different between invitation vs bidding
invitation
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French invitation, from Latin invitatio.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?n.v??te?.??n/, /?n.v??te?.?n?/
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
invitation (countable and uncountable, plural invitations)
- The act of inviting; solicitation; the requesting of a person's company.
- At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
- A document or verbal message conveying an invitation.
- We need to print off fifty invitations for the party.
- Allurement; enticement.
- (fencing) A line that is intentionally left open to encourage the opponent to attack.
- (Christianity) The brief exhortation introducing the confession in the Anglican communion-office.
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.- 2001, Matthew Granovetter, Pamela Granovetter, The Best of Bridge Today Digest (page 113)
- I assume also that opener would have shown no interest in slam by either bidding 4NT or 50 after the slam invitation of 46.
- 2011, Gerard Cohen, Bridge Is a Conversation: Part I: the Auction (page 71)
- To any other invitation made by the captain, acceptance or refusal of the invitation is exclusively a question of points within the range advertised in the opening statement, and the invitation is always in the last called suit.
- 2001, Matthew Granovetter, Pamela Granovetter, The Best of Bridge Today Digest (page 113)
Synonyms
- (solicitation): invitement (obsolete)
Translations
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin invitatio, invitationem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??.vi.ta.sj??/
Noun
invitation f (plural invitations)
- invitation
Related terms
- inviter
Further reading
- “invitation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Interlingua
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /in.vi.ta?tsjon/
Noun
invitation (plural invitationes)
- invitation
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bidding
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?b?d??/
- Rhymes: -?d??
Verb
bidding
- present participle of bid
Noun
bidding (plural biddings)
- That which one is bidden to do; a command.
- The act of placing a bid.
- 1912, Rowland Prothero, 1st Baron Ernle, 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.
- 1912, Rowland Prothero, 1st Baron Ernle, English Farming, Past and Present (page 322)
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