Bid vs. Ask — What's the Difference?

To offer or propose (an amount) as a price.

To put a question to

To auction (a contract)

To seek an answer to

To offer (someone) membership, as in a group or club

To seek information about

(Games) To state one's intention to take (tricks of a certain number or suit in cards)

To make a request of

To utter (a greeting or salutation)

To make a request for. Often used with an infinitive or clause

To issue a command to; direct

To require or call for as a price or condition

To invite to attend; summon

To expect or demand

To make an offer to pay or accept a specified price

To invite

To seek to win or attain something; strive.

(Archaic)To publish, as marriage banns.

An offer to pay a certain amount of money for something

To make inquiry; seek information.

The amount offered or proposed

To make a request

An invitation, especially one offering membership in a group or club.

The act of making a request

An earnest effort to win or attain something

Something that is requested

The act of bidding in cards.

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

The number of tricks or points declared.

To put forward (a question) to be answered.

The trump or no-trump declared.

To interrogate or enquire of (a person).

The turn of a player to bid.

To request or petition; usually with for.

(transitive) To issue a command; to tell.

To request permission to do something.

(transitive) To invite; to summon.

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

(transitive) To utter a greeting or salutation.

To invite.

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

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

(transitive) To offer as a price.

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

(intransitive) To make an attempt.

An act or instance of asking.

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

Something asked or asked for.

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

An asking price.

To take a particular route regularly.

(Internet) A message sent to a blog on social networking platform Tumblr, which can be publicly posted and replied to by the recipient.

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

An eft; newt.

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

A lizard.

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

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

(trucking) A particular route that a driver regularly takes from their domicile.

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?

(prison slang) A prison sentence.

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

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).

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

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.

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

To proclaim; to declare publicly; to make known.

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

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

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

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

A water newt.

To pray.

Inquire about;

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

Make a request or demand for something to somebody;

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.

Direct or put; seek an answer to;

An authoritative direction or instruction to do something

Consider obligatory; request and expect;

An attempt to get something;

Require or ask for as a price or condition;

A formal proposal to buy at a specified price

Address a question to and expect an answer from;

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

Require as useful, just, or proper;

Propose a payment;

Invoke upon;

Ask for or request earnestly;

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

Make a serious effort to attain something;

Ask someone in a friendly way to do something