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AKIN
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Related by blood
Synonyms:
akin; blood-related; cognate; consanguine; consanguineal; consanguineous; kin
Classified under:
Similar:
related (connected by kinship, common origin, or marriage)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Similar in quality or character
Example:
the amateur is closely related to the collector
Synonyms:
akin; kindred
Classified under:
Similar:
similar (marked by correspondence or resemblance)
Context examples:
She could not endure the idea of treachery or levity, or anything akin to ill usage between him and his friend.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Such sensations, however, were too near akin to resentment to be long guiding Fanny's soliloquies.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Are you anything akin to me, do you think, Jane?
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Buck had a trick of love expression that was akin to hurt.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
Some of the tests even created artificial radiation belts, akin to the natural Van Allen radiation belts, a layer of charged particles held in place by Earth’s magnetic fields.
(Space Weather Events Linked to Human Activity, NASA)
"It is a story akin to the phoenix rising from the ashes, and the study answers an important question in evolution," said Bhattacharya.
(Red seaweeds, including those in sushi, thrive despite ancestor's loss of genes, National Science Foundation)
Using a laser, researchers make a structure with absorbent gel — akin to writing with a pen in 3D.
(Researchers Use Laser to Shrink Objects to Nanoscale, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The ancient Cornish language had also arrested his attention, and he had, I remember, conceived the idea that it was akin to the Chaldean, and had been largely derived from the Phœnician traders in tin.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I have heard a traveller from the wilds of America say that he looked upon the Red Indian and the English gentleman as closely akin, citing the passion for sport, the aloofness and the suppression of the emotions in each.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The organic material is injected into the ocean by hydrothermal vents on the floor of Enceladus' ocean - something akin to the hydrothermal sites found at the bottom of the oceans on Earth, which are one of the possible environments that scientists investigate for the emergence of life on our own planet.
(Complex Organics Bubble up from Enceladus, NASA)
