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Dictate vs Bidding - What's the difference?

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Dictate is a related term of bidding.


As nouns the difference between dictate and bidding

is that dictate is an order or command while bidding is that which one is bidden to do; a command.

As verbs the difference between dictate and bidding

is that dictate is to order, command, control while bidding is .

dictate

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An order or command.
    • I must obey the dictates of my conscience.

    Verb

    (dictat)
  • To order, command, control.
  • * 2001 , Sydney I. Landau, Dictionaries: The Art and Craft of Lexicography , Cambridge University Press (ISBN 0-521-78512-X), page 409,
    • Trademark Owners will nevertheless try to dictate how their marks are to be represented, but dictionary publishers with spine can resist such pressure.
  • To speak in order for someone to write down the words.
    • She is dictating a letter to a stenographer.
    The French teacher dictated a passage from Victor Hugo.

    Derived terms

    * dictation * dictator

    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.