(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.
Hid
Definition:
() imp. & p. p. of Hide. See Hidden.
(imp.) of Hide
() of Hide
Example Sentences:
(1) It was quoted in the grand jury indictment, and later a larger portion was included in one of the prosecution’s filings in the case: Facebook Twitter Pinterest Thermal image released by the Massachusetts State Police Air Wing, shows the boat in which Jahar hid.
(2) He let me in on the night of the burglary, he hid keys and codes throughout the building.” Claiming he did not know Basil’s identity, Jones, who has contacted Sky before, said he would not reveal it in any case as “it’s not a done thing where I come from”.
(3) We hid under some steps and we didn’t know what to do.
(4) I saw a lot of blood, people injured and children running," said Carlos Alberto, who fled into the forest and hid.
(5) 5.14pm GMT Alan Pardew speaks ... With a smirk playing around his chops in a charm offensive on Sky Sports, he says he ‘massively regrets” sticking the hid on Hull City midfielder David Meyler and says he’ll be sitting down for matches in the future.
(6) The suspect, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, hid the device in his underpants, and has since been jailed for life.
(7) Two additional groups treated with indomethacin (groups CI and HI), and two groups treated with the combination of indomethacin and diethylcarbamazine (groups CID and HID), were also ventilated with either 35% O2 or 3% O2 respectively.
(8) The survivors ran to the mountains and hid there for more than a week.
(9) It successfully hid the plunge in living standards for millions of others through housing benefit cuts: only one in eight on housing benefit are not in work.
(10) Rubens is not a solitary source of painterly genius, but a gregarious master who never hid his own quotations of earlier art.
(11) Testicular hyaluronidase digested most HID-TCH-SP stain deposits in the connective tissue, whereas those in the region of basement membranes resisted this enzymatic digestion.
(12) When I heard the gunfire, I slipped out of bed and hid in the wardrobe.
(13) The HID-TCH-SP stain deposits, approximately 10 nm in diameter, were densely distributed around the intact matrix vesicles, though few were found inside them.
(14) On the other hand, the lower goblet cells were found to contain predominantly sulphated mucins with D-mannose and D-glucose residues by AB-PAS, HID-AB and Concanavalia ensiformis (Con A) reactivities.
(15) Subsequently, as formation of the initial predentin matrix began, HID-TCH-SP stain deposits were densely distributed in the interfibrillar spaces and the basement membrane.
(16) This held true for HID-reacted specimens whether or not they had been post-treated with osmium tetroxide.
(17) The HID positive sulphomucins diffused into the meconium, and probably modified the physical and chemical properties of meconium and influenced anal continence.
(18) When our three-year-old hid behind the sofa because there was another nasty man at the door, I snapped."
(19) Bunker-buster bomb reports may mark new stage in Russia's Syrian assault Read more Medics took shelter in the hospital basement during the mid-morning attack, sending calls for aid as they hid until government planes had retreated.
(20) The launching of legal proceedings for "fiscal fraud" did not name Cahuzac but centres on claims that he hid money from the French tax authorities , first in Switzerland and then in Singapore.