(n.) A father's or mother's father; an ancestor in the next degree above the father or mother in lineal ascent.
Example Sentences:
(1) My grandfather was a coal miner and Nana was rather plump and bossy.
(2) Two G6PD bands, both slightly faster than normal G6PD B, were seen on electrophoresis in both the propositus as well as in his maternal grandfather.
(3) KNOWLEDGE ARCHIVE "Having watched 42-year-old Kevin Poole turn out for Derby recently, I wondered 'have any grandfathers ever played league football?'
(4) My great-grandfather helped form the Independent Labour party; had a role in the co-operative movement.
(5) Sometimes it's because of a personal connection - the Shostakovich Preludes and Fugues my grandfather loved the most, which we listened to together, or the Bruckner symphony I associate with our family home in the highlands of Scotland - but the welling-up can also come completely out of the blue.
(6) Anita Anand, the BBC presenter, tweeted during Cameron's visit: "My grandfather was one of the lucky few who survived."
(7) Heshel Melamed, a stern rabbinical paterfamilias, was his maternal grandfather.
(8) She comes from the "cursed" political dynasty in Pakistan : her grandfather, the former president Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was executed in 1979, three years before Fatima was born; her father, the radical politician Murtaza Bhutto, was shot dead by police in 1996; and her aunt, the former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, was killed in a bombing in 2007.
(9) Maréchal-Le Pen, who was six months old at the time of the attack, said her grandfather's name was wrongly sullied in Carpentras and never "publicly cleansed", that her election would be "a wink at history".
(10) The official guest list for Friday’s anniversary event included senior government, party and military officials, but not Kim, whose weight gain in recent months has been blamed on a liking for rich food and attempts to strengthen his physical resemblance to his grandfather and North Korea’s founder, Kim Il-sung.
(11) An Australian family that lost three children and a grandfather in the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 has published an emotional tribute calling for an end to the “pointless war” in eastern Ukraine.
(12) Evaluation of family members for presence of the urinary inhibitor factor for thiamine diphosphate phosphoryl transferase revealed abnormal levels in a brother, a maternal uncle, and the maternal grandfather of the patient.
(13) The last in a line of fishermen, his 87-year-old grandfather is still catching lobsters.
(14) Her grandfather, who lived a life of sexual scandal and frustrated ambition, introduced her to books.
(15) It was found that the overall fit to the Poisson distribution of the samples from grandfathers was very poor; in contrast, the samples from young fathers fit well.
(16) I believe he shared more with his psychoanalyst grandfather than he liked to admit.
(17) Back in Liverpool, however: "My great-grandfather on my mother's side was a qualified ship's captain, but was never allowed to sail out of Liverpool as such, because the crews would not take orders from a black captain.
(18) This skeletal abnormality also existed in his paternal great-grandfather.
(19) Rylance has lent his support to the Save Our Sands campaign, speaking about his ancestors who lived in Dover, including his great grandfather, who was the captain of a cross -channel ferry.
(20) "That's the farm where my grandfather was born," he says.
Uncle
Definition:
(n.) The brother of one's father or mother; also applied to an aunt's husband; -- the correlative of aunt in sex, and of nephew and niece in relationship.
(n.) A pawnbroker.
Example Sentences:
(1) This week's unconfirmed claims that Kim's uncle Jang Song Thaek had been ousted from power have refocused attention on the country's domestic affairs; some analysts say Jang was associated with reform .
(2) At a home less than a block away, a man identifying himself as Tamir’s uncle said the boy’s family was not commenting and referred reporters to an attorney.
(3) His maternal uncle is severely retarded and has similar dysmorphic facies.
(4) Acquaintance with a teenaged girl of roughly qualifying age is not essential, but probably helpful, when it comes to appreciating the degree to which Uncle Rupert's views on women, as still reflected in Page 3 , have not progressed since his executives started perving over snaps of their favourite teens.
(5) The ibd for grandparent-grandchild pairs is least affected by recombination, followed by sibs, half-sib, uncle-nephew, and first-cousin pairs.
(6) Another of Milosevic's favourite uncles also killed himself.
(7) I can’t,” says sufi pop singer Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, comparing himself unfavourably to his uncle, the late Pakistani superstar Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan .
(8) He lost contact with his father, a lorry driver, for several years, but says that his mother - aided by his uncle - made it her mission to shield him from the crime and disorder around them.
(9) Marcel's wife, Gertrude, and four children were taken in by Muamba's uncle.
(10) That was one of the advantages of having a gay "uncle" – he took me to gigs.
(11) The road to gaining nearly 1.2 billion monthly active users has seen the mums, dads, aunts and uncles of the generation who pioneered Facebook join it too, spamming their walls with inspirational quotes and images of cute animals, and (shock, horror) commenting on their kids' photos.
(12) Evaluation of family members for presence of the urinary inhibitor factor for thiamine diphosphate phosphoryl transferase revealed abnormal levels in a brother, a maternal uncle, and the maternal grandfather of the patient.
(13) Paul Pogba’s Mr 10% has said that, despite reports linking him to Real Madrid, PSG, Chelsea and Uncle Tom Cobley FC, his client will be staying at Juventus.
(14) Still, he won the vote on a platform against corruption and thousands of cheering supporters welcomed “Uncle Jona” into office.
(15) I'll try to visit Jeffrey when I can and if I have kids in the future I'll tell them the whole story, and I hope that I can introduce them to Jeffrey and their aunts and uncles.
(16) An uncle of one of the crew members from the El Faro says the ship was equipped with modern lifeboats.
(17) And at the same time, speaking to black America, he branded Frazier an Uncle Tom, turning him into an object of derision and scorn.
(18) I had all these brothers and uncles so I understood the nature of men and I didn't go in there feeling all intimidated.
(19) In a four-generation family, chondrodysplasia punctata was found in a boy and one of his maternal uncles.
(20) Alas, Charles could not, any more than his great Uncle Edward VIII in 1936 , take the salary with him on emigration; the duchy is public property.