sister

Less common meanings

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   nouncolloquial

   An informal word used when speaking directly to a woman.

   Hey, sister, can you tell me the time?

   Thanks for the ride, sister.

   Similardear, love, miss, lady, darling

   Oppositebrother

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   senior nursenounBritishcountable

   A senior nurse who supervises the others, usually on a hospital ward.

   Like a team leader who is in charge of the other nurses.

   The sister checked on every patient before the night shift.

   Ask the ward sister if you need more pain relief.

   UsageIt is also a title used before a name: Sister Jones.

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   strengthen beamverbtransitive

   To make a beam stronger by attaching a second beam beside it.

   Like taping a second ruler to a bent one so it does not snap.

   The builders sistered the cracked joist with a fresh board.

   You can sister a weak beam to stop the floor from sagging.

   Similarreinforce

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   verbobsoletetransitive

   To be like a sister to something, or to look very much like it.

   Deep clerks she dumbs; and with her needle composes Nature's own shape, of bud, bird, branch, or berry, That even her art sisters the natural roses; Her inkle, silk, twin with the rubied cherry

   c. 1607, William Shakespeare, [George Wilkins?]Here, sisters means looks very much like, as close as a sister.

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   noun

   In a tree of data, a piece that shares the same parent as another piece.
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    noun

    One of two tornadoes that form close together, at the same time or one soon after the other.
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    noun

    A kind of butterfly from the group called Adelpha, found in North and South America.