(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(2) Child benefit has already been withdrawn from higher rate taxpayers.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.
Grandson
Definition:
(n.) A son's or daughter's son.
Example Sentences:
(1) After getting his Stanford MBA, the grandson went to Russia in 1990 and developed one of the most successful investment funds operating in the country.
(2) Johnson’s family paid tribute to the “exceptional son, brother, grandson and nephew”.
(3) He's suspected of killing 69-year-old physician William Lewis Corporon and his 14-year-old grandson, Reat Griffin Underwood, outside the community center of Greater Kansas City.
(4) Insept Mom" (a notice attached to her five-year-old grandson's door), a short inventory of clubs she'd encountered that wouldn't allow girls or women.
(5) Geza, a small 69-year-old man with bright eyes, knows how tough it has become for single parents to look after a child in poor villages like Lipunga: his own grandson was sent to an orphanage for a few months after the child's mother died.
(6) Ormond, grandson of Sargent’s sister, has been working for years on the definitive catalogue of the artist’s enormous output, and has reached volume nine.
(7) We have no money to treat my grandsons or to feed ourselves.
(8) Cody Tennant, his grandson, succeeds as the 4th Baron Glenconner.
(9) Recombination between the four loci 52A, F9, fragile X, and ST14 is significantly decreased in meioses giving rise to the affected grandsons of normal transmitting males, when compared to families where there are no apparent normal transmitting males.
(10) We report a four generation family in which there was a subject with minimal expression and another with non-penetrance between a great grandfather and his great grandson.
(11) "It was Sunday and Ovsanna's mother was coming back from church; the priest had just announced that every neighbourhood in the city had to be emptied in three days," says her grandson Frédéric, who has preserved the family story.
(12) Only Mandla, the eldest grandson, has followed him into parliament.
(13) I played with my 11-month-old grandson, Rohen McCrory, after the contest.
(14) Another co-author, John Hemingway, is the grandson of Ernest Hemingway , who shone a spotlight on the San Fermín festival in his 1926 novel The Sun Also Rises.
(15) We’ve just had the gravestone removed because it’s been rather badly defaced one way and another with people chipping away at it.” I tell Gabrielle that I once interviewed Oscar Wilde’s grandson , who was pleading with admirers not to cover his grandfather’s tomb in Père Lachaise, Paris, with lipstick kisses because it was damaging the stone.
(16) Preston grew up just a few miles down the road in Worthing, his American mother the daughter of a professor of English at Princeton university, his father the public school-educated great great great grandson of Earl Grey.
(17) Originally from Boston, Twersky was a father of five and was the grandson of the renowned rabbi Yosef Soloveitchik, credited with being a key figure in the Modern Orthodox movement.
(18) George P Bush, the nephew and grandson of the former presidents, will soon take charge of the General Land Office – one of two Texas state agencies that have joined an industry lawsuit to overturn the ban.
(19) Nadezhda Dvornikova, a 57-year-old pensioner, held her grandson by the hand as she walked the halls of Moscow's Polytechnical College.
(20) Of course Brahim approved of the choice of his grandson's name.