Sister vs Neighbour - What's the difference?
sister | neighbour |
A daughter of the same parents as another person; a female sibling.
A female member of a religious community; a nun.
(British) A senior or supervisory nurse, often in a hospital.
Any woman or girl with whom a bond is felt through common membership of a race, profession, religion or organization, such as feminism.
* 1985 , (Eurythmics) and (Aretha Franklin), Who’s Zoomin' Who? :
(slang) A black woman.
(informal) A form of address to a woman.
* What’s up, sister ?
A woman, in certain labour or socialist circles; also as a form of address.
* Thank you, sister'''. I would like to thank the '''sister who just spoke.
(attributively) Of or relating to an entity that has a special or affectionate, non-hierachical relationship with another.
(usually, attributively) In the same class.
(construction) To strengthen (a supporting beam) by fastening a second beam alongside it.
(obsolete) To be sister to; to resemble closely.
(en noun) (British spelling)
A person living on adjacent or nearby land; a person situated adjacently or nearby; anything (of the same type of thing as the subject) in an adjacent or nearby position.
* 1660 , , The Tales and Jests of Mr. Hugh Peters , reprinted 1807,
* 1913 , , 2010,
* 1973 , , Nova Scotia: Window on the Sea ,
* 2009 , D. Staufer, Classical Percolation'', Asok K. Sen, Kamal K. Bardhan, Bikas K. Chakrabarti (editors), ''Quantum and Semi-Classical Percolation and Breakdown in Disordered Solids , Springer, Lecture Notes in Physics 762,
* 2011', Richard Jensen, Chris Cornelis, ''Fuzzy-Rough Nearest '''Neighbour Classification'', James F. Peters, Andrzej Skowron (editors-in-chief), ''Transactions on Rough Sets XIII , Springer, Lecture Notes in Computing Science 6499,
One who is near in sympathy or confidence.
* Shakespeare
(biblical) any fellow human being
* You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord. —Leviticus 19:18 (NKJV)
To be adjacent to (more often used as neighbouring)
* Sandys
To approach; to verge on.
To associate intimately with.
As nouns the difference between sister and neighbour
is that sister is title of respect for an adult female member of a religious or fraternal order while neighbour is a person living on adjacent or nearby land; a person situated adjacently or nearby; anything (of the same type of thing as the subject) in an adjacent or nearby position.As a verb neighbour is
to be adjacent to (more often used as neighbouring).sister
English
Noun
(en-noun)- My sister is always driving me crazy.
- Michelle left behind her bank job and became a sister at the local convent.
- Connie was very close to her friend Judy and considered her to be her sister .
- [song title] Sisters Are Doin’ It for Themselves
- sister''' publication, '''''sister''' city'', '''''sister projects
- sister''' ships'', '''''sister facility
Synonyms
* (woman or girl with the same parents) (slang) sis * (member of religious community) nun, sistren * (supervisory nurse) charge nurse * darling, dear, love, (US) lady, miss, (northern UK) pet * affiliate, affiliatedAntonyms
* (with regards to gender) brotherHypernyms
* (daughter of common parents) siblingDerived terms
* big sister * half-sister * kid sister * little sister * sis * sissy * sister city * sisterhood * sister-in-law * sisterly * sister ship * stepsister * weak sisterVerb
(en verb)- I’m trying to correct my sagging floor by sistering the joists.
- (Shakespeare)
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Alternative forms
* (US) neighbor * (archaic) neyghbour * (obsolete) naybor, naybour, neibor, neibour, neighbore, neighboure, neyghbor, neyghbore, neyghboureNoun
- My neighbour has an annoying cat.
- They?re our neighbours across the street.
- My neighbour is very irritable and grumpy at times.
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- Being at his own house in the country, when a great tempest of wind rose, he takes an occasion to visit a neighbour' by him, and being somewhat merily disposed, quoth he Oh ' neighbour , did you not see what a wind there was the other day?
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- Undine at length shrank back with an unrecognizing face; but her movement made her opera-glass slip to the floor, and her neighbour bent down and picked it up.
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- Neighbours' enact their substantive noun when there?s a ' neighbour?s sickness in the night; as friends do theirs, the cindered and the green times through.
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- Then a cluster is grown by letting each empty neighbour' of an already occupied cluster site decide once and for all, whether it is occupied or empty. One needs to keep and to update a perimeter list of empty ' neighbours .
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- By contrast to the latter, our method uses the nearest neighbours to construct lower and upper approximations of decision classes, and classifies test instances based on their membership to these approximations.
- Buckingham / No more shall be the neighbour to my counsel.
Synonyms
* (l) * (christian sense) fellow, fellow manAntonyms
* (biblical) stranger, foreignerDerived terms
* good fences make good neighbours * love for one's neighbour * neighbourhood (pos n) * neighbouring (pos n) * neighbourly (pos a) * neighbourliness (pos n)Verb
(en-verb) (British spelling)- Though France neighbours Germany, its culture is significantly different.
- leisurely ascending hills that neighbour the shore
- That sort of talk is neighbouring on treason.
- (Shakespeare)
