What's the difference between baby and coddle?

Baby


Definition:

  • (n.) An infant or young child of either sex; a babe.
  • (n.) A small image of an infant; a doll.
  • (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, an infant; young or little; as, baby swans.
  • (v. i.) To treat like a young child; to keep dependent; to humor; to fondle.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The mothers of these babies do not show any evidence of alpha-thalassaemia.
  • (2) The only way we can change it, is if we get people to look in and understand what is happening.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Dean, Clare and their baby son.
  • (3) When an expression vector containing plasminogen cDNA is transfected into baby hamster kidney cells, the number of drug-resistant colonies as well as the levels of plasminogen secreted by those colonies is lower than observed in similar transfections of other protease precursor genes.
  • (4) Antibodies by the papain method were detected 41 of the women at the time of delivery (22 Rh-positive babies and 19 Rh-negative ones).
  • (5) Three cases of gastroduodenal perforation and one case of ulceration and extreme thinning of the gastric wall occurred in preterm babies treated with dexamethasone for bronchopulmonary dysplasia.
  • (6) A longitudinal study of iron deficiency and of psychomotor development was carried out in 147 children followed between the ages of 10 months and 4 years in 2 well-baby out-patient clinics in Paris area.
  • (7) While an abnormal birth may result in minimal brain damage this is not necessarily the significant factor, as a separation of mother and baby in the immediate neonatal period, Which usually follows an abnormal birth, may be of more relevance.
  • (8) Nearly 69% of the women with ectopic pregnancy had delivered two or more babies previously, and the post-ectopic pregnancy conception rate was 19.54%.
  • (9) There it was found she was not carrying twins but her baby remained in hospital for some weeks with respiratory problems.
  • (10) To be faced with not being able to stay with or even be near their baby is inconceivable."
  • (11) The babies were weighed prior to the morning feeding.
  • (12) By contrast the perinatal wastage was only 7 per 1,000 births in babies born weighing more than 1,500g and this included lethal congenital malformations.
  • (13) Midwives are facing increasing pressure with chronic staff shortages, the ongoing baby boom and increasing numbers of complications in pregnancy.
  • (14) The proportion of women initiating breastfeeding – when a mother either puts her baby to the breast within 48 hours of birth or the baby is given any of the mother's breast milk – had been rising by about one percentage point a year between 2004 and 2010-11.
  • (15) A total of 131 (14%) babies received opioids out of 933 neonates admitted to the unit.
  • (16) Here the miracle of the Lohans' baby was divinely ordained and fulfilled the entitlement of every woman to have a child.
  • (17) Fifty-seven percent of counseled women had the baby's father tested.
  • (18) Nine of 34 newborns of mothers with PPT were thrombocytopenic; there was no correlation between mother's and baby's platelet counts.
  • (19) Nobody knows how often it happens but judging just from my inbox, it’s certainly not a rare occurrence and what struck me as I started to learn about the issue of health privacy is that employees are defenseless against things like this happening to them.” Fei said that she also received her fair share of emails saying: “What makes you think your baby was entitled to million dollars worth of care?
  • (20) No correction needs to be made for gestational age if the baby is born after the 34th week of gestation.

Coddle


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To parboil, or soften by boiling.
  • (v. t.) To treat with excessive tenderness; to pamper.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They're angelic mother-saviours, there to lead Caspar out of misery by coddling his ego.
  • (2) The children of the rich never stop being coddled and gladhanded their way through life; the children of the poor deserve a little bit of support before being dumped on to the minimum wage pile.
  • (3) But is reducing use by deploying other substances, such as the pheromone of the female coddling moth , the pest that puts maggots on apples.
  • (4) As he put it: "My friends and I have been coddled long enough by a billionaire-friendly Congress.
  • (5) China doesn't just violate the human rights of its citizens, it coddles and supports brutal dictatorships around the world.
  • (6) We didn’t coddle or conciliate with the dictators in Iran.” On the eve of his visit to Lausanne, Kerry said he would not take responsibility for Cotton’s intervention, which he said was an unprecedented attempt to interfere in an executive’s foreign negotiations.
  • (7) France, Germany and other states that have coddled up to the Communist dictatorship in Beijing will one day have to answer to the Chinese people, one of the country's leading civil rights activist has told The Observer.
  • (8) Needless to say, the purchasers were wealthy Tory donors looking out for their coddled offspring.
  • (9) And in the middle of it were the two Matthews, obsequiously yucking it up like a grotesque Fluck and Law parody of the coddled one-percent.
  • (10) Conversely, only one in four residents believed that most poor people become poor as a result of lack of effort on their part, and one in five believed that society is coddling the poor.
  • (11) "For too long," Heijne wrote, "the Dutch government has coddled the dictator in Moscow."
  • (12) Take the ubiquitous calls today for European countries to do just what will "reassure the markets", as though holders of government bonds were trembling, paranoid little flowers who must be psychically coddled at all costs.
  • (13) Crazy,” he says, but then a little voice, the one that has savagely punctured the brattishness of coddled celebrities four times now as presenter of the Golden Globes, kicks in.
  • (14) The radio crackles with adverts attacking the Milwaukee mayor as a gun-controlling, criminal-coddling, union-schmoozing, tax-and-spend liberal dinosaur.
  • (15) The first few days go to staring and coddling and dodging effluent.
  • (16) Making Donald Trump our commander-in-chief would be a historic mistake.” The former first lady deconstructed Trump’s policy positions as a recipe for alienating allies, emboldening enemies and coddling dictators.
  • (17) Photograph: Jonathan Kaiman for the Guardian "He walked this weird line between knowing that he was a symbol of nationhood on one level, and even of independence, I guess – but at the same time, he was very comfortable in this coddled position as a performer," said Deborah Stratman, a Chicago-based documentary film-maker who lived with Adili as he toured Xinjiang for three months in 2001.
  • (18) Discussing university “safe spaces” and the threats to free speech, the academic psychologist Jonathan Haidt recently suggested the problem had its roots in increasingly risk-free, coddled childhoods.
  • (19) Lazy bum babies shouldn’t be coddled with all sorts of indolence-promoting nutrition.
  • (20) The frontrunner for the Republican nomination told the programme’s presenter, Piers Morgan, on Wednesday that residents of the Brussels neighbourhood Molenbeek had “coddled and taken care of” Paris terror suspect Salah Abdeslam before his arrest.