What's the difference between children and governess?

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.

Governess


Definition:

  • (n.) A female governor; a woman invested with authority to control and direct; especially, one intrusted with the care and instruction of children, -- usually in their homes.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Banks continue to recover following the UK goverment's £500bn rescue plan announced the previous day.
  • (2) Greece remained centre-stage, after the Athens goverment stated that German chancellor Angela Merkel had suggested that the Greeks hold a referendum on their membership of the eurozone .
  • (3) He added: "Why on earth is this useless Goverment pandering to Puffs?
  • (4) He said a Conservative goverment would sack the heads of schools that had been in "special measures" – the most serious category of concern – for more than a year.
  • (5) In Brussels, studying to become a governess at Heger's school, the virgin became ever more lustful.
  • (6) The governess of her early self-portrait was now a rather brazen woman, speaking of "things I never thought of before".
  • (7) The Cuban goverment is torn between isolation and closer links with the US.
  • (8) Part of the NSW Young Nationals’ motion was to condemn the goverment’s decision to deny its members a conscience vote.
  • (9) Slive closely shows how the paintings work technically as group portraits of the governors and governesses of the Haarlem almshouses where the impoverished Hals himself received charity; but Berger says of Slive’s analysis, “It’s as though the author wants to mask the images, as though he fears their directness and accessibility.” However prone Slive may be to an art historian’s preference for painterly values over social discourse, his analysis is nevertheless closer to the heart of the matter than Berger’s fanciful account of a kind of class stand-off between the destitute artist and the governors, not least because on another and more likely reading, given Hals’s approach to portraiture even of men and women in their prime, these two groups are painted with compassion but above all with a sharp eye for laying down what was before him.
  • (10) Updated at 7.26pm BST 7.15pm BST Antonis Samaras's new olive branch over state broadcaster ERT boils down to three points: 1) a temporary committee to hire a small number of staff to make current affairs programmes 2) a parliament vote on creating the new public broadcaster soon, maybe next week 3) loyalty and support from the junior coalition partners, to ensure the goverment keeps running.
  • (11) She becomes the governess to an aristocrat's children.
  • (12) Charlotte was an obscure, ugly parson's daughter, a sometime governess and schoolmistress.
  • (13) Dialogue with ministers must represent the views and interests of users of services, which local goverment is uniquely well placed and experienced to do, and must, where appropriate, include criticism.
  • (14) Iata, which is also demanding that European goverments compensate the airline industry, initially estimated that airlines were losing $200m a day .
  • (15) Marcus Gover, director of closed loop recycling at Wrap, said: "It is important that rigid plastic packaging is effectively recycled as if not carried out properly rigid plastics can contaminate the highly valuable plastic bottle waste stream – which would not be good for the economy or the environment.
  • (16) She sends the boy to cousins on a farm in England, where a piano-playing governess awakens the lust that proves the keynote in a series of fragmented episodes set during the years before the first world war – a prospect G relishes on account of all the women it will widow.
  • (17) The services given by the goverment to adolescent pregnant patients are insufficient and require immediate attention by society.
  • (18) It wasn't until many years later that I realised that Hayley Mills's mysterious governess in the 1964 film The Chalk Garden is called Miss Madrigal.
  • (19) The months since have seen a string of attacks on the community, heightened anti-Christian rhetoric by ultra-conservatives known as Salafis and fears that coming goverments will try to impose strict versions of Islamic law.
  • (20) Gover said football fans may not mean offence when they use the name, but that was no reason to keep using it.