Heir vs Blood - What's the difference?
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Someone who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another.
*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:I am my father's heir and only son.
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One who inherits, or has been designated to inherit, a hereditary title or office.
A successor in a role, representing continuity with the predecessor.
*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
*:And I his heir in misery alone.
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, title= A vital liquid flowing in the bodies of many types of animals that usually conveys nutrients and oxygen. In vertebrates, it is colored red by hemoglobin, is conveyed by arteries and veins, is pumped by the heart and is usually generated in bone marrow.
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A family relationship due to birth, such as that between siblings; contrasted with relationships due to marriage or adoption. (See blood relative, blood relation, by blood.)
* (Edmund Waller) (1606-1687)
* Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
A blood test or blood sample.
The sap or juice which flows in or from plants.
* 1841 , Benjamin Parsons,
* 1901 , Levi Leslie Lamborn, American Carnation Culture , fourth edition, page 57:
* 1916 , John Gordon Dorrance, The Story of the Forest , page 44:
(label) The juice of anything, especially if red.
* Bible, (w) xiix. 11
(label) Temper of mind; disposition; state of the passions.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
(label) A lively, showy man; a rake.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
* (William Makepeace Thackeray) (1811-1863)
(member of a certain gang).
To cause something to be covered with blood; to bloody.
To let blood (from); to bleed.
* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, page 121:
To initiate into warfare or a blood sport.
Heir is a related term of blood.
As nouns the difference between heir and blood
is that heir is someone who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another while blood is .heir
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(en noun) (Inheritance)What a waste, passage=India is run by gerontocrats and epigones: grey hairs and groomed heirs .}}
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* English words not following the I before E except after C rule ----blood
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(wikipedia blood)Alternative forms
* bloud (obsolete)Noun
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Pulling the Strings, passage=The case was that of a murder. It had an element of mystery about it, however, which was puzzling the authorities. A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff.}}
citation, passage=An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.}}
- a friend of our own blood
- to share the blood of Saxon royalty
Anti-Bacchus, page 95:
- It is no tautology to call the blood of the grape red or purple, because the juice of that fruit was sometimes white and sometimes black or dark. The arterial blood of our bodies is red, but the venous is called "black blood."
- Disbudding is merely a species of pruning, and should be done as soon as the lateral buds begin to develop on the cane. It diverts the flow of the plant's blood from many buds into one or a few, thus increasing the size of the flower, [...]
- Look at a leaf. On it are many little raised lines which reach out to all parts of the leaf and back to the stem and twig. These are "veins," full of the tree's blood . It is white and looks very much like water; [...]
- He washedhis clothes in the blood of grapes.
- when you perceive his blood inclined to mirth
- Seest thou nothow giddily 'a turns about all the hot bloods between fourteen and five and thirty?
- It was the morning costume of a dandy or blood .