What's the difference between berth and birth?

Berth


Definition:

  • (n.) Convenient sea room.
  • (n.) A room in which a number of the officers or ship's company mess and reside.
  • (n.) The place where a ship lies when she is at anchor, or at a wharf.
  • (n.) An allotted place; an appointment; situation or employment.
  • (n.) A place in a ship to sleep in; a long box or shelf on the side of a cabin or stateroom, or of a railway car, for sleeping in.
  • (v. t.) To give an anchorage to, or a place to lie at; to place in a berth; as, she was berthed stem to stern with the Adelaide.
  • (v. t.) To allot or furnish berths to, on shipboard; as, to berth a ship's company.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Dzeko he has failed to hold down a starting berth since his £27m move in January 2011.
  • (2) Chris Smalling, Phil Jones, Jonny Evans, Tyler Blackett, Paddy McNair and Daley Blind – all of whom featured against America – along with Marcos Rojo, who is also resting after the Copa América, are in a fight for the two centre-back berths.
  • (3) Barring some disaster, an MP can expect to occupy such a berth for their entire career.
  • (4) After being sent off in United’s 2-1 quarter-final defeat by Arsenal in the competition on 9 March, Di María struggled to regain a starting berth as Van Gaal discovered his strongest XI.
  • (5) When they were safely berthed in different ministries, bankers bonuses was meant to be the issue on which the pair would have their showdown.
  • (6) Wigan, also chasing promotion and currently lying in a play-off berth, twice took the lead but they were pegged back by Leicester, firstly by Andy King before half-time and then by Hammond in the game's closing stages.
  • (7) If you're the Pittsburgh Steelers, you can't believe you came within a 10-point fourth quarter rally by the San Diego Chargers of stealing a playoff berth.
  • (8) Azpilicueta can then move to the right, leaving Branislav Ivanovic to fight it out for one of the berths in central defence.
  • (9) Of particular interest was how Kolarov, a left-back by trade, beat Vincent Kompany to a centre-back berth, the captain having to settle for a replacement role.
  • (10) However, the temporary fixation of head and neck region to the irradiation berth induces in many patients anxiety state and reduces this way the compliance.
  • (11) Arsène Wenger is convinced the 19-year-old will eventually graduate more permanently into a central midfield berth at the Emirates.
  • (12) In this case some of the players need to work a bit more to be in the first 11.” Vydra is competing against Troy Deeney and Odion Ighalo for the main attacking berth.
  • (13) It featured Papiss Cissé stepping off the bench to score twice, Jack Colback looking England-class in the home midfield and Daryl Janmaat and Paul Dummett shining in the full-back berths.
  • (14) His turn of heel took him deep along the right before he squared to the 20-year-old Adnan Januzaj, who had taken Depay’s No.10 berth.
  • (15) Sorry Pa, I was a hopelessly inadequate left-back in my day, but I don't think I was quite slapstick enough to earn a starting berth in this Aston Vi ... what?
  • (16) THE TAMPA ABY ECONOMIC MIRACLE CONTINUES TO YIELD PLAYOFF BERTHS - they earn the fifth and final American League wild card spot with a 5-2 victory on the road over the Texas Rangers .
  • (17) 12.50am BST Predictions Okay, so before the series started I predicted Boston in 6, so that means I'm pretty much obligated to predict that Boston will clinch a World Series berth tonight.
  • (18) The Portuguese filled in at left-back and Bertrand pushed up into the unfamiliar midfield berth.
  • (19) The Da Silva brothers took up unusual berths on either wing, and it was Fábio who opened the scoring.
  • (20) He was widely regarded as having the right experience, deft touch and nous to navigate the shoals and shifting currents of continental politics that would buffet the British ship of state as it left its European berth.

Birth


Definition:

  • (n.) The act or fact of coming into life, or of being born; -- generally applied to human beings; as, the birth of a son.
  • (n.) Lineage; extraction; descent; sometimes, high birth; noble extraction.
  • (n.) The condition to which a person is born; natural state or position; inherited disposition or tendency.
  • (n.) The act of bringing forth; as, she had two children at a birth.
  • (n.) That which is born; that which is produced, whether animal or vegetable.
  • (n.) Origin; beginning; as, the birth of an empire.
  • (n.) See Berth.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These results indicated that the PG determination was the most accurate predictor of fetal lung well-being prior to birth among the clinical tests so far reported.
  • (2) within 12 h of birth followed by similar injections every day for 10 consecutive days and then every second day for a further 8 weeks, with mycoplasma broth medium (tolerogen), to induce immune tolerance.
  • (3) 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).
  • (4) Low birth weight, short stature, and mental retardation were common features in the four known patients with r(8).
  • (5) Oculomotor paresis with cyclic spasms is a rare syndrome, usually noticeable at birth or developing during the first year of life.
  • (6) The final number of fibers--140,000-165,000--is reached by the sixth week after birth.
  • (7) 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.
  • (8) 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.
  • (9) These data, then, indicate that the ability to produce C3NeF autoantibody is present from the time of birth in normal individuals.
  • (10) Foetal serum TSH concentration declined significantly between 20 and 21 days of gestation, reached a low level at delivery, and remained low for several days after birth.
  • (11) The deep cerebellar nuclei were moderately labeled at birth and gradually decreased in density thereafter.
  • (12) As many girls as boys receive primary and secondary education, maternal mortality is lower and the birth rate is falling .
  • (13) The influence of blood and blood-product therapy was studied in two groups of children: 1) 90 children who had exchange transfusion after birth because of serologic incompatibility (aged 5 months to 5 years).
  • (14) Tables provide data for Denmark in reference to: 1) number of legal abortions and the abortion rates for 1940-1977; 2) distribution of abortions by season, 1972-1977; 3) abortion rates by maternal age, 1971-1977; 4) oral contraceptive and IUD sales for 1977-1978; and 5) number of births and estimated number of abortions and conceptions, 1960-1975.
  • (15) Women who make their first visit during their first pregnancy are more likely than those who are not pregnant to receive a pregnancy test or counseling on matters other than birth control.
  • (16) The sexual attitudes and beliefs of 20 children who have been present at the labor and delivery of sibs and have observed the birth process are compared with 20 children who have not been present at delivery.
  • (17) The last stems from trends such as declining birth rate, an increasingly mobile society, diminished importance of the nuclear family, and the diminishing attractiveness of professions involved with providing maintenance care.
  • (18) A multiple regression analysis between maxBIL and the significantly correlated parameters showed that only gestational age and birth weight remained significantly correlated with maxBIL.
  • (19) Ad-infected infants tended to have earlier gestations and lower birth weights.
  • (20) Galactosylsphingosine had already accumulated at birth and dramatically increased with age.