sib
adjective
related by blood; akin.
sib
American
[sib]
/ sɪb /
adjective
noun
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a kinsman; relative.
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one's kin or kindred.
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Anthropology. a unilateral descent group.
sib
1
British
/ sɪb /
noun
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a blood relative
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a brother or sister; sibling
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kinsmen collectively; kindred
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any social unit that is bonded by kinship through one line of descent only
SIB
2
British
abbreviation
Etymology
Origin of sib
First recorded before 900; Middle English sib(e), sibb(e), Old English sib(b) (originally an adjective); cognate with Old Norse sifjar (plural) “relatives,” Old Frisian sib (adjective), sibba (noun), Middle Dutch sibbe (noun and adjective), German Sippe “kin”; cf. gossip
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Awful in Celadon: I would alert the sib that parameters have been received and noted, and they will be treated as suggestions, not marching orders, thanks in advance for understanding.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 28, 2023
Greg’s teen sib is a pill, too, especially next to his sage mom, antsy dad and supercute moppet kid-brother.
From New York Times ● Dec. 3, 2021
With community support my sib lives in an apartment, with visits from our family members who help with housework.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 17, 2015
Working with that emotional clay, a big brother could easily shape his little sib into nearly anything he wanted.
From Time ● Jan. 8, 2015
The pulpit of Kilmacolm was but too sib to the pew, and both pulpit and pew slept on together in undisturbed security.
From Samuel Rutherford and some of his correspondents by Alexander Whyte
A research team at the University of Basel and the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics uncovered a treasure trove of uncharacterised proteins.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2023
"If a SIB gets into distress or fails, this can cause considerable turmoil in the financial system and significant economic damage," the government said.
From Reuters ● May 25, 2023
A source close to SIB says the institute decided to give up its attempts to get paid.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 19, 2023
In 2019, a High Court judge - when ruling on Mr Allister's legal challenge of the hotel's planning approval - described the SIB report as an "irregular, internal valuation" and "a quite unsatisfactory document".
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2021
SIB: Arriani extended family, usually having 20-50 members.
From Concordance A Terran Empire concordance by Ann Wilson
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