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zoo
[zoo] 
,–noun, plural zoos.
| 1. | Also called zoological garden. a parklike area in which live animals are kept in cages or large enclosures for public exhibition. |
| 2. | Informal. a place, activity, or group marked by chaos or unrestrained behavior. |
Origin:
1840–50; first two syllables of zoological garden taken as one syllable
1840–50; first two syllables of zoological garden taken as one syllable
zoo-
| a combining form meaning “living being,” “animal,” used in the formation of compound words: zoometry; zooplankton. |
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| zoo (zōō) n. pl. zoos
[Short for zoological garden.] |
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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zoo
c.1847, short for Zoological Gardens of the London Zoological Society, established 1828 in Regent's Park to house the society's collection of wild animals. From comb. form of Gk. zoion "an animal," lit. "a living being," from PIE base *gwei- "to live, life" (cf. Gk. bios "life," O.E. cwicu "living;" see bio-). Slang meaning "crowded and chaotic place" first recorded 1935.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Language Translation for : zoo
Spanish:
zoo, parque zoológico,
German:
der Zoo,
Japanese:
動物園
Zoo
Berkeley Yacc
zoo tool, file format
A data compression program and format by Rahul Dhesi. Zoo is reported to use the same Lempel Ziv algorithm as LHA. It is available for many platforms and source is available. .zoo archives are handled by many other PC archiving programs.
Version 2.10 was released in 1989. Search the web for zoo210 to obtain an executable.
Description.
(2000-07-05)
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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zoo
see it's a zoo.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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| zoo zoological garden |
The American Heritage® Abbreviations Dictionary, Third Edition
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