| 单词 | sibling | 
| 释义 | siblingn.ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > 			[noun]		 gadlingeOE sibmanOE friendOE sibOE siblingOE kinsmanc1175 friendmana1200 kinc1200 cousinc1300 allyc1380 kindreda1450 parent?c1450 alliancec1475 lyance1502 relation1502 relate1651 relative1657 relator1665 family member1673 correlative1697 relater1702 rellie1921 rello1982 OE    Ælfric Old Eng. Hexateuch: Gen. 		(Claud.)	 xix. 12  				Hæfst ðu sunu oððe dohtra on ðisre byrig, oððe aþum oððe ænigne sibling? lOE    Homily 		(Vesp. D.xiv)	 in  R. D.-N. Warner Early Eng. Homilies 		(1917)	 140  				Seo blisse næs na fullfremod for heora wifen & cilden & siblingan þe þaget wæron on Babilonie belæfde. a1500    Eng. Conquest Ireland 		(Rawl.)	 		(1896)	 103  				He yaue hym-Selfe to lechery, and not only to many Syngyl Women, but he ne synnyd [perhaps read shynnyd; L. vitans] neuer spousebrich ne siblynges.  2.   a.  Originally Genetics. Each of two or more children or individuals having at least one parent in common; a brother or sister. Cf. sib n.2 5.half-sibling: see the first element. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > sibling > 			[noun]		 younger-born1530 sibling1900 sib1908 1900    K. Pearson in  Proc. Royal Soc. 1899–1900 66 157 		(table)	  				Siblings. 1915    W. Healy Individual Delinquent x. 241  				The siblings of the boy himself were all most normal, physically and mentally, and there has been not the slightest moral difficulty with them. 1930    Nature 15 Nov. 766  				A few were odd twins who had a brother or sister at school, and the remainder were either siblings of twins, or pairs of siblings unconnected with twins. 1950    M. Fortes in  A. R. Radcliffe-Brown  & D. Forde Afr. Syst. Kinship & Marriage 273  				Next to the bond between mother and child none is so strong as that between siblings by the same mother. 2010    Daily Tel. 13 Jan. 9/3  				The Kennel Club has banned the mating of parent dogs with offspring and siblings. 2021    N.Y. Times 		(National ed.)	 7 Mar. (Review section) 2/4  				Some women and couples will have fewer children than they hoped, and some kids will grow up without the younger sibling they would have had otherwise.  b.  figurative. Each of two or more things related by a common tie or characteristic. ΚΠ 1953    Jrnl. Aesthetics & Art Crit. 12 9  				The shopworn distinction between ‘form’ and ‘content’ must be abandoned, and with it must go the ‘old content in a new form’ notion, and its sibling ‘new content in an old form’. 1972    Daily Tel. 20 Mar. 2/7  				The line dividing the Kevin Street Sinn Fein organisation and its terrorist sibling, the Provisional IRA, is almost invisible. 2019    J. Boakye Black, Listed 30  				For black people coming of age in pre-millennium Britain, America was a cool older sibling to look up to, or live vicariously through. Compounds C1.   General use as a modifier (in sense  2a).In quot. 1902: with reference to plants. ΚΠ 1902    Biometrika 2 61  				There are 33 different forms of sibling relationship in plants corresponding to whole or half-brotherhood in horses, dogs or men. 1943    Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 63 171/1  				The neuter sibling terms are treated in relatively uniform fashion in all Thai languages except Nung. 1975    H. Geertz  & C. Geertz Kinship in Bali ii. 57  				One brother may farm the plot of land as sharecropper to the sibling group as a whole. 2002    Independent on Sunday 22 Dec. (Review Suppl.) 17/1  				These are the International Championships of Rock Paper Scissors, a sporting activity last indulged in by most adults during a sibling squabble in 1977. 2017    Lit. Rev. June 51/2  				He tells the grim tale of a species called the Nazca booby, which lives a life of ‘comprehensive dysfunction’, beginning with sibling murder.  C2.     sibling rivalry  n. rivalry arising from jealousy between siblings; an instance or example of this. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > jealousy or envy > 			[noun]		 > jealousy > between siblings sibling rivalry1930 1930    M. Sewall in  Smith Coll. Stud. Social Work I. 6 		(title)	  				Two studies in sibling rivalry. 1972    C. Raphael Feast of Hist. iv. 118  				Moses..shows more than a hint of sibling rivalry in his attitude to his brother Aaron. 2007    A. Theroux Laura Warholic xxxviii. 616  				My older brother..felt a sibling rivalry toward me. 2019    Business Insider 		(Nexis)	 9 Sept.  				Since the days of Cain and Abel, sibling rivalries have dotted history in many shapes and forms.   sibling species  n. Biology each of a pair or group of species (esp. those that are closely related to one another) whose members are morphologically very similar but cannot interbreed to produce fertile offspring; cf. twin species n. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > taxonomy > taxon > 			[noun]		 > species or sub-species shapec1400 species1608 subspecies1681 semispecies1825 infima species1843 conspeciesa1856 incipient species1859 relic1873 biological species1876 biological race1878 microspecies1897 clan1916 Jordanon1916 twin species1931 supraspecies1938 sibling species1940 species pair1942 phenon1943 biospecies1953 ochlospecies1962 1940    E. Mayr in  Amer. Naturalist 74 258  				Sibling species: The opposite condition exists where pairs or larger groups of related species are so similar that they are generally considered as one species. 1979    Nature 7 June 557/2  				The eastern meadowlark (Sturnella magna) and western meadowlark (S. neglecta) are sibling species of songbirds. 2012    D. M. Hillis et al.  Princ. of Life xvii. 376/1  				It may be difficult to predict whether the incipient species will continue to diverge and become fully isolated from its sibling species, or if they will merge again in the future. Derivatives  ˈsiblingship  n. the state, condition, or fact of being a sibling (sense  2a); sibling affection or relationship; siblinghood. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > sibling > 			[noun]		 > siblinghood siblingship1941 siblinghood1947 1941    A. M. Shotwell Five- & Ten-year-old Children's Concepts of Mother 		(D. Phil. diss., Northwestern Univ.)	 29  				In the early stages of the investigation it was felt that the fact of siblingship might make for a difference in the concept of mother since only children are frequently given more attention and permitted more home privileges than children with siblings. 1957    V. W. Turner Schism & Continuity in Afr. Society vii. 226  				These are all means..of reducing the strength of uterine siblingship. 1970    E. Leach Lévi-Strauss vi. 99  				Ties of filiation and..ties of siblingship..provide the basic bricks out of which kinship systems are built up. 2013    Sun 		(Nexis)	 30 Mar. 24  				Familial DNA determines genetic family relationships such as paternity, maternity, siblingship and other kinships. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022). <  | 
	
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