BID

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   twice a day, two times per day

   • It has been repeatedly documented that moving patients from a TID dosing regimen to BID or OD vastly improves compliance, and thus the medicine's effectiveness.
2. 2

   Acronym of business improvement district.

3. 3

   To issue a command

   To issue a command; to tell.

   • He bade me come in.
   • Shylock: [...] Why Jessica, I say! Launcelot: Why, Jessica! Shylock: Who bids thee call? I do not bid thee call. Launcelot: Your worship was wont to tell me that I could do nothing without bidding.
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   1. 4

      To invite

      To invite; to summon.

      • She was bidden to the wedding.
      • Jessica: Call you? What is your will? Shylock: I am bid forth to supper, Jessica: / [...] But wherefore should I go? / I am not bid for love; they flatter me;
      • In his cloak of words strode the ringmaster, / Bid me join the parade
   2. 5

      To utter a greeting or salutation.

      • Portia: If I could bid the fifth welcome with so good heart as I / can bid the other four farewell, I should be glad of his / approach; […]
      • The last train—a three-coach A.E.C. unit—from Belfast to Crumlin and back, was bade farewell with fog signals as it carried a capacity crowd of last-trip travellers.
   3. 6

      To proclaim (a bede, prayer)

      To proclaim (a bede, prayer); to pray.

      • All night she spent in bidding of her bedes, / And all the day in doing good and godly deedes.
   4. 7

      To make an offer to pay or accept a certain price.

      • Have you ever bid in an auction?
   5. 8

      To offer as a price

      To offer as a price; to tender.

      • She bid £2000 for the Persian carpet.
   6. 9

      To make an attempt.

      • He was bidding for the chance to coach his team to victory once again.
   7. 10

      To announce (one's goal), before starting play.

   8. 11

      To take a particular route regularly.

      • I can’t believe he bid the Syracuse turn; that can be brutal in the winter!
   9. 12

      An offer at an auction, or to carry out a piece of work.

      • His bid was $35,000.
      • The company tendered a bid for a lucrative transport contract.
   10. 13

       A (failed) attempt to receive or intercept a pass.

       • Nice bid!
   11. 14

       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.
   12. 15

       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.
   13. 16

       A prison sentence.

       • So we ‘lawyered up’. That’s how they say it in the bucket, son, where I did an eight-hour bid.

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