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BIDDING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(bridge) the number of tricks a bridge player is willing to contract to make
Synonyms:
bid; bidding
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("bidding" is a kind of...):
statement (a message that is stated or declared; a communication (oral or written) setting forth particulars or facts etc)
Domain category:
bridge (any of various card games based on whist for four players)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bidding"):
contract; declaration ((contract bridge) the highest bid becomes the contract setting the number of tricks that the bidder must make)
takeout ((bridge) a bid that asks your partner to bid another suit)
overbid; overcall ((bridge) a bid that is higher than your opponent's bid (especially when your partner has not bid at all and your bid exceeds the value of your hand))
pre-empt; preempt; preemptive bid (a high bid that is intended to prevent the opposing players from bidding)
Holonyms ("bidding" is a part of...):
bridge (any of various card games based on whist for four players)
Derivation:
bid (make a demand, as for a card or a suit or a show of hands)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An authoritative direction or instruction to do something
Synonyms:
bid; bidding; command; dictation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("bidding" is a kind of...):
speech act (the use of language to perform some act)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bidding"):
countermand (a contrary command cancelling or reversing a previous command)
order ((often plural) a command given by a superior (e.g., a military or law enforcement officer) that must be obeyed)
charge; commission; direction (a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something)
commandment (something that is commanded)
injunction (a formal command or admonition)
behest (an authoritative command or request)
open sesame (a magical command; used by Ali Baba)
Derivation:
bid (ask for or request earnestly)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A request to be present
Example:
they came at his bidding
Synonyms:
bidding; summons
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("bidding" is a kind of...):
invitation (a request (spoken or written) to participate or be present or take part in something)
Derivation:
bid (ask someone in a friendly way to do something)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb bid
Context examples:
I sat by his bed, watching him; his eyes were closed, and I thought he slept; but presently he called to me in a feeble voice, and bidding me come near, said, Alas!
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Cease that chatter, blockhead! and do my bidding.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Or else he would see a room in a rich house, where his friend lay asleep, dreaming and smiling at his dreams; and then the door of that room would be opened, the curtains of the bed plucked apart, the sleeper recalled, and lo! there would stand by his side a figure to whom power was given, and even at that dead hour, he must rise and do its bidding.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
With the view of seeing if this were so, and, in any case, of bidding him good night, if he were yet sitting among his books, I turned back, and going softly across the hall, and gently opening the door, looked in.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Dead things did their bidding.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
The carriage was soon announced to be ready; and Catherine, instantly rising, a long and affectionate embrace supplied the place of language in bidding each other adieu; and, as they entered the hall, unable to leave the house without some mention of one whose name had not yet been spoken by either, she paused a moment, and with quivering lips just made it intelligible that she left her kind remembrance for her absent friend.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
The day of separation and departure arrived; and Marianne, after taking so particular and lengthened a leave of Mrs. Jennings, one so earnestly grateful, so full of respect and kind wishes as seemed due to her own heart from a secret acknowledgment of past inattention, and bidding Colonel Brandon farewell with a cordiality of a friend, was carefully assisted by him into the carriage, of which he seemed anxious that she should engross at least half.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Mrs. Bennet was diffuse in her good wishes for the felicity of her daughter, and impressive in her injunctions that she should not miss the opportunity of enjoying herself as much as possible—advice which there was every reason to believe would be well attended to; and in the clamorous happiness of Lydia herself in bidding farewell, the more gentle adieus of her sisters were uttered without being heard.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
It was August 2nd when we snapped our last link with the outer world by bidding farewell to the Esmeralda.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Till then we bear our Cross, as His Son did in obedience to His Will. It may be that we are chosen instruments of His good pleasure, and that we ascend to His bidding as that other through stripes and shame; through tears and blood; through doubts and fears, and all that makes the difference between God and man.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
