Bet vs. Bid — What's the Difference?

Risk a sum of money or valued item against someone else's on the basis of the outcome of an unpredictable event such as a race or game

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

Used to express certainty

To auction (a contract)

An act of betting a sum of money

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

An agreement usually between two parties that the one who has made an incorrect prediction about an uncertain outcome will forfeit something stipulated to the other; a wager

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

An amount or object risked in a wager; a stake

To utter (a greeting or salutation)

One on which a stake is or can be placed

To issue a command to; direct

A plan or an option considered with regard to its probable consequence

To invite to attend; summon

(Informal) A view or opinion, especially about something that cannot be known at the present time

To make an offer to pay or accept a specified price

To stake (an amount, for example) in a bet.

To seek to win or attain something; strive.

To make a bet with

An offer to pay a certain amount of money for something

To make a bet on (a contestant or an outcome).

The amount offered or proposed

To maintain confidently, as if making a bet

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

To make or place a bet.

An earnest effort to win or attain something

A wager, an agreement between two parties that a stake (usually money) will be paid by the loser to the winner (the winner being the one who correctly forecast the outcome of an event).

The act of bidding in cards.

A candidate (for elections and pageants).

The number of tricks or points declared.

A degree of certainty.

The trump or no-trump declared.

Alternative form of beth

The turn of a player to bid.

To stake or pledge upon the outcome of an event; to wager.

(transitive) To issue a command; to tell.

To be sure of something; to be able to count on something.

(transitive) To invite; to summon.

(poker) To place money into the pot in order to require others do the same, usually only used for the first person to place money in the pot on each round.

(transitive) To utter a greeting or salutation.

(knitting) between

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

That which is laid, staked, or pledged, as between two parties, upon the event of a contest or any contingent issue; the act of giving such a pledge; a wager.

(transitive) To offer as a price.

To stake or pledge upon the event of a contingent issue; to wager.

(intransitive) To make an attempt.

An early form of Better.

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

The money risked on a gamble

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

The act of gambling;

To take a particular route regularly.

Maintain with or as if with a bet;

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

Stake on the outcome of an issue;

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

Have faith or confidence in;

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

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

(prison slang) A prison sentence.

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 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 proclaim; to declare publicly; to make known.

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

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

To pray.

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

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.

An authoritative direction or instruction to do something

An attempt to get something;

A formal proposal to buy at a specified price

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

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