BID

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:

    “Love, my fate got luckily,
    Teaches with no telling
    That the phoenix’ bid for heaven and the desire after
    Death in the carved nunnery
    Both shall fail if I bow not to your blessing....”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

    “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)

    ““But thou, O King, I bid remember me, unwept, unburied,
    “Heap up mine arms, be tomb by sea-bord, and inscribed:
    “A man of no fortune, and with a name to come.”
    —Ezra Pound (1885–1972)