(v. t.) To take by descent from an ancestor; to take by inheritance; to take as heir on the death of an ancestor or other person to whose estate one succeeds; to receive as a right or title descendible by law from an ancestor at his decease; as, the heir inherits the land or real estate of his father; the eldest son of a nobleman inherits his father's title; the eldest son of a king inherits the crown.
(v. t.) To receive or take by birth; to have by nature; to derive or acquire from ancestors, as mental or physical qualities; as, he inherits a strong constitution, a tendency to disease, etc.
(v. t.) To come into possession of; to possess; to own; to enjoy as a possession.
(v. t.) To put in possession of.
(v. i.) To take or hold a possession, property, estate, or rights by inheritance.
Example Sentences:
(1) Alleles in this region can be exchanged between X and Y chromosomes and are therefore inherited as if autosomal.
(2) Seven males have been observed carrying both inherited tritan and red-green defects.
(3) Pedigree studies have suggested that there may be an inherited predisposition to many apparently nonfamilial colorectal cancers and a genetic model of tumorigenesis in common colorectal cancer has been proposed that includes the activation of dominantly acting oncogenes and the inactivation of growth suppressor genes.
(4) In neither case has a significant elevation in inherited genetic effects or cancer been detected in the offspring of exposed individuals.
(5) When power-transformed scores are used to eliminate skewness, there is evidence for one distribution and it is not possible to distinguish single gene from multifactorial (polygenic or cultural) inheritance.
(6) Asymptomatic relatives that have inherited the disease probably can be detected with this method.
(7) This recently reported inherited syndrome should be recognized by pathologists because of major risk of cardiac myxoma.
(8) This situation highlights the potential importance of molecules with different inheritance patterns in elucidating complex cases of reticulate evolution.
(9) Approximately 20 inherited disorders of kidney transport occurring in man have so far been defined.
(10) Neurospora crassa mitochondrial deoxyribonucleic acid shows strict uniparental inheritance in sexual crosses, with a notable absence of mixtures and recombinant types that appear frequently in heteroplasmons.
(11) The overall results indicate an inherited impairment of 3-HSD activity confined only to C-21 steroid substrates and, thus, suggest the existence of at least two 3-HSD isoenzymes under independent genetic regulation.
(12) About one out of three profoundly deaf children has an autosomal recessive form of inherited deafness.
(13) In considering nutrition and circadian rhythms, time-of-eating behavior is an inherited, genetically controlled pattern that can be phase-shifted by conditioning or training.
(14) Given the financial crisis this government inherited, we had no choice but to make significant savings.
(15) The pupils at the Royal Blind School, Edinburgh, were surveyed and it was found that 40% of the 100 pupils had definitely inherited severe eye disease.
(16) However, as the males have not reproduced, it is not possible to rule out X-linked dominant inheritance.
(17) However, family members born at 50% risk can find out if they have inherited the mutant gene only if family analyses are possible.
(18) Proposed models for the inheritance of locus-specific methylation phenotypes in somatic cells include those in which there is stable inheritance of a methylation pattern such that all cells contain a similarly methylated locus, as well as models in which the inheritance of methylation can be variable.
(19) It inherited an economy that was growing quite strongly but activity came to an abrupt halt last autumn and has flatlined ever since.
(20) An autosomal recessive mode of inheritance of this deficiency was found.
Inheritor
Definition:
(n.) One who inherits; an heir.
Example Sentences:
(1) That, I wanted to write about - in a sense it sounds condescending, and I don't mean it quite this way - I wanted to write about the way popular culture is an inheritor of something else.
(2) And they were the inheritors of an imperishable Labour movement tradition.
(3) However, a portion of cells gets rid of the prophage and gives rise to normal heritage inheritors permitting to use the bacteriophage as an efficient vehicle for introducing the transposons into the chromosome of E. chrysanthemi.
(4) That the English – to speak in generalisations – were not simply the tortured inheritors of Victorian repression and Edwardian good manners: before that we were a robust and raucous people, happy to welcome outsiders, eager to embrace the new in any form, who would cheerfully congregate in all weathers to hear stories and to celebrate stories.
(5) Paulhalsall I hereby declare you the lucky inheritor of a right old pickle.
(6) While the crusaders litter the countryside with steaming piles of barbecued heretics, there's some modern Durr Vinci Code whiffle involving hooded business types and clandestine sacrifices conducted in the name of "ze inheritors of ze Grail".
(7) SNP can no longer claim to be the sole inheritors of the pre-Tony Blair social democratic party.
(8) It is a matter of shame that millions of women have lived and died as practising Christians while being told from the pulpit that they, as the inheritors of Eve, were responsible for all the sin in the world.
(9) It hampers labour mobility, encourages mass commuting, and increases the divide between house inheritors and the poor.
(10) Meanwhile those Tory advisers who went into Whitehall turned out to be the real reformers and inheritors of the Thatcherite mantle.
(11) The inheritor of millions of rupees in property and trade, Shah – who will only speak to the Guardian on the condition that he is not named – laughs when he explains how he added significantly to his family corpus by speculating on land in Dholera.
(12) In many ways, the subprime mortgage crisis, which was explicitly and disproportionately destructive in communities of color, is a direct inheritor of the federally sanctioned redlining policies of the mid-20th century.
(13) In a patrilineal society, the underlying preference for a boy consists of an intrinsic desire to continue the family name and have a male inheritor (urban, 27.6% and 30.6%; rural, 27.4% and 30.4% respectively).
(14) The inheritors of their mantle are Steve Riley and The Mamou Playboys, the authors of a 2003 album entitled Bon Rêve that was excitedly hailed by one writer as 'the Cajun Sgt Pepper '.
(15) Another is the rise of a militant new party that claims to be the true inheritor of the ANC's radical legacy.
(16) Now Paul, 50, is a senator and firmly established as the inheritor of his father's political movement.
(17) Even those of us who were not there at the time are inheritors of the shame."
(18) In some places, as you know, the person who loses an election gets exiled or executed, not asked to be secretary of state.” Clinton also sought to position herself as the natural inheritor of Obama’s historic achievement as the first African American president – harking all the way back to the “hot summer” of 1776 for inspiration.
(19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest What’s at stake in New Hampshire: a two-minute crash course Once again, the two sparred most of all over who deserved to be seen as Obama’s progressive inheritor.
(20) The ‘death tax’ Trump called for the repeal of the estate tax, a fine levied on wealthy inheritors that affects about 0.2% of all Americans , according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, as the tax exempts the first $5.45m a person inherits.