Inherit vs Descendant - What's the difference?
inherit | descendant |
To take possession of as a right (especially in Biblical translations) .
To receive (property or a title etc), by legal succession or bequest after the previous owner's death.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=5 (biology) To receive a characteristic from one's ancestors by genetic transmission.
To derive from people or conditions previously in force.
To come into an inheritance.
(computing, programming, transitive) To derive (existing functionality) from a superclass.
(computing, programming, transitive) To derive a new class from (a superclass).
* 2006 , Daniel Solis, Illustrated C# 2005
(obsolete) To put in possession of.
descending from a biological ancestor.
proceeding from a figurative ancestor or source.
(literally) One who is the progeny of a specified person, at any distance of time or through any number of generations.
(figuratively) A thing that derives directly from a given precursor or source.
(biology) A later evolutionary type.
(linguistics) A language that is descended from another.
(linguistics) A word or form in one language that is descended from a counterpart in an ancestor language.
* 1993 , Jens Elmegård Rasmussen, “The Slavic i''-verbs with an excursus on the Indo-European ''?''-verbs”, in Bela Brogyanyi and Reiner Lipp (editors), ''Comparative-Historical Linguistics , John Benjamins Publishing, ISBN 978-90-272-3598-5,
In biology|lang=en terms the difference between inherit and descendant
is that inherit is (biology) to receive a characteristic from one's ancestors by genetic transmission while descendant is (biology) a later evolutionary type.As a verb inherit
is to take possession of as a right (especially in biblical translations) .As an adjective descendant is
descending from a biological ancestor.As a noun descendant is
(literally) one who is the progeny of a specified person, at any distance of time or through any number of generations.inherit
English
Verb
(en verb)citation, passage=‘It's rather like a beautiful Inverness cloak one has inherited . Much too good to hide away, so one wears it instead of an overcoat and pretends it's an amusing new fashion.’}}
- For example, the following two code segments, from different assemblies, show how easy it is to inherit a class from another assembly.
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Usage notes
* Do not confuse with inherent.Derived terms
* inheritable * inheritance * inherited * inheritordescendant
English
Adjective
(-)Usage notes
The adjective may be spelled either with ant'' or ''ent'' as the final syllable (see descendent). The noun may be spelled only with ''ant .Alternative forms
* descendentAntonyms
* ascendant, ascendent, ascendingNoun
(en noun)- ''The patriarch survived many descendants : five children, a dozen grandchildren, even a great grandchild.
- ''This famous medieval manuscript has many descendants .
- ''Dogs evolved as descendants of early wolves.
- English and Scots are the descendants of Old English.
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- The direct descendant of this form is the Slavic aorist: Sb.-Cr. n?s?'', ''d?nos? .