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- [muh-tab-uh-liz-uh m]
- /məˈtæb əˌlɪz əm/
- /məˈtæb.əl.ɪ.zəm/
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- [muh-tab-uh-liz-uh m]
- /məˈtæb əˌlɪz əm/
Definitions of metabolism word
- noun metabolism Biology, Physiology. the sum of the physical and chemical processes in an organism by which its material substance is produced, maintained, and destroyed, and by which energy is made available. Compare anabolism, catabolism. 1
- noun metabolism any basic process of organic functioning or operating: changes in the country's economic metabolism. 1
- noun metabolism The chemical processes that occur within a living organism in order to maintain life. 1
- noun metabolism body: process of converting food 1
- variable noun metabolism Your metabolism is the way that chemical processes in your body cause food to be used in an efficient way, for example to make new cells and to give you energy. 0
- noun metabolism the sum total of the chemical processes that occur in living organisms, resulting in growth, production of energy, elimination of waste material, etc 0
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Origin of metabolism
First appearance:
before 1875 One of the 25% newest English words
1875-80; < Greek metabol(ḗ) change (meta- meta- + bolḗ a throw) + -ism
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Parts of speech for Metabolism
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metabolism popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 74% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
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This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for metabolism
noun metabolism
- body — Your body is all your physical parts, including your head, arms, and legs.
- living — having life; being alive; not dead: living persons.
- woman — the female human being, as distinguished from a girl or a man.
- survival — the act or fact of surviving, especially under adverse or unusual circumstances.
- soul — the principle of life, feeling, thought, and action in humans, regarded as a distinct entity separate from the body, and commonly held to be separable in existence from the body; the spiritual part of humans as distinct from the physical part.
Antonyms for metabolism
noun metabolism
- abstract — An abstract idea or way of thinking is based on general ideas rather than on real things and events.
- concept — A concept is an idea or abstract principle.
- death — Death is the permanent end of the life of a person or animal.
- inanimate — not animate; lifeless.
- plant — any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis.
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