Sib

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Sib \Sib\ (s[i^]b), n. [AS. sibb alliance, gesib a relative.
     [root]289. See {Gossip}.]
     1. A blood relation. [Obs.] --Nash.
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     2. a {sibling}.


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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Sib \Sib\, a.
     Related by blood; akin. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.] --Sir W.
     Scott.
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           Your kindred is but . . . little sib to you. --Chaucer.
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           [He] is no fairy birn, ne sib at all
           To elfs, but sprung of seed terrestrial. --Spenser.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  sib
       n 1: a person's brother or sister [syn: {sibling}]
       2: one related by blood or origin; especially on sharing an
          ancestor with another [syn: {blood relation}, {blood
          relative}, {cognate}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  66 Moby Thesaurus words for "sib":
     affiliated, agnate, akin, allied, ancestry, avuncular, blood,
     blood relation, blood relative, clansman, closely related, cognate,
     collateral, collateral relative, congeneric, connections,
     consanguine, consanguinean, consanguineous, distaff side,
     distant relation, distantly related, enate, family, flesh,
     flesh and blood, folks, foster, friendly, german, germane, kin,
     kindred, kinfolk, kinnery, kinsfolk, kinsman, kinsmen, kinswoman,
     kith and kin, matrilateral, matrilineal, matroclinous,
     near relation, next of kin, novercal, of the blood, patrilateral,
     patrilineal, patroclinous, people, posterity, receptive, related,
     relations, relatives, sibling, spear kin, spear side, spindle kin,
     spindle side, sword side, tribesman, uterine, uterine kin,
     well-disposed
  
  

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  SIB
       Service Independent building Block (IN)