for protection against evil spirits, while the orchestra tells us of the dreams of Walther and Eva and ends by putting poetry even into the pedantic ineptitudes of the malicious Beckmesser.
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Snail A snail bids you to continue on your path slowly but surely and can also indicate a very sexually uninhibited person !
Deadlines for bids closed at 5pm yesterday (Wednesday).