(v. t.) To make an offer of; to propose. Specifically : To offer to pay ( a certain price, as for a thing put up at auction), or to take (a certain price, as for work to be done under a contract).
(v. t.) To offer in words; to declare, as a wish, a greeting, a threat, or defiance, etc.; as, to bid one welcome; to bid good morning, farewell, etc.
(v. t.) To proclaim; to declare publicly; to make known.
(v. t.) To order; to direct; to enjoin; to command.
(v. t.) To invite; to call in; to request to come.
() imp. & p. p. of Bid.
(n.) An offer of a price, especially at auctions; a statement of a sum which one will give for something to be received, or will take for something to be done or furnished; that which is offered.
(v. t.) To pray.
(v. t.) To make a bid; to state what one will pay or take.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is not clear whether Sports Direct, which has a history of taking strategic stakes in related companies including Debenhams and JD Sports, will now make a bid.
(2) However, the significantly lower relative bioavailabilities for the prolonged-action hydroxymethylnitrofurantoin formulations suggest that Urfadyn PL 100 mg bid and Uridurine 100 mg tid are not pharmacokinetically equivalent to Furadantine MC.
(3) The number of seats has been reduced from 72,000 to 68,000, with another 12,000 to be added after the Games to meet the 80,000 minimum required in case Japan launches a bid to host the football World Cup.
(4) Asked whether the 2022 bid should be reopened in the wake of the allegations in the Sunday Times, Cameron said: "There is an inquiry under way, quite rightly, into what happened in terms of the World Cup bid for 2022.
(5) Read more Grabban, who moved to Carrow Road from Bournemouth in 2014 for around £3m, has been a target for Eddie Howe for some time and the manager had three bids for him turned down in the summer.
(6) Sainsbury’s revealed on Tuesday that it had made an approach to buy Home Retail , which also owns DIY chain Homebase, and sources expect the company to return with another bid.
(7) At a private meeting last Tuesday, Hunt assured Cameron and the cabinet secretary, Sir Jeremy Heywood, that he had not been aware that his special adviser, Adam Smith, was systematically leaking information and advice to News Corp about its bid for BSkyB.
(8) Taxpayers will pick up an immediate £40m bill for compensating the four shortlisted companies that bid for the west coast franchise.
(9) 8.25am BST As the day draws to a close it is time to bid the readers adieu and wrap up the live-blog for the day.
(10) Los Angeles were relentless in their vicious pursuit of a game-tying goal on Wednesday, bidding to send Game 4 into overtime.
(11) A deadline for bids had been set for the previous midnight, but East chose to ignore it.
(12) So Huck Finn floats down the great river that flows through the heart of America, and on this adventure he is accompanied by the magnificent figure of Jim, a runaway slave, who is also making his bid for freedom.
(13) One source said Coe's "knitting together" of cross-party political support to win the London Olympic bid puts him in a good light.
(14) Just months later, Grade popped up fronting a private-equity backed bid for Pinewood from the Rank Group.
(15) We wish to thank once again all the Chinese people and people around the world who have supported Beijing 2022 in this extraordinary bid journey.” Earlier, the president Xi threw his weight behind China’s bid, promising the “strongest support” for the Beijing Games in a one-minute video address to the IOC delegates.
(16) He was bidding on behalf of an unknown and clearly stupendously rich buyer.
(17) We continue to offer customers a great range of beer, lager and cider.” Heineken’s bid to raise prices for its products in supermarkets comes just a few months after it put 6p on a pint in pubs , a decision it blamed on the weak pound.
(18) April 12, 2016 Gardner, who previously supported Marco Rubio’s presidential bid, has yet to endorse any of the remaining three candidates.
(19) Before bids being lodged, sources had indicated that Sky was not prepared to make a knockout bid to snatch back the rights from BT, which has justified the expense to customers and shareholders as “financially disciplined”.
(20) A fired-up Lleyton Hewitt just fell short in his bid to steer Australia to an upset victory in their Davis Cup doubles showdown with the United States.
Gid
Definition:
(a.) A disease of sheep, characterized by vertigo; the staggers. It is caused by the presence of the C/nurus, a larval tapeworm, in the brain. See C/nurus.
Example Sentences:
(1) Giddings confirmed to senate estimates that he had passed on the rumour, but had not heard, or passed on, any suggestion that the protesters might have intended to disrupt question time.
(2) In your case, I am hoping you can respond to the criticisms of your testimony to the NY legislature made by Val Giddings in a recent blog post.
(3) A strong immunostaining of AD sections with anti-GID and the presence of a Mr 35,000 band unique to AD might reflect an altered processing of ABPP in AD brains.
(4) The findings suggest that GID boys do not suffer solely from gender symptomatology but are disturbed in other aspects of their ego functioning as well.
(5) Recently Giddings discussed the prospect of combining two separation mechanisms in such a way that when "a sample is subjected to two displacement processes oriented at right angles to one another" a two-dimensional separation is carried out.
(6) We will honour any commitment that has been made.” The spokeswoman said: “Victoria made it clear that, along with Victorian schools and school communities, we expect the Commonwealth to honour this funding, which was agreed to on 4 August 2013.” The Tasmanian premier, Lara Giddings, also maintains the state signed a contract ''What we have here is a heads of agreement that has been signed,'' Giddings said.
(7) This mortality can be completely prevented if the recipients are germfree mice, or when they are conventional animals which have been subjected to complete or selective gastrointestinal decontamination (GID).
(8) Philip Giddings, the conservative evangelical who chairs the house of laity, said he was satisfied the new, simplified legislation would be tolerable for his side.
(9) We have developed further the statistical approach to chromatography initiated by Giddings and Eyring, and applied it to affinity chromatography.
(10) The granular intercalated duct (GID) cells showed a progressive increase in number from two to four months of age (p less than 0.01).
(11) Among all the age groups (2-22 months), the number of the GID cells in submandibular gland was highest of six months; they were then also most conspicuous with many electron-dense secretory granules in the cytoplasm.
(12) The observed effect of lactose on (PU) does not correlate with (GID).
(13) Giddings, one of the most powerful lay members of the church, is the convenor of the conservative evangelical Anglican Mainstream network, which was founded to oppose the appointment of Jeffrey John, a gay priest, as the suffragan bishop of Reading in 2003.
(14) Giddings praised the resilience of the 55,000-strong crowd.
(15) The significance of these age-related changes of the GID cells is unknown.
(16) In an in vitro DNA replication system for oriC DNA, plasmids with a defective gid promoter had greatly reduced template activity and essentially no replication occurred when both promoters were inactive.
(17) I have to look at it very closely with the police and the council so that it doesn't happen again," Giddings said.
(18) During a speech to the synod that came directly after Welby urged its members to vote in favour of the measure, Giddings said it would be "unwise" to press ahead with a measure that "a significant minority of our church" were unable to accept.
(19) In the present study, we investigated the immunoreactivity of the NCL brain tissue with anti-serum (anti-GID) raised against a synthetic peptide, based on the amyloid beta-protein precursor, with the 175-186 amino acid sequence.
(20) These are (i) the AT rich sequence ('AT-cluster') which exists immediately left of the 13mer repeats and (ii) the gid transcriptional unit.