Bid may refer to:
- Bidding, making a price offer in an auction, stock exchange, or card games
- Bid (TV channel), a British home shopping channel
- Bid price, a price offered for a good by a potential buyer or a price offered by a potential vendor to perform a specific job
- Bid, a formal invitation to join a fraternity or sorority
- Bid, Razavi Khorasan, a village in Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran
- Bid, South Khorasan, a village in South Khorasan Province, Iran
- Beed, a town in Maharashtra, India is sometimes referred to as Bid
- Bid, lead singer and songwriter of the band The Monochrome Set
- In a financial market, the price a market maker will buy a commodity at (see bid-offer spread)
BID can stand for one of the following:
- BH3 interacting domain death agonist, a pro-apoptotic protein
- Binary Integer Decimal
- Business improvement district
- Block Island State Airport (IATA Code: BID)
- b.i.d or bid, bis in die, Latin for "twice daily"; usually refers to medication dosage; often deabbreviated as breakfast and dinner
- the stock ticker symbol of auction house Sotheby's
Famous quotes containing the word bid:
“Do not speak like a death’s-head, do not bid me remember mine end.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Often he bid me come and have a look
Up the brass barrel, velvet black inside,
At a star quaking in the other end.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing
Such notes as, warbled to the string,
Drew iron tears down Pluto’s cheek,
And made Hell grant what love did seek;”
—John Milton (1608–1674)