(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”.
Dissemble
Definition:
(v. t.) To hide under a false semblance or seeming; to feign (something) not to be what it really is; to put an untrue appearance upon; to disguise; to mask.
(v. t.) To put on the semblance of; to make pretense of; to simulate; to feign.
(v. i.) To conceal the real fact, motives, /tention, or sentiments, under some pretense; to assume a false appearance; to act the hypocrite.
Example Sentences:
(1) In contrast, in HeLa, a human epithelial cell, keratin-containing IFB appear to dissemble as cells enter mitosis (Franke, W. W., E. Schmid, C. Grund, and B. Geiger, 1982, Cell, 30:103-113).
(2) Steps of knowledge as well as social structures institutionalizing its dissembling are described.
(3) The scaremongering, dissembling and misrepresentation of the no campaign will be ramped up as we approach polling day."
(4) As a consequence, he's the go-to guy for a scathing quote on dissembling theologies and their gullible believers.
(5) A paranoid strain is manifest in Stoic utterances generally, especially in the Stoic conception of autarky, where the Sage regards himself as distinctly "other" in the midst of society, and indifferent to its values, except as he dissembles his indifference.
(6) These presentations of the devious ease with which the Vatican dissembles also clearly serve as a metaphor for the Catholic church’s unwillingness to address the scandals of priestly paedophilia.
(8) Why you should read it: Rifkind makes an insightful connection between Trump’s dissembling used car salesmanship and the loserverse of so-called “ pick-up artists ”, which he explored as a journalist a decade ago.
(9) In particular, observers will be watching to see whether the moderators are prepared to ask leading contenders some of the hard questions that have surfaced in recent days about apparent dissembling over their personal histories.
(10) The data suggest that synaptic vesicle membrane is dissembled at the time of transmitter release and then is reassembled at sites along the plasma membrane and internalized in the form of large cisternae, from which new vesicles are formed.
(11) The pretence that Labour is anything else always reeked of the Westminster dissembling and inauthenticity that drives voters away.
(12) None!” Such dissembling raised a wry smile for close observers of Murdoch, and for that matter of Arthur Sulzberger Jr, publisher of the New York Times.
(13) His focus on children’s social and social services might be characterised as calculating, opaque, a liability and dissembling (cold).
(14) Student social workers: 'I'm deeply concerned about the future' Read more Finally, he is dissembling because in his speeches he talks about trusts and other non-profit arrangements being set up as an alternative to local authorities providing children’s social work and child protection services.
(15) The model is related to X-ray diffraction data and optical birefringence, considering dissembly at gelatinization.
(16) It would be near-impossible to record each and every occasion Morrison dissembled, misled or was downright inaccurate.
(17) The contention is that a man – a republican – who was just swept to power on the basis that he means what he says and that he doesn’t tack and dissemble should within just a few days destroy that brand by doing something that everyone will know is insincere and unfamiliar to him.
(18) Budget 2017: Hammond rejects charge he broke Tory manifesto promise Read more First of all, as proved by Hammond’s painful media rounds the morning after the budget, no amount of dissembling can disguise the fact that the NI hike is a brazen breaking of a 2015 Tory manifesto – “We can commit to no increases in VAT, income tax or national insurance” – which blurred out into no end of rhetoric about how the mere idea of pushing up national insurance was the stuff of economic calamity.
(19) His cartoons often feature ugly caricatures of dissembling local politicians.
(20) In dissembling perfected by years of betrayal, Philby had earlier distanced himself from Burgess.