biology
pronunciation
How to pronounce biology in British English:
UK [baɪˈɒlədʒi]
How to pronounce biology in American English:
US [baɪˈɑːlədʒi]
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- Noun:
- the science that studies living organisms
- characteristic life processes and phenomena of living organisms
- all the plant and animal life of a particular region
Word Origin
- biology
- biology: [19] The modern European languages have made prolific use of Greek bíos ‘life’ as a prefix, particularly in the 20th century. The first compound into which it entered in English seems to have been biotic, in the now obsolete sense ‘of secular life’ (around 1600), but the trend was really set by biography, first recorded as being used by John Dryden in his Life of Plutarch 1683. Biology itself came along at the beginning of the 19th century, via French, having been coined in German by Gottfried Reinhold in 1802.Twentieth-century contributions have included bioengineering, biometric, bionic, biorhythm, and biotechnology. Greek bíos itself goes back to an Indo-European base *gwej-, from which English also ultimately gets quick, vital, vivid, and zoo.=> quick, vital, vivid, zoo
- biology (n.)
- 1819, from Greek bios "life" (see bio-) + -logy. Suggested 1802 by German naturalist Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus (1776-1837), and introduced as a scientific term that year in French by Lamarck.
Example
- 1. The biology behind it is what 's being studied .
- 2. Synthetic biology companies fall into two categories .
- 3. Biology always wins in any blending of organic and machine .
- 4. The best counterculture now is in biology .
- 5. But how could biology promote such behavior ?