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sis

(sĭs)

n. Informal

Sister.

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sis

(sɪs)

informal short for sister

sis

(sɪs; siːs) or

sies

interj

informal South African an exclamation of disgust

[Afrikaans, possibly from Khoi]

SIS

abbreviation for

1. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) Also called: MI6 (in Britain) Secret Intelligence Service

2. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) (in New Zealand) Security Intelligence Service

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sis

(sɪs)

n.

sister.

[1825–35, Amer.; shortened form]

-sis

a suffix appearing in loanwords from Greek, where it was used to form from verbs abstract nouns of action, process, state, condition, etc.: aphesis; thesis.

[< Greek]

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Noun

sis - a female person who has the same parents as another person; "my sister married a musician"

sister

big sister - an older sister

female sibling - a person's sister

little sister - a younger sister

half sister, half-sister, stepsister - a sister who has only one parent in common with you

Translations

Schwester

sis

n (inf) → Schwesterherz nt (inf)

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INITIAL LIGHTBULB: "When I was a little kid, I was obsessed with snowboarding," explained Athletic Motion President and CEO Bryan Sise, who founded the company in Durango with his brother, David Grossman, "I used to sit down in the den watching a snowboarding video.

Fifteen years later, after dabbling in professional snowboarding and getting an MBA, Sise saw his onetime obsession as a wide-open niche during the Internet gold rush: a Web site packed with instructional video clips of "extreme" sports moves.

IN A NUTSHELL: "One of the core concepts is that sports instruction can be most efficiently accomplished by focusing on particular movements, techniques and tricks, and using video to depict those tricks," Sise explained.