inherit
part of speech
verb (inherit, inherits, inherited, inheriting)
meaning for a pupil
1) To inherit money, a house or things is to receive them from someone after they die. tree →
2) To inherit a feature is to get it from your parents through your genes: inherit blue eyes. tree →
3) To inherit a problem or job is to take it over from someone before you. tree →
sense in the lessons
Science (inherited characteristics, genes), adult life and law (wills, inheritance), stories (the youngest son inherited a cat), Bible («the meek shall inherit the earth»).
examples
- She inherited her grandmother's ring. tree →
- I inherited my dad's curly hair. tree →
- Children inherit genes from both parents. tree →
- In the story, the miller's son inherited only a cat. tree →
- The new coach inherited a losing team. tree →
- Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. tree →
- My father is old, and if he dies I shall inherit his goods.’ tree →
note
Noun: inheritance; person: heir. In science: inherited features (eye colour) come from parents; learned skills (riding a bike) are not inherited.
In the corpora
- When close relatives have babies together, inherited illnesses become more common, so swapping animals keeps the family tree healthy.
- Some dams have been repaired for hundreds of years by family after family of beavers, each one fixing the dam it inherited.
- Round follicles grow straight hair and flat or oval follicles grow curly hair, and hair shape is inherited from your family.
- Many animal behaviours are instincts inherited from wild ancestors.
- Colour blindness is usually inherited, is much more common in boys, and most often makes red and green hard to tell apart.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «inherit» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.