genealogy
descendance
apical ancestor
syngenesis
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patriline
descendent
descendant
generation
ancestry
cognatic
degree
collateral
patrilineality
indirect
folk
family line
sept
kinsfolk
phratry
family
kinfolk
of
heir by custom
ramage
pedigree
reflex
extraction
bilateral descent
ancestor
matriline
progenitor
matrician
direct descendant
matrilineality
sib-bred
stock
patrilineage
lineal
forbear
agnation
consanguineous
forebear
people
progeniture
descent
line
biphyletic
descendency
transmit
branch
filial
afterbear
profectitious
patronymic
sib
spring
succession
unilateral descent
stirp
paternal
breeding
ascendant
ancestrality
ancestorship
enation
root
ascendent
ancestorhood
antecedent
cognation
descent group
daughter
abbreviation
descendental
matrilineage
North Frisian
clan
ancestral
side
subgens
descendibility
linear relative
biogenealogical
matriclan
filiation
bloodline
blood
blood line
descendent
descendant
cognatic
collateral
indirect
sib-bred
lineal
consanguineous
biphyletic
filial
profectitious
patronymic
paternal
descendental
ancestral
biogenealogical
genealogy
descendance
apical ancestor
syngenesis
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patriline
generation
ancestry
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patrilineality
folk
family line
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kinsfolk
phratry
family
kinfolk
heir by custom
ramage
pedigree
reflex
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ancestor
matriline
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stirp
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ascendant
ancestrality
ancestorship
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ascendent
ancestorhood
antecedent
cognation
descent group
daughter
abbreviation
matrilineage
North Frisian
clan
side
subgens
descendibility
linear relative
matriclan
filiation
bloodline
blood
blood line
transmit
spring
noun
- Ancestry; descent.
- A decoction, solution, or infusion made by drawing out from any substance that which gives it its essential and characteristic virtue
- Something that is extracted or drawn out.
- A draft or copy of writing; a certified copy of the proceedings in an action and the judgment therein, with an order for execution.
- Any substance extracted is such a way, and characteristic of that from which it is obtained
- A solid preparation obtained by evaporating a solution of a drug, etc., or the fresh juice of a plant (distinguished from an abstract).
- A portion of a book or document, incorporated distinctly in another work; a citation; a quotation.
verb
- To select parts of a whole
- To determine (a root of a number).
- To take by selection; to choose out; to cite or quote, as a passage from a book.
- To draw out; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.
- To withdraw by expression, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process. Compare abstract (transitive verb).
noun
- A single step or stage in the succession of natural descent; a rank or degree in genealogy, the members of a family from the same parents, considered as a single unit.
- Race, family; breed.
- A set stage in the development of computing or of a specific technology.
- The formation or production of any geometrical magnitude, as a line, a surface, a solid, by the motion, in accordance with a mathematical law, of a point or a magnitude, by the motion of a point, of a surface by a line, a sphere by a semicircle, etc.
- A version of a form of pop culture which differs from later or earlier versions.
- The act of creating a living creature or organism; procreation.
- The average amount of time needed for children to grow up and have children of their own, generally considered to be a period of around thirty years, used as a measure of time.
- The act of creating something or bringing something into being; production, creation.
- A group of people born in a specific range of years and whose members can relate culturally to one another.
- A copy of a recording made from an earlier copy and thus further degraded in quality.
noun
- A ‘step’ in genealogical descent.
- The curvature of a circular arc, expressed as the angle subtended by a fixed length of arc or chord.
- A unit of measurement of latitude and longitude which together identify a location on the Earth's surface.
- The dimensionality of a field extension.
- Any of the three stages (positive, comparative, superlative) in the comparison of an adjective or an adverb.
- The sum of the exponents of a term; the order of a polynomial.
- A stage of proficiency or qualification in a course of study, now especially an award bestowed by a university or, in some countries, a college, as a certification of academic achievement. (In the United States, can include secondary schools.)
- The number of logical connectives in a formula.
- A unit of measurement of temperature on any of several scales, such as Celsius or Fahrenheit.
- The amount that an entity possesses a certain property; relative intensity, extent.
- A stage of rank or privilege; social standing.
- The number of edges that a vertex takes part in; a valency.
- A step on a set of stairs; the rung of a ladder.
- A unit of measurement of angle equal to ¹⁄₃₆₀ of a circle's circumference.
- An individual step, or stage, in any process or scale of values.
noun
- people descended from a common ancestor
- a social unit living together
- primary social group; parents and children
- a collection of things sharing a common attribute
- a person having kinship with another or others
- (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera
- a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities
- an association of people who share common beliefs or activities
prep
- Indicating an ancestral source or origin of descent.
- Indicates quantity, age, price, etc.
- Indicates a quality or characteristic; "characterized by".
- Often used without the hour
- Links to a genitive noun or possessive pronoun, with partitive effect (though now often merged with possessive senses, below).
- Indicates duration of a state, activity etc.
- Used to indicate the material of the just-mentioned object.
- Indicating removal, absence or separation, with resulting state indicated by an adjective.
- Introduces its subject matter; about, concerning.
- Indicates a given part.
- Links an intransitive verb, or a transitive verb and its subject (especially verbs to do with thinking, feeling, expressing etc.), with its subject-matter; concerning, with regard to.
- Since, from (a given time, earlier state etc.).
- Used to indicate the material or substance used.
- Belonging to, existing in, or taking place in a given location, place or time. Compare "origin" senses, above.}}
- Indicating removal, absence or separation, with the action indicated by a transitive verb and the quality or substance by a grammatical object.
- Denotes the number of minutes before the hour;Before (the hour); to.
- During the course of (a set period of time, day of the week etc.), now specifically with implied repetition or regularity.
- From, away from (a position, number, distance etc.).
- Indicating a (non-physical) source of action or emotion; introducing a cause, instigation; from, out of, as an expression of.
- Indicates the source or cause of the verb.
- Introducing an epithet that indicates a birthplace, residence, dominion, or other place associated with the individual.
- Indicates the agent (for most verbs, now usually expressed with by).
- Used to indicate the agent of something described by the adjective.
- Links two nouns in near-apposition, with the first qualifying the second; "which is also".
- Introduces the whole for which is indicated only the specified part or segment; "from among".
- Belonging to (a place) through having title, ownership or control over it.
- Belonging to (someone or something) as something they possess or have as a characteristic; the "possessive genitive". (With abstract nouns, this intersects with the subjective genitive, above under "agency" senses.)
- Indicating the composition of a given collective or quantitative noun.
- Forming the "objective genitive".
- Used to link a given class of things with a specific example of that class.
- Follows an agent noun, verbal noun or noun of action.
- Indicates the subject or cause of the adjective.
- Used to link singular indefinite nouns (preceded by the indefinite article) and attributive adjectives modified by certain common adverbs of degree.
- Introduces its subject matter.
- For (a given length of time).
- Used to introduce the "subjective genitive"; following a noun to form the head of a postmodifying noun phrase (see also 'Possession' senses below).}}
noun
- The ancestor word corresponding to a descendant.
- The descendant of an earlier language element, such as a word or phoneme, in a daughter language.
- The descendant of anything from an earlier time, such as a cultural myth.
- An automatic response to a simple stimulus which does not require mental processing.
- Reflection or an image produced by reflection. The light reflected from an illuminated surface to one in shade.
verb
adj
noun
- One from whom a person is descended, whether on the father's or mother's side, at any distance of time; a progenitor; a forefather.
- One who had the same role or function in former times.
- One from whom an estate has descended;—the correlative of heir.
- An earlier type; a progenitor
- A word or phrase which serves as the origin of a term in another language.
verb
noun
- Lineage, family, ancestry.
- A thrust with a rapier; a stoccado.
- In tectology, an aggregate or colony of individuals, such as trees, chains of salpae, etc.
- Any of the several species of cruciferous flowers in the genus Matthiola.
- Broth made from meat (originally bones) or vegetables, used as a basis for stew or soup.
- A stack of undealt cards made available to the players.
- The measure of how highly a person or institution is valued.
- The plant upon which the scion is grafted.
- A pipe (vertical cylinder of ore)
- Red and grey bricks, used for the exterior of walls and the front of buildings.
- The type of paper used in printing.
- Any of several types of security that are similar to a stock, or marketed like one.
- The part of a rifle or shotgun that rests against the shooter's shoulder.
- Plain soap before it is coloured and perfumed.
- The axle attached to the rudder, which transfers the movement of the helm to the rudder.
- The longest part of a split tally stick formerly struck in the exchequer, which was delivered to the person who had lent the king money on account, as the evidence of indebtedness.
- The tailstock of a lathe.
- The handle of a whip, fishing rod, etc.
- A share in a company.
- A necktie or cravat, particularly a wide necktie popular in the eighteenth century, often seen today as a part of formal wear for horse riding competitions.
- A store of goods ready for sale; inventory.
- A piece of black cloth worn under a clerical collar.
- A block of wood; something fixed and solid; a pillar; a firm support; a post.
- Farm or ranch animals; livestock.
- A bar going through an anchor, perpendicular to the flukes.
- A bed for infants; a crib, cot, or cradle
- The population of a given type of animal (especially fish) available to be captured from the wild for economic use.
- A piece of wood magically made to be just like a real baby and substituted for it by magical beings.
- The beater of a fulling mill.
- Stock theater, summer stock theater.
- A ski pole.
- A supply of anything ready for use.
- A larger grouping of language families: a superfamily or macrofamily.
- The headstock of a lathe, drill, etc.
- The frame or timbers on which a ship rests during construction.
- The price or value of the stock of a company on the stock market.
- Railroad rolling stock.
- The trunk and woody main stems of a tree. The base from which something grows or branches.
adj
- Straightforward, ordinary, just another, very basic.
- Of a type normally available for purchase/in stock.
- Having the same configuration as cars sold to the non-racing public, or having been modified from such a car.
verb
adj
- Inheriting by direct descent; having the right by direct descent to succeed (to).
- Composed of lines; delineated.
- In the direction of a line; of a line; of or relating to a line; measured on, or ascertained by, a line; linear.
- Having an ancestral relationship to mothers, fathers, grandparents, (etc.) and having a descendant relationship to sons, daughters, grandchildren (etc.), exclusive of collateral siblings.
noun
- A person's ancestors, relatives or family.
- The mass of a community as distinguished from a special class (elite); the commonalty; the populace; the vulgar; the common crowd; the citizens.
- Persons forming or belonging to a particular group, such as a nation, class, ethnic group, country, family, etc.
- A group of persons regarded as being employees, followers, companions or subjects of a ruler.
- Used as plural of person; a body of human beings considered generally or collectively; a group of two or more persons.
- One's colleagues or employees.
verb
noun
- A series or succession of ancestors or descendants of a given person; a family or race; compare lineage.
- A circle of latitude or of longitude, as represented on a map.
- A sentence of dialogue, especially in a play, movie, or the like.
- A set of positions in a team which play in a similar position on the field; in a traditional team, consisting of three players and acting as one of six such sets in the team.
- A verse (in poetry).
- One fortieth of an inch.
- The goal line.
- An edge of a graph.
- A series of notes forming a certain part (such as the bass or melody) of a greater work.
- An infinitely extending one-dimensional figure that has no curvature; one that has length but not breadth or thickness.
- A maxwell, a unit of magnetic flux.
- The equator.
- A vascular catheter.
- A written or printed row of letters, words, numbers, or other text, especially a row of words extending across a page or column, or a blank in place of such text.
- A particular path taken by a vehicle when driving a bend or corner in the road.
- A long tape or ribbon marked with units for measuring; a tape measure.
- The position in which the fencers hold their swords.
- a set composed of a spike, a drip chamber, a clamp, a Y-injection site, a three-way stopcock and a catheter.
- A hose or pipe, of any size.
- A letter, a written form of communication.
- A line segment; a continuous finite segment of such a figure.
- A trench or rampart, or the non-physical demarcation of the extent of the territory occupied by specified forces.
- A connected series of public conveyances, as a roadbed or railway track; and hence, an established arrangement for forwarding merchandise, etc.
- A threadlike crease or wrinkle marking the face, hand, or body; hence, a characteristic mark.
- A more-or-less straight sequence of people, objects, etc., either arranged as a queue or column and often waiting to be processed or dealt with, or arranged abreast of one another in a row (and contrasted with a column), as in a military formation.
- The regular infantry of an army, as distinguished from militia, guards, volunteer corps, cavalry, artillery, etc.
- A lie or exaggeration, especially one told to gain another's approval or prevent losing it.
- A tsarist-era Russian unit of measure, approximately equal to one tenth of an English inch, used especially when measuring the calibre of firearms.
- A population of cells derived from a single cell and containing the same genetic makeup.
- The official, stated position (or set of positions) of an individual or group, particularly a political or religious faction.
- Direction, path.
- A group of people born in a certain year (liners).
- Proper relative position or adjustment (of parts, not as to design or proportion, but with reference to smooth working).
- The batter's box.
- The exterior limit of a figure or territory: a boundary, contour, or outline; a demarcation.
- That which was measured by a line, such as a field or any piece of land set apart; hence, allotted place of abode.
- Course of conduct, thought, occupation, or policy; method of argument; department of industry, trade, or intellectual activity.
- A rope, cord, string, or thread, of any thickness.
- Any of an ill-defined set of units of length, varying according to the country, discipline, industry, and date of application, commonly with no indication of the intended magnitude
- One of the straight horizontal and parallel prolonged strokes on and between which the notes are placed.
- The wire connecting one telegraphic station with another, a telephone or internet cable between two points: a telephone or network connection.
- One sixteenth of an inch.
- One twelfth of an inch.
- A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen; any path, curved or straight.
- A clothesline.
- The horizontal path of a ball towards the batsman (see also length).
- Information about or understanding of something. (Mostly restricted to the expressions get a line on, have a line on, and give a line on.)
- Lineament; feature; figure (of one's body).
- A number of shares taken by a jobber.
- A small path-shaped portion or serving of a powdery illegal drug, especially cocaine.
- A group of forwards that play together.
- A set of products or services sold by a business, or by extension, the business itself.
verb
- To reinforce (the back of a book) with glue and glued scrap material such as fabric or paper.
- To mark with a line or lines; to cover with lines.
- To fill or supply (something), as a purse with money.
- To place persons or things along the side of for security or defense; to strengthen by adding; to fortify.
- To place (objects) into a line (usually used with "up"); to form into a line; to align.
- To align (one or more switches) to direct a train onto a particular track.
- To read or repeat line by line.
- To form a line along.
- To track (wild bees) to their nest by following their line of flight.
- To hit a line drive; to hit a line drive which is caught for an out. Compare fly and ground.
- To measure.
- To cover the inner surface of (something), originally especially with linen.
verb
- To impart, convey or hand down something by inheritance or heredity.
- To send or convey something from one person, place or thing to another.
- To spread or pass on something such as a disease or a signal.
- To communicate news or information.
- To convey energy or force through a mechanism or medium.
- To send out a signal (as opposed to receive).
noun
- A line of family descent, in distinction from some other line or lines from the same stock; any descendant in such a line.
- An area in business or of knowledge, research.
- A local congregation of the LDS Church that is not large enough to form a ward; see Wikipedia article on ward in LDS church.
- The woody part of a tree arising from the trunk and usually dividing.
- Any of the parts of something that divides like the branch of a tree.
- A sequence of code that is conditionally executed.
- A creek or stream which flows into a larger river.
- One of the portions of a curve that extends outwards to an indefinitely great distance.
- A group of related files in a source control system, including for example source code, build scripts, and media such as images.
- A branch line.
- A certificate given by Trinity House to a pilot qualified to take navigational control of a ship in British waters.
- A location of an organization with several locations.
verb
- To jump to a different location in a program, especially as the result of a conditional statement.
- To arise from the trunk or a larger branch of a tree.
- To strip of branches.
- To discipline (a union member) at a branch meeting.
- To produce branches.
- To (cause to) divide into separate parts or subdivisions.
adj
noun
noun
- A group of individuals unilaterally descended from a single (real or postulated) common ancestor
- Any group of animals or plants sharing a corresponding genetic relation
- A kinsman; a blood relation; a relative, near or remote; one closely allied to another; an intimate companion.
- Kindred; kin; kinsmen; a body of persons related by blood in any degree.
- A sibling, brother or sister (irrespective of gender)
adj
verb
verb
- to descend or originate from.
- To be born, descend, or originate from
- To cause to well up or flow out of the ground.
- To cause to move energetically; (equestrianism) to cause to gallop, to spur.
- To burst into pieces, to explode, to shatter.
- To have something crack.
- To grow taller or longer.
- to catch in an illegal act or compromising position.
- To announce unexpectedly, to reveal.
- To free from imprisonment, especially by facilitating an illegal escape.
- To be free of imprisonment, especially by illegal escape.
- To extend, to curve.
- To rise suddenly, (of tears) to well up.
- To cause to rise from cover.
- To pay or spend a certain sum, to cough up.
- To cause to crack.
- to arise, to come into existence.
- To build, to form the initial curve of.
- To gush, to flow out of the ground.
- To rise from cover.
- To equip with springs, especially (of vehicles) to equip with a suspension.
- To bring forth.
- To sprout, to grow,
- To crack.
- To turn a vessel using a spring attached to its anchor cable.
- To come upon and flush out
- To deform owing to excessive pressure, to become warped; to intentionally deform in order to position and then straighten in place.
- To swell with milk or pregnancy.
- To come dramatically into view.
- To spend the springtime somewhere
- To gush, to flow suddenly and violently.
- to move with great speed and energy; to leap, to jump; to dart, to sprint; of people: to rise rapidly from a seat, bed, etc.
- to find or get enough food during springtime.
- To cause to explode, to set off, to detonate.
- To appear, to dawn.
- To cause to work or open by sudden application of pressure.
adj
noun
- The source from which an action or supply of something springs.
- An erection of the penis.
- A line from a vessel's end or side to its anchor cable used to diminish or control its movement.
- The period from the moment of vernal equinox (around March 21 in the Northern Hemisphere) to the moment of the summer solstice (around June 21); the equivalent periods reckoned in other cultures and calendars.
- A spray or body of water springing from the ground.
- A grove of trees; a forest.
- The season of the year in temperate regions in which plants spring from the ground and into bloom and dormant animals spring to life.
- A shoot, a young tree.
- The time of something's growth; the early stages of some process.
- A race, a lineage.
- a period of political liberalization and democratization
- A cause, a motive, etc.
- Someone with ivory or peach skin tone and eyes and hair that are not extremely dark, seen as best suited to certain colors of clothing.
- A youth.
- Elasticity: the property of a body springing back to its original form after compression, stretching, etc.
- A line laid out from a vessel's end to the opposite end of an adjacent vessel or mooring to diminish or control its movement.
- An act of springing: a leap, a jump.
- The three months of March, April, and May in the Northern Hemisphere and September, October, and November in the Southern Hemisphere.
- Elastic energy, power, or force.
- A mechanical device made of flexible or coiled material that exerts force and attempts to spring back when bent, compressed, or stretched.
noun
- A race or series of descendants.
- In Roman and Scots law, the taking of property by one person in place of another.
- An act of following in sequence.
- A group of rocks or strata that succeed one another in chronological order.
- A right to take possession.
- A sequence of things in order.
- A passing of royal powers.
- Rotation, as of crops.
noun
- Descent; pedigree; extraction.
- The act of copulation in animals.
- Propagation of offspring through sexual reproduction.
- The good manners regarded as characteristic of the aristocracy and conferred by heredity.
- Nurture; education; formation of manners.
- Ejaculation inside the rectum during bareback anal sex.
- The act of insemination by natural or artificial means.
adj
noun
- someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
- (botany) the usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes; absorbs water and mineral salts; usually it anchors the plant to the ground
- the place where something begins, where it springs into being
- (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
- a number that, when multiplied by itself some number of times, equals a given number
- the set of values that give a true statement when substituted into an equation
- a simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes
- the embedded part of a bodily structure such as a tooth, nail, or hair
verb
noun
- Loss during evolution of the final stages of the ancestral ontogenetic pattern.
- A shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase, used to represent the whole, utilizing omission of letters, and sometimes substitution of letters, or duplication of initial letters to signify plurality, including signs such as +, =, @.
- The process of abbreviating.
- Reduction to lower terms, as a fraction.
- Any convenient short form used as a substitution for an understood or inferred whole.
- One or more dashes through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, demisemiquavers, or hemidemisemiquavers.
- The result of shortening or reducing; abridgment.
- A notation used in music score to denote a direction, as pp or mf.
noun
- A group of people all descended from a common ancestor, in fact or belief, especially when the exact genealogies are not known.
- A traditional social group of families in the Scottish Highlands having a common hereditary chieftain
- Any group defined by family ties with some sort of political unity.
- A group of players who habitually play on the same team in multiplayer games.
- A badger colony.
noun
- a family line of descent
- a place within a region identified relative to a center or reference location
- one of two or more contesting groups
- either the left or right half of a body
- a surface forming part of the outside of an object
- an extended outer surface of an object
- an aspect of something (as contrasted with some other implied aspect)
- a line segment forming part of the perimeter of a plane figure
- a lengthwise dressed half of an animal's carcass used for food
- an opinion that is held in opposition to another in an argument or dispute
- an elevated geological formation
- (sports) the spin given to a ball by striking it on one side or releasing it with a sharp twist
adj
verb
English words for 'The descent of a person, family, or group from an ancestor or ancestors; lineage or pedigree.'
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