What's the difference between boy and young?

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.

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”.

Young


Definition:

  • (superl.) Not long born; still in the first part of life; not yet arrived at adolescence, maturity, or age; not old; juvenile; -- said of animals; as, a young child; a young man; a young fawn.
  • (superl.) Being in the first part, pr period, of growth; as, a young plant; a young tree.
  • (superl.) Having little experience; inexperienced; unpracticed; ignorant; weak.
  • (n.) The offspring of animals, either a single animal or offspring collectively.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, four of ten young adult outer arm (relatively sun-exposed) and one of ten young adult inner arm (relatively sun-protected) fibroblasts lines increased their saturation density in response to retinoic acid.
  • (2) The availability and success of changes in reproductive technology should lead to a reappraisal of the indications for hysterectomy, especially in young women.
  • (3) The very young history of clinical Psychology is demonstrating the value of clinical Psychologist in the socialistic healthy work and the international important positions of special education to psychological specialist of medicine.
  • (4) On the other hand, the majority of gynecologic patients with pelvic infections are young and healthy.
  • (5) The authors followed up the occurrence of inflammation-mediated osteopenia (IMO) in young and adult rats weighing 50 g and 150 g, respectively.
  • (6) Blocks of hippocampal tissue containing the fascia dentata were taken from late embryonic and newborn rats and transplanted to the hippocampal region of other newborn and young adult rats.
  • (7) Hanley Ramirez was hitting behind Michael Young and now he's injured.
  • (8) Furthermore, the analyses indicated an important interplay between environmental sources and social factors in the determination of hand lead and blood lead levels in very young children.
  • (9) A tall young Border Police officer stopped me, his rifle cradled in his arms.
  • (10) Rifampin is recommended as a prophylactic treatment for intimate contacts of young children who develop invasive infections with Haemophilus influenzae type B (Hib).
  • (11) The young European idealist who helped Leon Brittan, the British EU commissioner, to negotiate Chinese entry to the World Trade Organisation, also found his Spanish lawyer wife in Brussels.
  • (12) Younge, a former head of US cable network the Travel Channel, succeeded Peter Salmon in the role last year.
  • (13) A young man being treated with primary adjuvant Adriamycin and DDP for osteogenic sarcoma is described who developed a gingival line which temporally was related to DDP administration.
  • (14) N-Acetyl-beta-D-glucosaminidase (GAD) activities did not change significantly duringlate fetal, neonatal or young adult stages but increased significantly with advancing age.
  • (15) The mean value of peak Vcf showed no significant difference among young and elderly groups except for the group in the 30's which showed significant (p less than 0.05) difference between other groups.
  • (16) Eaton-Lambert or myasthenic syndrome was diagnosed in a young woman with recurrent small-cell carcinoma of the cervix.
  • (17) This analysis is based on a ranking of neighbourhoods according to the participation of young people in higher education.
  • (18) • young clownfish will lose their ability to "smell" the anemone species that they shelter in.
  • (19) Two young patients presented with generalised lymphadenopathy, otorrhoea, otitis, and rash.
  • (20) The effect of dietary fluoride (F) on nephrocalcinosis was studied in young, female rats.

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