different between metabolism vs hormone

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????? (metabol?, “change”) +? -ism, from ????????? (metabáll?, “I change, I alter”) +? -? (-?, “action noun suffix”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /m??tab.?l.?z.?m/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /m??tæ.b?l??z.?m/

Noun

metabolism (countable and uncountable, plural metabolisms)

1. (physiology) The chemical processes that occur within a living organism in order to maintain life.

   Hyponyms: anabolism, catabolism

2. (figuratively, by extension) The processes that maintain any dynamic system.
   • 1980, Alvin Toffler, The Third Wave (page 230)

     The results of this generalized speedup of the corporate metabolism are multiple: shorter product life cycles, more leasing and renting, more frequent buying and selling, more ephemeral consumption patterns, […]

Derived terms

Translations

Romanian

Etymology

From French métabolisme

Noun

metabolism n (uncountable)

1. metabolism

Declension

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???? (horm?, “rapid motion forwards, onrush, onset, assault, impulse to do a thing, effort”), whence ????? (hormá?), ???? (hormô, “to set in motion, to urge on, to cheer on, to make a start, to hasten on”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?h??m??n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?h???mo?n/

Noun

hormone (plural hormones)

1. (physiology) Any substance produced by one tissue and conveyed by the bloodstream to another to effect physiological activity.
2. (pharmacology) A synthetic compound with the same activity.
3. Any similar substance in plants.

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:hormone

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

hormone (third-person singular simple present hormones, present participle hormoning, simple past and past participle hormoned)

1. (transitive, colloquial) To treat with hormones.

Anagrams

• moorhen

French

Pronunciation

• ^{(mute h)} IPA^(key): /??.m?n/

Noun

hormone f (plural hormones)

1. hormone

Derived terms

• hormonal

Further reading

• “hormone” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Interlingua

Noun

hormone (plural hormones)

1. Alternative form of hormon.