Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A biography.
  • noun A biographical sketch or outline.

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  • noun Abbreviation of biography
  • noun biographical sketch
  • noun informal Abbreviation of biology
  • noun South Africa, informal bioscope; cinema

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Examples

  • And in the case of Stork (and maybe Whitson, her bio is a bit fuzzy to me), he had no history of being a human rights activist, as such, but was a leftist commentator on Middle East affairs.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Taking the Yglesias Challenge on Human Rights Watch 2010

  • There's what I call a bio-diversity of resistance.

    Arundhati Roy's Version of Disaster in "This Year of India" 2010

  • It's a moderately amusing column (the bio is the best part, if you ask me), lacking the rapier-like wit of Jungle King and Triple Punch, but not every at bat can be a home run, you know?

    In Exile 2006

  • It's a moderately amusing column (the bio is the best part, if you ask me), lacking the rapier-like wit of Jungle King and Triple Punch, but not every at bat can be a home run, you know?

    In Exile: 20 posts from January 2006 2006

  • It's a moderately amusing column (the bio is the best part, if you ask me), lacking the rapier-like wit of Jungle King and Triple Punch, but not every at bat can be a home run, you know?

    In Exile 2006

  • Thaemlitz (his bio is here) sent me a parody ad for a

    Boing Boing: June 15, 2003 - June 21, 2003 Archives 2003

  • The word "bio" in the name did not suggest some form of state licensing was behind the product, although the court ruled that the company seal, in its resemblance to an existing German eco-seal, could confuse consumers and would have to be changed.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • The word "bio" in the name did not suggest some form of state licensing was behind the product, although the court ruled that the company seal, in its resemblance to an existing German eco-seal, could confuse consumers and would have to be changed.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • There's what I call a bio-diversity of resistance.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Christopher Lydon 2010

  • You will put this information at the end of your article in what we call the bio box.

    SB Informer Articles 2008

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