bid
verboverbosubstantivocorrente nos diálogos
- //bɪd//
To issue a command; to tell.
verbo
- 1
To issue a command; to tell.
He bade me come in.
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
To invite; to summon.
She was bidden to the wedding.
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;
In his cloak of words strode the ringmaster, / Bid me join the parade
- 3
To utter a greeting or salutation.
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; […]
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.
- 4
obsoletoTo proclaim (a bede, prayer); to pray.
All night she spent in bidding of her bedes, / And all the day in doing good and godly deedes.
Etimologia
From Middle English bidden, from Old English biddan (“to ask, demand”), from Proto-West Germanic *biddjan, 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.
verbo
- 1
To make an offer to pay or accept a certain price.
Have you ever bid in an auction?
- 2
To offer as a price; to tender.
She bid £2000 for the Persian carpet.
- 3
To make an attempt.
He was bidding for the chance to coach his team to victory once again.
- 4
To announce (one's goal), before starting play.
- 5
To take a particular route regularly.
I can’t believe he bid the Syracuse turn; that can be brutal in the winter!
Etimologia
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.
substantivo
- 1
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.
- 2
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.
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.
- 4
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.
- 5
calãoA prison sentence.
So we ‘lawyered up’. That’s how they say it in the bucket, son, where I did an eight-hour bid.
Formas
- plural
- bids
- pretérito
- bade, bad
- particípio passado
- bade, bad, bidden
- gerúndio
- bidding
- 3.ª pessoa do singular
- bids
bid · To issue a command; to tell.
BID · twice a day, two times per daybidder · Someone who bids (all senses), but most commonly, one offers…Bidder · A surname.