Bade vs. Bid
Bade and Bid Definitions
Bade
A past tense of bid.
Bid
To offer or propose (an amount) as a price.
Bade
A form of the past tense of Bid.
Bid
To auction (a contract)
The city will bid the project next summer.
Bade
A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria
Bid
To offer (someone) membership, as in a group or club
"glancing around to be sure that he had been bid by a society that he wanted" (Louis Auchincloss).
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Bid
(Games) To state one's intention to take (tricks of a certain number or suit in cards)
Bid four hearts.
Bid
To utter (a greeting or salutation)
I bid you farewell.
Bid
To issue a command to; direct
"Lee ... bid the captain sit beside him and report" (Stephen W. Sears).
Bid
To invite to attend; summon
The host bid the guests come to dinner.
Bid
To make an offer to pay or accept a specified price
Decided not to bid on the roll-top desk.
Bid
To seek to win or attain something; strive.
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Bid
An offer to pay a certain amount of money for something
Made a bid on the antique desk.
Bid
The amount offered or proposed
The highest bid at the auction was $5,000.
Bid
An invitation, especially one offering membership in a group or club.
Bid
An earnest effort to win or attain something
A team in a bid to win the championship.
A candidate who made a bid for the presidency.
Bid
The act of bidding in cards.
Bid
The number of tricks or points declared.
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Bid
The trump or no-trump declared.
Bid
The turn of a player to bid.
Bid
(transitive) To issue a command; to tell.
He bade me come in.
Bid
(transitive) To invite; to summon.
She was bidden to the wedding.
Bid
(transitive) To utter a greeting or salutation.
Bid
(intransitive) To make an offer to pay or accept a certain price.
Have you ever bid in an auction?
Bid
(transitive) To offer as a price.
She bid £2000 for the Persian carpet.
Bid
(intransitive) To make an attempt.
He was bidding for the chance to coach his team to victory once again.
Bid
To announce (one's goal), before starting play.
Bid
(obsolete) To proclaim (a bede, prayer); to pray.
Bid
To take a particular route regularly.
I can't believe he bid the Syracuse turn; that can be brutal in the winter!
Bid
An offer at an auction, or to carry out a piece of work.
His bid was $35,000.
A bid for a lucrative transport contract
Bid
(ultimate frisbee) A (failed) attempt to receive or intercept a pass.
Nice bid!
Bid
An attempt, effort, or pursuit (of a goal).
Their efforts represented a sincere bid for success.
She put in her bid for the presidency.
He put in his bid for office.
Bid
(trucking) A particular route that a driver regularly takes from their domicile.
I can't stand this new bid I'm on, even if the mileage is better.
Bid
(prison slang) A prison sentence.
Bid
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).
Bid
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.
Neither bid him God speed.
He bids defiance to the gaping crowd.
Bid
To proclaim; to declare publicly; to make known.
Bid
To order; to direct; to enjoin; to command.
That Power who bids the ocean ebb and flow.
Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee.
I was bid to pick up shells.
Bid
To invite; to call in; to request to come.
As many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage.
Bid
To pray.
Bid
To make a bid; to state what one will pay or take.
Bid
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.
Bid
An authoritative direction or instruction to do something
Bid
An attempt to get something;
They made a futile play for power
He made a bid to gain attention
Bid
A formal proposal to buy at a specified price
Bid
(bridge) the number of tricks a bridge player is willing to contract to make
Bid
Propose a payment;
The Swiss dealer offered $2 million for the painting
Bid
Invoke upon;
Wish you a nice evening
Bid farewell
Bid
Ask for or request earnestly;
The prophet bid all people to become good persons
Bid
Make a demand, as for a card or a suit or a show of hands;
He called his trump
Bid
Make a serious effort to attain something;
His campaign bid for the attention of the poor population
Bid
Ask someone in a friendly way to do something
