(a.) Of, pertaining to, befitting, or resembling, a child.
(a.) Puerile; trifling; weak.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fundamental differences between childish and schizophrenic ways of interpreting the world will be presented, showing the specificity of cognitive representation in schizophrenic thinking.
(2) The childish vulnerability she brings out in Sara balances out the visual bleakness of the film.
(3) [De Boer-Buquicchio] meant sexualised depictions of childish looking characters in manga and anime.
(4) "Hopefully, the lesson is to stop this foolish childishness," McCain said Thursday on CNN.
(5) If that sounded childish, Waugh's writing was valued by good judges.
(6) Against my will I had to keep watching those two black companions who persistently marked out our movements ahead of us, like walking silhouettes, and it gave me – our feelings are sometimes so childish – a certain reassurance to see that my shadow was longer, slimmer, I almost said "better-looking", than the short, stout shadow of my companion.
(7) A letter in which Albert Einstein branded religious beliefs as "childish superstitions" and the "product of human weaknesses" has been sold at auction in London for £170,000 to a private collector, smashing the world record for a letter by the great scientist.
(8) It was fairly childish, but it made me laugh.” Attenborough also talks about the dangers of climate change ahead of a new documentary to be shown over the festive period, 60 years after he first scuba dived the Great Barrier Reef in 1957.
(9) And it's important to understand the difference between being childlike and being childish.
(10) "Or like a small dog barking — it's so childish."
(11) (Though my childish understanding, informed by the culture I lived in, led me to believe that "cousin" was the operative problem there.)
(12) Mollie Whitworth North Walsham, Norfolk • What an impressive change the House of Lords debate on tax credit regulations made to the usual childish Punch and Judy politics of the other house.
(13) Once in charge, they believe they are done with such childish things, and can’t conceive of circumstances in which they will be judged – especially when convinced of their own rectitude.
(14) It is a mark of a life unlived, of a childish world view retained.
(15) This campaign is nothing but a self-interested and cynical ploy by the newspaper, a childish way of hitting back at the growing chorus of anti-Page 3 voices .
(16) What sense would there have been sealing up the Da Vinci, unless you get into childish Dan Brown logic?"
(17) The sale will be watched carefully because a letter in which he branded religious beliefs as "childish superstitions" and the "product of human weaknesses" that went on sale in May smashed the record for an Einstein letter by fetching £170,000.
(18) This was “childish back and forth”, charged New Jersey governor Chris Christie .
(19) It's a rare interlude of childish exuberance for girls whose young lives are dominated by the twice daily walk to the well and home, carrying heavy water cans, and other domestic chores.
(20) Those who don't suffer from them find them mystifying; childish, even.
Mature
Definition:
(superl.) Brought by natural process to completeness of growth and development; fitted by growth and development for any function, action, or state, appropriate to its kind; full-grown; ripe.
(superl.) Completely worked out; fully digested or prepared; ready for action; made ready for destined application or use; perfected; as, a mature plan.
(superl.) Of or pertaining to a condition of full development; as, a man of mature years.
(superl.) Come to, or in a state of, completed suppuration.
(v. t.) To bring or hasten to maturity; to promote ripeness in; to ripen; to complete; as, to mature one's plans.
(v. i.) To advance toward maturity; to become ripe; as, wine matures by age; the judgment matures by age and experience.
(v. i.) Hence, to become due, as a note.
Example Sentences:
(1) Since 1987, it has become possible to obtain immature ova from the living animal and to let them mature, fertilize and develop into embryos capable of transplantation outside the body.
(2) These cells contained organelles characteristic of the maturation stage ameloblast and often extended to the enamel surface, suggesting a possible origin from the ameloblast layer.
(3) Since the advance and return of sperm inside the tubes could facilitate the interaction of sperm with secretions participating in its maturation, the persistent infertility after vasectomy could be related to the contractile alteration that follows the excessive tubal distention.
(4) This experimental system allows separation of three B lymphocyte developmental stages: early differentiation in vitro, progression to IgM secretion in vivo, and late differentiation dependent upon mature T lymphocytes in vivo.
(5) Two fully matured specimens were collected from the blood vessel of two fish, Theragra chalcogramma, which was bought at the Emun market of Seoul in May, 1985.
(6) [5alpha-(3)H]5alpha-Androst-16-en-3-one (5alpha-androstenone) was infused at a constant rate for 180min into the spermatic artery of a sexually mature boar.
(7) Synapse loss was accentuated, however, within immature and mature plaques.
(8) Hormonal interactions play a determining role in pulmonary maturation.
(9) In the mature neutrophil, the number of binding sites for WEM-G11 were found to be about 20,000 per cell.
(10) In addition, transitional macrophages with both positive granules and positive RER, nuclear envelope, negative Golgi apparatus (as in exudate- resident macrophages in vivo), and mature macrophages with peroxidatic activity only in the RER and nuclear envelope (as in resident macrophages in vivo) were found.
(11) Plasma membranes were obtained from a homogeneous population of rabbit red blood cells at different maturation periods.
(12) The nature, intracellular distribution, and role of proteins synthesized during meiotic maturation of mouse oocytes in vitro have been examined.
(13) Between the 24th and 29th day mature daughter sporocysts with fully developed cercariae ready to emerge, or already emerged, could be seen in the digestive gland of the snail.
(14) The objective of this study was to examine the effects of different culture media used for maturation of bovine oocytes on in vitro embryo development following in vitro fertilization.
(15) Special conditions apply for the scoring of a first and a last bone stage in a sequence, which will introduce less bias in the estimation of individual skeletal maturity with the MAT-method than with the TW-method.
(16) Furthermore, the expression of the 'mature' markers was found to be correlated with the phagocytic capacity of the cells.
(17) Implantation is dependent on embryonic age and is independent of endometrial maturation within this window.
(18) After isolation of the complex IV only gpFII and tails are required for mature phage formation in vitro.
(19) In males, the percentage of animals having mucous cells increased with sexual maturation and attained 100 per cent at age six months.
(20) In late-passage and cloned HUT102 cells, an increase in HTLV production was concordant with a decrease in constitutive interferon production and the loss of mature T lymphocyte antigens.