different between bid vs overlook

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

Etymology

From Middle English overloken; equivalent to over- +? look.

Pronunciation

• Noun:
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???v?.l?k/
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /?o?v?.l?k/
• Verb:
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??v??l?k/
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /o?v??l?k/
• Rhymes: -?k

Noun

overlook (plural overlooks)

1. A vista or point that gives a beautiful view.
   • 1980, Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area (N.R.A.), General Management Plan

     Normally a visitor does not participate in one activity to the exclusion of others. One main activity, such as swimming, will be supplemented by other activities and use of other facilities, such as picnicking, hiking, stopping at an overlook, and so forth.

Translations

Verb

overlook (third-person singular simple present overlooks, present participle overlooking, simple past and past participle overlooked)

1. To offer a view (of something) from a higher position.
   • 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, London: W. Taylor, p. 163,^[1]

     […] I took my Gun, and went on Shore, climbing up upon a Hill, which seem’d to over-look that Point, where I saw the full Extent of it, and resolv’d to venture.

   • 1950, Nevil Shute, A Town Like Alice, London: Heinemann, 1952, Chapter 6, p. 188,^[2]

     […] she saw a figure standing by the rail of the balcony that overlooked the backyard.

2. To fail to notice; to look over and beyond (anything) without seeing it.

   Synonyms: misheed; see also Thesaurus:fail to notice

   • 1616, Thomas Adams, A Divine Herball, London: John Budge, “Hysope and Humilitie,”^[3]

     Let not thy Garden be without this herbe Humilitie. It may be least respected with men; and among other herbs ouerlooked; but most acceptable to God.

   • 1739, David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature, London: John Noon, Volume 2, Part 2, Section 2, p. 118,^[4]

     We are more apt to over-look in any subject, what is trivial, than what appears of considerable moment […]

   • 1898, H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, Book 2, Chapter 7,^[5]

     The place had been already searched and emptied. In the bar I afterwards found some biscuits and sandwiches that had been overlooked.

3. To pretend not to have noticed (something, especially a mistake or flaw); to pass over (something) without censure or punishment.

   Synonyms: take no notice of; see also Thesaurus:ignore

   • 1615, Joseph Hall, Contemplations vpon the Principal Passages of the Holie Historie, London: Nathanael Butter and William Butler, Volume 3, “Ehud and Eglon,” p. 48,^[6]

     Euery circumstance is full of improbabilities: Faith euermore ouerlookes the difficulties of the way, & bends her eyes onely to the certainty of the end.

   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, Dublin: John Smith, Volume 1, Book 1, Chapter 11, p. 41,^[7]

     Tho’ Miss Bridget was a Woman of the greatest Delicacy of Taste; yet such were the Charms of the Captain’s Conversation, that she totally overlooked the Defects of his Person.

   • 1815, Jane Austen, Emma, Volume 1, Chapter 13,^[8]

     “Mr. Elton’s manners are not perfect,” replied Emma; “but where there is a wish to please, one ought to overlook, and one does overlook a great deal.”

   • 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, Chapter 1,^[9]

     Indeed, I have been a complete ass, and I know it. Will you overlook it this once and forgive me, and let things go on as before?

4. (dated) To look down upon (something) from a place that is over or above.
   • 1567, Arthur Golding (translator), The XV. Bookes of P. Ouidius Naso, entytuled Metamorphosis, London, Book 7, [p. 93b],^[10]

     There was not farre fro thence

     About the middle of the Laund a rising ground, from whence

     A man might ouerlooke the fieldes.

   • c. 1590, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 3, Act I, Scene 4,^[11]

     Off with his head, and set it on York gates;

     So York may overlook the town of York.

   • 1848, Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Barton, Chapter 5,^[12]

     “’Twas young Wilson and a fireman wi' a ladder,” said Margaret’s neighbour, a tall man who could overlook the crowd.

   • 1919, Henry Blake Fuller, Bertram Cope’s Year, Chapter 10,^[13]

     The way led sandily along the crest of a wooded amphitheatre, with less stress on the prospect waterward than might have been expected. Cope was not allowed, indeed, to overlook the vague horizon where, through the pine groves, the blue of sky and of sea blended into one; but, under Medora Phillips’ guidance, his eyes were mostly turned inland.

5. (archaic) To supervise, oversee; to watch over.
   • c. 1602, William Shakespeare, All’s Well That Ends Well, Act II, Scene 1,^[14]

     His sole child, my lord, and bequeathed to my overlooking.

   • 1677, Hannah Woolley, The Compleat Servant-Maid, London: T. Passinger, p. 63,^[15]

     Be careful in overlooking inferiour servants, that they waste nothing which belongs to your Master and Mistress.

   • 1755, William Gilpin, The Life of Hugh Latimer, Bishop of Worcester, London: John & James Rivington, Section 4, p. 59,^[16]

     In overlooking the clergy of his diocese, which he thought the chief branch of the episcopal office, exciting in them a zeal for religion, and obliging them at least to a legal performance of their duty, he was uncommonly active, warm, and resolute.

6. (archaic) To observe or watch (someone or something) surreptitiously or secretly.
   • 1606, Henry Peacham, The Art of Drawing with the Pen, London: William Jones, Book 1, Chapter 7, p. 20,^[17]

     […] you had need cause the party whome you will drawe to sit […] without stirring or altering the mouth were it neuer so little: wherefore you shall I beleeue find (a mans face) aboue all other creaturs the most troublesome vnto you: for either they will smile, be ouerlooking your hand, or setting their countenances to seeme gratious and comely, giue you choyse of twentie seuerall faces.

   • 1724, Aaron Hill, The Plain Dealer, No. 33, 13 July, 1724, The Plain Dealer, London: S. Richardson and A. Wilde, 1730, p. 269,^[18]

     I lean’d back in my Chair, and overlook’d what he was doing.—But, as if the young Rogue had had Eyes in his Elbows, he broke off what he had begun, and writ, thus, in a new Place.—If an impertinent Old Fellow, that sits by me, did not overlook what I am writing, I should have told you a pleasant Secret—

   • 1839, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, “Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter” in The Watcher and Other Weird Stories, London: Downey, 1894, p. 133,^[19]

     The artist turned sharply round, and now for the first time became aware that his labours had been overlooked by a stranger.

7. (archaic) To inspect (something); to examine; to look over carefully or repeatedly.

   Synonyms: scrutinize; see also Thesaurus:examine

   • 1577, Barnabe Googe, Foure bookes of husbandry, collected by M. Conradus Heresbachius, London, The Epistle to the Reader,^[20]

     And therefore I trust thou vvylt accept it as it is, specially considering, that I neither had leysure, nor quietnesse at the dooing of it, neither after the dooing had euer any tyme to ouerlooke it, but vvas driuen to deliuer it to the Printer, as I fyrst vvrote it […]

   • 1587, Raphael Holinshed et al., Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande, Volume 3, “Richard the third,” p. 757,^[21]

     Now when he had ouerlooked his armie ouer euerie side, he paused awhile, and after with a lowd voice and bold spirit spake to his companions these, or the like words following.

   • 1602, Thomas Lodge (translator), The Famous and Memorable Workes of Iosephus, London: G. Bishop et al., Book 5, Chapter 2, p. 109,^[22]

     […] this was one of those spies which Moses sent to ouerlooke the land of Chanaan.

   • 1752, Arthur Murphy, The Gray’s Inn Journal No. 21, London: P. Vaillant, 1756, p. 138,^[23]

     As the Meanness of my Education had hindered me from knowing any Thing of Law Affairs, I got my two Companions to overlook the Mortgage Deed, and with their Advice signed it […]

8. (archaic) To look upon with an evil eye; to bewitch by looking upon; to fascinate.
   • c. 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act III scene ii^[24]:

     Portia:

     […] Beshrew your eyes,

     They have o'erlook'd me and divided me;

     One half of me is yours, the other half yours,—

     Mine own, I would say; but if mine, then yours,

     And so all yours! […]

Derived terms

• overlooker

Translations

Further reading

• overlook in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• overlook in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• look over, lookover