What's the difference between bidden and hidden?

Bidden


Definition:

  • (p. p.) of Bid
  • () p. p. of Bid.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It solemnly proclaimed Ireland's independence, appointed ambassadors to the Peace Conference, where they have not yet been bidden, passed an address to the free nations of the world, and made some pretence of framing orders for its domestic procedure.
  • (2) The gestures and facial tics – both bidden and unbidden – have supplied further clues to what is in store when Ratko Mladic's defence against charges of genocide, crimes against humanity and breaches of the laws and customs of war gets under way.

Hidden


Definition:

  • (p. p. & a.) from Hide. Concealed; put out of view; secret; not known; mysterious.
  • (p. p.) of Hide

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We conclude that gamma-(312-324) is hidden in fibrinogen and is exposed by the formation of fibrin.
  • (2) The unauthorised trades remained hidden for years in so-called umbrella accounts set up to store the funds.
  • (3) The discovery of this vast tranche of documents has prompted historians to suggest that a major reappraisal of the end of Britain's empire will be required once these materials have been digested – a "hidden history" if ever there were one.
  • (4) Such inquiries - set up under the Police Act, to look into a matter of serious public concern - are far from common and bring to light facts and opinions that are frequently hidden from view.
  • (5) Even the landscape is secretive: vast tracts of crown land and hidden valleys with nothing but a dead end road and lonely farmhouse, with a tractor and trailer pulled across the farmyard for protection.
  • (6) Next month we’ll see him in Hidden Figures, the story of the African-American women who powered Nasa .
  • (7) This process is also formulated as a Hidden Markov Model problem and solved by applying the Expectation Maximization algorithm.
  • (8) Glomus tumors in children may be hidden by otitis media and appear more likely to be endocrine active.
  • (9) Reasoning ability in crows was investigated by means of the Revecz-Krushinskiĭ test, in which the bird has to apprehend the rule of stimulus (food bait) displacement: "In each next trial the food bait is hidden in a new place--one step further along the row".
  • (10) "Every exchange you have with a witness will be analysed and considered in order to reveal a hidden agenda.
  • (11) The Tony Abbott lecturing the American president on taxation fairness is, of course, the one who as Australian prime minister is presiding over policies of taxation amnesty for the richest Australians who have themselves offshored their hidden wealth, capping their taxable liability to merely the last four years.
  • (12) A world of hidden wealth: why we are shining a light offshore Read more However, the Nahmad lawyers have also insisted that because the painting is not in New York and the IAC is based in Panama, the court case should not be allowed to proceed in the US.
  • (13) On a dreich November evening in Gourock, a red-coated mongrel is wandering between the seats in a room above a pub, pausing to sniff handbags for hidden treats.
  • (14) This paper describes a series of young patients hospitalized in a psychiatric facility because they presented symptoms indicative of a psychotic disorder when, in fact, the youngsters were dealing with the strain of keeping a family secret hidden.
  • (15) Hidden City writer Karl Whitney on Dublin Read more And now for a pint of the black stuff Ireland’s capital is awash with history but no visit would be complete without a sample of the black stuff.
  • (16) Seeing the faces in my dark room or on my laptop screen brings back the hidden emotions and memories, often leaving me in tears and unable to carry on with my work.
  • (17) Photograph: Casey Orr for the Observer There is money here, but it’s hidden, a golden hare.
  • (18) Here the authors consider the possibility of discovery and evaluation of various hidden conditions of malnutrition in patients suffering of valvular heart disease--depending or not from the cardiopathy itself--and their complex pathogenesis, to correct at the end such condition and offer the patients an optimal prognosis with therapeutical procedures.
  • (19) It said Clinton's "cheap shots" had a hidden agenda to discredit China's engagement with Africa and "drive a wedge between China and Africa for the US selfish gain."
  • (20) Once the fungus enters the hair cortex just above the hair bulb, it produces myriads of spores that remain trapped and hidden beneath the cuticle for the length of the intact hair.

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