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sib

(sĭb)

a. A blood relation; a relative.

b. A person's relatives considered as a group; kinfolk.

2. A brother or sister; a sibling.

3. Anthropology A kinship group consisting of two or more lineages considered as being related, as by common descent from a mythic ancestor.

adj.

Related by blood; kindred.

[Middle English sibbe, from Old English sibb; see s(w)e- in Indo-European roots.]

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sib

sibb

1. (Genetics) a blood relative

2. a brother or sister; sibling

3. (Anthropology & Ethnology) kinsmen collectively; kindred

4. (Anthropology & Ethnology) any social unit that is bonded by kinship through one line of descent only

[Old English sibb; related to Old Norse sifjar relatives, Old High German sippa kinship, Latin suus one's own; see gossip]

SIB

(in Britain) abbreviation for

(Banking & Finance) (the former) Securities and Investments Board

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sib

(sɪb)

adj.

1. related by blood; akin.

2. a relative; kinsman or kinswoman.

3. one's kin.

4. Anthrop. a unilateral descent group.

[before 900; Middle English sib(e), sibb(e), Old English sib(b) (orig. adj.), c. Old Frisian sib, Old High German sippi related, Old Norse sifjar (pl.) relatives, Gothic sibja relationship; compare gossip]

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Noun	1.	sib - a person's brother or sister sibling family unit, family - primary social group; parents and children; "he wanted to have a good job before starting a family" half blood - one of siblings who have only one parent in common relative, relation - a person related by blood or marriage; "police are searching for relatives of the deceased"; "he has distant relations back in New Jersey" quad, quadruplet - one of four children born at the same time from the same pregnancy quin, quint, quintuplet - one of five children born at the same time from the same pregnancy triplet - one of three offspring born at the same time from the same pregnancy twin - either of two offspring born at the same time from the same pregnancy
	2.	sib - one related by blood or origin; especially on sharing an ancestor with another blood relation, blood relative, cognate relative, relation - a person related by blood or marriage; "police are searching for relatives of the deceased"; "he has distant relations back in New Jersey"

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Here come I to my own again Fed, forgiven, and known again Claimed by bone of my bone again, And sib to flesh of my flesh!

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(45.) See EMMA DISLEY, JENNIFER RUBIN, EMILY SCRAGGS, NINA BURROWES & DEIRDRE CULLEY, RAND EUR., LESSONS LEARNED FROM THE PLANNING AND EARLY IMPLEMENTATION OF THE SOCIAL IMPACT BOND AT HMP PETERBOROUGH 49 (2011), available at http://www.justice.gov.uk/downloads/publications/research-and-analysis/mojresearch/social-impact-bond-hmp- peterborough.pdf (noting that one of the challenges in the implementation of the Peterborough SIB is the "need for coordination").

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