What's the difference between child and cub?

Child


Definition:

  • (n.) A son or a daughter; a male or female descendant, in the first degree; the immediate progeny of human parents; -- in law, legitimate offspring. Used also of animals and plants.
  • (n.) A descendant, however remote; -- used esp. in the plural; as, the children of Israel; the children of Edom.
  • (n.) One who, by character of practice, shows signs of relationship to, or of the influence of, another; one closely connected with a place, occupation, character, etc.; as, a child of God; a child of the devil; a child of disobedience; a child of toil; a child of the people.
  • (n.) A noble youth. See Childe.
  • (n.) A young person of either sex. esp. one between infancy and youth; hence, one who exhibits the characteristics of a very young person, as innocence, obedience, trustfulness, limited understanding, etc.
  • (n.) A female infant.
  • (v. i.) To give birth; to produce young.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A 2.5-month-old child with cyanotic heart disease who required long-term PGE1 infusions; developed widespread periosteal reactions during the course of therapy.
  • (2) Child benefit has already been withdrawn from higher rate taxpayers.
  • (3) Unfortunately, due to confidentiality clauses that have been imposed on us by the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, we are unable to provide our full names and … titles … However, we believe the evidence that will be submitted will validate the statements that we are making in this submission.” The submission detailed specific allegations – including names and dates – of sexual abuse of child detainees, violence and bullying of children, suicide attempts by children and medical neglect.
  • (4) The proportion of teeth per child with calculus was approximately 8 percent for supragingival and 4 percent for subgingival calculus.
  • (5) In the past, the interpretation of the medical findings was hampered by a lack of knowledge of normal anatomy and genital flora in the nonabused prepubertal child.
  • (6) There were 101 unwanted pregnancies, and 1 child was born with intersexual genitals.
  • (7) Parents believed they should try to normalize their child's experiences, that interactions with health care professionals required negotiation and assertiveness, and that they needed some support person(s) outside of the family.
  • (8) After a due process hearing, the child was placed in a school for autistic children.
  • (9) By adjustment to the swaying movements of the horse, the child feels how to retain straightening alignment, symmetry and balance.
  • (10) 'The only way that child would have drowned in the bath is if you were holding her under the water.'
  • (11) After these two experimental years, a governmental institute for prevention of child abuse and neglect was organized.
  • (12) Discriminant analysis was performed with the fourth child in the family as the index case.
  • (13) The authors describe a case of expulsive choroidal effusion which occurred in the course of a fistulating operation in a child with Sturge-Weber syndrome.
  • (14) An age- and education-matched group of women with no family history of FXS was asked to predict the seriousness of problems they might encounter were they to bear a child with a handicapping condition.
  • (15) No case of oromandibular-limb abnormality was seen in the CVS groups, but 1 child in the AC group had aplasia of the right hand.
  • (16) The authors used a linear multivariate regression to evaluate the effects of distance from the highway, age and sex of the child, and housing condition.
  • (17) Child age was negatively correlated with mother's use of commands, reasoning, threats, and bribes, and positively correlated with maternal nondirectives, servings, and child compliance.
  • (18) The safe motherhood initiative demands an intersectoral, collaborative approach to gynecology, family planning, and child health in which midwifery is the key element.
  • (19) Because the HRG level is increased in Child A liver cirrhosis, we suggest that other mechanisms, other than simply a decreased synthetic capacity of the liver, contribute to the changes in HRG levels in patients with liver disease.
  • (20) A nine-year-old male child presented with a history of recurrent chest infections and breathlessness.

Cub


Definition:

  • (n.) A young animal, esp. the young of the bear.
  • (n.) Jocosely or in contempt, a boy or girl, esp. an awkward, rude, ill-mannered boy.
  • (v. t. & i.) To bring forth; -- said of animals, or in contempt, of persons.
  • (n.) A stall for cattle.
  • (n.) A cupboard.
  • (v. t.) To shut up or confine.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Lion cubs fathered by Cecil, the celebrated lion shot dead in Zimbabwe , may already have been killed by a rival male lion and even if they were still alive there was nothing conservationists could do to protect them, a conservation charity has warned.
  • (2) In the second phase nitric oxide, which is still bound to CuB after the first phase, is expelled from the complex by azide, with a concomitant electron transfer from CuB to cytochrome a.
  • (3) A video from the zoo showed Juxiao sitting in the corner of a room as she delivered her cubs for four hours and licking them after they were born.
  • (4) In the Mahale Mountains National Park of Tanzania, a group of about 33 chimpanzees were observed to surround a leopard den containing a mother and at least one cub and to drag out and kill the cub.
  • (5) The agency on Friday released a clip recorded by a camera attached to the collar of a female polar bear without cubs in the Beaufort Sea north of Prudhoe Bay, Alaska.
  • (6) Did the lumbersexual, as accused, steal his look from the gay world of “bears” and “cubs”?
  • (7) The Cubs outfielder, who could void any trade out of Chicago, has said he just needs a few days to decide if he wants to allow the deal to happen, one which would provide the Bronx Bombers with a badly needed right-handed power bat, so please just be patient, OK?
  • (8) Aaron Hill drove in two runs with a homer and double, helping the Arizona Diamondbacks top the Chicago Cubs 3-1 and also split a four-game series.
  • (9) It is suggested that azide binding is probably associated with the deprotonation of some ionizable group(s) in the vicinity of the cytochrome a3-CuB site.
  • (10) Oliver mocked Kadyrov in a five-minute segment on HBO’s Last Week Tonight after the Chechen leader appealed to the world to help find his cat, a so-called toyger, a domestic cat bred to resemble a tiger cub.
  • (11) Attenborough told ITV1's This Morning: "If you had tried to put a camera in the wild in a polar bear den, she would either have killed the cub or she would have killed the cameraman, one or the other."
  • (12) There is still a chance she will give birth to a live cub as her progesterone levels have not yet returned to base.
  • (13) Cubs of the year recovered more quickly than adults.
  • (14) Pityrosporum pachydermatis was repeatedly isolated from portions of alopecic tissue from the throax and ears of a black bear cub (Ursus americanus).
  • (15) A video camera in the Indonesian jungle has captured the first known footage of Sumatran tiger cubs in the wild , boosting efforts to conserve the endangered species, WWF said today.
  • (16) These results can be simulated on the basis of a model which requires that the intramolecular electron transfer from cytochrome a and CuA to cytochrome a3-CuB is a two-electron process and, in addition, that the binding of oxidized cytochrome c to the electron- transfer site decreases the rate constants for intramolecular electron transfer from cytochrome a.
  • (17) 265, 7945-7958], it is proposed that formate can bind to CuB and the fast to slow transition is rationalized by using this proposal.
  • (18) Karmila Parakkasi, the leader of WWF Indonesia's Sumatran tiger research team, said her crew first captured still images of the tigress and a cub in July 2009 using still camera traps.
  • (19) Only four American League teams – the Indians, Red Sox, Tigers, and White Sox – and five National League teams – the Cardinals, Cubs, Reds, Phillies, and Pirates – were in their current cities when the current Major League alignment came into existence.
  • (20) Officials said the cub was "healthy and vibrant" following a physical examination conducted days after her birth .

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