What's the difference between boy and lowboy?

Boy


Definition:

  • (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.

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  • (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”.

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