sister

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈsɪs.tə(ɹ)/    美 /ˈsɪs.tɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  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. UK
  5. 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.
  6. A black woman. capitalized,slang,sometimes
    — 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.
  7. A form of address to a woman. informal
    — What’s up, sister?
  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.
  9. An entity that has a special or affectionate, non-hierarchical relationship with another. attributive
    — sister publication
  10. A node in a data structure that shares its parent with another node.
  11. Something in the same class. attributive,usually
    — sister ships
  12. One of two tornados that form in close proximity at the same time or in quick succession.
动词 v.
  1. To strengthen (a supporting beam) by fastening a second beam alongside it. transitive
    — I’m trying to correct my sagging floor by sistering the joists.
  2. To be sister to; to resemble closely. obsolete,transitive
    — 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

词形变化

sisters plural sistren archaic,plural sisters present,singular,third-person sistering participle,present sistered participle,past sistered past

词汇关系

衍生词
3/4 sister baby sister Big Sister blood sister cister co-sister co-sister-in-law cousin-sister cousin sister Five Sisters foresister foster sister frail sister full-sisterlaw godsister half-sister half sister intersister kid sister kiss your sister little sister mersister milk sister milk-sister my sister in Christ nonsister older sister Pavlof Sister pegasister scissor sister Scotch sister Seven Sisters sis sissy sister act sister block sistercest sister chromatid sister chromatid cohesion sister city sister clip sister company sisterdom sister from another mister sisterfucking sister-german sistergirl sisterhood sister hook sister humper sister-in-arms sister in Christ sister-in-law sisterji sisterkin sisterkins sister language sisterless sisterlike sisterlocks sisterly Sister Minor sister minoress sister of Eve sister-out-law sister planet sister republic sisters before misters sister ship sistership sisterson sister's thread sister-wife sister wife sob sister soul sister stepsister supersister three-quarter sister Three Sisters ugly sister unsister weak sister weird sister White Sister younger sister
相关词
sororal sistren suster sustah
并列词
brother brethren

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *swé
Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésh₂r̥
Proto-Indo-European *su-h₁ésh₂-ōr?
Proto-Indo-European *swé
Proto-Indo-European *-sōr
?
Proto-Indo-European *swésōrder.
Proto-Germanic *swestēr
Proto-West Germanic *swester
Old English sweostor
Middle English suster
English sister
Inherited from Middle English suster, from Old English sweostor, from Proto-West Germanic *swester, from Proto-Germanic *swestēr, from Proto-Indo-European *swésōr.
Doublet of soror. Cognate with Scots sister, syster (“sister”), West Frisian sus, suster (“sister”), Dutch zuster (“sister”), German Schwester (“sister”), Norwegian Bokmål søster (“sister”), Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish syster (“sister”), Icelandic systir (“sister”), Gothic 𐍃𐍅𐌹𐍃𐍄𐌰𐍂 (swistar, “sister”), Latin soror (“sister”), Russian сестра́ (sestrá, “sister”), Lithuanian sesuo (“sister”), Albanian vajzë (“girl, maiden”), Sanskrit स्वसृ (svásṛ, “sister”), Persian خواهر (xâhar, “sister”).
In standard English, the form with i is due to contamination with Old Norse systir (“sister”).
The plural sistren is from Middle English sistren, a variant plural of sister, suster (“sister”); compare brethren.
The sense for "Adelpha-genus butterfly" is a semantic loan from translingual Adelpha, itself from Ancient Greek ἀδελφή (adelphḗ, “sister”).
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *swé
Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésh₂r̥
Proto-Indo-European *su-h₁ésh₂-ōr?
Proto-Indo-European *swé
Proto-Indo-European *-sōr
?
Proto-Indo-European *swésōrder.
Proto-Germanic *swestēr
Proto-West Germanic *swester
Old English sweostor
Middle English suster
English sister
Inherited from Middle English suster, from Old English sweostor, from Proto-West Germanic *swester, from Proto-Germanic *swestēr, from Proto-Indo-European *swésōr.
Doublet of soror. Cognate with Scots sister, syster (“sister”), West Frisian sus, suster (“sister”), Dutch zuster (“sister”), German Schwester (“sister”), Norwegian Bokmål søster (“sister”), Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish syster (“sister”), Icelandic systir (“sister”), Gothic 𐍃𐍅𐌹𐍃𐍄𐌰𐍂 (swistar, “sister”), Latin soror (“sister”), Russian сестра́ (sestrá, “sister”), Lithuanian sesuo (“sister”), Albanian vajzë (“girl, maiden”), Sanskrit स्वसृ (svásṛ, “sister”), Persian خواهر (xâhar, “sister”).
In standard English, the form with i is due to contamination with Old Norse systir (“sister”).
The plural sistren is from Middle English sistren, a variant plural of sister, suster (“sister”); compare brethren.
The sense for "Adelpha-genus butterfly" is a semantic loan from translingual Adelpha, itself from Ancient Greek ἀδελφή (adelphḗ, “sister”).
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