(n.) A male child, from birth to the age of puberty; a lad; hence, a son.
(v. t.) To act as a boy; -- in allusion to the former practice of boys acting women's parts on the stage.
Example Sentences:
(1) All the twins were born in years 1973-1987, the total number was 2,226 boys and 2,302 girls.
(2) The study examined the sustained effects of methylphenidate on reading performance in a sample of 42 boys, aged 8 to 11, with attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
(3) As many girls as boys receive primary and secondary education, maternal mortality is lower and the birth rate is falling .
(4) We report the treatment of 44 boys with constitutional delay of growth and puberty (CDGP) at a mean chronological age of 14.3 years (range, 12.4-17.1) and bone age of 12.1 years (range, 9.1-15.0).
(5) This study examined the effects of cultural factors on perception of 15 boys and 21 girls in Nigeria.
(6) She said that even as she approached the gates, she was debating with the boy’s father whether to let the first-grader enter.
(7) The patient, a 12 year-old boy, showed a soft white yellowish mycotic excrescence with clear borders which had followed the introduction of a small piece of straw into the cornea.
(8) As calls grew to establish why nobody stepped in to save Daniel, it was also revealed that the boy's headteacher – who saw him scavenging for scraps – has not been disciplined and has been put in charge of a bigger school.
(9) Why is it so surprising to people that a boy like Chol, just out of conflict, has thought through the needs of his country in such a detailed way?” While Beah’s zeal is laudable, the situation in South Sudan is dire .
(10) With baseline measures and body mass index controlled for, analyses of covariance showed that adults had greater systolic blood pressure responses than did children; men had greater blood pressure responses to all stressors than did women; and high school boys had greater systolic blood pressure responses than did high school girls.
(11) The authors present a boy with a sudden onset a large intracranial hematoma causing rapid neurologic deterioration.
(12) Following an encephalopathic illness, a 13-year-old Chinese boy had a partial form of Klüver-Bucy syndrome with emotional disturbance, recent memory loss, hypersexuality, and polyphagia.
(13) In girls and boys, the mean concentration of both gonadotropins increased with advancing puberty.
(14) The headteacher of the school featured in the reality television series Educating Essex has described using his own money to buy a winter coat for a boy whose parents could not afford one, in a symptom of an escalating economic crisis that has seen the number of pupils in the area taking home food parcels triple in a year.
(15) I’ve been at United ever since I was a little boy and I had a great time there.
(16) Again, the boys in care that he abused now speak to us as broken adults.
(17) Mal’s age alone was enough to earn him a significant amount of street cred in our misfit group of teenage boys, yet it was his history of extreme violence that ensured his approval rating was sky high.
(18) Boys performed better than girls, and older children were more accurate than younger ones.
(19) The crus has been elongation 8 cm by Ilizarov method in 9 years old boy and 5 cm elongation of the tibia has been achieved with the use of Bastiani method in 8 years old girl.
(20) The boy also said Waqar would call him names including “paedo”.
Boyhood
Definition:
(n.) The state of being a boy; the time during which one is a boy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Despite fulfilling a boyhood wish to play for Milan when he returned to Italy, the striker admitted he erred in taking his career back to Serie A, having had a controversial spell at Internazionale before City recruited him for £17.5m in August 2010.
(2) But asked whether his decision to leave his boyhood club Spurs to join bitter rivals Arsenal on a free transfer in 2001 could affect his popularity in north London, the 40-year-old said: “If we keep thinking about football, we’re not going to do anything.
(3) The smile, so noticeably absent during a miserable final season at his boyhood club, was back.
(4) The versatile defender is considering the move only four months after signing a new three-year contract with his boyhood club.
(5) However, what should have been a dream for the boyhood Evertonian began to turn sour.
(6) Richards, a boyhood Arsenal fan, would be a contender to replace Sagna if the 31-year-old France international leaves north London.
(7) "Poised at the awkward intersection of real life and fiction, and of boyhood and manhood, the narrator's journal and his first stories are 'full of young men with nothing much to do' and bleed into one another," considered Lucy Daniel in the Daily Telegraph.
(8) After initiation, a young man must be bought a suit and cap and must throw away his entire wardrobe, including underwear, shoes, school uniform and school bag from his boyhood.
(9) In mitigation the 61-year-old boyhood Sunderland fan trimmed back an overblown squad he inherited from Steve Bruce but he made some perplexing fringe additions including Louis Saha and James McFadden, both recently released.
(10) Reinforcing boyhood for our child began to lead to distress, upset and anxiety.
(11) 8 variables captured 28% of the explained variance in upward social mobility: IQ, mother's education, mother's occupation, boyhood ego strength, and four ego defense mechanisms--intellectualization, dissociation, sublimation, and anticipation.
(12) The first of two volumes, it takes us from boyhood to the publication of his landmark bestseller, The Selfish Gene .
(13) Although it is not yet clear what boyhood behaviors indicate an adult homosexual outcome, femininity is one reliable marker.
(14) Three stainless steel tapestries depicting the Kansas landscape of Ike’s boyhood home were part of Gehry’s original design.
(15) "If you'd told me as a young boy I would have played for and won trophies with my boyhood club Manchester United , proudly captained and played for my country over 100 times and lined up for some of the biggest clubs in the world, I would have told you it was a fantasy," he said.
(16) Moreno, the former Sevilla left-back and boyhood Sevilla fan, made a hash of clearing a crossfield ball and headed straight to Ferreira.
(17) That effort was glanced wide but the boyhood Evertonian made no mistake with a superb finish seconds later.
(18) Boyhood (11 July) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Something of a minor miracle.
(19) Tibbets' thoughts, he confided in his autobiography, had turned to his "courageous red-haired mother, whose quiet confidence had been a source of strength to me since boyhood".
(20) After having abandoned his boyhood delusions of professional footballing, Oliver went to Cambridge where he neglected his English degree to write and perform in the Footlights comedy troupe with his friend Richard Ayoade.