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Bid vs Drawl - What's the difference?

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Bid is a related term of drawl.


As verbs the difference between bid and drawl

is that bid is while drawl is to drag on slowly and heavily; while or dawdle away time indolently.

As a noun drawl is

a way of speaking slowly while lengthening vowel sounds and running words together characteristic of some.

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".

    Anagrams

    * * ----

    drawl

    English

    Verb

  • To drag on slowly and heavily; while or dawdle away time indolently.
  • To utter or pronounce in a dull, spiritless tone, as if by dragging out the utterance.
  • To move slowly and heavily; move in a dull, slow, lazy mannner.
  • To speak with a slow, spiritless utterance, from affectation, laziness, or lack of interest.
  • * Landor
  • Theologians and moralists talk mostly in a drawling and dreaming way about it.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a way of speaking slowly while lengthening vowel sounds and running words together. Characteristic of some .
  • See also

    * brogue * lilt * lisp * twang