(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.
Lathe
Definition:
(n.) Formerly, a part or division of a county among the Anglo-Saxons. At present it consists of four or five hundreds, and is confined to the county of Kent.
(n.) A granary; a barn.
(n.) A machine for turning, that is, for shaping articles of wood, metal, or other material, by causing them to revolve while acted upon by a cutting tool.
(n.) The movable swing frame of a loom, carrying the reed for separating the warp threads and beating up the weft; -- called also lay and batten.
Example Sentences:
(1) One had been attached to the first cutting lathe that Optimal had acquired.
(2) Through combination with a spherical disc face perpendicular to the axis of rotation, which protrudes only slightly from the hemispherical catheter tip, with a maximum at the center and minimum at the lateral borders, the lathing head has only a slight risk of perforation and no undesired sheering forces (Figures 2a to 2d).
(3) Machinable ceramics that can be cut and even lathed have recently been developed in industry.
(4) We studied the anterior surfaces of 30 soft contact lenses (10 lathe cut [polished]; 10 spin cast [unpolished], and 10 cast molded [unpolished]) of the same polymer and water content.
(5) The results indicate that when dental amalgam alloy is added to the glass ionomer, lathe-cut particles are to be preferred but only in an amount up to 20% by weight.
(6) Changes in corneal curvature and subjective refraction were found to occur in some wearers of N & N lathe-cut soft contact lenses.
(7) Peripheral swelling was less than central for both lathe cut- and spun cast-type lenses.
(8) For clinical application the initial intumescence should be taken into consideration, as well as the donor tissue thickening during its freezing for working on a lathe.
(9) Data is presented in respect of 256 restorations of Occlusin and 69 restorations of a conventional lathe cut amalgam.
(10) The lenses studied were lathe-cut polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA), injection-molded non-UV PMMA, injection-molded UV PMMA, and cast-molded UV PMMA.
(11) Measurement of the corrosion rates of three distinctive amalgam alloys (lathe-cut, spherical and dispersed-phase) when immersed in three different electrolytes, including saliva, is reported.
(12) The results indicated that early microleakage from alloys of lathe-cut particles was lower than that from alloys of spherical particles in both low-copper and high-copper amalgam restorations.
(13) Precise lathing of epikeratoplasty lenticules is difficult to achieve with the cryolathe due to unpredictable expansion of the lathing tools and the corneal tissue during the freezing process.
(14) Like, ‘Don’t send us a CD master of the loudest techno music and expect that to be cuttable on a lacquer.’ (The high and low frequencies associated with this type of music can overheat the cutting lathe and cause the mastering machinery to shut down; pushing the process to its limits is the origin of some records being called “hot cuts”.)
(15) Often overlooked is the dental laboratory of which particular interest focuses on the lathes used in preparing prosthetic appliances, castings, orthodontic appliances, and surgical stents.
(16) A method was developed for lathing corneal tissue without freezing.
(17) This paper describes in detail the geometry of the first lathe-cut hydrophilic lens approved by the Federal Drug Administration, the fitting methods utilizing trial lenses, and the results of 100 patients successfully fitted.
(18) We adapted a lathe to the production of keratolenses.
(19) USA 69, 3643-3647) and the HLP-1 protein (Lathe, R. et al.
(20) Three out of 10 eyes (30%) in which injection molded anterior chamber lenses from McGhan were used developed cystoid macular edema, compared to a much lower incidence with the use of lathe-cut anterior chamber lenses from Rayner.