Bold Explained

Bold most commonly refers to:

• Bold (typography), a font style used for emphasis, also known as boldface
• Boldness, or being bold, a human attitude, the opposite of being shy

Bold or BOLD may also refer to:

Businesses and products

• Bold (detergent), a brand of laundry detergent
• BlackBerry Bold, a smartphone

Military

• HMS Bold (1801), a gun-brig that ran aground and was broken up in 1811
• HMS Bold (1812), a gun-brig that was wrecked in 1813
• HMS Manly (1804) or HMS Bold, a ship that was sold in 1814
• USS Bold (BAT-8) or HMS Bold (W114), a tugboat transferred to the United Kingdom in 1942
• USS Bold (AMc-67), a minesweeper laid down in 1941
• USS Bold (AM-424), a minesweeper launched in 1953
• USNS Bold (T-AGOS-12)
• Bold (decoy), a German World War II sonar decoy

Places

• Bold, St Helens, a civil parish in Merseyside, England
• Bold Cove, Falkland Islands
• Bold Street, Liverpool
• Bold Park, an urban bushland area in Perth, Western Australia
• Bold (river), a tributary of the Buzău in Romania

Television

• Bold (TV channel), a Canadian television channel
• 10 Bold, an Australian television channel
• The Bold and the Beautiful or Bold, a TV soap opera

People

• List of people known as the Bold
• Bold (surname), a surname, includes a list of people with the surname
• Bold (Mongolian name), a given name, includes a list of people with the name
• Bolad (given name) or Bold, an Inner Asian given name

Music

• Bold (Angie & Debbie Winans album), a 1997 religious music album
• Bold (band), an American hardcore punk band
• Bold (EP), by Mary Lambert, 2017

Science and technology

• Barcode of Life Data System (BOLD), a DNA sequence database
• Blood-oxygen-level dependent, a method used in functional magnetic resonance imaging
• Bureau of Legal Dentistry, a forensic dentistry organization in Vancouver, British Columbia
• Biological Oxidant and Life Detection (BOLD), a proposed spacecraft

Other uses

• Bold (book) or Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth, and Impact the World, a book by Peter Diamandis
• Bold (horse), an American Thoroughbred racehorse
• Black Organization for Leadership Development, a Louisiana political group