What's the difference between brother and sister?

Brother


Definition:

  • (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.

Sister


Definition:

  • (n.) A female who has the same parents with another person, or who has one of them only. In the latter case, she is more definitely called a half sister. The correlative of brother.
  • (n.) A woman who is closely allied to, or assocciated with, another person, as in the sdame faith, society, order, or community.
  • (n.) One of the same kind, or of the same condition; -- generally used adjectively; as, sister fruits.
  • (v. t.) To be sister to; to resemble closely.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Mother and Sister take over with more nuanced emotional literacy.
  • (2) No woman is at greater risk for ovarian carcinoma than one who is a member of a hereditary ovarian carcinoma syndrome kindred and whose mother, sister, or daughter has been affected with this disease and with an integrally related hereditary syndrome cancer.
  • (3) 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).
  • (4) Joe Gregory, parked outside the arena while waiting to pick up his girlfriend and her sister from the concert, captured its impact on his car’s dashcam.
  • (5) In this article, two siblings, a brother and his sister who showed simultaneous occurrence of MDS and monoclonal gammopathy are reported.
  • (6) Another friend’s sisters told me that the government building where all the students’ records are stored is in an area where there is frequent shelling and air strikes.
  • (7) Corruption scandals have left few among the Spanish ruling class untainted, engulfing politicians on the left and right of the spectrum, as well as businesses, unions, football clubs and even the king’s sister .
  • (8) 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.
  • (9) I can always spot something for my sisters Gretchen and Amy.
  • (10) Given his background, Boyle says, growing up in a council house near Bury, with his two sisters (one a twin) and his strict and hard-working parents (his mum worked as a dinner lady at his school), he should by rights have been a gritty social realist, but that tradition never appealed to him.
  • (11) 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.
  • (12) Stimulated human phagocytes produce sister chromatid exchanges in cultured mammalian cells by a mechanism involving oxygen metabolites.
  • (13) These composite data indicated that the definable metabolic defects of these two sisters with homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia were the sluggish clearance of cholesterol from the body coupled with low total body synthesis of cholesterol.
  • (14) RNA fragments are detected that extend into the O gene from the cleavage sites, while the sister fragments that extend into the cII gene cannot be detected and must be eliminated by additional hydrolytic events.
  • (15) Even more haunting were stories from his wife's village, where the fleeing family found the bodies of her sister and an eight-year-old niece lying in pools of blood.
  • (16) In the whole group, the recurrence of severe mental subnormality was high: 1 in 8 for brothers and 1 in 25 for sisters.
  • (17) A 65-year-old hypertensive woman (case 4), an elder sister of case 3, was admitted with subarachnoid hemorrhage.
  • (18) Growth of cells in medium containing BrdU for two generations allows fluorometric documentation of the semiconservative distribution of newly replicated DNA between sister chromatids, and regions of sister chromated exchange are demarcated.
  • (19) He just never dreamed it would be life without parole,’ his sister said.
  • (20) The localization of the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) genome in chromosomes of human B-lymphoblastoid cell lines (LCLs) transformed with EBV, and the effect of EBV DNA on the level of sister chromatid exchange (SCE) in Bloom's syndrome (BS) B-LCLs, were examined with chromosomal in situ hybridization techniques using a 3H-EBV DNA probe.