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Bid vs Bidding - What's the difference?

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Bid is a synonym of bidding.


As verbs the difference between bid and bidding

is that bid is while bidding is .

As a noun bidding is

that which one is bidden to do; a command.

bid

English

Initialism

(Initialism) (head)
  • (medicine) Bis in die : twice a day, two times per day.
    • Commonly written as: "amoxicillin 500 mg BID ", read as: "amoxicillin totalling 500 milligram dosage (daily total), taken two times a day".

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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.