What's the difference between children and errand?

Children


Definition:

  • (pl. ) of Child
  • (n.) pl. of Child.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The newborn with critical AS typically presents with severe cardiac failure and the infant with moderate failure, whereas children may be asymptomatic.
  • (2) 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.
  • (3) HSV I infection of the hand classically occurs in children with herpetic stomatitis and in health care workers infected during patient care delivery.
  • (4) The neurologic or digestive signs were present in 12% of the children.
  • (5) The main clinical features pertaining to the concept of the "psycho-organic syndrome" (POS) were investigated in a sample of children who suffered from severe craniocerebral trauma.
  • (6) Anti-corruption campaigners have already trooped past the €18.9m mansion on Rue de La Baume, bought in 2007 in the name of two Bongo children, then 13 and 16, and other relatives, in what some call Paris's "ill-gotten gains" walking tour.
  • (7) A change in the pattern of care of children with IDDM, led to a pronounced decrease in hospital use by this patient group.
  • (8) The frequency of rare fragile sites was studied among 240 children in special schools for subnormal intelligence (IQ 52-85).
  • (9) The sound of the ambulance frightened us, especially us children, and panic gripped the entire community: people believe that whoever is taken into the ambulance to the hospital will die – you so often don’t see them again.
  • (10) Serum samples from 23 families, including a total of 48 affected children, were tested for a set of "classical markers."
  • (11) Among a family of 8 children, 4 presented typical clinical and biological abnormalities related to mannosidosis.
  • (12) Children of smoking mothers had an 18.0 per cent cumulative incidence of post-infancy wheezing through 10 years of age, compared with 16.2 per cent among children of nonsmoking mothers (risk ratio 1.11, 95% CI: 1.02, 1.21).
  • (13) In the fall of 1975, 1,915 children in grades K through eight began a school-based program of supervised weekly rinsing with 0.2 percent aqueous solution of sodium fluoride in an unfluoridated community in the Finger Lakes area of upstate New York.
  • (14) A survey carried out two and three years after the launch of the official campaign also showed a reduction in the prevalence of rickets in children taking low dose supplements equivalent to about 2.5 micrograms (100 IU) vitamin D daily.
  • (15) The epidemiology of HIV infection among women and hence among children has progressively changed since the onset of the epidemic in Western countries.
  • (16) 278 children with bronchial asthma were medically, socially and psychologically compared to 27 rheumatic and 19 diabetic children.
  • (17) A third group of healthy children was added for comparison.
  • (18) Nasotracheal intubation has been well established as a method for maintaining an artificial airway in children.
  • (19) The results also indicate that small lesions initially noted only on CT scans of the chest in children with Wilms' tumor frequently represent metastatic tumor.
  • (20) The authors report 4 new cases of heterotopic pancreas in children with prepyloric, jejunal, Meckel's diverticulum and mesenteric localization.

Errand


Definition:

  • (n.) A special business intrusted to a messenger; something to be told or done by one sent somewhere for the purpose; often, a verbal message; a commission; as, the servant was sent on an errand; to do an errand. Also, one's purpose in going anywhere.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But it is difficult not to conclude that the survey, which ends on St Andrew’s day, 30 November, has been something of a fools errand for those loyal driveway-trampers.
  • (2) Many tasks (e.g., solving algebraic equations and running errands) require the execution of several component processes in an unconstrained order.
  • (3) His first job was also as an errand boy and assistant in a grocer's shop, from which he moved on to be a junior shop assistant and an early switchboard operator.
  • (4) Through either running in a group or carrying out one-off missions you can complete physical tasks that benefit the community, for example doing errands for those who are isolated or lonely.
  • (5) Techniques such as Loci can be readily adapted to help us remember appointments, birthdays, errands we need to run, etc.
  • (6) Our results indicate that patients with RA experience more losses than controls in every domain of human activity and that patients with OA experience more losses in the performance of household chores, shopping and errands, and leisure activities.
  • (7) Though she pursued further studies and wrote, Aung San Suu Kyi did bring up children, darn socks and run grocery errands.
  • (8) He said he'd run some errands, and would "be right back".
  • (9) The first point to make, stresses Jason Butler from IFA Bloomsbury Wealth, is that "all the evidence suggests trying to time investment markets is a fools' errand".
  • (10) Photograph: TaskRabbit Leah Busque is the founder and CEO of TaskRabbit.com , an online and mobile peer-to-peer marketplace for neighbourhood errands and small jobs One blustery Boston night in February 2008, Leah Busque and her husband were about to go out for dinner when they realised they'd run out of dog food and didn't have time to get any.
  • (11) Ameobi dinks a ball over the top (seriously) and finds Gouffran again, once more with the Liverpool defenders busy running errands or something, but this time Johnson nips across and half-blocks, enough in any case to prevent another goal.
  • (12) A useful strategy to counteract such absent-mindedness can be to develop a fixed method for performing such tasks: always place your keys in the same spot on the sideboard, always carry out the late-night errands in the same order (lock the back door, turn off the gas, turn off lights, etc).
  • (13) The whole idea that we were going to shut down the government to get rid of Obamacare in 2013, this plan never had a chance,” he said, adding that it was a “fool’s errand”.
  • (14) But as Stevenson heads off towards his seventh errand of the day, it's not clear what is keeping him going like this just shy of his 70th birthday.
  • (15) Pimpi is still working as an errand boy in a government office aged 38.
  • (16) And here’s a taster from the ‘errands’ section: • Organise all Jermain’s personal needs i.e.
  • (17) The men seem to be on some urgent errand or quest, but are constantly waylaid by events, the scenery, or perhaps the atmosphere.
  • (18) Fame Monster is said to revisit Jennifer O'Neill's two years travelling the world with Gaga, which she claims included running her errands, and sometimes even sleeping in the same bed.
  • (19) The second daughter of a middle-class Muslim family from the city’s Mulund area, Firoza learned to cycle at eight so she could run errands for her mother – she would hire a bike for 30 minutes a day because her father did not have the money to buy one.
  • (20) I was trusted to run errands alone in the van, so I knew I could leave the site without arousing suspicion.

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