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Meanings of kin in English
Related by blood.
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Examples for "akin"
Examples for "akin"
1
Doctors have described her progress so far as akin to a miracle.
2
She said she thought file sharing was akin to internet radio streaming.
3
Brawlers focus on fast action fighting much akin to tag team wrestling.
4
Mr Peters rebuffed claims that Ihumātao protests were akin to Bastion Point.
5
Mr Corker and the president used to be something akin to allies.
1
That argument produces all this misery; that and others cognate to it.
2
The Stoics define the soul as a cognate spirit, sensible to exhalations.
3
There was nothing formal, nothing ordained about such clusterings of cognate mentalities.
4
Cloned CTL can be induced to undergo apoptosis with cognate peptide epitopes.
5
Sea-power is a term used to indicate two distinct, though cognate things.
1
No pathogenic mutations were identified in one multiplex family and one consanguineous family.
2
We performed genetic linkage analysis in consanguineous families affected by hypogammaglobulinemia.
3
The patient was the third child of first-cousin consanguineous, healthy parents.
4
The differences in IFR values between affinal and consanguineous couples are not significant.
5
The distribution of 514 cases of consanguineous marriage from genealogies was as follows:
1
Women were already deposed from their former exalted position as heads of families and as leaders of consanguine communities.
2
These 'quarters' were the 'calpulli'; hence it follows that the consanguine groups held the altepetlalli or soil of the tribe.
3
Territorial unions grew up instead of the consanguine unions of old, and this new organization evidently offered many advantages under the given circumstances.
4
Each consanguine relationship thus gradually surrounded the surface on which it dwelt with a number of garden plots sufficient to the wants of its members.
5
Consanguine marriages are very common, and perhaps this accounts for the low intellect and mental debility perceptible in many families.
1
Then he said coolly, 'Mademoiselle, you are the victim of consanguineal sorcery.'
2
The gens is an organized body of consanguineal kindred in the female line.
3
Marriage between members of the same gens is forbidden, but consanguineal marriages between persons of different gentes are permitted.
4
Each one of the Blackfoot tribes is subdivided into gentes, a gens being a body of consanguineal kindred in the male line.
1
Saving a life threatened by a blood-related illness is a numbers game.
2
It must include all life and all living things to which we are blood-related.
3
The digital device can diagnose early cancers, cardiac markers, infectious diseases and other blood-related illnesses.
4
When people apparently not blood-related at all resemble one other, the same law must hold.
5
A close genetic relationship indicated an increased risk when blood-related children, parents, and siblings were pooled together.
Usage of kin in English
1
Police were working to identify the victims and contact next of kin.
2
In that case, I would be obligated to your kin, of course.
3
The kin had reportedly brought several weapons with him, including a machete.
4
Gujarati authorities have pledged financial assistance to the victims' next of kin.
5
In four cases, genetic test results were disclosed to next of kin.
6
But we are kin; we have the same blood in our veins.
7
Personal effects were no good when there was no next of kin.
8
Far as I is concerned, it kin stay up there wid they.
9
Was it possible that Emily's kin had somehow got the name wrong?
10
Apparently, Cullossax's kin had not been able to take the castle yet.
11
And as for being kin to the Volskys-theidea was quite unthinkable.
12
Their sole and determined purpose was to exterminate Israel, kith and kin.
13
Her next of kin have been notified, the British High Commission said.
14
The motion proclaimed him kin with the flying shapes upon the hills.
15
Now you kin vote an' do like the buckra all kinds o'ways?
16
Eighteen; and never a kith or a kin that I know of.
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