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bidding

verb
/ˈbɪdɪŋ/UK/ˈbɪdɪŋ/CA

Definitions

  1. present participle and gerund of bid

  2. That which one is bidden to do

    That which one is bidden to do; a command.

    • I still have lots of paperwork to do at the boss's bidding.
    • 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."

  3. The act of placing a bid.

    • Their biddings forced existing owners into ruinous competition; they mortgaged their ancestral acres to buy up outlying properties or round off their boundaries.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at bidding. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01bidding02bidden03bide04location05populated06supplied07supply08fill09obey

A definitional loop anchored at bidding. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at bidding

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA