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bio

See also: Appendix:Variations of "bio"

English

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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.

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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.

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Chinese

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Etymology

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From the clipping of English biology.

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Noun

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bio

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, colloquial) biology

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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.

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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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Etymology 1

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Clipping of biologique.

Adjective

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bio (invariable)

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

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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.

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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

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Guerrero Amuzgo

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Noun

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bio

  1. time

Indonesian

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Gorontalo [Term?].

Noun

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bio (plural bio-bio)

  1. (dialectal) baby porridge made from sago

Etymology 2

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Borrowed from Hokkien 廟／庙 (biō, biāu, “temple”).

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bio (plural bio-bio)

  1. a special temple for Chinese descendants

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Italian

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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. The broad/slender contrast is lost in labial consonants with earlier */bʲ/ re-analysed as consonant cluster /bj/ and often [blʲ].[1]

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bio

  1. alive
  2. live

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bio m

  1. living person

Mutation

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Mutation of bio
radical lenition eclipsis
bio vio mio

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Manx.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Broderick, George (1986) “bio”, in A Handbook of Late Spoken Manx (Buchreihe der Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie), volume 2: Dictionary, Tübingen: Niemeyer, →ISBN, page 31

Serbo-Croatian

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

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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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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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Declension of bio
nominative genitive
singular indefinite bio bios
definite bion bions
plural indefinite — —
definite — —

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West Makian

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Etymology

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Said by Collins to be from Austronesian.

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bio

  1. taro

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