What's the difference between fraternal and twin?

Fraternal


Definition:

  • (a.) Pf, pertaining to, or involving, brethren; becoming to brothers; brotherly; as, fraternal affection; a fraternal embrace.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) An experiment was conducted to test effects of prenatal and postnatal fraternity size (size of litter in which an individual develops prenatally or is reared postnatally) on ovarian development in mice.
  • (2) The formation of close fraternal relations is of great importance for the personality development of the children as well as of their parents and for the relations arising between brothers and sisters with advancing age.
  • (3) The illegal trade in natural resources is depriving developing economies of billions of dollars in lost revenues and lost development opportunities, while benefiting a relatively small criminal fraternity,” says the UN .
  • (4) The collective critical moo-ing that greets the arrival of each new screen instalment of the Twilight series says more about how out of touch the film-reviewing fraternity is with a certain section of the movie-going audience than it does about the films themselves.
  • (5) To call for liberty, equality or fraternity is a rallying call to arms.
  • (6) Let us always pray for us, one for the other, let us pray for the whole world, so that there may be a great fraternity.
  • (7) We believe correction of alcohol abuse and addiction by college students must focus, at least in part, on social organizations, especially fraternities and sororities.
  • (8) Racism at Harvard: months after protests began, students demand concrete change Read more “Although the fraternities, sororities and final [single-sex] clubs are not formally recognized by the college,” Faust wrote in an open letter to dean Rakesh Khurana , “they play an unmistakable and growing role in student life, in many cases enacting forms of privilege and exclusion at odds with our deepest values.
  • (9) The fraternal twins, i.e., the girl operated upon and her brother, have been followed for 5 years and are without any complaints.
  • (10) In Boston was performed the first successful isograft between identical twins (1954) the first successful allograft between fraternal twins (1959) and the first successful allograft from a cadaveric donor (1962).
  • (11) Meanwhile at the University of Oklahoma - in a state which wants to expunge its racist history from its history classes - video leaked of a fraternity singing racists chants which would have been at home in the film Birth of A Nation (if sound had only been in movies a hundred years ago).
  • (12) His 1895 will said it should go to those promoting "fraternity between nations", the abolition or reduction of standing armies, or the formation and spreading of peace congresses.
  • (13) Several tests related to lipid metabolism were made on the serum and urine of a fraternal twin with FMF during attacks and remission.
  • (14) Rolling Stone is walking back and apologizing for an explosive article it published about rape at the University of Virginia, admitting there “now appear to be discrepancies” in the key story in the article, about a woman who alleges that she was the victim of a calculated gang rape that took place by members of a fraternity at the school.
  • (15) Reasons relating partly to Spain's recent history and partly to the nature of its health system have kept the discipline from attracting the support and collaboration of much of the nation's medical fraternity.
  • (16) Prenatal fraternity size negatively affected average pup weight at birth (P less than .05) but had little subsequent effect on growth or reproduction.
  • (17) Number of sleep spindles and sleep spindle density showed almost concordance between identical twin pairs and one fraternal pair (No.
  • (18) The Russian president continued: "Ukraine is not only our closest neighbour it is our fraternal neighbour.
  • (19) Audio-taped interviews recorded in the Gottesman-Shields schizophrenic twin series (17 pairs of identical twins, 14 pairs of fraternal same-sex twins, and 12 unpaired twins) were rated for level of hedonic capacity.
  • (20) Miliband called for a "fraternal" contest for all candidates who put their names forward.

Twin


Definition:

  • (a.) Being one of two born at a birth; as, a twin brother or sister.
  • (a.) Being one of a pair much resembling one another; standing the relation of a twin to something else; -- often followed by to or with.
  • (a.) Double; consisting of two similar and corresponding parts.
  • (a.) Composed of parts united according to some definite law of twinning. See Twin, n., 4.
  • (n.) One of two produced at a birth, especially by an animal that ordinarily brings forth but one at a birth; -- used chiefly in the plural, and applied to the young of beasts as well as to human young.
  • (n.) A sign and constellation of the zodiac; Gemini. See Gemini.
  • (n.) A person or thing that closely resembles another.
  • (n.) A compound crystal composed of two or more crystals, or parts of crystals, in reversed position with reference to each other.
  • (v. i.) To bring forth twins.
  • (v. i.) To be born at the same birth.
  • (v. t.) To cause to be twins, or like twins in any way.
  • (v. t.) To separate into two parts; to part; to divide; hence, to remove; also, to strip; to rob.
  • (v. i.) To depart from a place or thing.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) All the twins were born in years 1973-1987, the total number was 2,226 boys and 2,302 girls.
  • (2) Plasma renin activity (PRA) and aldosterone concentration were measured before and during submaximal exercise in 10 male monozygotic twin pairs who were discordant for smoking.
  • (3) Symmetrical cases (the so-called siamese twins) have an obvious predominance (92.3%).
  • (4) From the 32nd week on, the twins' mean weekly BPD increment decreased, this lesser growth rate being more marked than that of singletons.
  • (5) In the UK the twin threat of Ukip and the BNP tap into similar veins of discontent as their counterparts across the English channel.
  • (6) There it was found she was not carrying twins but her baby remained in hospital for some weeks with respiratory problems.
  • (7) Therefore, we conclude that monochorionic twins can be considered monozygotic.
  • (8) A planet with conditions that could support life orbits a twin neighbour of the sun visible to the naked eye, scientists have revealed.
  • (9) Presented is the case of a triplet pregnancy with conjoined twins diagnosed antenatally with sonography.
  • (10) This was either giant teratoma of placenta or malformed twin foetus.
  • (11) Blood samples were obtained from 18 twin pairs, and the major prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) plasma metabolite 15-keto-13,14-dihydro-PGE2 was measured by RIA after its conversion to 11-deoxy-15-keto-13,14-dihydro-11 beta,16 xi-cyclo-PGE2.
  • (12) 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.
  • (13) The affected twin had classical loss of sc fat from her face, upper arms, and trunk as well as associated hypocomplementemia, microscopic hematuria, and a borderline oral glucose tolerance test without hyperinsulinism.
  • (14) Neuropsychological testing of the affected twin demonstrated marked deficits in all areas of cognitive function.
  • (15) Therefore, this study evaluates the validity of zygosity diagnosis based on examination of placental membranes, and at the same time evaluates Weinberg's differential rule in a Danish consecutive twin series.
  • (16) Having already seen off the Winklevoss twins who claimed he stole the idea for Facebook from them , Zuckerberg now faces a convicted fraudster who says he has a contract giving him 84% of the social network.
  • (17) These adjusted correlation coefficients in MZ twins are 0.5 for both K1 and K5 blood pressure.
  • (18) Significant intraclass coefficients were observed in MZ twins for the different expressions of RMR.
  • (19) However, after the exclusion of cases with congenital abnormality association of low birth weight newborn infants and with genital anomalies of the male, the twin birth rate was 1.8 per cent.
  • (20) The size of right and left middle phalanges in the II-V fingers and the III finger have been studied in 108 pairs of monozygotic and dizygotic twins at 8--19 years of age and in 60 paris (pedagogical experiment) of separated twins (from the same pair), schoolchildren of the 2d--5th forms trained according different programs of physical culture.