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Reply Fri 5 Aug, 2005 04:58 am
Bonfil is currently awaiting data from great whites recently tagged near New Zealand, which could suggest whether those two populations are interrelated.

await: What is the difference between "await" and "wait"?

interrelated: What is the defference between "related" and "interrelated"?

Thank you.
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syntinen
 
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Reply Fri 5 Aug, 2005 07:12 am
In Middle English, to await meant to "keep watch" to "watch out for [something]" It now means almost the same thing as plain wait ; but there is a slight extra suggestion of alertness and expectation, even impatience, that wait doesn't have.
(NB also that while you await data, you wait for data - you can;'t "wait data".)

If the two shark populations are related, there is kinship between them. That might only mean that Group 1 had received some "new blood" from Group 2. If they are interrelated, that means that the kinship connection went both ways.
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translatorcz
 
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Reply Fri 5 Aug, 2005 07:15 pm
"new blood": New born sharks?

And I think "kinship" connection goes both ways. How can it goes only one way? Could you please explain that?
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syntinen
 
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Reply Sat 6 Aug, 2005 01:07 am
Well, I know nothing about shark relationships, but supposing some of Group 1 swam away to join Group 2, mated with them and had offspring, then the groups would be related, because Group 2 would be a mixture of Group 1 and Group 2. But if in addition some members of Group 2 swam away and mated with Group 1, the groups would be inter-related, because both groups would now be mixtures of each other.

New blood - I'm sorry, it's so hard to know what will be intelligible to a non-native speaker! It's a term from animal breeding. Everyone knows that if a small group of animals is bred together continually they will become inbred - that is to say they develop genetic faults and their quality deteriorates. From time to time you must bring in an unrelated animal, to stop this happening; this is called bringing in new blood or fresh blood.
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translatorcz
 
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Reply Sat 6 Aug, 2005 09:55 pm
Thank you. And I don't mind encounting new words if they're explained. After all, it's the way to learn a foreign language, right? I appreciate everything you've done for me. Thank you again.
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