You can picture sister as the female you grew up beside — same parents, same house, bound to you by blood. From that one image of a close female who shares your origin, the word stretches outward: to women bound by a shared faith, a shared cause, or a shared identity, and even to two things 'born of the same group'. The thread running through all of it is 'a female counterpart who shares the same source as you'.
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原始詞典資料17 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Sisternoun
- 1
Title of respect for an adult female member of a religious order.
- At the convent, Sister Grace supervises the kitchen.
- Please welcome Sister Smith as she moves from her former congregation to her new congregation.
- 2
Title of respect for an adult female member of a fraternal/sororal organization, or comrade in a movement, or even a stranger using fictive kin.
- Sister Huerta was to have been our initial speaker this morning. However, we received word later this morning that Sister Huerta would be unable to attend our convention.
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A title used to personify or respectfully refer to concepts or animals.
- Native American leader Chief Seattle urged ecological responsibility, referring to Brother Eagle and Sister Sky in his purported 1854 speech.
sisternoun/ˈsɪs.tə(ɹ)/
- 1
A daughter of the same parents as another person; a female sibling.
- My sister is always driving me crazy.
- 2
A female member of a religious order; especially one devoted to more active service; (informal) a nun.
- Michelle left behind her bank job and became a sister at the local convent.
- 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
A senior or supervisory nurse, often in a hospital.
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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.
- Connie was very close to her friend Judy and considered her to be her sister.
- Sisters are doing it for themselves / Standing on their own two feet
- 6
slangA black woman.
- A fly sister rolled in with a suitcase full of hip-hop novels called The Glamorous Life, and an African brother with long dreads wanted to sell them some incense and some fake Jacob watches.
- The short “naps” of the average Sister do not sway in the wind as that of a blonde.
- 7
informalA form of address to a woman.
- What’s up, sister?
- "Listen, sister. I've got a job for you."
- 8
A female fellow member of a religious community, church, trades union etc.
- Thank you, sister. I would like to thank the sister who just spoke.
另外 4 個記錄的用法
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An entity that has a special or affectionate, non-hierarchical relationship with another.
- sister publication
- sister city
- 10
computingcomputing-theoryengineeringA node in a data structure that shares its parent with another node.
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Something in the same class.
- sister ships
- sister facility
- 12
One of two tornados that form in close proximity at the same time or in quick succession.
sisterverb/ˈsɪs.tə(ɹ)/
- 1
businessconstructionmanufacturingTo strengthen (a supporting beam) by fastening a second beam alongside it.
- I’m trying to correct my sagging floor by sistering the joists.
- 2
obsoleteTo be sister to; to resemble closely.
- 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
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