bid
verb
- provide an offer of
- to try, make attempt
- an attempt or effort to achieve or acquire something
- declaration of playing a suit in bridge
- some weird causative usage, not unlike "call"
noun
- amount offered to win (auction, contract)
- statement in a card game
- act or process of auctioning
- act or process of saying, wishing, conveying, telling someone to do something
- act or process of declaring the playing of a suit in bridge
verb
- to issue command; to tell
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /bɪd/
adv
Etymology: Etymology tree Latin bis in diēbor. English BID Borrowed from Latin bis in diē.
- twice a day, two times per day
“It has been repeatedly documented that moving patients from a TID dosing regimen to BID or OD vastly improves compliance, and thus the medicine's effectiveness.”
noun
Etymology: From Middle English beden, from Old English bēodan (“to offer, announce”), from Proto-Germanic *beudaną (“to offer”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ- (“be awake, aware”). Conflated with Old English 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.
- An offer at an auction, or to carry out a piece of work.
“His bid was $35,000.”
“The company tendered a bid for a lucrative transport contract.”
- A (failed) attempt to receive or intercept a pass.
“Nice bid!”
- An attempt, effort, or pursuit (of a goal).
“Their efforts represented a sincere bid for success.”
“She put in her bid for the presidency.”
- 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.”
- A prison sentence.
“So we ‘lawyered up’. That’s how they say it in the bucket, son, where I did an eight-hour bid.”
verb
Etymology: From Middle English beden, from Old English bēodan (“to offer, announce”), from Proto-Germanic *beudaną (“to offer”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ- (“be awake, aware”). Conflated with Old English 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.
- To make an offer to pay or accept a certain price.
“Have you ever bid in an auction?”
- To offer as a price; to tender.
“She bid £2000 for the Persian carpet.”
- To make an attempt.
“He was bidding for the chance to coach his team to victory once again.”
- To announce (one's goal), before starting play.
- To take a particular route regularly.
“I can’t believe he bid the Syracuse turn; that can be brutal in the winter!”