(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."
Tripe
Definition:
(n.) The large stomach of ruminating animals, when prepared for food.
(n.) The entrails; hence, humorously or in contempt, the belly; -- generally used in the plural.
Example Sentences:
(1) "You've just reminded me I have to go to the tripe shop tomorrow," one correspondent tells him.
(2) But Fergus's parents came into the restaurant and reported back that they enjoyed the tripe and onions – which reminds me of the smell of elephant's cage.
(3) Trim the tripe and pass the vinegar … Nothing, of course, diminishes the fact that BuzzFeed is an internet phenomenon – and an increasingly ominous media contender whenever publishers gather.
(4) A comparison was made of the multiplication of bacteria in specimens of tripe processed in different ways.
(5) Tripe Catalan I am no fonder of boiled knitting than the next man, but I assure you that this is rather different from normal tripe.
(6) Boris Johnson tweeted on Saturday night that reports of a challenge were “tripe”.
(7) Serves 1, takes 2¼ hours tenpence worth of tripe (maybe ¼lb) 2 onions salt, pepper handfuls of herbs 2 tomatoes 1 dessertspoon tomato paste Prepare a pot of water with the seasonings and one of the onions in it; into this, averting your eyes, empty the piece of damp blanket you will have received from the butcher.
(8) He calls the Keynesian idea that you can raise economic activity by increasing the budget deficit "tripe".
(9) "That is absolute tripe," say Bredon Conservatives, sitting on the lawn.
(10) The talking of tripe with the tufty-headed fellows from the estate agent.
(11) The first show concentrated on the growth of the tripe industry during the first world war, and the actor Philip Jackson claimed a place in the Guinness Book of Records, as it was then known, for playing 22 characters, including a prison warder, King George V, a sausage dealer, the Salford Ripper and Baron von Richthoven.
(12) In cancer patients with tripe palms alone, the most common underlying neoplasm was pulmonary carcinoma (53% of cases), whereas patients with both tripe palms and acanthosis nigricans frequently had gastric (35% of cases) or pulmonary (11% of cases) carcinomas.
(13) At 21, I was asking the woman who ran the tripe stall in Leeds Market about the cheapest place to buy tablecloths.
(14) There are times – archetypal digital times – when too much hype and PR tripe gets in the way.
(15) Harris said the bishop's comments were "ill-informed tripe".
(16) The majority (94%) of published cases of tripe palms occurred in patients with cancer; only five patients showed no evidence of an associated malignancy.
(17) "They talked, incomprehensibly, about "focused subgenre slates", which turned out to be management b******s for cutting edge tripe like Snog, Marry, Avoid.
(18) Much of the exported pork will be offal, tripe, trotters, ears and other parts of the so- called "fifth quarter" – the parts Brits tend to turn their nose up at, but the Chinese savour.
(19) His anti-Muslim tripe was not an isolated incident of bigotry.
(20) We describe two patients with triple palms and pulmonary tumors, and review the 77 patients with idiopathic- and malignancy-associated tripe palms reported in the world literature.