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inform
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?n?f??m/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?n?f??m/
- Rhymes: -??(?)m
Etymology 1
From Middle English informen, enformen, borrowed from Old French enformer, informer (“to train, instruct, inform”), from Latin ?nf?rm? (“to shape, form, train, instruct, educate”), from in- (“into”) + f?rma (“form, shape”), equivalent to in- +? form.
Alternative forms
- enform (obsolete)
Verb
inform (third-person singular simple present informs, present participle informing, simple past and past participle informed)
- (archaic, transitive) To instruct, train (usually in matters of knowledge).
- (transitive) To communicate knowledge to.
- For he would learn their business secretly, / And then inform his master hastily.
- (intransitive) To impart information or knowledge.
- To act as an informer; denounce.
- (transitive) To give form or character to; to inspire (with a given quality); to affect, influence (with a pervading principle, idea etc.).
- (obsolete, intransitive) To make known, wisely and/or knowledgeably.
- (obsolete, transitive) To direct, guide.
- (archaic, intransitive) To take form; to become visible or manifest; to appear.
Synonyms
- (communicate knowledge to (trans.)): acquaint, apprise, notify; See also Thesaurus:inform
- (act as informer): dob, name names, peach, snitch; See also Thesaurus:rat out
- (take form): materialize, take shape; See also Thesaurus:come into being
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
Latin ?nf?rmis
Adjective
inform (not comparable)
- Without regular form; shapeless; ugly; deformed.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Cotton to this entry?) "Bleak Crags, and naked Hills, And the whole Prospect so inform and rude." (C. Cotton, Wonders of Peake in Poetical Works (1765) 342)
Anagrams
- -formin, F minor, Morfin, formin
Romanian
Etymology
From French informe, from Latin informis.
Adjective
inform m or n (feminine singular inform?, masculine plural informi, feminine and neuter plural informe)
- deformed
Declension
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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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