(anthropology) related by marriage
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Consanguinity by a line of males only, as distinguished from cognation.
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(anthropology) kin by marriage
Used in the same subject area: Sociology, Culture and identity.(anthropology) kinship by marriage or adoption; not a blood relationship
Used in the same subject area: Sociology, Culture and identity.the social science that studies the origins and social relationships of human beings
Used in the same subject area: Sociology, Culture and identity.(anthropology) the condition of being related by blood
Used in the same subject area: Sociology, Culture and identity.(anthropology) the condition of being related by blood
Used in the same subject area: Sociology, Culture and identity.(anthropology) the condition of being related by blood
Used in the same subject area: Sociology, Culture and identity.(anthropology) the distinctive expression of the cognitive or intellectual character of a culture or a social group
Used in the same subject area: Sociology, Culture and identity.(anthropology) the distinctive spirit of a culture or an era; "the Greek ethos"
Used in the same subject area: Sociology, Culture and identity.(anthropology) relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption
Used in the same subject area: Sociology, Culture and identity.(anthropology) relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption
Used in the same subject area: Sociology, Culture and identity.(anthropology) the system of social relationships that constitute kinship in a particular culture, including the terminology that is u…
Used in the same subject area: Sociology, Culture and identity.(anthropology) relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption
Used in the same subject area: Sociology, Culture and identity.a statistic describing the location of a distribution; "it set the norm for American homes"
Used in the same subject area: Sociology, Culture and identity.a vague idea in which some confidence is placed; "his impression of her was favorable"; "what are your feelings about the crisis?"; "i…
Used in the same subject area: Sociology, Culture and identity.happiness felt in a secure relationship; "with his classmates he felt a sense of belonging"
Used in the same subject area: Sociology, Culture and identity.a group of people having a religion, ethnic, profession, or other particular characteristic in common; "he was well known throughout t…
Used in the same subject area: Sociology, Culture and identity.the attitudes and behavior that are characteristic of a particular social group or organization; "the developing drug culture"; "the r…
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To adjust or form to a line; to range or form in line; to bring into line; to aline.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: consanguinity, line, males, distinguished, cognation.The act of adjusting to a line; arrangement in a line or lines; the state of being so adjusted; a formation in a straight line; also,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: consanguinity, line, males, distinguished, cognation.A straight line with respect to which the different parts of a magnitude are symmetrically arranged; as, the axis of a cylinder, i. e.…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: consanguinity, line, males, distinguished, cognation.Relationship by descent from a common ancestor; consanguinity; kinship.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: consanguinity, line, males, distinguished, cognation.A line of family descent, in distinction from some other line or lines from the same stock; any descendant in such a line; as, the Eng…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: consanguinity, line, males, distinguished, cognation.A person connected through cognation.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: consanguinity, line, males, distinguished, cognation.Collateral relationship or kindred by blood; consanguinity.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: consanguinity, line, males, distinguished, cognation.Transmission of an estate by inheritance, usually, but not necessarily, in the descending line; title to inherit an estate by reason o…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: consanguinity, line, males, distinguished, cognation.The line or course upon which anything is moving or aimed to move, or in which anything is lying or pointing; aim; line or point of te…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: consanguinity, line, males, distinguished, cognation.A line along which a point in another line moves, or which in any way governs the motion of the point and determines the position of t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: consanguinity, line, males, distinguished, cognation.Far separated; far off; not near; remote; -- in place, time, consanguinity, or connection; as, distant times; distant relatives.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: consanguinity, line, males, distinguished, cognation.A branch railroad, stage line, or the like; a side line which increases the business of the main line.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: consanguinity, line, males, distinguished, cognation.The formation or production of any geometrical magnitude, as a line, a surface, a solid, by the motion, in accordance with a mathemati…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: consanguinity, line, males, distinguished, cognation.A logarithmic line on Gunter's scale, used for performing the multiplication and division of numbers mechanically by the dividers; --…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: consanguinity, line, males, distinguished, cognation.A warped surface which may be generated by a straight line moving in such a manner that every point of the line shall have a uniform m…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: consanguinity, line, males, distinguished, cognation.Having females very unlike the males in form and structure; -- as certain insects, the males of which are winged, and the females wing…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: consanguinity, line, males, distinguished, cognation.The act of beginning a line or series of lines at a little distance within the flush line of the column or page, as in the common way…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: consanguinity, line, males, distinguished, cognation.A large, green, arboreal, orthopterous insect (Cyrtophyllus concavus) of the family Locustidae, common in the United States. The males…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: consanguinity, line, males, distinguished, cognation.
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