BD
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Translingual[edit]
Symbol[edit]
BD
English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Initialisms.
Noun[edit]
BD (countable and uncountable, plural BDs)
- Initialism of Blu-ray Disc.
- Initialism of birthday.
- Initialism of Bachelor of Divinity.
- Synonym: BDiv
- (military) Initialism of battledress.
- (pathology) Initialism of Behçet's disease.
- (pathology) Initialism of bipolar disorder.
- (pathology) Initialism of Bowen's disease.
- Initialism of biographical dictionary.
- (handbells) Initialism of brush damp.
- Initialism of business development.
- (BDSM) Initialism of bondage and discipline.
- (finance) Initialism of broker-dealer.[1]
See also[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
BD
- Initialism of Building Design: a British architectural magazine founded in 1970.
- (Egyptology) Initialism of Book of the Dead.
Etymology 2[edit]
Noun[edit]
BD (plural BDs)
- (borrowed) Comics.
Etymology 3[edit]
Initialism of baby dance.
Noun[edit]
BD (plural BDs)
- (colloquial, originally and chiefly Internet slang) An act of sexual intercourse for the purpose of conception.
Usage notes[edit]
The term is chiefly used in online forums relating to fertility and pregnancy.
Verb[edit]
BD (third-person singular simple present BDs, present participle BDing, simple past and past participle BDed or BD'd)
- (colloquial, originally and chiefly Internet slang) To have sexual intercourse for the purpose of conception.
- 1997 July 15, “I Need Advice on Temps!”, in misc.kids.pregnancy (Usenet):
- We haven't BD since day 21 (we had already BD 11 times in past 2 weeks).
- 2012, Jean M. Twenge, Impatient Woman’s Guide to Getting Pregnant, New York: Atria Paperback, published 2016, →ISBN, page 165:
- Temperature is up. That means I ovulated yesterday, so I can figure out how well we did this cycle. Hmmm, BD’d two days before ovulation and the day of. That’s pretty good.
Usage notes[edit]
The term is chiefly used in online forums relating to fertility and pregnancy[2].
References[edit]
- ^ Hayes, Adam (29 March 2021), “What Is a Broker-Dealer (B-D), and How Does It Work?”, in Investopedia[1], retrieved 16 March 2023
- ^ “BD, v.” under “B, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2018.
Anagrams[edit]
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Acronym for bande dessinée
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
BD f (plural BD)
- comic strip
- Synonym: bédé
Further reading[edit]
- “BD”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Japanese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Derived from English Blu-ray Disc.
Noun[edit]
- Abbreviation of ブルーレイ (burūrei, “Blu-ray Disc”).
- BD付
- burūrei-tsuki
- includes Blu-Ray disc
- BD付
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