bid

verb (used with object), bade or (Archaic) bad for 1, 2, 5 or bid for 3, 4; bid·den or bid for 1, 2, 5 or bid for 3, 4; bid·ding.

1. to command; order; direct: to bid them depart.
2. to express (a greeting, farewell, benediction, or wish): to bid good night.
3. Commerce. to offer (a certain sum) as the price one will pay or charge: They bid $25,000 and got the contract.
4. Cards. to enter a bid of (a given quantity or suit): to bid two no-trump.
5. to summon by invitation; invite.

verb (used without object), bade or (Archaic) bad for 6 or bid for 7; bid·den or bid for 6 or bid for 7; bid·ding.

6. to command; order; direct: I will do as you bid.
7. to make a bid: She bid at the auction for the old chair.

noun

8. an act or instance of bidding.
9. Cards.
   1. an offer to make a specified number of points or to take a specified number of tricks.
   2. the amount of such an offer.
   3. the turn of a person to bid.
10. an invitation: a bid to join the club.
11. an attempt to attain some goal or purpose: a bid for election.
12. Also called bid price. Stock Exchange. the highest price a prospective buyer is willing to pay for a security at a given moment.

Verb Phrases past and past participle bid, present participle bid·ding.

13. bid in, Commerce. to overbid all offers for (property) at an auction in order to retain ownership.
14. bid up, Commerce. to increase the market price of by increasing bids.

Idioms past bade or (Archaic) bad, past participle bid·den or bid, present participle bid·ding.

15. bid fair. fair¹(def 29).

verb Archaic.

1. past participle of bide.

verb (used with object), bid·ed or bode; bid·ed or (Archaic) bid; bid·ing.

1. Archaic. to endure; bear.
2. Obsolete. to encounter.

verb (used without object), bid·ed or bode; bid·ed or (Archaic) bid; bid·ing.

3. to dwell; abide; wait; remain.

Idioms

4. bide one’s time, to wait for a favorable opportunity: He wanted to ask for a raise, but bided his time.

1. (in prescriptions) twice a day.

1. Bachelor of Industrial Design.

verb bids, bidding, bad, bade, esp for senses 1, 2, 5, 7 bid, bidden or esp for senses 1, 2, 5, 7 bid

1. (often foll by for or against) to offer (an amount) in attempting to buy something, esp in competition with others as at an auction
2. commerce to respond to an offer by a seller by stating (the more favourable terms) on which one is willing to make a purchase
3. (tr) to say (a greeting, blessing, etc)to bid farewell
4. to order; commanddo as you are bid!
5. (intr usually foll by for) to attempt to attain power, etc
6. (tr) to invite; ask kindlyshe bade him sit down
7. bridge to declare in the auction before play how many tricks one expects to make
8. bid defiance to resist boldly
9. bid fair to seem probable

noun

10. 1. an offer of a specified amount, as at an auction
    2. the price offered
11. commerce
    1. a statement by a buyer, in response to an offer by a seller, of the more favourable terms that would be acceptable
    2. the price or other terms so stated
12. an attempt, esp an attempt to attain power
13. bridge
    1. the number of tricks a player undertakes to make
    2. a player’s turn to make a bid
14. short for bid price

abbreviation for (in prescriptions)

1. bis in die

verb bides, biding, bided, bode or bided

1. (intr) archaic, or dialect to continue in a certain place or state; stay
2. (intr) archaic, or dialect to live; dwell
3. (tr) archaic, or dialect to tolerate; endure
4. bide a wee Scot to stay a little
5. bide by Scot to abide by
6. bide one’s time to wait patiently for an opportunity

v.

probably a merger of two old words: The sense in bid farewell is from Old English biddan “to ask, entreat, pray, beseech; order; beg” (class V strong verb, past tense bæd, past participle beden), from Proto-Germanic *bidjan “to pray, entreat” (cf. German bitten “to ask,” attested from 8c.), which, according to Kluge and Watkins is from a PIE root *gwhedh- “to ask, pray” (see bead (n.)).

To bid at an auction, meanwhile, is from Old English beodan “offer, proclaim” (class II strong verb; past tense bead, p.p. boden), from Proto-Germanic *biudanan “to stretch out, reach out, offer, present,” (cf. German bieten “to offer”), from PIE root *bh(e)udh- “to be aware, make aware” (cf. Sanskrit bodhati “is awake, is watchful, observes,” buddhah “awakened, enlightened;” Old Church Slavonic bljudo “to observe;” Lithuanian budeti “to be awake;” Old Irish buide “contentment, thanks”). As a noun, 1788, from the verb.

v.

Old English bidan “to stay, continue, live, remain,” also “to trust, rely” (cognate with Old Norse biða, Old Saxon bidan, Old Frisian bidia, Middle Dutch biden, Old High German bitan, Gothic beidan “to wait”), apparently from PIE *bheidh-, an extended stem of one root of Old English biddan (see bid (v.)), the original sense of which was “to command,” and “to trust” (cf. Greek peithein “to persuade,” pistis “faith;” Latin fidere “to trust,” foedus “compact, treaty,” Old Church Slavonic beda “need”). Perhaps the sense evolved in prehistoric times through “endure,” and “endure a wait,” to “to wait.” Preserved in Scotland and northern England, replaced elsewhere by abide in all senses except to bide one’s time. Related: Bided; biding.

abbr.

1. bis in die (twice a day)