(v. t.) The collective body of persons who live in one house, and under one head or manager; a household, including parents, children, and servants, and, as the case may be, lodgers or boarders.
(v. t.) The group comprising a husband and wife and their dependent children, constituting a fundamental unit in the organization of society.
(v. t.) Those who descend from one common progenitor; a tribe, clan, or race; kindred; house; as, the human family; the family of Abraham; the father of a family.
(v. t.) Course of descent; genealogy; line of ancestors; lineage.
(v. t.) Honorable descent; noble or respectable stock; as, a man of family.
(v. t.) A group of kindred or closely related individuals; as, a family of languages; a family of States; the chlorine family.
(v. t.) A group of organisms, either animal or vegetable, related by certain points of resemblance in structure or development, more comprehensive than a genus, because it is usually based on fewer or less pronounced points of likeness. In zoology a family is less comprehesive than an order; in botany it is often considered the same thing as an order.
Example Sentences:
(1) The role of the family practitioner in antenatal care is discussed.
(2) The findings indicate that there is still a significant incongruence between the value structure of most family practice units and that of their institutions but that many family practice units are beginning to achieve parity of promotion and tenure with other departments in their institutions.
(3) It is recognized that caregivers encompass family members and nursing staff.
(4) PMS is more prevalent among women working outside the home, alcoholics, women of high parity, and women with toxemic tendency; it probably runs in families.
(5) 62.1% were from disrupted families (39.5% divorced, 12.9% remarried, and 9.7% widowed).
(6) Serum samples from 23 families, including a total of 48 affected children, were tested for a set of "classical markers."
(7) Among a family of 8 children, 4 presented typical clinical and biological abnormalities related to mannosidosis.
(8) Complementarity determining regions (CDR) are conserved to different extents, with the first CDR region in all family members being among the most conserved segments of the molecule.
(9) This result demonstrates that branching enzyme belongs to a family of the amylolytic enzymes.
(10) The correlates of three characteristics of familial networks (i.e., residential proximity, family affection, and family contact) were examined among a national sample of older Black Americans.
(11) During the study period four family outbreaks and seven recurrences of infection were observed.
(12) Because many wnt genes are also expressed in the lung, we have examined whether the wnt family member wnt-2 (irp) plays a role in lung development.
(13) Twelve families with Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome (WAS) were studied by linkage analysis using 10 polymorphic marker loci from the X-chromosome pericentromeric region.
(14) As players, we want what's right, and we feel like no one in his family should be able to own the team.” The NBA has also said that Shelly Sterling should not remain as owner.
(15) Family therapists have attempted to convert the acting-out behavioral disorders into an effective state, i.e., make the family aware of their feelings of deprivation by focusing on the aggressive component.
(16) Mutational mosaicism was used as a developmental model to analyze 1,500 sporadic and 179 familial cases of retinoblastoma from the world literature.
(17) In this paper, we report the cases of 4 male patients (mean age 32.7 yr) with right-ventricular dysplasia, that occurred in familial form.
(18) The frequency of gastric malignancies in the families of the women with gastric polyps was higher than in the controls and in men, 6.2, 3.1 and 2.4 percent, respectively (p less than 0.05, and p less than 0.025).
(19) The family comprises at least three variable (V) gene segments, three constant (C) gene segments, and three junction (J) gene segments.
(20) Obesity in the Pimas is familial and has complex relationships with non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, a common disease in this population.
Solitaire
Definition:
(n.) A person who lives in solitude; a recluse; a hermit.
(n.) A single diamond in a setting; also, sometimes, a precious stone of any kind set alone.
(n.) A game which one person can play alone; -- applied to many games of cards, etc.; also, to a game played on a board with pegs or balls, in which the object is, beginning with all the places filled except one, to remove all but one of the pieces by "jumping," as in draughts.
(n.) A large extinct bird (Pezophaps solitaria) which formerly inhabited the islands of Mauritius and Rodrigeuz. It was larger and taller than the wild turkey. Its wings were too small for flight. Called also solitary.
(n.) Any species of American thrushlike birds of the genus Myadestes. They are noted their sweet songs and retiring habits. Called also fly-catching thrush. A West Indian species (Myadestes sibilans) is called the invisible bird.
Example Sentences:
(1) Since taking control of Solitaire we have made it our number one priority to make a fresh start with residents who felt they had been let down by Solitaire.
(2) The awkwardly named The Truth About OM Property Management (formerly Solitaire Property Management) & Peverel Group Companies, was set up in 2008 by a disgruntled Solitaire customer When he spoke to Guardian Money it was on the basis that we only publish his first name: Adam.
(3) It's increasingly easy now to find people who say "I'm not a gamer, I don't play computer games" but, when challenged, will admit that they play Angry Birds on their iPhone, or MafiaWars on Facebook, or solitaire on their PC during quiet times at work – if those aren't computer games, what are they?
(4) As she says “selling sustainability isn’t like selling a new brand of soap, it’s like persuading people to use soap in the first place.” Solitaire was named Ethical Entrepreneur of the Year 2008, is a member of the United Nations Sustainable Lifestyles Taskforce, Chair of the UK Green Energy Scheme, and is a London Leader for Sustainability.
(5) It is also important to note that Solitaire's entire senior operations team had been changed by early 2010.
(6) Money asked Peverel to justify the level of commission, and its spokeswoman told us it had been collecting the money on behalf of another company: "Solitaire Property Management Company passed this commission on to the landlord, Holding & Management (Solitaire) … Holding & Management (Solitaire) is not owned by or part of the Peverel Group."
(7) "We can confirm that Solitaire appealed the decision, as we believed it was wrong as a matter of law.
(8) It causes raised eyebrows when I explain this statistic includes entertainment which many people don't really think of as "games", such as casual or social games including Farmville and Solitaire.
(9) Peverel, which acquired Solitaire in mid-2008, lays the blame on practices that took place long before it managed the buildings.
(10) Given Solitaire's poor history, PPM implemented a £4m investment plan to improve services to residents, who were kept informed of changes.
(11) The ancient Greeks had Pythia, their Delphic Oracle; the Romans had their Vestal Virgins and, in Live and Let Die , Dr Kananga had his Solitaire.
(12) One of the first actions taken by PPM was to introduce a formal customer complaints procedure for Solitaire.
(13) The tribunal also ordered Solitaire (taken over by Peverel in 2008) to repay £67,000 that was missing from a long-term reserve fund for the buildings.
(14) Warren, who had her first hit in 1983 with Laura Branigan's Solitaire, doesn't do subtle.
(15) He tried ARMA, the Association of Residential Managing Agents, which told him to contact Solitaire's head of complaints.
(16) Initially, Holden tried to follow official complaint procedures with the property's manager, Solitaire Property Management.
(17) As we begin the final year of our improvement plan, we are confident former Solitaire customers are now seeing industry-leading standards of customer service, value for money and transparency.
(18) Solitaire is passionate (and occasionally argumentative) about the need to make sustainability desirable rather than doom-laden.
(19) Photograph: Solitaire Townsend Solitaire Townsend, CEO, Futerra Solitaire co-founded Futerra, Europe’s leading sustainable development communications agency, working with big brands, NGOs and government departments to make sustainable development so desirable it becomes normal.
(20) In a statement, it said: "Solitaire Property Management only became part of the Peverel Group in mid 2008.