bio

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English

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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bio (plural bios)

  1. Clipping of biography.
    To find more about her, check out her bio on Instagram.
    • 2006, Henry Jenkins, Convergence culture: where old and new media collide:
      Pics from outside of Survivor, vidcaps, bios, descriptions (how friggin' TALL are these guys, exactly?).
    • 2021 October 9, Wizarding News (@HPANA), Twitter[1]:
      Gendercrits are now putting dinosaur emoji in their bios 🦕🦖, presumably to illustrate that their views are extinct relics of the past.
    • 2022 November 8, Allison Theresa, “Sadie Robertson Huff Preaches Submissive Womanhood. Her Message Is Uncomfortably Compelling.”, in Cosmopolitan[2]:
      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.
  2. A biographical sketch.
  3. (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[3]:
      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.
  4. (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

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Adjective

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bio (not comparable)

  1. (informal) biological.
    a bio detergent
    my bio family
    We only purchase vegetables at the bio food shop.

Derived terms

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Anagrams

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Chinese

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Etymology

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From the clipping of English biology.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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bio

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, colloquial) biology

Synonyms

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See also

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Danish

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Noun

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bio

  1. (slang) cinema
  2. (slang) biology

Dutch

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Etymology

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From biologie.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈbi.oː/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: bio

Noun

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bio f (uncountable)

  1. (informal) biology (as a school subject)
    Synonym: biologie

French

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Clipping of biologique.

Adjective

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bio (invariable)

  1. (colloquial) biological
  2. (ecology) organic

Noun

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bio m (uncountable)

  1. (informal) the organic movement
  2. (informal) organic food

Etymology 2

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Clipping of biologie.

Noun

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bio f (plural bios)

  1. (colloquial) biology

Etymology 3

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Clipping of biographie.

Noun

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bio f (plural bios)

  1. (colloquial, abbreviation) biography

Further reading

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Anagrams

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Guerrero Amuzgo

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Noun

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bio

  1. time

Italian

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Adjective

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bio (invariable)

  1. (informal) Clipping of biologico.; organic, biological

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Manx

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Etymology

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From Old Irish béo.

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Adjective

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bio

  1. alive
  2. live

Noun

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bio m (genitive singular [please provide], plural [please provide])

  1. living person

Mutation

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Manx mutation
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

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /bîo/
  • Hyphenation: bi‧o

Adjective

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bȉo (Cyrillic spelling би̏о, definite bijȇlī, comparative bjèljī)

  1. Alternative form of bijȇl.

Participle

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bio (Cyrillic spelling био)

  1. masculine singular active past participle of biti

Spanish

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Adjective

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bio (invariable)

  1. Clipping of biológico (organic (grown without agrochemicals)).

Swedish

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Etymology

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Clipping of biograf (movie theater).

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Noun

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bio c

  1. 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

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For the plural, the suppletive form biografer is usually used, similar to many other Swedish words ending on /ʊ/, compare radio.

Declension

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Derived terms

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West Makian

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Etymology

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Said by Collins to be from Austronesian.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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bio

  1. taro

References

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  • James Collins (1982) Further Notes Towards a West Makian Vocabulary[4], Pacific linguistics