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| Shopping | The largest selection of BID products: USA, UK, Canada, Deutschland, France. |
| TV Shop | As seen on TV: beauty, diets, exercise, household, kitchen, personal, vitamins, and other popular TV-products. |
| NOUN | 1 | bid, command, bidding, dictation | An authoritative direction or instruction to do something |
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| 2 | bid, play | An attempt to get something | |
| 3 | bid, tender | A formal proposal to buy at a specified price | |
| 4 | bid, bidding | (bridge) the number of tricks a bridge player is willing to contract to make | |
| VERB | 1 | bid, offer, tender | Propose a payment |
| 2 | bid, wish | Invoke upon | |
| 3 | bid, beseech, entreat, adjure, press, conjure | Ask for or request earnestly | |
| 4 | bid, call | Make a demand, as for a card or a suit or a show of hands | |
| 5 | bid | Make a serious effort to attain something | |
| 6 | bid, invite | Ask someone in a friendly way to do something |
| Sounds | bih'd |
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| Rhymes | abbreviated, abducted, abstracted, and 649 more rhymes in ihd... |
| Meaning | An authoritative direction or instruction to do something. |
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| Synonyms | command, bidding, dictation |
| Broader | speech act |
| Narrower | countermand; order; commission, charge, direction; commandment; injunction; behest; open sesame |
| Verbs | bid |
| Meaning | An attempt to get something. |
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| Examples | "he made a bid to gain attention" |
| Synonyms | play |
| Broader | attempt, effort, endeavor, endeavour, try |
| Verbs | bid |
| Meaning | A formal proposal to buy at a specified price. |
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| Synonyms | tender |
| Broader | offer, offering |
| Narrower | overbid; buyout bid |
| Verbs | bid; bid |
| Meaning | (bridge) the number of tricks a bridge player is willing to contract to make. |
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| Synonyms | bidding |
| Part of | bridge |
| Category | bridge |
| Broader | statement |
| Narrower | contract, declaration; takeout; overbid, overcall; preemptive bid, pre-empt, preempt |
| Verbs | bid |
| Meaning | Propose a payment. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s something PP |
| Synonyms | offer, tender |
| Category | auction, auction sale, vendue |
| Narrower | by-bid; subscribe; overbid; underbid; outbid; underbid |
| Entails | dicker, bargain |
| Nouns | bid; bidder |
| Meaning | Invoke upon. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody something; Somebody ----s something to somebody |
| Examples | "bid farewell" |
| Synonyms | wish |
| Broader | greet, recognize, recognise |
| Narrower | congratulate, felicitate |
| Meaning | Ask for or request earnestly. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody; Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE |
| Examples | "The prophet bid all people to become good persons" |
| Synonyms | beseech, entreat, adjure, press, conjure |
| Broader | plead |
| Adjectives | biddable; biddable |
| Nouns | bid, bidding |
| Meaning | Make a demand, as for a card or a suit or a show of hands. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s |
| Synonyms | call |
| Category | card game, cards |
| Broader | play |
| Narrower | raise; double; outcall; underbid; outbid; overbid; preempt |
| Nouns | bid, bidding; bidder |
| Meaning | Make a serious effort to attain something. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
| Examples | "His campaign bid for the attention of the poor population" |
| Broader | seek |
| Nouns | bid; bid |
| Meaning | Ask someone in a friendly way to do something. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody INFINITIVE |
| Model | They bid him to write the letter |
| Synonyms | invite |
| Broader | request |
| Narrower | tempt, allure; challenge |
| Adjectives | biddable; biddable |
| Nouns | bidding |
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