(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.
Sill
Definition:
(n.) The basis or foundation of a thing; especially, a horizontal piece, as a timber, which forms the lower member of a frame, or supports a structure; as, the sills of a house, of a bridge, of a loom, and the like.
(n.) The timber or stone at the foot of a door; the threshold.
(n.) The timber or stone on which a window frame stands; or, the lowest piece in a window frame.
(n.) The floor of a gallery or passage in a mine.
(n.) A piece of timber across the bottom of a canal lock for the gates to shut against.
(n.) The shaft or thill of a carriage.
(n.) A young herring.
Example Sentences:
(1) It's fairly cheap and easy to capture, too: best shot from a moving Peugeot 207, with the camera balanced on the sill of a half-opened side window.
(2) For example, nasal reconstruction may be secondary to repair of deformities of the sill, rim, limen nasi, septum, or nasal bones.
(3) Philtrum length, philtrum shape, philtrum depth, nasolabial triangular area, vermilion thickness, Cupid's bow peak, horizontal upper lip groove, vermilion border, alar size, depth of alar groove, nasal deviation, nostril shape, nasal tip, columella height, sill shape, columella width, and facial balance of the anterior, profile, and caudal views are used as aesthetic checkpoints for the results of a cleft lip operation.
(4) The lengthening and lowering of the short and sometimes retracted columella and narrowing of the alar bases is performed by making a columellar splitting incision and extending it along the alar sills.
(5) Accumulation of the bacterial plaque on materials used for cosmetic fillings was comparatively evaluated against that on the dental enamel of males and females aged 40-50 yr using the index of Löe & Sillness.
(6) Fewer short-term illnesses were reported by postpartum women than sill-pregnant women, suggesting the potential for recall bias or loss.
(7) Junior to and often feistier than the Metropolitan Opera, City Opera was a spawning ground for top opera talent that included Beverly Sills, Placido Domingo, Renee Fleming and Samuel Ramey.
(8) The change in (subischial leg length (SILL)--sitting height (SH)) standard deviation score (SDS) was used as an index of disproportionate segmental growth, which allowed the influence of growth hormone deficiency on growth to be discounted.
(9) The findings of this study with respect to retention of continuous and discrete psychomotor sills closely parallel findings of the three-month retention study.
(10) Significant increases were also observed in the height SDS for bone age (BA), sitting height (SH) SDS and subischial leg length (SILL) SDS.
(11) This reduction in spinal growth is reflected by a strongly positive disproportion score (DPS; [SILL SDS-S.HT SDS] + 2.81).
(12) Nasal floor excess is improved by an excision of the nasal sill.
(13) The limited effectiveness of esculin, a glycoside of 6,7-dihydroxycoumarin prompted research which led to the synthesis of other compounds of the same class, many of which have proved useful as whiteners; though the really broad developments of the 1940's stemmed from the synthesis of the 4,4'-diaminostilbene-2,2'disulfonic acid derivatives which are sill the most important groups of FWAs.
(14) Breakfast in bed, with juice congealing on the sill: pages and pages began to pour out again.
(15) If irradiated peripubertally, annual change in (SILL-SH) SDS to final height was +0.22 SD 0.23, not significantly different from the change over puberty in the prepubertal group.
(16) The lateral subunit is bordered by philtrum column, nostril sill, alar base, and nasolabial crease, while the medial topographic subunit is one-half the philtrum.
(17) This C-junction of the nostril sill allows an alignment of the nasal structure without a primary rhinoplasty.
(18) Either dry or humit warm-air inhalations with coniferous oil additives were prescribed depending on the type of sillness.
(19) The aspidistra of the book's title comes from the pot plants to be found on every window sill which, for Comstock, symbolise all that is wrong with the "mingy, lower-class decency" he is desperate to escape.
(20) The glacier has now become detached from a stabilising sill and is losing ice at a rate of 4.5bn tonnes a year.