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Betting vs Bidding - What's the difference?

betting | bidding |

As verbs the difference between betting and bidding

is that betting is present participle of lang=en while bidding is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between betting and bidding

is that betting is the act of placing a bet while bidding is that which one is bidden to do; a command.

As an adjective betting

is describing one who bets or gambles.

betting

English

Adjective

(head)
  • Describing one who bets or gambles.
    • If I were a betting man, I'd wager my next pay check he couldn't do that again.

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of placing a bet.
  • * Jesse O. McKee, The Choctaw
    • Once the field was prepared, and preliminaries of the game all settled, the bettings all made and goods all “staked,” night came on without the appearance of any players on the ground.

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    bidding

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • That which one is bidden to do; a command.
  • * 1868 , Fulwar William Fowle, Sermons preached in the cathedral church of Salisbury (page 172)
    • Do their biddings , and they will lead you to "whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report."
  • The act of placing a bid.
  • * Rowland E. Prothero, English Farming, Past and Present (page 322)
    • Their biddings forced existing owners into ruinous competition; they mortgaged their ancestral acres to buy up outlying properties or round off their boundaries.