(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.
Trombone
Definition:
(n.) A powerful brass instrument of the trumpet kind, thought by some to be the ancient sackbut, consisting of a tube in three parts, bent twice upon itself and ending in a bell. The middle part, bent double, slips into the outer parts, as in a telescope, so that by change of the vibrating length any tone within the compass of the instrument (which may be bass or tenor or alto or even, in rare instances, soprano) is commanded. It is the only member of the family of wind instruments whose scale, both diatonic and chromatic, is complete without the aid of keys or pistons, and which can slide from note to note as smoothly as the human voice or a violin. Softly blown, it has a rich and mellow sound, which becomes harsh and blatant when the tones are forced; used with discretion, its effect is often solemn and majestic.
(n.) The common European bittern.
Example Sentences:
(1) No wry observations or whoops-a-daisy trombones to subvert the conceit for period lolz.
(2) folds up its comedy deckchair, presses mute on the trombones and drapes a hand towel discreetly over Mark's crotch.
(3) That’s the case at the Ice Music Festival in the Norwegian ski resort of Geilo, where even the instruments – harps, xylophones, guitars and trombones – are made of ice, bringing a wholly original atmosphere and sound.
(4) In our case, though the trombonist had no apparent straining episode, the causative factor can be assumed to be the tenderness of the alveoli originating from frequent over-inflations of the lungs and high intra-alveolar pressures of about 150 cmH2O during trombone performance, which may result in alveolar rupture under normal intralveolar pressures.
(5) So, through soaring trombones, Orlov gave me a detailed account of Khrushchev's indictment: that Stalin was a tyrant, a murderer and torturer of party members.
(6) I didn't like Elvis, played classical trombone and grew up with folk music.'
(7) By now, Heaton was in another band – singing and playing trombone with Norman Cook and two friends.
(8) He played trumpet and trombone, sang in the choir and a few musical shows.
(9) It would be easy to mock those involved – to accompany Marianne's tutu-appliquéing activities with a comedy trombone, perhaps, or to let us know that it's all a bit infradig by filming Martin unknowingly treading on a turd, then following him as he tramples it around the Northern line.
(10) Their pastor, reverend Jawanza Colvin, introduced the civil rights campaigner as “one of God’s trombones”.
(11) "This song is a love song not for some of us but for all of us and tonight we celebrate the commitment to love by some very beautiful couples," said Latifah, before introducing the rap duo with Mary Lambert and jazz artist Trombone Shorty.
(12) Functional would best describe it – and random, if you consider the occasional sales of trombones and horse blankets.
(13) Inside, this crest is both hollow and is a loop that links to the nasal passages in the skull – it is in fact nothing so much like a giant dinosaurian trombone or didgeridoo.
(14) Composer Hans Zimmer has revealed that Inception's entire soundtrack, from the booming trombone theme to the strains of rising dread, originates from one of the chanteuse's most famous songs.
(15) At least we got paid – back in the 70s an English band called UFO played in Russia and they were paid in trombones.
(16) The clearest example is Inception's theme, which an enterprising YouTuber has already deciphered, speeding up the booming trombones to reveal Piaf's Gallic melancholy.
(17) Updated at 4.46am BST 4.27am BST Not Terry Francona (@NotCoachTito) The saddest trombone plays now at Dodger Stadium.
(18) This utilizes a modified radiofrequency trombone for size adjustment that results in a stable frequency over a wide range of dimensions.
(19) The crowd goes wild - they’ll take wins where they can get ’em at this point - and the Kazakh-stand cover of Pink Panther on a trombone is drowned out by applause.
(20) The band currently has 22 members, including comedian Bernie Clifton on trombone, although drums and trumpets dominate.