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Määritelmät

Substantiivi

1. A daughter of the same parents as another person; a female sibling.
2. A female member of a religious order; especially one devoted to more active service; (informal) a nun.
3. Any butterfly in the genus Adelpha, so named for the resemblance of the dark-colored wings to the black habit traditionally worn by nuns.
4. (British) A senior or supervisory nurse, often in a hospital.
5. Any woman or girl with whom a bond is felt through the same biological sex, gender or common membership in a community, race, profession, religion, organization, or ism.
6. (African-American Vernacular, slang, sometimes capitalized) A black woman.
7. (informal) A form of address to a woman.
8. A female fellow member of a religious community, church, trades union etc.
9. (attributively) An entity that has a special or affectionate, non-hierarchical relationship with another.
10. (computing theory) A node in a data structure that shares its parent with another node.
11. (usually attributively) Something in the same class.
12. One of two tornados that form in close proximity at the same time or in quick succession.

Verbi

1. (transitive, construction) To strengthen (a supporting beam) by fastening a second beam alongside it.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To be sister to; to resemble closely.