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)

    “O, call back yesterday, bid time return.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “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)