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Definitions: Behavior |
BehaviorNoun1. Manner of acting or conducting yourself. 2. The action or reaction of something (as a machine or substance) under specified circumstances; "the behavior of small particles can be studied in experiments". 3. Behavioral attributes. 4. (psychology) the aggregate of the responses or reactions or movements made by an organism in any situation. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "behavior" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
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Satire | BEHAVIOR, n. Conduct, as determined, not by principle, but by breeding. The word seems to be somewhat loosely used in Dr. Jamrach Holobom's translation of the following lines from the Dies Irae: Recordare, Jesu pie, Quod sum causa tuae viae. Ne me perdas illa die. Pray remember, sacred Savior, Whose the thoughtless hand that gave your Death-blow. Pardon such behavior. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
Aerospace | The way in which an organism, organ, body, or substance acts in an environment or responds to excitation, as the behavior of steel under stress , or the behavior of an animal in a test . (references) |
Medicine | The response(s)made by an organism to stimulus from its internal or external environment. Response may be overt(observable, external)or covert(unobservable, internal). Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The behavior of people (and other organisms or even mechanisms) falls within a range with some behavior being common, some unusual, some acceptable, and some outside acceptable limits. The acceptablity of behavior is evaluated relative to social norms and regulated by various means of social control. The behavior of people is studied by the academic disciplines of psychology, sociology, and anthropology.
See also Normal.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Behavior."
Synonyms: BehaviorSynonyms: behaviour (n), conduct (n), demeanor (n), demeanour (n), deportment (n), doings (n). (additional references) |
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Conduct | Noun: conduct; behavior; deportment, comportment; carriage, maintien, demeanor, guise, bearing, manner, observance. |
Contingent Duration | Adverb: during pleasure, during good behavior; quamdiu se bene gesserit. |
Courtesy | Noun: courtesy; respect; good manners, good behavior, good breeding; manners; politeness; Adjective: bienseance, urbanity, comity, gentility, breeding, polish, presence; civility, civilization; amenity, suavity; good temper, good humor; amiability, easy temper, complacency, soft tongue, mansuetude; condescension; (humility); affability, complaisance, pr_venance, amability, gallantry; pink of politeness, pink of courtesy. |
Adjective: courteous, polite, civil, mannerly, urbane; well-behaved, well-mannered, well-bred, well-brought up; good-mannered, polished, civilized, cultivated; refined; (taste); gentlemanlike; (fashion); gallant; on one's good behavior. | |
Duty | Observance, fulfillment, discharge, performance, acquittal, satisfaction, redemption; good behavior. |
Be on one's good behavior, mind one's P's and Q's. | |
Virtue | Well-doing; good actions, good behavior; discharge of duty, fulfillment of duty, performance of duty; well-spent life; innocence. |
Set an example, set a good example; be on one's good behavior, be on one's best behavior. | |
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Crosswords: Behavior |
| English words defined with "behavior": behavior modification, behavior therapy ♦ During good behavior ♦ To be upon one's good behavior. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "behavior": Agonistic Behavior, Appetitive Behavior ♦ Behavior, Addictive ♦ Ceremonial Behavior, Child Behavior, Cognitive behavior therapy, Compulsive Behavior, Consummatory Behavior, Contraception Behavior ♦ Eliminative Behavior, Animal ♦ Health Behavior ♦ Imitative Behavior ♦ Mass Behavior, Maternal Behavior ♦ Paranoid Behavior, Paternal Behavior, Predatory Behavior ♦ Rules of Behavior ♦ Self-Injurious Behavior, Social Behavior. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "behavior": Abearance, Abearing ♦ Clownage, Comportance ♦ Demeanure ♦ Flirt-gill, Foxery ♦ soldiership. (references) |
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Screenplays | Your father seems to think this type of behavior is something to be proud of. (American Beauty; writing credit: Alan Ball) I don't like your jerk-off name, I don't like your jerk-off face, I don't like your jerk-off behavior, and I don't like you, Jerk-Off. (The Big Lebowski; writing credit: Ethan Coen; Joel Coen) Otherwise, their behavior could incite other women leading to anarchy of biblical proportions. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) Well Sinead O'Rebellion, shock me, shock me, shock me with that deviant behavior. (Empire Records; writing credit: Carol Heikkinen) His pattern of behavior! I threw it off! And the Emperor had me thrown out the window! (The Emperor's New Groove; writing credit: Chris Williams; Mark Dindal) | |
Lyrics | You can laugh at my behavior ("Goodbye Stranger"; performing artist: Supertramp) | |
Clever | The zoo is a place for animals to study the behavior of human beings. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Behavior Therapy for Homosexuality (1971) Outrageous Celebrity Look-Alike Behavior Caught on Tape (2003) Bad Behavior (2000) Goode Behavior (1996) Indecent Behavior III (1995) | |
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 | Dr. Tony Picciolo and Dr. Howard E. Winn doing research on fish bioacoustics. At North Rock studying fish sounds and behavior.Credit: Small World. |  | At Texas Tech University, research assistants Anna Johnson and Harold Rachuonyo observe the behavior of a sow and her litter inside a farrowing hut. P.Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |
 | Piglets are one of the main subjects of ARS animal behaviorists. These scientists study behavior of pigs and cows 'round the clock with the goal of improving animal handling practices to reduce stress on animals and lower production costs. P.Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |  | An ecological model of drinking behavior.Credit: NIAA. |
 | [Eric Kandel's NIH lecture on cellular insights into behavior and learning].Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Women's Health and Behavior.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Halftone image, copied from "Deeds of Valor", Volume II, page 50, published by the Perrien-Keydel Company, Detroit, 1907. Quartermaster Miller was awarded the Medal of Honor for courageous behavior on board USS Marblehead during her engagement with a Confederate battery on John's Island, Stono River, South Carolina, 25 December 1863.Credit: NAVY. |  | Corporal Jimmie Shohara has two ribbons: Good Behavior pre-Pearl Harbor, Rifle and Pistol Citations, 2 of 2, Manzanar Relocation Center, California.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Poster, composed of six different images, highlighting behavior that impedes perestroika: drunkenness, laziness, covetousness, bribery, speculation, embezzlement] / Kollektiv avtorov.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Predicament in Connecticut: curious behavior of the Litchfield hounds following their Broadway run in "Uncle Tom's Cabin".Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Daniel Defoe | A woman well bred and well taught, furnished with the additional accomplishments of knowledge and behavior, is a creature without comparison. |
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. | Morality cannot be legislated but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless. |
Emily Dickinson | The abdication of belief makes the behavior small -- better an ignis fatuus than no illume at all. |
Feltham | A consciousness of inward knowledge gives confidence to the outward behavior, which, of all things, is the best to grace a man in his carriage. |
Goethe | Behavior is a mirror in which every one displays his image. |
Henry David Thoreau | If I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior. |
Seneca | Levity of behavior is the bane of all that is good and virtuous. |
Sir Richard Steele | To behold her is an immediate check to loose behavior; to love her is a liberal education. |
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams | At first Ford had formed a theory to account for this strange behavior. If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, he thought, their mouths probably seize up. After a few months' consideration and observation he abandoned this theory in favor of a new one. If they don't keep on exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | Some of the latter had already been to see me, and reported strange things of my beauty, behavior, and good sense. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | The greater part of what my neighbors call good I believe in my soul to be bad, and if I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior. |
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Health | They may also affect several aspects of behavior. (references) | |
Marked depression or a sudden change in behavior. (references) | ||
Counseling can help patients avoid high-risk behavior. (references) | ||
Business | Techint's pricing behavior in the tubular steel market is revealing. (references) | |
This behavior may be particularly pertinent to HCPs focusing on providing subspecialty services. (references) | ||
Various surveys show that there is still a difference in the purchasing behavior between former East Germany and West Germany. (references) | ||
Children | Marshall Islands | When these individuals demonstrate dangerous behavior, they are imprisoned and visited by a doctor. (references) |
Samoa | There is one behavior modification camp for foreign children with emotional or behavioral problems. (references) | |
Jordan | Students must obtain a good behavior certificate from the GID in order to qualify for admission under the university quota system. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Laos | This discriminatory behavior goes unchecked. (references) |
Syria | The Government also threatens activists to attempt to control their behavior. (references) | |
Paraguay | Ibanez was convicted after he published a story detailing the allegedly corrupt behavior of local officials. (references) | |
Discrimination | Hong Kong | Three pieces of antidiscrimination legislation--the Sex Discrimination Ordinance, the Disability Discrimination Ordinance, and the Family Status Discrimination Ordinance--have made it illegal for any person or entity (public or private) to discriminate against anyone on the grounds of sex, marital status, pregnancy, disability, or family status, and prohibits behavior such as sexual harassment, harassment or vilification on the grounds of disability, and discriminatory advertising. (references) |
Economic History | France | The French are very individualistic in their travel behavior. (references) |
Panama | Panamanian Law forbids monopolistic and anti-competitive behavior. (references) | |
Human Rights | Belize | There is a time-off program for good behavior. (references) |
Swaziland | Local judges serve indefinitely with good behavior. (references) | |
Israel and the occupied territories | Prisoners receive wages for prison work and benefits for good behavior. (references) | |
Minorities | Argentina | Since its implementation, this measure reportedly has had considerable success in reducing discriminatory acts and behavior at soccer matches. (references) |
Germany | In addition a number of state and local governments continued programs to crack down on rightwing extremist activities and to engage young persons considered most "at risk" for rightwing behavior. (references) | |
Pakistan | Initially police officials urged the girls to report that they were robbed, not raped; however, when the Christian Liberation Front complained to government officials, the officials immediately registered the cases as rape cases, arrested three suspects, and promised to investigate police behavior. (references) | |
Political Economy | MOROCCO | The law formally forbids anti-competitive behavior, creates legal sanctions for anti-competitive practices, and establishes an authority to survey market competition. (references) |
Iran | Vigilante groups, with strong ties to certain members of the Government, enforce their interpretation of appropriate social behavior through intimidation and violence. (references) | |
Chad | In other areas, the Government's human rights record has remained poor, particularly in the sometimes unregulated behavior of the security forces and the near impunity they enjoy. (references) | |
Political Rights | Peru | The two argued that their removal from Congress disfranchised the voters who had elected them, and that the behavior they were charged with is not a crime. (references) |
Fiji | Several NGO's expressed concerns about his behavior during the attempted coup and subsequent events, and the manner in which he was "cleared." At year's end, details of the investigation had not been released. (references) | |
Trade | El Salvador | C. Movies contrary to ethics and good behavior. (references) |
Travel | Saudi Arabia | Customs and manners differ, so be observant and adapt your behavior to that of your host. (references) |
Vietnam | Consensual decision making is very deeply ingrained in Vietnamese social and political behavior. (references) | |
France | The most important characteristic of French business behavior is its emphasis on courtesy and a certain formality. (references) | |
Women | Kiribati | Obscene or indecent behavior is banned. (references) |
Switzerland | A 2000 study found that discriminatory behavior by employers accounts for 60 percent of the overall wage gap between men and women. (references) | |
Cote d'Ivoire | A severe social stigma is attached to female victims of domestic violence, who are shamed for their presumed bad behavior and need of correction. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Thailand | Their inclination when dealing with violators is to negotiate promises of better future behavior, rather than to seek prosecution and punishment. (references) |
Poland | Solidarity contends that the problem lies not in the law, which establishes safe standards, but in enforcement, because employer sanctions for illegal behavior are minimal. (references) | |
Mali | Neither the Constitution nor the Labor Code addresses the question of antiunion discrimination, but there have been no reports or complaints of antiunion behavior or activities. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | GHOST, n. The outward and visible sign of an inward fear. He saw a ghost. It occupied -- that dismal thing! -- The path that he was following. Before he'd time to stop and fly, An earthquake trifled with the eye That saw a ghost. He fell as fall the early good; Unmoved that awful vision stood. The stars that danced before his ken He wildly brushed away, and then He saw a post. Jared Macphester Accounting for the uncommon behavior of ghosts, Heine mentions somebody's ingenious theory to the effect that they are as much afraid of us as we of them. Not quite, if I may judge from such tables of comparative speed as I am able to compile from memories of my own experience. There is one insuperable obstacle to a belief in ghosts. A ghost never comes naked: he appears either in a winding-sheet or "in his habit as he lived." To believe in him, then, is to believe that not only have the dead the power to make themselves visible after there is nothing left of them, but that the same power inheres in textile fabrics. Supposing the products of the loom to have this ability, what object would they have in exercising it? And why does not the apparition of a suit of clothes sometimes walk abroad without a ghost in it? These be riddles of significance. They reach away down and get a convulsive grip on the very tap-root of this flourishing faith. |
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Al Hunt | General, you and Secretary Rumsfeld in recent days have spoken frequently about the increasingly bad behavior of Iraq and of Iran. You were asked a question about North Korea the other day, and you said basically not much has changed there. |
Dennis Miller | Too many people are getting away with behavior they should be called on. |
Rush Limbaugh | In attempting to understand France's behavior over the issue of war with Iraq, there is little question but that strategic, economic and geopolitical considerations are dominant drivers. |
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Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | But that will not be possible so long as Iran continues to hold Americans hostages, in defiance of the world community and civilized behavior. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Let's punish bad behavior and the refusal to be a student, a worker, a responsible parent. |
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| "Behavior" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Behavior" is used about 77 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 77 | 37,929 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "behavior": Adolescent Behavior ♦ Agonistic Behavior ♦ Appetitive Behavior ♦ Aroma Behavior Conditioning ♦ be on one's best behavior ♦ be on one's good behavior ♦ Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms ♦ behavior law ♦ behavior modification ♦ behavior pattern ♦ behavior therapy ♦ buying behavior ♦ Ceremonial Behavior ♦ Child Behavior ♦ Child Behavior Disorders ♦ Choice Behavior ♦ code of behavior ♦ Cognitive behavior therapy ♦ Competitive Behavior ♦ Compulsive Behavior ♦ consumer behavior ♦ Consummatory Behavior ♦ Contraception Behavior ♦ Cooperative Behavior ♦ crazy behavior ♦ Dangerous Behavior ♦ disorderly behavior ♦ display behavior ♦ double standard of sexual behavior ♦ Drinking Behavior ♦ driver behavior ♦ During good behavior ♦ equivocal behavior ♦ exemplary behavior ♦ Exploratory Behavior ♦ Feeding Behavior ♦ fire behavior ♦ Firesetting Behavior ♦ fraudulent behavior ♦ good behavior ♦ good behavior certificate ♦ hazardous behavior ♦ Health Behavior ♦ Helping Behavior ♦ Homing Behavior ♦ Imitative Behavior ♦ Impulsive Behavior ♦ inductive behavior ♦ Infant Behavior ♦ learned behavior ♦ market behavior ♦ Mass Behavior ♦ Maternal Behavior ♦ Nesting Behavior ♦ Obsessive Behavior ♦ oddity of behavior ♦ on one's good behavior ♦ outlandish behavior ♦ outrageous behavior ♦ Paranoid Behavior ♦ Paternal Behavior ♦ poor behavior ♦ Predatory Behavior ♦ put smb. on one's good behavior ♦ relaxation behavior ♦ REM Sleep Behavior Disorder ♦ rheological behavior ♦ rowdy behavior ♦ Runaway Behavior ♦ Self-Injurious Behavior ♦ Sex Behavior ♦ social behavior ♦ Social Behavior Disorders ♦ Spatial Behavior ♦ Stereotyped Behavior ♦ submissive behavior ♦ Sucking Behavior ♦ To be put upon one's good behavior ♦ To be upon one's good behavior ♦ Verbal Behavior. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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Albanian | sjellje e mirë (behaviour, courtliness), sjellje (bearing, behaviour, conduct, deal, dealing, demeanor, demeanour, deportment, going on, goings on, line, manner, manners, posture), mënyrë të sjelluri (behaviour). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | تصرف (action, behave, behaviour, carry, carry on, comport, conduct, conduct oneself, demeanor, demeanour, deport, deport oneself, deportment, disposal, fend, make, make shift, manage, mark out, proceed, rustle up), سلوك (action, antics, attitude, bearing, behaviour, conduct, course, demeanor, demeanour, goings on, habit, manner, performance, walk), السلوك (behaviour, deportment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | режим на работа (behaviour, run), отнасяне (behaviour, do, handling, treatment, usage), обноски (address, behaviour, comportment, deportment, manners, mien), маниери (behaviour, manners), поведение (bearing, behaviour, conduct, counsel, courses, demeanor, demeanour, deportment, goings on, play), държане (bearing, behaviour, carriage, conduct, dealing, keeping, manner, play, port, presence). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 行為 (action, activity, conduct), 行为 (behaviour, Deed, deeds), 行 (a row, all right, capable, competent, conduct, OK, okay, profession, professional, temporary, to do, to go, to travel, to walk, will do), "行 , 活動 (activity, exercise). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | vlastnosti (behaviour, makings), funkce (appointment, behaviour, function, job, use), chování (bearing, behaviour, conduct, demeanour, goings on, manner, mien). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | optræden (behaviour), opførsel (behaviour, comportment, conduct, deportment), handlemåde (behaviour), adfærd (behaviour, comportment, conduct). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | manier van optreden (behaviour, comportment, conduct), gedrag (behaviour, comportment, conduct, deportment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | konduto (behaviour, conduct, deportment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | وضع (Aspect, Deduction, Demeanour, Gesture, Imposition, Lie, Mien, Ordonnance, Phase, Poise, Pose, Position, Posture, Self, Setup, Situation, Speed, Stance, Station, Status, Stick, Trim), حرکت (Demeanour, Departure, Gesture, Locomotion, Motion, Move, Movement, Poke, Progress, Stir, Stroke), سلوک (Conduct, Demeanour), اخلاق (Comportment, Moral, Morality), رفتار (Comport, Comportment, Conduct, Demarche, Demeanour, Ethic, Gesture, Manner, Treatment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | tulen käyttäytyminen (fire behavior, fire behaviour), induktiivinen käyttäytyminen (inductive behavior, inductive behaviour). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | comportement (bearing, behaviour). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Verhalten (bated, be, bearings, behaviour, comportment, conduct, contain, control, curb, demeanors, deportment, hold, manner, measured, muted, performance, reaction, restrain, restrained, stealthy, stop, suppressed), Benehmen (behave, behaviour, comportment, conduct, demeanor, demeanour, deportment, discipline, manner, manners, take away), betragen (amount, amount to, be, behaviour, conduct, demeanor, deportment, to account for, to amount). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | συμπεριφορά (attitude, bearing, behaviour, behaviour towards, carriage, comportment, conduct, manners, port). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | "ת "'ות (bearing, behaviour, carriage, conduct, demeanour, deportment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | biztonság (behaviour, positiveness, safety, security, surety), bánásmód (behaviour, deal, dealing, ill-treatment, management, treatment), viselkedés (air, attitude, bearing, behaviour, comportment, conduct, countenance, dealing, demeanor, demeanour, deportment, front, goings on, goings-on, habit, morals, splurge, such behaviour is not quite the potato), magatartás (attitude, behaviour, comportment, conduct, countenance, demeanor, demeanour, deportment, front, habit, mien), mûködés (agency, behaviour, function, movement, operation, pursuit), eljárás (a, acting, behaviour, method, mode, move, proceeding, proceedings, process, step, treatment, way). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | ulah (manner, way), fiil (deeds). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | condotta (behaviour, conduct, deportment, direction, duct, ongoings, sluice, ventilation duct), comportamento (actions, bearing, behave, behaviour, comportment, conduct, demeanor, demeanour, deportment, ongoings, performance, performances). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 挙措 (manner). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | そぶり (attitude, bearing, manner), ようぎ (charge, deportment, essence, suspect), ふるまい (conduct), まね (imitation, mimicry, pretense), そし (check, data, demeanor, element, founder of a sect, hindrance, interdiction, longstanding desire or goal, obstruction, prevention), きょそ (manner), みもち (conduct, pregnant), そ"う (behaviour, crude ore, crude steel, going upstream), ぎょうせき (achievement, contribution, performance, results, work), しうち (action, an act, treatment), ききょ (one's daily life), しぐさ (acting, action, bearing, gesture, gestures, treatment), お"ない (action, asceticism, conduct, deed), たちいふるまい (movements), ぎょうじょう, きょどう (conduct). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 행동 (Acting, Behaving, behavioral, behaviour, behavioural, Deportment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ehaviorbay comportamento (actions, bearing, behaviorism, behaviour, behaviourism, carriage, comportment, conduct, course, dealing, demean, demeanor, demeanour, deportment, moral, ongoings, performance, proceeding, walking). (various references) bunã purtare (behaviour, morality), purtare (bearing, behaviour, carriage, conduct, demeanour, fashion, foppery, goings on, habit, usage), conduitã (behaviour, conduct, course, dealing, demeaneour, goings on, habit, leadership), comportare (action, bearing, behaviour, conduct, course, dealing, demeaneour, deportment, doings, habit, mien, trim), comportament (behaviour, comportment), ciudãţenie (behaviour, curio, curiosity, eccentricity, extravagance, freak, kink, oddity, oddment, oddness, originality, peculiarity, queerness, quip, singularity, strangeness, vagary, whim, whimsicality), apucãturã (behaviour, grasp, habit), înfãţişare (air, appearance, aspect, behaviour, cast, countenance, dash, description, face, figuration, figure, form, get, guise, hearing, lay, likeness, look, manner, mien, patina, physiognomy, presentation, representation, semblance, shape, similitude), ţinutã (attire, attitude, bearing, behaviour, carriage, clothing, conduct, deportment, figure, gait, garb, hang, manner, mien, posture, rig, set, suit, trim, uniform). (various references) поведение (actions, bearing, behaviour, comportment, conduct, dealing, demeanor, demeanour, deportment, doing, goings on, ongoings). (various references) ponašanje (behaviour, conduct, demeanor, demeanour, deportment, do, havings, manner), ophođenje (behaviour). (various references) conducta (actions, bearing, behaviour, comportment, conduct, demeanor, demeanour, deportment, doings, freightage, haulage, manner, portage, transport), comportamiento (actions, behaviour, comportment, conduct, demeanor, demeanour, deportment, ongoing, performances). (various references) beteende (behaviour, conduct, deportment). (various references) พฤติกรรม (behaviour). (various references) tutum (attitude, behaviour, carriage, demeanor, manner, Providence, sparingness), tavır (address, air, aspect, attitude, behaviour, carriage, demeanor, demeanour, deportment, face, form, manner, mien, port, pose, posture, presence, put on, tone), hareket tarzı (behaviour, course of action, manner, manners, policy, proceeding), hareket (achievement, act, action, bearing, behaviour, conduct, demeanour, deportment, gesture, locomotion, motion, move, movement, play, setout, starting, step, stroke), davranış (act, action, attitude, bearing, behavioral, behaviour, behavioural, conduct, deal, dealing, demeanor, demeanour, deportment, doings, form, manner, proceeding, stroke, treatment, turn, way). (various references) boluю (victory), цzьni alyp baryю (conduct), hдsiяet (character, property). (various references) ставлення (attitude, behaviour, position, side, treatment), вчинки (acting, behaviour, goings on, ongoing), вихованість (accomplishments, behaviour, civility, decorum, discretion, gentlehood, manners), манери (behaviour, deportment), поводження (behaviour, handling, usage), поведінка (bearing, behaviour, conduct, demeanor, demeanour, gest, goings on, ongoing, proceeding, walk, walking). (various references) ymddygiad (actions, conduct), ymarweddiad (conduct). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | more, morem, mores, mori, moria, moribus, moris, morisque, morum, mos, mosollam. (various references) |
| Medieval Latin | 700-1500 | gestura. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | 1 Timothy Chapter 3, Verse 2 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Dei oun ton episkopon anepilhpton einai miaV gunaikoV andra nhfaleon swfrona kosmion filoxenon didaktikon |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Oportet ergo episcopum inreprehensibilem esse unius uxoris virum sobrium prudentem ornatum hospitalem doctorem |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Therfor it bihoueth a byschop to be with out repreef, the hosebonde of o wijf, sobre, prudent, chast, vertewous, holdinge hospitalite, a techere; |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Ye and a bisshope must be fautlesse the husband of one wyfe sober discrete honestly aparelled harberous apt to teache |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach; |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behavior, given to hospitality, apt to teach; |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | The Bishop, then, is to be a man of good name, the husband of one wife, self-controlled, serious-minded, having respect for order, opening his house freely to guests, a ready teacher; |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | 1 Timothy Chapter 3, Verse 2 |
| Cebuano | Ug ang obispo kinahanglan dili badlonganon, ug siya usa ray asawa, mapugnganon sa kaugalingon, mabuot, maugdang, maabiabihon, maayo sa pagpanudlo, |
| Croatian | Treba stoga da nadglednik bude besprijekoran, jedne žene muž, trijezan, razuman, sreðen, gostoljubiv, sposoban pouèavati, |
| Danish | En Tilsynsmand bør derfor være ulastelig, een Kvindes Mand, ædruelig, sindig, høvisk, gæstfri, dygtig til at lære andre; |
| Dutch | Een opziener dan moet onberispelijk zijn, ener vrouwe man, wakker, matig, eerbaar, gaarne herbergende, bekwaam om te leren; |
| Finnish | Niin tulee siis seurakunnan kaitsijan olla nuhteeton, yhden vaimon mies, raitis, maltillinen, säädyllinen, vieraanvarainen, taitava opettamaan, |
| French | Il faut donc que l`évêque soit irréprochable, mari d`une seul femme, sobre, modéré, réglé dans sa conduite, hospitalier, propre l`enseignement. |
| German | Es soll aber ein Bischof unsträflich sein, eines Weibes Mann, nüchtern, mäßig, sittig, gastfrei, lehrhaft, |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Seorang penilik jemaat haruslah orang yang tanpa cela, hanya satu istrinya, tahu menahan diri, bijaksana, dan tertib; ia suka menerima orang di rumahnya, dan bisa mengajar orang; |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Sebab itu hendaklah gembala sidang itu tiada bercela, yaitu menjadi suami seorang isteri sahaja, menahan diri, siuman, berkelakuan sopan, suka memberi tumpangan, tahu mengajar orang; |
| Italian | Ma bisogna che il vescovo sia irreprensibile, non sposato che una sola volta, sobrio, prudente, dignitoso, ospitale, capace di insegnare, |
| Latvian | Tâtad bîskapam jâbût nevainojamam, vienas sievas vîram, sâtîgam, prâtîgam, cienîgam, godâjamam, viesmîlîgam, mâcîtam, |
| Maori | Na, ko te tikanga tenei, kia kaua te pihopa e ekengia e te kupu, he tahu no te wahine kotahi, kia ngawari, kia whai whakaaro, kia marama ana tikanga, kia atawhai ki nga manuhiri, kia whai ngakau ki te whakaako: |
| Norwegian | Derfor skal en tilsynsmann være ulastelig, én kvinnes mann, edruelig, sindig, verdig, gjestfri, duelig til å lære andre, |
| Russian | оП Е ЙУЛП "ПМЦЕО 'ЩФШ ОЕ ПТПЮЕО, П"ОПК ЦЕОЩ НХЦ, ФТЕЪЧ, "ЕМПНХ"ТЕО, 'МБЗПЮЙОЕО, ЮЕУФЕО, УФТБООПМА'ЙЧ, ХЮЙФЕМЕО, |
| Shuar | Tura Yus-shuaran Wáinin ajastinian wakerakka Chíkich shuar niin yajauch áujmattsachmin átiniaiti. Nuwá apatka áchatniuiti. Niisha pénker esetar Enentáimin naka wekasatniuiti. Iraran ni jeen ti shiir itiaatniuiti. Pénker jintinkratin átiniaiti. |
| Spanish | Entonces es necesario que el obispo sea irreprensible, marido de una sola mujer, sobrio, prudente, decoroso, hospitalario, apto para enseñar; |
| Swahili | Basi, kiongozi wa kanisa anapaswa awe mtu asiye na lawama; anapaswa awe na mke mmoja tu, awe mwenye kiasi, nidhamu na utaratibu; ni lazima awe mkarimu na anayeweza kufundisha; |
| Swedish | En församlingsföreståndare bör därför vara oförvitlig; han bör vara en enda kvinnas man, nykter och tuktig, hövisk i sitt skick, gästvänlig, väl skickad att undervisa, |
| Uma | Toe pai' pangkeni agama kana to uma ria kasalaia' -na. Motobinei hadua-wadi, pai' kana na'inca mpengkatarii konoa nono-na to dada'a, monoto nono-na, pai' mo'ada lompe' -i. Kana jole' -i metorata, pai' baka' metudui'. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "behavior": behavioral, behaviorally, behaviorism, behaviorisms, behaviorist, behavioristic, behaviorists, behaviors. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "behavior": interbehavior, misbehavior. (additional references) | |
Words containing "behavior": interbehavioral, interbehaviors, misbehaviors, nonbehavioral. (additional references) | |
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"Behavior" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bahagi, bahavior, Beauvois, befavior, behaivor, behaver, behavio, behaviou, behaviour, beh-aviour, behaviuor, behaviur, behavoir, behavor, behavour, Behviour, bheavhior, bheavior, Buhagiar, ehaviour, Rehavia. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "behavior" (pronounced buhā"vyer) |
| 7 | b u h ā" v y er | misbehavior. |
| 4 | -ā" v y er | Savior. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-h-i-o-r-v" | |
-2 letters: havior. | |
-3 letters: abhor, above, aiver, bevor, bohea, brave, bravi, bravo, haver, hover, obeah, rehab, vireo. | |
-4 letters: abri, aero, arvo, aver, bare, bear, bier, boar, bora, bore, brae, brie, brio, hair, hare, have, hear, heir, herb, hero, hire, hive, hoar, hoer, hora, hove, obia, ohia, over, rave, rhea, rive, robe, rove, vair, vera, verb. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-h-i-o-r-v" | |
+1 letter: behaviors, behaviour. | |
+2 letters: behavioral, behaviours, vibraphone. | |
+3 letters: behaviorism, behaviorist, hereinabove, misbehavior, vibraphones. | |
+4 letters: behaviorally, behaviorisms, behaviorists, misbehaviors. | |
+5 letters: behavioristic, interbehavior, nonbehavioral, overbleaching, overbreathing, rhabdoviruses. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 65 68 61 76 69 6F 72 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... . .... .- ...- .. --- .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100101 01101000 01100001 01110110 01101001 01101111 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B e h a v i o r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0065 0068 0061 0076 0069 006F 0072 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3671746788758184 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Quotations: Familiar | 9. Quotations: Fiction 10. Quotations: Non-fiction 11. Quotations: Spoken 12. Quotations: Speeches | 13. Usage Frequency 14. Expressions 15. Expressions: Internet 16. Translations: Modern | 17. Translations: Ancient 18. Bible Trace 19. Derivations 20. Rhymes | 21. Anagrams 22. Orthography 23. Bibliography |
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