What's the difference between babe and infant?

Babe


Definition:

  • (n.) An infant; a young child of either sex; a baby.
  • (n.) A doll for children.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) & I'm like, babes, listen, I think Anna really is going to come & he's like, so I'll have what she's having, boom :(
  • (2) That culture was reinforced elsewhere, with female staff told to smarten up, wear lipstick, and some required to attend trade shows where “booth babes” – scantily-clad models promoting products - were commonplace.
  • (3) Large numbers of polymorphous dense Babes-Negri bodies were found in brain neurons of mice sick with street rabies and dying of it.
  • (4) The transition from the Chipper Jones era to the Upton era is going less than smoothly – Justin, who still has a ways to go to reach his full capabilities, looks like Babe Ruth compared to BJ, who is hitting .179.
  • (5) Simultaneous reports of George N. Papanicolaou and Aurel Babes and their respective originality are compared.
  • (6) Terkel won a Pulitzer prize for these stories, like that of Hobart Foote, or Babe Secoli the supermarket checker, who described customers engaged in something less like shopping than dodgem cars with trolleys, and garbage man Nick Salerno, discoursing on his long experience of how people pack their rubbish: "You get just like the milkman's horse — used to it."
  • (7) This allegation is contained in a new book Call Me Babe … sorry, Call Me Dave, by Lord Michael Ashcroft and Isabel Oakeshott, which is now being serialised in the Mail.
  • (8) But isn't there a bit of him that wants to gloat; to tell all the kids who thought he was a nerd that he's now this babe magnet, this sex god, this… And now he really is flushed and flustered.
  • (9) In the cytoplasm of brain neurons of monkeys infected with Yuli virus relatively small Babes-Negri bodies with more or less apparent internal structure were detected.
  • (10) When a fortysomething regional television star took a screen test at Sky Sports insiders suspected that producers instantly marked her down against the bevy of gorgeous babes competing for presenting gigs.
  • (11) Their market wants humour that they are able to justify with the phrase "It's only a joke, love" or "Where's your sense of humour, babe".
  • (12) This is the martyrdom of an entire sex and it is foolish and childlike, made by babes.
  • (13) She was first an actor – early roles included a part in Babe: A Pig In The City – until she became too frustrated with the characters on offer to continue and in the early 00s began to pursue a career as a director.
  • (14) At the end, Skin led dancers ranging from babes-in-arms to grandmothers.
  • (15) Sadly for any potential babe-botherers out there, the film is actually a dispassionate coming-of-age indie flick set in a washed-out town on the west coast of Sweden, where two teenage girls attempt to navigate the psychological minefield of those strange years just before womanhood.
  • (16) Babes in red jerseys were raised to the skies in triumph while old ladies sang football songs leaning on their grandchildren.
  • (17) Desmond is hoping he could lure Cheryl Cole into hosting Big Brother – an effort fuelled by this morning's Daily Star splash "Cheryl's New B Bro Babe" – but the star's camp totally dismissed the public overtures.
  • (18) So now we have to start again, I went to Dave, babes, even if Mantel's literary kaftans conceal a bitter republican whose misguided hatred of the constitutional monarchy is surpassed only by her allegiance to the discredited regime of Joseph Stalin, whose statue, according to her LRB article, she outrageously proposes to erect in Budleigh Salterton's historic town centre, maybe you could have considered the availability of other on-trend & award-winning lady writers on vintage themes before you dissed the inspiration for our Hilary tote?
  • (19) Instead, all I can remember is that she was at the vanguard of the Tory revolution, one of these supposedly "new" Conservatives , who would do for Cameron what Blair's babes did for him – get him elected, first, and then after that, do whatever he said.
  • (20) I'm like babes, be cool, have you ever thought of hiring *racks brains for uber-normal woman* Dita Von Teese?

Infant


Definition:

  • (n.) A child in the first period of life, beginning at his birth; a young babe; sometimes, a child several years of age.
  • (n.) A person who is not of full age, or who has not attained the age of legal capacity; a person under the age of twenty-one years; a minor.
  • (n.) Same as Infante.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to infancy, or the first period of life; tender; not mature; as, infant strength.
  • (a.) Intended for young children; as, an infant school.
  • (v. t.) To bear or bring forth, as a child; hence, to produce, in general.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The newborn with critical AS typically presents with severe cardiac failure and the infant with moderate failure, whereas children may be asymptomatic.
  • (2) On the other hand, the LAP level, identical in preterms and SDB, is lower than in full-term infants but higher than in adults.
  • (3) Prior to oral feeding, little or no ELA was detected in stools and endotoxinemia was ascertained in only six of 45 infants (13%).
  • (4) In this article we report the survival and morbidity rates for all live-born infants weighing 501 to 1000 gram at birth and born to residents of a defined geographic region from 1977 to 1980 (n = 255) compared with 1981 to 1984 (n = 266).
  • (5) Life expectancy and the infant mortality rate are considered more useful from an operational perspective and for comparisons than is the crude death rate because they are not influenced by age structure.
  • (6) However, there was no correlation between the length of time PN was administered to onset of cholestasis and the gestational age or birth weight of the infants.
  • (7) Most thyroid hormone actions, however, appear in the perinatal period, and infants with thyroid agenesis appear normal at birth and develop normally with prompt neonatal diagnosis and treatment.
  • (8) However, time in greater than 21% oxygen was significantly longer in infants less than 1000 g (median 30 days, 8.5 days in patients greater than 1000 g, p less than 0.01).
  • (9) Therefore, we undertook a follow-up study on the survivors of 57 infants who received IUT's between 1966 and 1975.
  • (10) Development at two to 15 months of age in the 19 surviving infants was normal in nine, suspect in eight, and severely delayed in two patients.
  • (11) Previous studies have not always controlled for socioeconomic status (SES) of mothers or other potential confounders such as gestational age or birthweight of infants.
  • (12) The high incidence of infant astigmatism has implications for critical periods in human visual development and for infant acuity.
  • (13) Results showed significantly higher cardiac output in infants with grade III shunting than in infants with grade 0 and grade I shunting.
  • (14) It was found that preterm infants (delivered before 38 weeks of gestation) had nine times the early neonatal mortality of term infants, irrespective of growth retardation patterns.
  • (15) We have studied 166 healthy children (36 newborn infants, 34 infants aged 1-12 months, 15 aged 1-2 years, 15 children aged 2-4 years, 11 aged 4-6 years and 55 aged 6-12 years); 20 adults were also examined.
  • (16) We found that, compared to one- and two-dose infants, those treated with three doses of Exosurf were more premature, smaller, required a longer ventilator course, and had more frequent complications, including patent ductus arteriosus (PDA), intraventricular hemorrhage, nosocomial pneumonia, and apnea.
  • (17) It was not possible to offer all very low birthweight infants full intensive care; to make this possible, it was calculated that resources would have to increase by 26%.
  • (18) The appearance of unusual isoenzyme patterns in newborn infants and in pregnant women in comparison with normal adults.
  • (19) An infant with a Sturge-Weber variant syndrome developed progressive megalencephaly and eventual hydrocephalus, which required shunting.
  • (20) Ad-infected infants tended to have earlier gestations and lower birth weights.