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bid
UK /bɪd/ US /bɪd/
verb 9noun 6adv 1
Definitions
adv
1
twice a day, two times per day
It has been repeatedly documented that moving patients from a TID dosing regimen to BID or OD vastly improves compliance, and thus the medicine's effectiveness.
noun
1
Acronym of business improvement district.
verb
1
To issue a command; to tell.
He bade me come in.
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.
2
To invite; to summon.
She was bidden to the wedding.
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;
3
To utter a greeting or salutation.
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; […]
The last train—a three-coach A.E.C. unit—from Belfast to Crumlin and back, was bade farewell with fog signals as it carried a capacity crowd of last-trip travellers.
4
To proclaim (a bede, prayer); to pray.
All night she spent in bidding of her bedes, / And all the day in doing good and godly deedes.
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