different between maintenance vs biogenic
maintenance
English
Etymology
From Middle English mayntenaunce, from Old French maintenance, from maintenir, from Latin manus ten?re (“to hold in the hand”). Surface analysis is maintain +? -ance.
Note that maintain has undergone a sound and spelling change, hence is spelt with -tain-, rather than the -ten- still found in maintenance.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?me?nt(?)n?ns/, /?me?nt?n?ns/
Noun
maintenance (usually uncountable, plural maintenances)
- Actions performed to keep some machine or system functioning or in service.
- (law) A tort committed when a third party who does not have a bona fide interest in a lawsuit provides help or acquires an interest to a litigant's lawsuit.
- (law, Britain) Alimony, a periodical payment or a lump sum made or ordered to be made to a spouse after a divorce.
- (law) Child support.
- Money required or spent to provide for the needs of a person or a family.
- (biology) The natural process which keeps an organism alive.
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Further reading
- maintenance in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- maintenance in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- maintenance at OneLook Dictionary Search
French
Etymology
maintenir (“to maintain”) +? -ance.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /m??t.n??s/
- Rhymes: -??s
Noun
maintenance f (plural maintenances)
- maintenance
Further reading
- “maintenance” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
maintenance From the web:
- what maintenance does a tesla need
- what maintenance does my car need
- what maintenance does an electric car need
- what maintenance does a car need
- what maintenance can a pilot perform
- what maintenance does a furnace need
- what maintenance is required for a gas fireplace
- what maintenance is required for a tankless water heater
biogenic
English
Etymology
bio- +? -genic
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -?n?k
Adjective
biogenic (comparative more biogenic, superlative most biogenic)
- produced by living organisms, or by a biological process
- essential for the maintenance of life
Antonyms
- (produced by living organisms or by a biological process): abiogenic
Translations
biogenic From the web:
- biogenic meaning
- what biogenic rocks
- what biogenic gas
- what's biogenic in spanish
- biogenic what is it used for
- what are biogenic amines
- what are biogenic elements
- what is biogenic methane
Share
Tweet
+1
Share
Pin
Like
Send
Share
you may also like
- maintenance vs biogenic
- essential vs biogenic
- process vs biogenic
- biological vs biogenic
- termors vs termers
- terrors vs termors
- tremors vs cremors
- impassionates vs impassionated
- impassionated vs passionate
- terms vs empassionate
- terms vs mutule
- guttae vs mutule
- cornice vs mutule
- eccentrics vs eccentricity
- eccentrick vs eccentrics
- major vs meyer
- meyer vs regular
- terms vs arefy
- rarity vs rarety
- rarely vs rarety