Crossword-Solution: BION
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Bion | p. pr. | The physiological individual, characterized by definiteness and independence of function, in distinction from the morphological individual or morphon. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| BION | anagram | BINO, BONI, NOBI |
We have 7 clues for the answer “BION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| BEING (physiol.) | 1 answer |
| Greek pastoral poet. | 1 answer |
| Morphon s counterpart | 1 answer |
| One of a series of joint Soviet/U.S. space satellites | 1 answer |
| PHYSIOLOGICAL being | 1 answer |
| Physiological individual. | 1 answer |
| Physiological individual: biol. | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAERE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with BION (5)
All Charlotte's hopes and wishes were now concentred in one, namely that the fleet might be detained at Spithead till she could receive a letter from her friends: but in this she was disappointed, for the second morning after she went on board, the signal was made, the fleet weighed anchor, and in a few hours (the wind being favourable) they bid adieu to the white cliffs of Al-bion.
The contemplative atheist is rare: a Diagoras, a Bion, a Lucian perhaps, and some others; and yet they seem to be more than they are; for that all that impugn a received religion, or superstition, are by the adverse part branded with the name of atheists.
There, as Bion prayed, shall Spring, the thrice desirable, be with thee the whole year through, where there is neither frost, nor is the heat so heavy on men, but all is fruitful, and all sweet things blossom, and evenly meted are darkness and dawn.
Thus it is but natural that these artists should have shone most in the illustration of airy trifles like Dorat’s “Baisers,” or tales like Manon Lescaut, or in designing tailpieces for translations of the Greek idyllic poets, such as Moschus and Bion.
The books of the later collectors—Longepierre, the translator of Bion and Moschus; D’Hoym the diplomatist; McCarthy, and La Vallière, are all valued at a rate which seems fair game for satire.
Quotes with BION (1)
The downside of attending to the emotional life of groups is that it can swamp the ability to get anything done; a group can become more concerned with satisfying its members than with achieving its goals. Bion identified several ways that groups can slide into pure emotion - they can become "groups for pairing off," in which members are mainly interested in forming romantic couples or discussing those who form them; they can become dedicated to venerating something, continua…
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Appears in: NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1943–2007).