(n.) A male person who has the same father and mother with another person, or who has one of them only. In the latter case he is more definitely called a half brother, or brother of the half blood.
(n.) One related or closely united to another by some common tie or interest, as of rank, profession, membership in a society, toil, suffering, etc.; -- used among judges, clergymen, monks, physicians, lawyers, professors of religion, etc.
(n.) One who, or that which, resembles another in distinctive qualities or traits of character.
(v. t.) To make a brother of; to call or treat as a brother; to admit to a brotherhood.
Example Sentences:
(1) Typological and archaeological investigations indicate that the church building represents originally the hospital facility for the lay brothers of the monastery, which according to the chronicle of the monastery was built in the beginning of the 14th century.
(2) I remember talking to an investment banker about what it felt like in the City before the closure of Lehman Brothers.
(3) Fatah leader Yahya Rabah said the organisation would celebrate "with our brothers in Hamas", the Ma'an news agency reported.
(4) They presented their clinical observations on 4 brothers from the 'G Family' who shared a constellation of findings with a generalised tendency to midline defects.
(5) Michele Hanson 'The heat finally broke – I realised something had to change …' Stuart Heritage (right) with his brother in 2003.
(6) The appointment of the mayor of London's brother, who formally becomes a Cabinet Office minister, is one of a series of moves designed to strengthen the political operation in Downing Street and to patch up the prime minister's frayed links with the Conservative party.
(7) Besides the 15 cases reported in 1984, 6 additional cases of anti-vWF alloantibodies were reported, i.e., one from Spain (a relative of a previously reported case), two from Venezuela (brother and sister) and three from North Carolina (unrelated patients).
(8) The Weinstein Company, which Harvey owns with his brother Bob, lost rights to the title on Tuesday following a ruling by the Motion Picture Association of America's arbitration board.
(9) Can somebody who is not a billionaire, who stands for working families, actually win an election into which billionaires are pouring millions of dollars?” Naming prominent and controversial rightwing donors, he said: “It is not just Hillary, it is the Koch brothers, it is Sheldon Adelson.” Stephanopoulos seized the moment, asking: “Are you lumping her in with them?” Choosing to refer to the 2010 supreme court decision that removed limits on corporate political donations, rather than address the question directly, Sanders replied: “What I am saying is that I get very frightened about the future of American democracy when this becomes a battle between billionaires.
(10) In this article, two siblings, a brother and his sister who showed simultaneous occurrence of MDS and monoclonal gammopathy are reported.
(11) Ithink my interest in Big Brother has finally flatlined.
(12) How different the process would be with his half-brother.
(13) Jeremy Corbyn accused of backing 'brothers in arms' over women Read more There are many who will not like what I’m saying.
(14) A family of four siblings is described in which two phenotypically female XY children and one male each have developed germ cell tumors, demonstrating that brothers of affected sisters may also be at risk.
(15) The following correction was made on Tuesday April 3 2007 Dr Seyed Safavi would like to make it clear that he was conducting research on his own behalf, and not for his brother General Yahya Rahim Safavi, as we stated in the article below.
(16) Two strikingly similar brothers issued from consanguineous parents in the second degree present the following patterns of anomalies: retardation of growth, mental deficiency, ocular abnormalities, pectus excavatum and camptodactyly.
(17) Biosynthetic studies were performed in a patient with beta-thalassemia intermedia heterozygous for both beta-thalassemia with normal hemoglobins A2 and F and beta-thalassemia with increased Hb A2, in his both parents, one sister and one brother.
(18) In early 2009, he took part in Celebrity Big Brother for a rumoured fee of £100,000.
(19) As well as a portrait of Austen, the new note will include images of her writing desk and quills at Chawton Cottage, in Hampshire, where she lived; her brother's home, Godmersham Park, which she visited often, and is thought to have inspired some of her novels, and a quote from Miss Bingley, in Pride and Prejudice: "I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!"
(20) I think that those who go there, to Isis, they hate Russia for the conditions they have to endure to live,” Nazarov’s brother says.
Rother
Definition:
(a.) Bovine.
(n.) A bovine beast.
(n.) A rudder.
Example Sentences:
(1) Panellist Kevin Barron, MP for Rother Valley, who was the chair of the health select committee in 2005-10, said that to save money we sometimes need to look beyond the NHS for smoking-cessation solutions.
(2) In Rotherham, Rother Valley, Dudley North, Plymouth Moor View and Penistone and Stocksbridge, the speed of Ukip's advance, coupled with evidence of a broader decline in blue-collar support for Labour, led the Fabians to talk of a " considerable vulnerability to Ukip ".
(3) This outbreak raises the concern of Rother outbreaks of cholera occuring on remote and poorly equipped Pacific islands where the environmental circumstances are conducive to cholera spread.
(4) Wolverhampton (19 days), north Norfolk and Sheffield (both 20 days) and Hastings and Rother in Kent (21) were the next fastest for giving patients the procedure.
(5) C3 nephritic factor (NEF), an IgG autoantibody to the alternative pathway C3 convertase, is usually measured by crossed immunoelectrophoresis (CI) but recently a reliable haemolytic assay (HA) was described by Rother (1982).
(6) But while the rivers Don, Rother, Hull and Derwent are at low or very low levels for the time of year, the Environment Agency said public water supplies were unlikely to be affected in the region.
(7) The high court in London ordered Jane Collins to pay £54,000 each to Sarah Champion, Kevin Barron and John Healey, the MPs for Rotherham, Rother Valley, and Wentworth and Dearne respectively.
(8) At the table Dave Brindle (Chair) Public services editor, the Guardian Kevin Barron MP for Rother Valley and former chair of the health select committee (2005-10) Steve Bedser Cabinet member, health and wellbeing, Birmingham city council Shirley Cramer Chief executive, Royal Society of Public Health Paula Chadwick Chief executive, Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation Eugene Milne Director, adult health and wellbeing, Public Health England Credits Seminar report commissioned and controlled by the Guardian.
(9) Young men have their hair specially heseltined for their first speech at a Tory conference … One young man who had obviously had his hair heseltined for the day was a 16-year-old from the Rother valley called William Hague.
(10) Speaking to Sky News in January last year, Caven Vines, the former leader of Ukip on Rotherham council, claimed that the MP for Wentworth and Dearne, John Healey, and the MP for Rother Valley, Sir Kevin Barron, “knew what was going on”.
(11) It seems likely a scene-stealing turn as a vowel-mangling western star in the Coen rothers’ new period romp Hail, Caesar!