Betekenis van:
inherit
to inherit
Werkwoord
- receive from a predecessor
"The new chairman inherited many problems from the previous chair"
to inherit
Werkwoord
- receive by genetic transmission
"I inherited my good eyesight from my mother"
Hyperoniemen
Voorbeeldzinnen
- I will inherit his estate.
- According to Tom's will, Mary will inherit his entire estate.
- Tom wishes for his son to inherit his estate.
- Remember that we will inherit the results of your decisions.
- The entire colony will inherit the mutant DNA.
- Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.
- His relatives took it for granted that they would inherit the bulk of his wealth.
- Tom certainly didn't expect to inherit the house from his uncle.
- Tom agreed to marry that man's daughter with the promise that he'd inherit the man's business.
- A son who could not learn to paddle his own canoe does not deserve to inherit his father's fortune.
- All of these abilities are passed on to us by genetic transmission; we receive them by way of the genes that we inherit from our parents.
- In the case of language, however, it is only the ability to talk and understand that we inherit genetically; the particular language or languages that we speak are passed on to us not by genetic transmission but by cultural transmission.
- Auffanglösungen therefore “inherit” a number of structural deficiencies and need substantial changes if they are to operate in a market economy.