bio
See also: Appendix:Variations of "bio"
English
editPronunciation
editNoun
editbio (plural bios)
- Clipping of biography.
- To find more about her, check out her bio on Instagram.
- 2022 November 8, Allison Theresa, “Sadie Robertson Huff Preaches Submissive Womanhood. Her Message Is Uncomfortably Compelling.”, in Cosmopolitan[1]:
- She doesn’t position herself as a biblical scholar or a prophet. She’s a humble “wifey & mommy,” according to her Instagram bio—even if her 2019 wedding did garner almost 2.5 million views on YouTube.
- A biographical sketch.
- (informal) Clipping of biology.
- I've got a bio exam in the morning.
- 2015 June 9, Lilah Raptopoulos, quoting Reed Shapiro, “Young people speak out about their fears and hopes on climate change”, in The Guardian[2]:
- It boils down to science. Biology, chemistry and physics. I used to hate bio and chem. Now they fascinate me because I’ve realised they make up the world around us as well as us.
- (South Africa, informal) Clipping of bioscope (“cinema”).
- 1995, HerStoriA: South African women's journal, volumes 1-3, page 31:
- Sometimes Estelle had to help her mother on Saturdays and Irwin went to classes for ultra-brainy children, but Alan and I always went to the bio.
Translations
editbiographical sketch
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Adjective
editbio (not comparable)
- (informal) biological.
- a bio detergent
- We only purchase vegetables at the bio food shop.
- my bio family
Derived terms
editAnagrams
editChinese
editEtymology
editFrom the clipping of English biology.
Pronunciation
edit- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: baai6 o1
- Yale: baaih ō
- Cantonese Pinyin: baai6 o1
- Guangdong Romanization: bai6 o1
- Sinological IPA (key): /paːi̯²² ɔː⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
Noun
editbio
Synonyms
editSee also
editDanish
editNoun
editbio
Dutch
editEtymology
editFrom biologie.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editbio f (uncountable)
French
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editClipping of biologique.
Adjective
editbio (invariable)
Noun
editbio m (uncountable)
Etymology 2
editNoun
editbio f (plural bios)
Etymology 3
editClipping of biographie.
Noun
editbio f (plural bios)
Further reading
edit- “bio”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
editGuerrero Amuzgo
editNoun
editbio
Italian
editAdjective
editbio (invariable)
- (informal) Clipping of biologico.; organic, biological
Anagrams
editManx
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editAdjective
editbio
Noun
editbio m (genitive singular [please provide], plural [please provide])
Mutation
editManx mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
bio | vio | mio |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Serbo-Croatian
editPronunciation
editAdjective
editbȉo (Cyrillic spelling би̏о, definite bijȇlī, comparative bjèljī)
- Alternative form of bijȇl.
Participle
editbio (Cyrillic spelling био)
Spanish
editAdjective
editbio (invariable)
- Clipping of biológico (“organic (grown without agrochemicals)”).
Swedish
editEtymology
editClipping of biograf (“movie theater”).
Pronunciation
editAudio: (file)
Noun
editbio c
- cinema, movie theater, the movies
- Jag ska på bio ikväll, vill du hänga med?
- I'm going to the cinema tonight, you wanna join?
Usage notes
editFor the plural, the suppletive form biografer is usually used, similar to many other Swedish words ending on /ʊ/, compare radio.
Declension
editDeclension of bio | ||||
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Uncountable | ||||
Indefinite | Definite | |||
Nominative | bio | bion | — | — |
Genitive | bios | bions | — | — |
Derived terms
editWest Makian
editEtymology
editSaid by Collins to be from Austronesian.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editbio
References
edit- James Collins (1982) Further Notes Towards a West Makian Vocabulary[3], Pacific linguistics
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