different between bid vs speak
bid
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)
- (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.
- (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;
- (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; [...]
- 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act I, Scene III:
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)
- (intransitive) To make an offer to pay or accept a certain price.
- Have you ever bid in an auction?
- (transitive) To offer as a price.
- She bid £2000 for the Persian carpet.
- (intransitive) To make an attempt.
- He was bidding for the chance to coach his team to victory once again.
- (transitive, intransitive, card games) To announce (one's goal), before starting play.
- (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.
- 1590, Edmund Spendser, The Faerie Queene, I.x:
Derived terms
- bid one's time
- forbid
Translations
Noun
bid (plural bids)
- 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
- (ultimate frisbee) 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.
- 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)
- 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)
- (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)
- 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)
- bit, morsel
- bite, mouthful
Inflection
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the main entry.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?b?i?ð], [?b?ið?]
Verb
bid
- imperative of bide
Dutch
Pronunciation
Verb
bid
- first-person singular present indicative of bidden
- imperative of bidden
Old Irish
Alternative forms
- bith
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b?ið?/
Verb
bid
- inflection of is:
- third-person singular past subjunctive
- third-person singular future
Mutation
Volapük
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [bid]
Noun
bid (nominative plural bids)
- (taxonomy) genus
- sort; kind; type
- 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
- (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)
- cicada
- Synonyms: (dialectal) biqrengh, (dialectal) nengzceq
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speak
English
Alternative forms
- speake (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English speken (“to speak”), from Old English specan (“to speak”), alteration of earlier sprecan (“to speak”), from Proto-West Germanic *sprekan, from Proto-Germanic *sprekan? (“to speak, make a sound”), from Proto-Indo-European *spreg- (“to make a sound, utter, speak”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /spi?k/
- (General American) enPR: sp?k, IPA(key): /spik/
- Rhymes: -i?k
Verb
speak (third-person singular simple present speaks, present participle speaking, simple past spoke or (archaic) spake, past participle spoken or (colloquial, nonstandard) spoke)
- (intransitive) To communicate with one's voice, to say words out loud.
- (intransitive, reciprocal) To have a conversation.
- (by extension) To communicate or converse by some means other than orally, such as writing or facial expressions.
- (intransitive) To deliver a message to a group; to deliver a speech.
- (transitive) To be able to communicate in a language.
- (by extension) To be able to communicate in the manner of specialists in a field.
- (by extension) To be able to communicate in the manner of specialists in a field.
- (transitive) To utter.
- (transitive) To communicate (some fact or feeling); to bespeak, to indicate.
- 1785, Frances Burney, Diary and letters of Madame d'Arblay, author of Evelina, Cecilia, &c., link:
- Their behaviour to each other speaks the most cordial confidence and happiness.
- 1785, Frances Burney, Diary and letters of Madame d'Arblay, author of Evelina, Cecilia, &c., link:
- (informal, transitive, sometimes humorous) To understand (as though it were a language).
- (intransitive) To produce a sound; to sound.
- Of a bird, to be able to vocally reproduce words or phrases from a human language.
- (transitive, archaic) To address; to accost; to speak to.
- [He will] thee in hope; he will speak thee fair.
- 1842, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Threnody in "Poems", published 1847, page 239
- Each village senior paused to scan / And speak the lovely caravan.
- 2013, George Francis Dow, Slave Ships and Slaving (quoting an older text)
- Spoke the ship Union of Newport, without any anchor. The next day ran down to Acra, where the windlass was again capsized and the pawls broken.
Usage notes
- Saying that one speaks a language often means that one can or knows how to speak it ("I speak Italian"); similarly, "I don't speak Italian" usually means that one cannot, rather than that one chooses not to.
Synonyms
- articulate, talk, verbalize
Antonyms
- be silent
Derived terms
Coordinate terms
- sign
Related terms
- speech
Translations
Noun
speak (countable and uncountable, plural speaks)
- language, jargon, or terminology used uniquely in a particular environment or group.
- Corporate speak; IT speak.
- Speech, conversation.
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
speak (plural speaks)
- (dated) a low class bar, a speakeasy.
Anagrams
- Akpes, Paeks, Pasek, Peaks, Spake, kapes, peaks, spake
Scots
Etymology
From Old English sprecan
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [sp?k]
- (North Northern Scots) IPA(key): [sp?k]
Verb
speak (third-person singular present speaks, present participle speakin, past spak, past participle spoken)
- to speak
Derived terms
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