BID
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BID¹
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Latin bis in diē.
adverb
- 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.
BID²
noun BIDs
- Acronym of business improvement district.business improvement district
bid³
- /bɪd/
Rhymes with -ɪd
Where it comes from
From Middle English bidden, from Old English biddan (“to ask, demand”), from Proto-West Germanic *biddjan, from Proto-Germanic *bidjaną (“to ask”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰedʰ-. Conflated with Old English bēodan (“to offer, announce”) (see Etymology 2 below).
Compare West Frisian bidde, Low German bidden, Dutch bidden ("to pray"), German bitten, Danish bede, Norwegian Bokmål be.
verb bids · bidding · bid · bade · bad
- To issue a command; to tell. He bade me come in.
- To invite; to summon. She was bidden to the wedding.
- 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; […]
- 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.
bid⁴
- /bɪd/
Rhymes with -ɪd
Where it comes from
From Middle English beden, from Old English bēodan (“to offer, announce”), from Proto-Germanic *beudaną (“to offer”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ- (“be awake, aware”). Conflated with Old English biddan (“to ask, demand”) (see Etymology 1 above). Compare Low German bieden, beden, Dutch bieden, German bieten, Danish byde, Norwegian Bokmål by. More at bede.
verb bids · bidding · bid
- To make an offer to pay or accept a certain price. Have you ever bid in an auction?
- To offer as a price; to tender. She bid £2000 for the Persian carpet.
- To make an attempt. He was bidding for the chance to coach his team to victory once again.
- To announce (one's goal), before starting play.
- To take a particular route regularly. I can’t believe he bid the Syracuse turn; that can be brutal in the winter!
noun bids
- An offer at an auction, or to carry out a piece of work. His bid was $35,000.
- A (failed) attempt to receive or intercept a pass. Nice bid!
- An attempt, effort, or pursuit (of a goal). Their efforts represented a sincere bid for success.
- 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.
- A prison sentence. So we ‘lawyered up’. That’s how they say it in the bucket, son, where I did an eight-hour bid.
