(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(2) Child benefit has already been withdrawn from higher rate taxpayers.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.
Kid
Definition:
(n.) A young goat.
(n.) A young child or infant; hence, a simple person, easily imposed on.
(n.) A kind of leather made of the skin of the young goat, or of the skin of rats, etc.
(n.) Gloves made of kid.
(n.) A small wooden mess tub; -- a name given by sailors to one in which they receive their food.
(v. i.) To bring forth a young goat.
(n.) A fagot; a bundle of heath and furze.
(p. p.) of Kythe.
(v. t.) See Kiddy, v. t.
Example Sentences:
(1) I felt a much stronger connection with the kids on my home block, who I rode bikes with nightly.
(2) Another, discussing public attitudes towards the police, said: "I've lost count of [the number of] people who said: 'It's only cos you've got a uniform … if you didn't have the uniform on, I'd come and fuck you and this, that and the other … I hope your wife dies of cancer and your kids die of cancer.'"
(3) His wrists were shown wrapped in tape with “MIKE BROWN” and “MY KIDS MATTER” written on them.
(4) Serum copper concentration also was measured in dams and kids in a control herd that had no history of ataxia.
(5) Reality set in once you got home to your parents and the regular neighborhood kids, and your thoughts turned to new notebooks for the school year and whether you got prettier while you were away and whether your crushes were going to notice.
(6) ‘Many of our kids become radicalized at some point’ – that’s what the government wants to hear, that’s what these folks want to hear.
(7) But I think this isn’t a problem only kids face – we’ve become a country of trashy readers.
(8) Now, people observe and see if the kids are OK. Based on that, they come around.” Growing acceptance came too late for 15-year-old Musu Allieu, whose parents both died of Ebola.
(9) That’s why when I heard from a family of 11 from my Walthamstow constituency whose holiday to LA had had to be abandoned, my first thought was for their kids.
(10) "I think that we've got to treat our kids well, but I don't think we ought to say there's no place ever for smacks.
(11) That’s why many parents in North Korea have started bribing government officers even before their kids graduate high school.
(12) My dream is that one day, young kids in Nepal won’t have to risk working on the mountain as porters or guides, they will be able to get an education and build better lives for themselves,” Sherpa told AFP.
(13) A s I watched Camila Batmanghelidjh being mobbed by the small crowd demonstrating about the closure of Kids Company outside Downing Street last week, it struck me that she was more like a character out of children’s book than a real person.
(14) This study addresses the use and appraisal of services by parents at the KIDS Family Centre, Camden, London, which offers a variety of family-focused services with differing degrees of parental involvement.
(15) Or perhaps it was just because I was a little kid and more interested in them Weetabix skinheads, Roland Rat and Knight Rider.
(16) My chief of staff, for instance, had two kids that were still in school.
(17) Behaving like the oldest kid on the block is just one of the things that Larry Clark's detractors hold against him.
(18) Kid can play #sb47 @ lengeldavid @ gdnussports February 4, 2013 No doubt about it.
(19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘Our political leaders can’t bear to face the truth’: Camila Batmanghelidjh spoke to the Guardian’s Patrick Butler in July “So you can understand that I am taken aback by allegations which now present themselves, about which I knew nothing.” Kids Company, set up by the charismatic Batmanghelidjh in 1996, was known to have the firm support of David Cameron for its work on gang violence and disadvantaged children.
(20) So the kids then went and pulled out the computer, plugged in the modem and they found it on YouTube.