(a.) Of the same kin; related by blood; -- used of persons; as, the two families are near akin.
(a.) Allied by nature; partaking of the same properties; of the same kind.
Example Sentences:
(1) We propose that akin to the phosphorylation-dependent activation of enzymes, the transcriptional transactivation functions of CREB-327 involve a phosphorylation-dependent allosteric conformational mechanism.
(2) Baroness Jenny Tonge, president of the European Parliamentary Forum on Population and Development (EPF), said the Cairo agreement was akin to a "Copernicus revolution".
(3) Chronic exposure to opioids results in the development of tolerance to the inhibitory effect of the agonists, and withdrawal of the latter results in a decrease in phagocytic capacity, which suggests that a state akin to dependence has been developed in these cells.
(4) However, some will be disappointed not to see the new movies from Terrence Malick, Emir Kusturica, Fatih Akin and Roy Andersson.
(5) However, if solubility is considered as a function of pH at equilibrium, i.e., the final pH after the dissolution products have entered the solvent--a model more akin to the in vivo situation--hydroxyapatite is the conspicuously more soluble of the two minerals.
(6) As over-the-top as Ray Lewis often seems in his sermonizing give him this: when football is at its most dramatic it really does at least feel like there's something akin to a divine plan at work.
(7) Akin, a six-term congressman running against incumbent Democratic senator Claire McCaskill, was asked in an interview broadcast Sunday on St Louis television station KTVI if he would support abortions for women who have been raped.
(8) For US allies, trying to follow Washington’s lead over the past four months has been akin to trying to drive in convoy behind a car swerving violently at high speed, as the competing factions inside lunge for the steering wheel.
(9) But once installed the couple must decide how to live their daily lives: surrounded by butlers, dressers, cooks and cleaners, or more akin to the simpler life they have so far enjoyed.
(10) A distinctive clonal myeloproliferative disorder, somewhat akin to chronic myeloid leukemia but with prominent erythroid and mast cell components, as well as granulocytic excess, was characterized.
(11) To use a slightly dodgy analogy, standing one's moral ground in the midst of free-market capitalism might be a delusion akin to the idea of Socialism In One Country: if you believe in the usual left-liberal bundle of causes, politics is probably the best arena to pursue them, rather than fixating on what you do with your money.
(12) The authors describe a modification of the Akin procedure using a distal oblique osteotomy with rigid internal fixation.
(13) Our studies in pigs suggest that the intestinal secretion of lipoproteins commences rapidly after birth since proteins akin to human apo-B48 and apo-B100 are detectable in plasma VLDL some 2-3 h after parturition.
(14) This hypothesis is akin to Freud's theory of primal fantasies.
(15) It is more akin to a conspiracy to extract money from the firm that properly belongs to others.
(16) The alternative is a famine akin to that seen in Ethiopia 30 years ago.
(17) In particular, difficulty with the attachment of appropriate responses to environmental stimuli, akin to those observed in animals with lesions to central dopamine pathways, indicates a role for dopamine in response selection processes.
(18) in 1991, French philosophy enjoyed a golden age akin to classical Greece or Enlightenment Germany.
(19) Some of the IgM antiphospholipid antibodies (aPL) present in patients with the recently described primary antiphospholipid syndrome (PAPS) also react with PTC and could thus be natural autoantibodies akin to those found in mice.
(20) Akin to this observation, cAMP also potentiates the EGF-mediated increase in t-PA mRNA.
Lakin
Definition:
(n.) See Ladykin.
Example Sentences:
(1) We therefore announce our intention to resign our positions as soon as transitional arrangements can be put in place.” Paul Lakin, the outgoing leader, was described in the report as “a decent, committed and hardworking councillor” who was poorly served by his officers.
(2) In a statement the council said: “Cllr Paul Lakin has confirmed his resignation as leader of Rotherham borough council with immediate effect.
(3) The council leader, Paul Lakin, said he would quit both as leader and councillor.
(4) In response to Martin Lakin's (1991) IJGP article, "Some Ethical Issues in Feminist-Oriented Therapy Groups for Women," this article examines recent developments in feminist theory and proposes that a feminist perspective is both ethical and can make significant contributions to the practice of group psychotherapy.
(5) Passing sentence, the judge Peter Lakin said: "You Ilyas Ashar and you Tallat Ashar did not treat this girl as a human being.