sib
IPA: sˈɪb
noun
- Kindred; kin; kinsmen; a body of persons related by blood in any degree.
- A kinsman; a blood relation; a relative, near or remote; one closely allied to another; an intimate companion.
- A sibling, brother or sister (irrespective of gender)
- (biology) Any group of animals or plants sharing a corresponding genetic relation
- A group of individuals unilaterally descended from a single (real or postulated) common ancestor
- (UK, military) Initialism of Special Investigation Branch.
- (clinical psychology) Initialism of self-injurious behavior.
- Abbreviation of sodium-ion battery.
verb
- (transitive) To bring into relation; establish a relationship between; make friendly; reconcile.
- (intransitive, clinical psychology) To engage in repetitive behaviors such as eye-poking, skin-picking, hand-biting, or head-banging.
adjective
- (obsolete outside Scotland) Having kinship or relationship; related by same-bloodedness; kindred.
- (obsolete outside Scotland) Akin (to); similar (to).
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Examples of "sib" in Sentences
- Full sib selection with progeny testing.
- Half sib selection with progeny testing.
- Sib and social structure on the Upper Tanana.
- As to ru sib, if they like it, let them care.
- Actually, it looks like ru sib will be closed soon.
- As long ru sib is an wikimedia project i will link to it.
- "That devil you called your sib's granddaughter, General.
- A part of each full sib family is saved for recombination.
- After this beginning, the SIB was established on a full time basis.
- The sultan tore up the Treaty of As Sib and eliminated the office of the Imam.
- | Reply | Permalink in the above post, I meant "sib" - good analysis to you both.
- It's Maria Lark, who plays precocious middle sib Bridgette, who's feeling the pain.
- My sib is a really good cook; what he cooks isn't fancy, but it's really, really good.
- Most of our kids will bully someone -- a younger sib, a classmate, even a friend -- this school year.
- "We call one another sib, which is short for _sibyl_, because _maytera_ is reserved for the sibyl in charge of the cenoby in which we live.
- Gossip has quite degenerated from its old meaning, and even "sib," though good English in Chaucer's time, is now only to be found in provincial dialects; but in German "sipp" still means "kin."
- a kind of sib, I'm thinkin '-- an' thae Merry Men, the daft callants, blawin 'and lauchin', and puir souls in the deid thraws warstlin 'the leelang nicht wi' their bit ships -- weel, it comes ower me like a glamour.
- Or perhaps it's because this is the Plot Truck, and thus the girls don't get a look in - bar Cord, Erasmas '"sib" (sister) and the aforementioned honorary boy (she's a mechanic, and thus apparently not included in the female hivemind).
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