What's the difference between bid and pray?

Bid


Definition:

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  • (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.

Pray


Definition:

  • (n. & v.) See Pry.
  • (v. i.) To make request with earnestness or zeal, as for something desired; to make entreaty or supplication; to offer prayer to a deity or divine being as a religious act; specifically, to address the Supreme Being with adoration, confession, supplication, and thanksgiving.
  • (v. t.) To address earnest request to; to supplicate; to entreat; to implore; to beseech.
  • (v. t.) To ask earnestly for; to seek to obtain by supplication; to entreat for.
  • (v. t.) To effect or accomplish by praying; as, to pray a soul out of purgatory.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) People praying, voicing their views and heart, were met with disdain and a level of force exceeding what was needed.
  • (2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A child praying at the vigil site for Freddie Gray in Baltimore.
  • (3) I am being prayed for in the woods of northern California!
  • (4) When he had those Aids I went to my synagogue and I prayed for him.” Sterling said he admired Johnson, 53, as a “good” man, then contradicted himself.
  • (5) "I've been praying and praying to Papa," Nan cried, "but it feels like He isn't listening."
  • (6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Muslims pray at the Al Khalil mosque in Molenbeek.
  • (7) She comes to church with me; she doesn’t pray in the way I do, but she listens.
  • (8) They will whip you if you don’t pray.” In Damascus there is a new industry of “facilitators” who offer advice to Syrians who want to get out.
  • (9) A few metres away, Francisco-Javier Muñoz, a lawyer originally from Spain, was praying.
  • (10) Since the allegations became public, fans have taken to holding up homemade signs at Florida State games: "We Support Famous Jameis", "Jameis is Innocent," and "In Jameis Christ We Pray".
  • (11) New Afghan national police officers pray during their graduation ceremony.
  • (12) The NYPD's demographics unit assembled databases on where Muslims lived, shopped, worked and prayed.
  • (13) I squeezed my eyes shut and prayed for an electromagnetic storm that would cancel out every mistake I'd ever made.'
  • (14) As she gazes down from her plane at the sprawling Amazon jungle below, she will hope and pray that, with a number of giant infrastructure projects planned in the region, history is not about to repeat itself.
  • (15) The Palestinians see this as Jewish encroachment on the site, the holiest in Judaism and the third holiest in Islam, while Jewish activists like Glick say they are being discriminated against by limiting their chances to pray atop the mount.
  • (16) The general atmosphere was that there was no point in summoning the police – the policeman is a local settler from Kiryat Arba who comes to pray with the Hebron settlers at the Tomb of the Patriarchs on Fridays.
  • (17) It stands 25km north of Damascus, near the ancient Saydnaya monastery where Christians and Muslims have prayed together for centuries.
  • (18) My mother prays for me,” said Betancourt, a Honduran.
  • (19) Barcelona’s miracle worker Lionel Messi leaves Arsenal praying for one | Barney Ronay Read more City continue to monitor Messi’s situation should he become unsettled.
  • (20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A woman prays in front of the Flame of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Tokyo, a memorial for the victims of the atomic bombings in 1945.

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