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  • 11bid — [n1] offering of money or services advance, amount, declaration, feeler, hit, invitation, offer, pass, price, proffer, proposal, proposition, request, submission, suggestion, sum, summons, tender; concepts 67,330 bid [n2] endeavor attempt, crack …

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  • 12Bid — Bid, v. i. [See {Bid}, v. t.] 1. To pray. [Obs.] Chaucer. [1913 Webster] 2. To make a bid; to state what one will pay or take. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 13BID — steht für: Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo, siehe Interamerikanische Entwicklungsbank Bibliotheks , Informations und Dokumentationswissenschaft, siehe BID Bereich Bibliothek Information Deutschland, ein Dachverband das KfZ Kennzeichen für den… …

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  • 14bid — has past tenses bade (in general meanings: We bade them farewell) and bid (in card games and the auction room: We bid successfully for the portrait). The corresponding past participle forms are bidden and bid …

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  • 15Bid — Bid, imp. & p. p. of {Bid}. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 16bid-up — /bid up /, n. 1. the act or an instance of increasing the price of something by forcing the bidding upward. 2. the amount of such increase: a bid up of 100 percent in the last year. [1860 65; n. use of v. phrase bid up] * * * …

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  • 17bid — (v.) probably a merger of two old words: The sense in bid farewell is from O.E. biddan to ask, entreat, pray, beseech; order; beg (class V strong verb, past tense bæd, past participle beden), from P.Gmc. *bidjan to pray, entreat (Cf. Ger. bitten… …

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  • 18bid-up — /bid up /, n. 1. the act or an instance of increasing the price of something by forcing the bidding upward. 2. the amount of such increase: a bid up of 100 percent in the last year. [1860 65; n. use of v. phrase bid up] …

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  • 19Bid — Bid, n. An offer of a price, especially at auctions; a statement of a sum which one will give for something to be received, or will take for something to be done or furnished; that which is offered. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 20BID/60 — (Singlet) was a British encryption machine. It was used by the British intelligence services from around 1949 or 1950 onwards. The system is a rotor machine, and would appear to have used 10 rotors. There are some apparent similarities between… …

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