Small vs. Bid — What's the Difference?

Being below average in size

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

Being below average in quantity or extent

To auction (a contract)

Limited in importance or significance; trivial

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

Having limited position, influence, or status; minor

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

Unpretentious; modest

To utter (a greeting or salutation)

Not fully grown; very young

To issue a command to; direct

Narrow in outlook; petty

To invite to attend; summon

Having been belittled; humiliated

To make an offer to pay or accept a specified price

Diluted; weak. Used of alcoholic beverages.

To seek to win or attain something; strive.

Lacking force or volume

An offer to pay a certain amount of money for something

Lowercase

The amount offered or proposed

In small pieces

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

Without loudness or forcefulness; softly.

An earnest effort to win or attain something

In a small manner.

The act of bidding in cards.

A part that is smaller or narrower than the rest

The number of tricks or points declared.

Small things considered as a group.

The trump or no-trump declared.

Chiefly British Small items of clothing.

The turn of a player to bid.

Not large or big; insignificant; few in number.

(transitive) To issue a command; to tell.

(figuratively) Young, as a child.

(transitive) To invite; to summon.

Minuscule or lowercase, referring to written or printed letters.

(transitive) To utter a greeting or salutation.

Humiliated or insignificant.

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

Evincing little worth or ability; not large-minded; paltry; mean.

(transitive) To offer as a price.

Not prolonged in duration; not extended in time; short.

(intransitive) To make an attempt.

Synonym of little

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

(archaic) Slender, gracefully slim.

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

That is small the manufactured size.

To take a particular route regularly.

In a small fashion

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

In or into small pieces.

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

(obsolete) To a small extent.

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

(obsolete) In a low tone; softly.

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

An item labelled or denoted as being that size.

(prison slang) A prison sentence.

One who fits an item of that size.

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).

Any part of something that is smaller or slimmer than the rest, now usually with anatomical reference to the back.

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 make little or less.

To proclaim; to declare publicly; to make known.

(intransitive) To become small; to dwindle.

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

Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity or degree; diminutive; not large or extended in dimension; not great; not much; inconsiderable; as, a small man; a small river.

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

Being of slight consequence; feeble in influence or importance; unimportant; trivial; insignificant; as, a small fault; a small business.

To pray.

Envincing little worth or ability; not large-minded; - sometimes, in reproach, paltry; mean.

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

Not prolonged in duration; not extended in time; short; as, after a small space.

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.

Weak; slender; fine; gentle; soft; not loud.

An authoritative direction or instruction to do something

In or to small extent, quantity, or degree; little; slightly.

An attempt to get something;

Not loudly; faintly; timidly.

A formal proposal to buy at a specified price

The small or slender part of a thing; as, the small of the leg or of the back.

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

Smallclothes.

Propose a payment;

To make little or less.

Invoke upon;

The slender part of the back

Ask for or request earnestly;

A garment size for a small person

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

Limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent;

Make a serious effort to attain something;

Limited in size or scope;

Ask someone in a friendly way to do something

Low or inferior in station or quality;

Not fully grown;

Too small to be seen except under a microscope

Not large but sufficient in size or amount;

(of a voice) faint;

Slight or limited; especially in degree or intensity or scope;

Made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth);

Lowercase;

Have fine or very small constituent particles;

On a small scale;