different between bid vs express

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?d/
• Rhymes: -?d

Etymology 1

From Middle English bidden, from Old English biddan (“to ask, demand”), from Proto-Germanic *bidjan? (“to ask”), from Proto-Indo-European *g??ed?-. Conflated with Old English b?odan (“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

bid (third-person singular simple present bids, present participle bidding, simple past bid or bade or bad, past participle bid or bidden)

1. (transitive) To issue a command; to tell.

   He bade me come in.

   • 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II, Scene V:

     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.

2. (transitive) To invite; to summon.

   She was bidden to the wedding.

   • 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II, Scene V:

     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;

3. (transitive) To utter a greeting or salutation.
   • 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act I, Scene III:

     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; [...]

Usage notes

The inflected forms bade, bad, and bidden are archaic. They remain in marginal use, particularly in greetings, as in “bade farewell”, but uninflected bid is significantly more common, and bidden is especially rare.

When bidden does occur, it is usually in an elevated, ironical, or metaphorical style, e.g "I have bidden farewell to my prospects of promotion."

When bade (spelled bad so rarely that this variant is not mentioned in most dictionaries) is used in formal speech, the pronunciation /bæd/ may be heard. However, when a dated text with the spelling bade is read aloud or recited (e.g. on stage, in school, or in church etc.) the spelling pronunciation /be?d/ is quite usual.

Derived terms

• bid adieu
• bid fair

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English beden, from Old English b?odan (“to offer, announce”), from Proto-Germanic *beudan? (“to offer”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?ewd?- (“be awake, aware”). Conflated with Old English biddan (“to ask, demand”) (see Etymology 1 above). Compare Low German beden, Dutch bieden, German bieten, Danish byde, Norwegian Bokmål by. More at bede.

Verb

bid (third-person singular simple present bids, present participle bidding, simple past and past participle bid)

1. (intransitive) To make an offer to pay or accept a certain price.

   Have you ever bid in an auction?

2. (transitive) To offer as a price.

   She bid £2000 for the Persian carpet.

3. (intransitive) To make an attempt.

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

4. (transitive, intransitive, card games) To announce (one's goal), before starting play.
5. (obsolete) To proclaim (a bede, prayer); to pray.
   • 1590, Edmund Spendser, The Faerie Queene, I.x:

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

Derived terms

• bid one's time
• forbid

Translations

Noun

bid (plural bids)

1. 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

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

   Nice bid!

3. 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.

   • 1967, William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson, Logan's Run, May 1976 Bantam Books edition, ?ISBN, page 16:

     [Running,] Doyle had passed up a dozen chances to go underground. He was swinging east again making another bid for Arcade.

Derived terms

Translations

References

Anagrams

• DBI, DIB, Dib, IBD, IDB, dib

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch bidden.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?t/, [b?t]

Verb

bid (present bid, present participle biddende, past participle gebid)

1. to pray

References

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

Cimbrian

Etymology

Related to German Weide (“willow; wicker”).

Noun

bid m (plural biddar, diminutive bìddale)

1. (Sette Comuni) wicker, osier

Declension

References

• “bid” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse bit n, from Proto-Germanic *bit?. Derived from the verb *b?tan? (“to bite”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?b?ið]
• Rhymes: -id

Noun

bid n (singular definite biddet, plural indefinite bid)

1. bite (act of biting)

Inflection

Etymology 2

From Old Norse biti m, from Proto-Germanic *bitô, cognate with German Bissen. Derived from the verb *b?tan? (“to bite”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?b?ið]

Noun

bid c (singular definite bidden, plural indefinite bidder)

1. bit, morsel
2. bite, mouthful

Inflection

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?b?i?ð], [?b?ið?]

Verb

bid

1. imperative of bide

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

bid

1. first-person singular present indicative of bidden
2. imperative of bidden

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• bith

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?ið?/

Verb

bid

1. inflection of is:
   1. third-person singular past subjunctive
   2. third-person singular future

Mutation

Volapük

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [bid]

Noun

bid (nominative plural bids)

1. (taxonomy) genus
2. sort; kind; type
3. race

Declension

Synonyms

• sot

Derived terms

• bidäd
• bidädik
• bidanem
• bidik
• filigabid
• garidabid
• hügien bidädik
• kaktudabid
• menabid
• menabidädahet
• menabidädakomip
• menabidädihet
• nimabid
• planabid
• vödabid

Welsh

Verb

bid

1. (literary) third-person singular imperative of bod

Synonyms

• bydded
• boed

Mutation

Zhuang

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /pit?/
• Tone numbers: bid⁸
• Hyphenation: bid

Noun

bid (Sawndip forms ? or ???, old orthography bid)

1. cicada

   Synonyms: (dialectal) biqrengh, (dialectal) nengzceq

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /?k?sp??s/ IPA^(key): /?k.?sp??s/
• Rhymes: -?s

Etymology 1

From French exprès, from Latin expressus, past participle of exprimere (see Etymology 2, below).

Adjective

express (comparative more express, superlative most express)

1. (not comparable) Moving or operating quickly, as a train not making local stops.
2. (comparable) Specific or precise; directly and distinctly stated; not merely implied.

   I gave him express instructions not to begin until I arrived, but he ignored me.

   This book cannot be copied without the express permission of the publisher.

3. Truly depicted; exactly resembling.

   In my eyes it bore a livelier image of the spirit, it seemed more express and single, than the imperfect and divided countenance.
4. (postpositive, retail) Providing a more limited but presumably faster service than a full or complete dealer of the same kind or type.

   The Pizza Hut inside Target isn't a full one: it's a Pizza Hut Express.

   Some Wal-Mart stores will include a McDonald's Express.

   The mall's selection of cell phone carriers includes a full AT&T store and a T-Mobile express.

Synonyms

• (of a train): fast, crack
• (directly and distinctly stated; not merely implied): explicit, plain; see also Thesaurus:explicit

Antonyms

• (directly and distinctly stated; not merely implied): implied

Translations

Noun

express (plural expresses)

1. A mode of transportation, often a train, that travels quickly or directly.
2. A service that allows mail or money to be sent rapidly from one destination to another.
3. An express rifle.
   • 1885, H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines

     "Give me my express," I said, laying down the Winchester, and he handed it to me cocked.

4. (obsolete) A clear image or representation; an expression; a plain declaration.
   • a. 1667, Jeremy Taylor, Clerus Domini, or, A discourse of the divine institution, necessity, sacredness, and separation of the office ministerial together with the nature and manner of its power and operation

     the only remanent express of Christ's sacrifice on earth

5. A messenger sent on a special errand; a courier.
6. An express office.
   • 1873, Edward Everett Hale, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day

     She charged him […] to ask at the express if anything came up from town.

7. That which is sent by an express messenger or message.

Synonyms

• (of a train): fast train

Antonyms

• (of a train): local, stopper

Translations

Etymology 2

From Old French espresser, expresser, from frequentative form of Latin exprimere.

Verb

express (third-person singular simple present expresses, present participle expressing, simple past and past participle expressed)

2. (transitive) To convey or communicate; to make known or explicit.

3. (transitive) To press, squeeze out (especially said of milk).
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, chapter 13

     The people of his island of Rokovoko, it seems, at their wedding feasts express the fragrant water of young cocoanuts into a large stained calabash like a punchbowl [...].

   • 2018, Kelsey Munroe, The Guardian, 15 March:

     They don’t have teats, so the mothers express their milk onto their bellies for their young to feed.

4. (biochemistry) To translate messenger RNA into protein.
5. (biochemistry) To transcribe deoxyribonucleic acid into messenger RNA.
   • 2015, Ferris Jabr, How Humans Ended Up With Freakishly Huge Brains, Wired:

     When a cell “expresses” a gene, it translates the DNA first into a signature messenger RNA (mRNA) sequence and subsequently into a chain of amino acids that forms a protein.

Synonyms

• outspeak, utter

Derived terms

• expressed
• expressedly
• express oneself

Related terms

• expressible
• expressibly
• expression
• expressive
• expressively
• expressly

Translations

Noun

express (plural expresses)

1. (obsolete) The action of conveying some idea using words or actions; communication, expression.
   • 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, V.20:

     Whereby they discoursed in silence, and were intuitively understood from the theory of their expresses.

2. (obsolete) A specific statement or instruction.
   • 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, II.5:

     This Gentleman [...] caused a man to go down no less than a hundred fathom, with express to take notice whether it were hard or soft in the place where it groweth.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English express, from Old French expres, from Latin expressus

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k.sp??s/
• Homophone: expresse

Adjective

express (invariable)

1. express, rapide

Derived terms

Noun

express m (plural express)

1. express train or service