Quotation vs Bidding - What's the difference?
quotation | bidding |
A fragment of a human expression that is repeated exactly by somebody else. Most often a quotation is taken from literature or speech, but scenes from a movie, elements of a painting, a passage of music, etc., may be quoted.
The act of naming a price; the price that has been quoted.
That which one is bidden to do; a command.
* 1868 , Fulwar William Fowle, Sermons preached in the cathedral church of Salisbury (page 172)
The act of placing a bid.
* Rowland E. Prothero, English Farming, Past and Present (page 322)
As nouns the difference between quotation and bidding
is that quotation is a fragment of a human expression that is repeated exactly by somebody else. Most often a quotation is taken from literature or speech, but scenes from a movie, elements of a painting, a passage of music, etc., may be quoted while bidding is that which one is bidden to do; a command.As a verb bidding is
present participle of lang=en.quotation
English
(wikipedia quotation)Noun
(en noun)- "Where they burn books, they will also burn people" is a famous quotation from Heinrich Heine.
- Let's get a quotation for repairing the roof before we decide whether it's worth doing.
Synonyms
* quote * citationDerived terms
* quotation mark * RFQ (request for quotation)bidding
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- 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."
- Their biddings forced existing owners into ruinous competition; they mortgaged their ancestral acres to buy up outlying properties or round off their boundaries.