Bid vs. Ask

Bidverb

(transitive) To issue a command; to tell.

Bidverb

(transitive) To invite; to summon.

Bidverb

(transitive) To utter a greeting or salutation.

Bidverb

(intransitive) To make an offer to pay or accept a certain price.

Bidverb

(transitive) To offer as a price.

Bidverb

(intransitive) To make an attempt.

Bidverb

To announce (one's goal), before starting play.

Bidverb

(obsolete) To proclaim (a bede, prayer); to pray.

Bidnoun

An offer at an auction, or to carry out a piece of work.

Bidnoun

(ultimate frisbee) A (failed) attempt to receive or intercept a pass.

Bidnoun

An attempt, effort, or pursuit (of a goal).

Bidverb

To make an offer of; to propose. Specifically : To offer to pay ( a certain price, as for a thing put up at auction), or to take (a certain price, as for work to be done under a contract).

Bidverb

To offer in words; to declare, as a wish, a greeting, a threat, or defiance, etc.; as, to bid one welcome; to bid good morning, farewell, etc.

Bidverb

To proclaim; to declare publicly; to make known.

Bidverb

To order; to direct; to enjoin; to command.

Bidverb

To invite; to call in; to request to come.

Bidverb

To pray.

Bidverb

To make a bid; to state what one will pay or take.

Bid

imp. & p. p. of Bid.

Bidnoun

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.

Bidnoun

an authoritative direction or instruction to do something

Bidnoun

an attempt to get something;

Bidnoun

a formal proposal to buy at a specified price

Bidnoun

(bridge) the number of tricks a bridge player is willing to contract to make

Bidverb

propose a payment;

Bidverb

invoke upon;

Bidverb

ask for or request earnestly;

Bidverb

make a demand, as for a card or a suit or a show of hands;

Bidverb

make a serious effort to attain something;

Bidverb

ask someone in a friendly way to do something

Askverb

To request (information, or an answer to a question).

Askverb

To put forward (a question) to be answered.

Askverb

To interrogate or enquire of (a person).

Askverb

To request or petition; usually with for.

Askverb

To request permission to do something.

Askverb

To require, demand, claim, or expect, whether by way of remuneration or return, or as a matter of necessity.

Askverb

To invite.

Askverb

To publish in church for marriage; said of both the banns and the persons.

Askverb

(figuratively) To take (a person's situation) as an example.

Asknoun

An act or instance of asking.

Asknoun

Something asked or asked for; a request.

Asknoun

An asking price.

Asknoun

An eft; newt.

Asknoun

A lizard.

Askverb

To request; to seek to obtain by words; to petition; to solicit; - often with of, in the sense of from, before the person addressed.

Askverb

To require, demand, claim, or expect, whether by way of remuneration or return, or as a matter of necessity; as, what price do you ask?

Askverb

To interrogate or inquire of or concerning; to put a question to or about; to question.

Askverb

To invite; as, to ask one to an entertainment.

Askverb

To publish in church for marriage; - said of both the banns and the persons.

Askverb

To request or petition; - usually followed by for; as, to ask for bread.

Askverb

To make inquiry, or seek by request; - sometimes followed by after.

Asknoun

A water newt.

Askverb

inquire about;

Askverb

make a request or demand for something to somebody;

Askverb

direct or put; seek an answer to;

Askverb

consider obligatory; request and expect;

Askverb

require or ask for as a price or condition;

Askverb

address a question to and expect an answer from;

Askverb

require as useful, just, or proper;