What's the difference between levite and tribe?

Levite


Definition:

  • (n.) One of the tribe or family of Levi; a descendant of Levi; esp., one subordinate to the priests (who were of the same tribe) and employed in various duties connected with the tabernacle first, and afterward the temple, such as the care of the building, bringing of wood and other necessaries for the sacrifices, the music of the services, etc.
  • (n.) A priest; -- so called in contempt or ridicule.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) At the time, Andre Geim was probably best known for his "frog levitation" experiment.
  • (2) An electrode system is described for the near-simultaneous application and measurement of translational, levitational and rotational forces induced by AC electric fields, and this has been used to investigate the differences in the AC electrodynamics of viable and non-viable yeast cells.
  • (3) 7) Cesar Martinez (Zamora) makes the ball levitate after goal v Caracas Rising star 8) Barack Obama Singing Thriller by Michael Jackson You can’t Beat It 9) Hey Jude in a minor key Not quite White 10) Modern day Aladdin Riding rug-ged
  • (4) Instead, Dr Clements said teachers of TM and the maharishi's more advanced TM-Sidhi programme, in which devotees learn to use yoga to "levitate", were being encouraged to take teaching positions in South Africa and at the Maharishi University in Fairfield, Iowa, a campus built on Vedic architectural principles that is home to around 2,000 TM devotees.
  • (5) By now we all know the Falcons chief goal - levitation to the next playoff round (at the bare minimum), mandatory for a program that has failed to do so on three occasions under head coach Mike Smith .
  • (6) One story is about Howard Thurston, the American magician who perfected the levitating lady trick.
  • (7) Critics scoffed that it was out of date before it began because it was obvious to them that magnetic levitation would be the future of train travel.
  • (8) I’m sure the person had a valid reason but it should be clear that the Ka’bah should not suddenly be surrounding by whirring Segways.” A hoverboard is a levitating board that was popularised by Marty McFly in the Back to the Future films.
  • (9) Covent Garden has long been home to a diverse collection of living statues and fairground freaks, a levitating shaman competing with unicycling jugglers and motionless men in their silver-painted suits.
  • (10) During a well performed levitation of the right arm in hypnosis as compared to resting conditions, we found a global increase of cortical blood flow and a regional activation of temporal areas; the latter finding is considered to reflect acoustical attention.
  • (11) The device uses magnetic-levitation technology: four disc-shaped “hover engines” induce an opposing magnetic field in a special surface, enabling the Hendo to hover an inch above the ground.
  • (12) Bubble levitation of viruses delibrately injected into the surf produced 200 times more virus per milliliter in the aerosol than were present in samples from the surf.
  • (13) These drops have been suspended by acoustic levitation in a small chamber mounted on a stage of an optical microscope, which allowed easy viewing.
  • (14) Moving up through the ranks you get to the Vandals with their cloaking devices and stealth tactics; the chunky, well-armed Fallen Captains protected behind personal force fields; the wizards who levitate above the surface firing energy balls.
  • (15) Deltoid muscle fibrosis produced the unique clinical sign of gradual, involuntary, and irreducible arm levitation.
  • (16) He once described himself as the "Casanova of causes" and it's true that he embraced a staggering array of beliefs and crusades, ranging from the impressively enlightened (campaigning for euthanasia and against the death penalty) to the downright potty (believing, say, in the benefits of levitation).
  • (17) Another puzzle, dating back decades, is whether dust levitates from the lunar surface.
  • (18) After the pomp of the opening ceremony, which had featured can-can dancers, a levitating Eiffel Tower and David Guetta – among many other things – France struggled to come to terms with the occasion.
  • (19) The buble adsorption and virus concentration in the surf is analagous to industrial bubble levitation processes that concentrate metallic ores, enzymes, and finely divided organic crystals.
  • (20) A 1- to 3-minute exercise involving imagination (of an apple) and ideomotor ideation (hand levitation) is a simple, benign technique that is useful for illustrating to patients the nature of imagery and hypnosis.

Tribe


Definition:

  • (n.) A family, race, or series of generations, descending from the same progenitor, and kept distinct, as in the case of the twelve tribes of Israel, descended from the twelve sons of Jacob.
  • (n.) A number of species or genera having certain structural characteristics in common; as, a tribe of plants; a tribe of animals.
  • (n.) A nation of savages or uncivilized people; a body of rude people united under one leader or government; as, the tribes of the Six Nations; the Seneca tribe.
  • (n.) A division, class, or distinct portion of a people, from whatever cause that distinction may have originated; as, the city of Athens was divided into ten tribes.
  • (n.) A family of animals descended from some particular female progenitor, through the female line; as, the Duchess tribe of shorthorns.
  • (v. t.) To distribute into tribes or classes.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) His senior role in the Popalzai tribe and his chairmanship since 2005 of Kandahar provincial council bolstered his reputation as an Asian version of a mafia don.
  • (2) G6PD Tacoma-like may be common in some African tribes.
  • (3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Trump signs order reviving controversial pipeline projects “The Obama administration correctly found that the Tribe’s treaty rights needed to be respected, and that the easement should not be granted without further review and consideration of alternative crossing locations,” said Jan Hasselman, an attorney for the Standing Rock Sioux tribe.
  • (4) Before 1948, the Bedouin tribes lived and grazed their animals on much of the Negev, claiming ancestral rights to the land.
  • (5) Additional allotype information is presented for five previously reported South American tribes (Cayapo, Piaroa, Trio, Xavante and Yanomama).
  • (6) In aqueous solution, N-substituted isoxazolin-5-one derivatives, which occur in high amounts in seedlings of the tribe Vicieae, can be shown to undergo a proton exchange at C-4, indicative of their aromatic character.
  • (7) The cola accuminata is more popular in the Ibo and Igedde tribes of the Eastern and Middle Belt regions respectively in Nigeria, while cola nitida is preferred by the Hausa-Fulani tribes of the Northern part of Nigeria.
  • (8) No outstandingly high value for gametic association between the alleles of the 2 HL-A series was observed, but haplotypes formed by antigens with dissimilar frequencies in Caucasoids, Negroids and American Indian tribes have shown statistically significant D values.
  • (9) More than twice as large as Europe, Brazil has a population of 199 million, made up of descendants of colonial settlers, their slaves, survivors of the indigenous tribes they decimated and 20th-century waves of migration from Japan, Lebanon, Europe and elsewhere.
  • (10) The confederation is grouped around 10 tribes across the north.
  • (11) The Tribe triumphed in Critics' Week, while Love at First Fight won the top gong at the Directors' Fortnight.
  • (12) The zoologist Rob Wiliams, who is one of the few people to have seen members of the uncontacted tribes, says franker discussions with and about indigenous people forced into transition are vital because once tribes have access to roads, guns and healthcare, their numbers grow rapidly and so does their impact on other species.
  • (13) Gangs of armed men ransacked and burned homes of government supporters and residents from tribes sympathetic to the government.
  • (14) Data are presented on electrophoretic variants of 25 polypeptides found in the blood serum and erythrocytes, in 812 individuals from three Amerindian tribes, the Pano, the Baniwa, and the Kanamari.
  • (15) I also can't tell you that my tribe will accept you.
  • (16) The Benin-type chromosome was also found among Algerian and Sicilian sickle-cell patients, whereas the Indian-type chromosome was observed in two geographically distant tribes, illustrating the spread of these sickle-cell genes.
  • (17) A settlement of Temiars, an aboriginal tribe residing in the north-eastern jungles of the Malay Peninsula, was selected for a study of their cardiorespiratory fitness.
  • (18) In chronic traumatic inflammations of bones with active stomias where the inflammatory process lasted many weeks, and from the purulent matter two or more tribes with various sensitiveness to antibiotics, associated treatment was also used with application of large doses cephalosporin antibiotics of Glaxo-Zinacef of Fortum firms.
  • (19) Dallas Goldtooth, an organizer with the Indigenous Environmental Network and member of the Mdewakanton Dakota and Dine tribes, said he had expected Trump to support the pipeline, but did not imagine it would happen within days of the administration.
  • (20) Libyans have a saying: "Within Libya it is region against region, within regions, tribe against tribe, within tribes, family against family."

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