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Biting vs Bidding - What's the difference?

biting | bidding |

As verbs the difference between biting and bidding

is that biting is while bidding is .

As nouns the difference between biting and bidding

is that biting is the action of the verb to bite while bidding is that which one is bidden to do; a command.

As an adjective biting

is causing a stinging sensation.

biting

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The action of the verb to bite .
  • An occurrence of a bite.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Causing a stinging sensation.
    • a biting wind
  • Cutting or incisive.
    • a biting criticism
  • Tending to bite.
    • a biting insect

    Derived terms

    * bitingly ----

    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.