Word Finder - inherit

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To take possession of as a right (especially in Biblical translations).

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Your descendants will inherit the earth.

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To receive (property, a title, etc.), by legal succession or bequest after the previous owner's death.

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After Grandad died, I inherited the house.

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To receive a characteristic from one's ancestors by genetic transmission.

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Let's hope the baby inherits his mother's looks and his father's intelligence.

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To derive from people or conditions previously in force.

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This country has inherited an invidious class culture.

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To come into an inheritance.

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Lucky old Daniel – his grandfather died rich, and he's inherited.

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To derive (existing functionality) from a superclass.

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ModalWindow inherits all the properties and methods of Window.

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To derive a new class from (a superclass).

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To put in possession of.

The princess is next in line to inherit the throne of the kingdom.

John hopes he will inherit his father's business after his retirement.

While not as thin as her mother, you could tell she would inherit her mother's height.

Mary spent time writing her will so that her family would know what they will inherit after she passes away.

Why don't they inherit?

They could trade freely, inherit property and enter the universities, colleges and schools.

Decreased penetrance means that not all people who inherit the abnormal gene develop symptoms.

There is some evidence that females who inherit the Tourette syndrome gene have a lower probability of exhibiting symptoms than males who inherit the gene.

Approximately 10 to 15 percent of babies who inherit CF have meconium ileus at birth.

Now she knew Candice was referring to the Medena hacienda and Alex's reluctance to inherit.

Whether it was love or blood that made his father insist that Alex inherit the estate, Alex was as trapped as a prince.

Blessed are the children of scrapbookers, for they shall inherit the scrapbooks.

Indeed, since the Samaritans subsequently accepted the Pentateuch, and claimed to inherit the ancestral traditions of the Israelite tribes, it is of no little value in the study of Palestinian history to observe the manner in which this people of singularly mixed origin so thoroughly assimilated itself to the land and at first was virtually a Jewish sect.

But she has a voice in public affairs; she has laws to protect her, manages the household and goes unveiled; she has a right to the money she earns; she can inherit under wills, and bequeath property, though to avoid the alienation of real property, succession to it is denied her.

Valens had been attached to Julian's bodyguard, but he did not inherit the military ability of his father, Gratian of Pannonia, who had risen from the ranks to a high position.

Side by side with the kin there is always found the domestic group, but the latter institution develops fully only as the former weakens, so that the one comes largely to inherit the functions of the other, whilst the tribe too in its turn hands over certain interests..

Thus he rewarded the patriotism of the Danish ladies who sacrificed all their jewels to pay the heavy ransom exacted from him by his captors, the Jomsborg pirates, by enacting a law whereby women were henceforth to inherit landed property in the same way as their male relatives.

Individuals inherit from each parent a gene controlling alpha globin production.

S' p effort, he was spurred on by Marie Antoinette, who keenly felt her own degradation and the curtailment of that royal prerogative which her son would one day inherit.

Only one parent needs to be a carrier in order for the child to inherit the disease.

Daughters who inherit the disease gene are carriers.

He will pass the flawed gene on to each of his daughters, who will then be carriers, but to none of his sons (because they inherit his Y chromosome).

Once such a spontaneous genetic mutation takes place, offspring of the affected person can inherit the newly created, flawed chromosome.

However, some boys do inherit the condition; the responsible gene may be passed directly from father to son, or inherited indirectly from the maternal grandfather through the mother, who does not begin early puberty herself.

A child conceived with such an egg or sperm cell may inherit an incorrect number of chromosomes.

Research also suggests that some people inherit a predisposition to motion sickness.

In order for a child to inherit an autosomal recessive abnormality, both parents have to be carriers of the abnormal gene.

He begins by stating that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.

The Guinea lop-eared breed, it may be mentioned, is believed to inherit its drooping ears and throat wattles from an infusion of the blood of the Roman-nosed hornless Theban goat (see Goat).

A child may inherit thalassemia trait when only one parent has the genes responsible for it.

If both parents have OI caused by an autosomal dominant gene change, there is a 75 percent chance that the child will inherit one or both OI genes.

When a parent has nail-patella syndrome, each of the children has a 50 percent chance to inherit the disease-causing mutation.

When both parents are carriers, there is a 25 percent chance that each child born will inherit the abnormal gene and develop craniosynostosis.

For an autosomal dominant disorder when one parent is a carrier of the abnormal gene, there is a 50 percent chance each child born will inherit the abnormal gene.

Instead, the children inherit mitochondrial DNA from their own mother.

Because he doesn't want to inherit?

Then when she learned about Tessa's son, she was furious because he might inherit - even though I hadn't said anything to father.

An heir who has voluntarily caused the death of the person from whom he should inherit loses all rights of succession.

But as heir to the throne he had a right to resent the degradation of the crown he was to inherit, and the power of a favourite who was his mother's lover.

When these gods became popular they would inevitably inherit any current exploits of earlier heroes or gods.

Then again, maybe Felipa was as reluctant to inherit as Alex was.

It was ironic that she should pity him for being forced to inherit something he didn't want - especially so because she had been so poor before they met.

If one of your sisters gets married and has a boy, Señor Medena might change his mind about whom he wants to inherit the estate.

Even Denton didn't know she wouldn't inherit her part of the O'Hara fortune until she was married and produced an heir.

To be affected by the disease, which shows autosomal recessive inheritance, a baby must inherit a mutant allele from each parent.

Enraged mouththe arrival to inherit in to simply become.

Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does corruption inherit incorruption.

In extremely unusual cases a female may inherit two abnormal X chromosomes, in which case she will also be affected by the disorder.

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.

The schism occurred as a result of a second dispute over who should inherit the imamate.