bio

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbaɪəʊ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈbaɪoʊ/
• Rhymes: -aɪəʊ

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.

bio (not comparable)

1. (informal) biological.

   a bio detergent

   my bio family

   We only purchase vegetables at the bio food shop.

• BOI, Boi, IBO, IOB, Ibo, boi, obi

From the clipping of English biology.

bio

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, colloquial) biology

• 生物學／生物学 (shēngwùxué)

• phy chem bio

bio

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

From biologie.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbi.oː/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: bio

bio f (uncountable)

1. (informal) biology (as a school subject)

   Synonym: biologie

• IPA^(key): /bjo/
• Rhymes: -o

Clipping of biologique.

bio (invariable)

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

bio m (uncountable)

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

Clipping of biologie.

bio f (plural bios)

1. (colloquial) biology

Clipping of biographie.

bio f (plural bios)

1. (colloquial, abbreviation) biography

• “bio”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• Ibo

bio

1. time

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈbio/ [ˈbi.o]
• Rhymes: -o
• Syllabification: bi‧o

Borrowed from Gorontalo [Term?].

bio (plural bio-bio)

1. (dialectal) baby porridge made from sago

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

bio (plural bio-bio)

1. a special temple for Chinese descendants

• “bio” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

bio (invariable)

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

• obi

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]

• IPA^(key): /bjoː/, [blʲoː], [bʲoː]^[1]

bio

1. alive
2. live

bio m

1. living person

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

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

1. alternative form of bijȇl

bio (Cyrillic spelling био)

1. active past participle of biti

bio (invariable)

1. clipping of biológico (“organic (grown without agrochemicals)”)

Clipping of biograf (“movie theater”).

• Audio:

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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?

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

• biosalong

Said by Collins to be from Austronesian.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbi.o/

bio

1. taro

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