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BD
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Appendix:Variations of "bd"
Translingual
Symbol
1 2 Bangladesh
mul BGD ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 alpha-3
mul Bangladesh
English
Etymology 1
Initialisms.
Noun
~
en Blu-ray Disc.
en birthday.
en Bachelor of Divinity.
en BDiv
en military en battledress.
en disease en Behçet's disease.
en disease en bipolar disorder.
en disease en Bowen's disease.
en biographical dictionary.
en handbells en brush damp.
en business development.
en BDSM en bondage and discipline.
en B and D B & D B/D
en finance en broker-dealer.https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/broker-dealer.asp What Is a Broker-Dealer (B-D), and How Does It Work? 29 March 2021 Investopedia Adam Hayes 16 March 2023 https://web.archive.org/web/20250815034739/https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/broker-dealer.asp 15 August 2025
See also
Blu-ray Disc en HD-DVD, en DVD, en SVCD, en VCD, en CDDV, en LD
Proper noun
en w:Building Design: a British architectural magazine founded in 1970.
en Egyptology en Book of the Dead.
Etymology 2
en :bor fr:BD + 1
Noun
Comics.
Etymology 3
en of en baby en dance.
Noun
en colloquial originally and chiefly internet slang An act of sexual intercourse for the purpose of conception.
Usage notes
The term is chiefly used in online forums relating to fertility and pregnancy.
Verb
+ + +,~'d
en colloquial originally and chiefly internet slang To have sexual intercourse for the purpose of conception.
en 15 July 1997 I Need Advice on Temps! misc.kids.pregnancy We haven't BD since day 21 (we had already BD 11 times in past 2 weeks).
en 2012 Jean M. Twenge Impatient Woman’s Guide to Getting Pregnant New York Atria Paperback 2016 978-1-4516-2070-2 165 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
The term is chiefly used in online forums relating to fertility and pregnancy.B n 14168 BD v 1223137960 2018
References
Anagrams
en bd DB D&B
en Academic degrees Sex
French
Etymology
fr bande dessinée.
Pronunciation
bé-dé
fr LL-Q150 (fra)-Lepticed7-BD.wav <<France>> (<<Toulouse>>)
Noun
f #
comic strip
fr bédé
Further reading
fr Comics
Japanese
Etymology
Derived from ja en Blu-ray Disc.
Noun
ブルーレイ
ja ブルーレイ burūrei Blu-ray Disc
BD付 ブルーレイ-つき includes Blu-Ray disc
ja terms written in foreign scripts