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单词 bid
释义

bid

See also: BID, bíd, bîd, bið, and -bid

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɪd/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɪd

Etymology 1

From Middle English bidden, from Old English biddan (to ask, demand), 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.

Verb

bid (third-person singular simple present bids, present participle bidding, simple past bid or bade or bad, past participle bid or bidden)

  1. (transitive) To issue a command; to tell.
    He bade me come in.
    • 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 606515358, [Act II, scene v]:
      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.
  2. (transitive) To invite; to summon.
    She was bidden to the wedding.
    • 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 606515358, [Act II, scene v]:
      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;
  3. (transitive) 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 606515358, [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; []
    • 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.
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
  • bid adieu
  • bid beads
  • bid defiance to
  • bid fair
Translations

Etymology 2

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 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)

  1. (intransitive) To make an offer to pay or accept a certain price.
    Have you ever bid in an auction?
  2. (transitive) To offer as a price.
    She bid £2000 for the Persian carpet.
  3. (intransitive) To make an attempt.
    He was bidding for the chance to coach his team to victory once again.
  4. (transitive, intransitive, card games) To announce (one's goal), before starting play.
  5. (obsolete) 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 960102938:
      All night she spent in bidding of her bedes, / And all the day in doing good and godly deedes.
Derived terms
  • forbid
  • misbid
Translations

Noun

bid (plural bids)

  1. An offer at an auction, or to carry out a piece of work.
    His bid was $35,000.
    a bid for a lucrative transport contract
  2. (ultimate frisbee) A (failed) attempt to receive or intercept a pass.
    Nice bid!
  3. An attempt, effort, or pursuit (of a goal).
    Their efforts represented a sincere bid for success.
    She put in her bid for the presidency.
    He put in his bid for office.
    • 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.
    • 1967, William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson, Logan's Run, May 1976 Bantam Books edition, →ISBN, page 16:
      [Running,] Doyle had passed up a dozen chances to go underground. He was swinging east again making another bid for Arcade.
Derived terms
  • bid-ask spread
  • bid hook
  • bid price
  • bid rigging
  • bid shading
  • bid size
  • bidworthy
  • commission bid
  • donkey bid
  • dummy bid
  • leadership bid
  • limit bid
  • sealed bid
  • straw bid
  • takeover bid
  • vendor bid
Translations

References

  1. “Bid, bade, bidden”, Grammarist

Anagrams

  • DBI, DIB, Dib, IBD, IDB, dib

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch bidden.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bət/, [bət]
  • (file)

Verb

bid (present bid, present participle biddende, past participle gebid)

  1. to pray

References

  • 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

Cimbrian

Etymology

Related to German Weide (willow; wicker).

Noun

bid m (plural biddar, diminutive biddale)

  1. (Sette Comuni) wicker, osier

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

From Old Norse bit n, from Proto-Germanic *bitą. Derived from the verb *bītaną (to bite).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈb̥ið]
  • Rhymes: -id

Noun

bid n (singular definite biddet, plural indefinite bid)

  1. bite (act of biting)
Inflection

Etymology 2

From Old Norse biti m, from Proto-Germanic *bitô, cognate with German Bissen. Derived from the verb *bītaną (to bite).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈb̥ið]

Noun

bid c (singular definite bidden, plural indefinite bidder)

  1. bit, morsel
  2. bite, mouthful
Inflection

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈb̥iˀð], [ˈb̥iðˀ]

Verb

bid

  1. imperative of bide

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Verb

bid

  1. first-person singular present indicative of bidden
  2. imperative of bidden

Old Irish

Alternative forms

  • bith

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bʲiðʲ/

Verb

bid

  1. inflection of is:
    1. third-person singular past subjunctive
    2. third-person singular future

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
bidbid
pronounced with /v(ʲ)-/
mbid
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bit/
  • Rhymes: -it
  • Syllabification: bid
  • Homophone: bit

Noun

bid f

  1. genitive plural of bida

Volapük

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [bid]

Noun

bid (nominative plural bids)

  1. (taxonomy) genus
  2. sort; kind; type
  3. race

Declension

Synonyms

  • sot

Derived terms

  • bidäd
  • bidädik
  • bidanem
  • bidik
  • filigabid
  • garidabid
  • hügien bidädik
  • kaktudabid
  • menabid
  • menabidädahet
  • menabidädakomip
  • menabidädihet
  • nimabid
  • planabid
  • vödabid

Welsh

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /biːd/
  • Rhymes: -iːd

Verb

bid

  1. (literary) third-person singular imperative of bod

Synonyms

  • bydded
  • boed

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radicalsoftnasalaspirate
bidfidmidunchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Zhuang

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Zhuang) IPA(key): /pit˧/
  • Tone numbers: bid8
  • Hyphenation: bid

Noun

bid (Sawndip forms or 𧏻, 1957–1982 spelling bid)

  1. cicada
    Synonyms: (dialectal) biqrengh, (dialectal) nengzceq
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