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[House] "Family" is the twenty-first episode of the third season of House, and the sixty-seventh episode overall. ==Plot== Wilson prepares a 14-year-old leukemia patient named Nick for a last resort bone-marrow transplant from his younger brother, Matty. However, when his brother sneezes, th...
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In human context, a family (from Latin: familia) is a group of people affiliated by consanguinity, affinity, or co-residence. In most societies it is the principal institution for the socialization of children. Anthropologists most generally classify family organization as matrilocal (a mother and ...
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[2001 film] Family is a 2001 Japanese yakuza film directed by Takashi Miike. ==Other credits== ...
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[LeAnn Rimes album] Family is the twelfth studio album by American country recording artist LeAnn Rimes, released October 9, 2007, on Curb Records in the United States. It was produced primarily by musician and record producer Dann Huff, with additional production by Tony Brown and guest voc...
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[Spanish band] Family was a cult band from Spain in the 1990s. Although initially unsuccessful, Family gradually acquired a fanbase and is now highly recognised in the Spanish underground pop scene. Their only album, Un Soplo en el Corazón has been praised for its poetic lyrics, inspired mu...
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[Periodic table] This is a page for working on Arbitration decisions. It provides for suggestions by Arbitrators and other users and for comment by arbitrators, the parties and others. After the analysis of /Evidence here and development of proposed principles, findings of fact, and remedies...
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[novel] The Family (pinyin: Jiā, 家) is an autobiographical novel by Chinese author Ba Jin. It tells the story of an upper-class family in the city of Chengdu in the early 1920s. The novel was first serialized in 1931-2 and then released in a single volume in 1933. The serialization was or...
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[musical instruments] A family of musical instruments is a grouping of several different but related sizes or types of instruments. Some schemes of musical instrument classification, such as the Hornbostel-Sachs system, are based on a hierarchy of instrument families and families of families...
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[Masters of Horror] Family is the second episode of the second season of Masters of Horror. It originally aired in North America on November 3, 2006. The DVD was released on April 17, 2007. It is the fifteenth episode and the sixteenth episode to be released on DVD. ==Plot== A young married ...
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a taxonomic level including one or more genera of common phylogenetic origin and distinct from taxa of the same rank. [The Latin names of animal families end in '-idae'.]
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In classification, a family is a group of related or similar organisms. A family contains one or more genera (plural of genus). A group of similar families forms an order.
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One genus or several genera which have a basically similar floral pattern make up a family (i.e. LILLACEAE (lily), IRIDACEAE (iris), ROSACEAE (rose), ORCHIDACEAE (orchid))
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In the hierarchy of taxonomy, the rank or category below order and above genus. Unlike the names of genera, species, and subspecies, names at the level of family (and above) are not italicized or otherwise distinguish from surrounding text. The name of the family begins with an uppercase letter (for...
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A group of related plants or animals; in classification systems, family falls between order and genus in identifying living things.
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Consumers who have children still living at home.
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All the type sizes and styles of one font. The group shares a common design but can differ in attributes such as character width and weight, (eg.
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A group of individuals related to one another by blood ties, marriage or adoption, who form an economic unit, the adult members of which are responsible for the upbringing of children. All known societies involve some form of family system, although the nature of family relationships is widely varia...
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[n] - an association of people who share common beliefs or activities 2. [n] - (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera 3. [n] - a social unit living together 4. [n] - people descended from a common ancestor 5. [n] - primary social group
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a social institution, found in all societies, that unites individuals into cooperative groups that oversee the bearing and raising of children
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In early Roman times (600 BC to ca. 1st century AD), everybody in one family lived in one home, including the great-grandparents, grandparents, parents and children. The family would include the father of the family (the paterfamilias), the wife (the materfamilias, unless she had arranged a marriage...
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in taxonomy a group of genera which show very similar characteristics. For example, the cat family (Felidae) is made up of different genera which all have whiskers and sharp claws
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Family: 1. A group of individuals related by blood or marriage or by a feeling of closeness. 2. A biological classification of related plants or animals that is a division below the order and above the genus. 3. A group of genes related in structure and in function that descended from an ancestral g...
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Fam'i·ly noun ; plural Families . [ Latin familia , from famulus servant; akin to Oscan famel servant, confer faamat he dwells, Sanskrit dhāman house, from dhā to set, make, do: c...
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A taxonomic classification between genus and order. ... (09 Oct 1997) ...
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family unit noun primary social group; parents and children; `he wanted to have a good job before starting a family`
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