What is "cognates"

Usage examples of "cognates".

Affiliations, sometimes purported, between the Root Cult core of Les Assassins on one hand and the more extreme and violently subversive of Quebec's Séparatisteur organizations the Fronte de la Liberation de la Quebec, the Fils de Montcalm, the ultra right anti-Reconfigurative vishnu of the Bloc Quebecois tend, however, to be contradicted by both stated agendas the conventional Separatist phalances demand ing only the independent secession of provincial Quebec and the elimination of Anglo- American cognates from public discourse, while the A.

Lots of different dialects were spoken, although almost everyone spoke the lingua franca, which was basically trade-slang with a lot of Terranglish cognates and loanwords and a little neighborhood topspin.

We find them also -- their exact cognates -- on the ring segments of the Z-series specimens returned by the Pabodie Antarctic expedition of 1926.

We haven't been able to figure out what most of its organelles do, what their terrestrial cognates would be, and it builds proteins using a couple of amino acids that we don't.

Wars and revolutions, or their subtle latter-day cognates, sweep the globe as constants become variables.

And that the service they desire of you is the shaping of our race, of humanity, because we are the cognates of those who shaped them in the ages of the previous creation.

She wondered why people kept using that word fuck and its cognates quite so often.

He was of course transfixed by any incidence of the word alcohol, and all its cognates and synonyms and homonyms.

I have too little vocabulary, too few cognates, so I'm going to have to approximate some language as I go.