What's the difference between dad and stepfather?

Dad


Definition:

  • (n.) Father; -- a word sometimes used by children.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To many he was a rockstar, to me he was simply 'Dad', and I loved him hugely.
  • (2) The reason I liked them was because they were a band, and my dad had a band.
  • (3) My dad had just died, and he was born on the very same day, in the very same year.
  • (4) Prince was named after his father's own stage persona, and when his parents split up he became determined to better his dad on piano.
  • (5) If he was a cartoon character, he’d be … On looks alone, American Dad’s Stan Smith .
  • (6) It will make entering the market more difficult still for new buyers, further highlighting the importance of the right timing, advice, support and financial planning; and not just having a mum and dad who bought a house, but a grandparent, too.” Average UK house price reaches £288,000 Read more The average property price in the UK, currently £283,565, is expected to double by 2030, breaking through the £500,000 mark to £557,444.
  • (7) I saw my dad sitting in the audience, looking at me like, “Yes, he really is crazy.” Having listened to thousands of people, I realised we had a narrow view of what the environment is.
  • (8) He is Taurus and I'm Pisces; my dad was Pisces and my mum was Taurus.
  • (9) DADs may reach a magnitude in which extrinsic interventions may not adequately terminate sustained triggered activity.
  • (10) Flaviu, a two-year-old male about the size of a cocker spaniel, arrived at the zoo from a park in Kent after being separated from his mum and dad for the first time.
  • (11) Multivariate techniques for LC-DAD data are shown to suffer from inherent limitations of sensitivity for the minor components.
  • (12) When we reached our summit, or whatever spot was deemed by my father to be of adequately punishing distance from the car to deserve lunch, Dad would invariably find he had forgotten his Swiss army knife (looking back, I begin to doubt he ever had one) and instead would cut cheese into slices with the edge of his credit card.
  • (13) Not just going to a live show, but that kind of live show, with that kind of audience, the kind where mums and dads either have to tag along or turn up at the end to pick their children up.
  • (14) "It's made him more real, more of a person for me, whereas when I was a little girl I would say to my friends 'My dad died in the war' but it didn't mean anything to me because I never knew him.
  • (15) I cook, I save money, I do my own thing.’ Photograph: Antonio Olmos Laura: 'I couldn't live at home with my dad any longer.
  • (16) There they are, drinking again.’” Harper is a loner – a suburban boy who went trainspotting with his dad; whose asthma stopped him playing ice hockey That scorn appears to have interrupted the clever student’s journey to the top of the class.
  • (17) "But my dad ran a furniture business, which he lost at the time of the Great Recession before dying of a brain haemorrhage," he says.
  • (18) The road to gaining nearly 1.2 billion monthly active users has seen the mums, dads, aunts and uncles of the generation who pioneered Facebook join it too, spamming their walls with inspirational quotes and images of cute animals, and (shock, horror) commenting on their kids' photos.
  • (19) Throughout his life, Dad observed the rule that profanity – effing and blinding as he called it – should be confined to workplaces and other all-male venues where men gathered outside the earshot of women and children.
  • (20) In his V-neck sweater, dad jeans and white New Balance sneakers, Michael Lewis doesn’t look like a troublemaker.

Stepfather


Definition:

  • (n.) The husband of one's mother by a subsequent marriage.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Kimberley Carlile , aged four, was starved and beaten by her stepfather in Greenwich, east London, in 1986.
  • (2) The deputy prime minister branded the treatment meted out to the four-year-old by his mother, Magdelena Luczak, and stepfather, Mariusz Krezolek, as evil and vile, but suggested it was up to the whole of society to stop such tragedies.
  • (3) The mother and stepfather of a four-year-old boy who was battered to death after being subjected to a six-month regime of starvation and physical torture will be jailed for life on Friday after being found guilty of murdering the boy, whose body was so emaciated that one experienced health worker compared it to that of a concentration camp victim.
  • (4) So I wrote this everyday story about Jenny living with her father - and stepfather.
  • (5) In 2011, his mother remarried and Joseph, who said he suffered from Asperger syndrome, found it hard to connect with his new stepfather.
  • (6) Although we will all miss her beyond belief, we absolutely know she will live in our hearts forever.” Courtney Boyle, 19 Facebook Twitter Pinterest Courtney Boyle Boyle’s family confirmed she had been killed with her stepfather, Philip Tron, in Monday’s terrorist attack.
  • (7) The girl, her two siblings, mother and stepfather shared a rented room in Luque, a town on the outskirts of Asunción.
  • (8) His stepfather, Mick Jones, was a founding member of rock band Foreigner.
  • (9) Children's services at a council that came under fire over the death of a four-year-old boy beaten to death by his mother and stepfather have been branded inadequate by Ofsted.
  • (10) In this comparison of 59 incestuous stepfathers, 70 incestuous biological fathers, and 158 offenders against unrelated children, there were few substantial differences in psychological characteristics between fathers and stepfathers, but their life histories and marital histories differed significantly.
  • (11) Such conditions in the mother relate to the daughters' reports of adverse family experience involving maternal antipathy and neglect and physical and sexual abuse, most usually at the hands of a father or stepfather.
  • (12) His later identifications were affected by his mother, brother and especially his stepfather.
  • (13) Two survivors of the 2007 Virginia Tech shooting, where 32 people died, were present, as well as the stepfather of an Aurora, Colorado, massacre victim.
  • (14) The most significant male figures in my life were my grandfather, in whose house I lived during the first 10 years of my childhood, and later my stepfather.
  • (15) Faced with a violent stepfather and a mother with mental health issues (from whom he is now estranged), he took solace in his teddy bear, Alan Measles.
  • (16) In the 50s and 60s, the American jazz greats – Charlie Parker , Duke Ellington , her stepfather, the trumpeter Don Cherry – were "treated like kings in this strange, clean place full of people who were obsessed with their music", she says.
  • (17) In this case, what I find it impossible to get my head round is that the mother and stepfather actually starved him.
  • (18) In 27% of the cases the abuser was the mother, 21% the father, 14% stepfather, 3% daycaretaker, while the remainder were combinations or unknown.
  • (19) I moved to Dorset with my mother and stepfather when I was six and, despite his sight loss, Dad would come halfway – sometimes all the way – on the train to collect me for the weekend.
  • (20) An 11-year old girl who became pregnant after being raped by her stepfather and was denied an abortion by Paraguayan authorities has given birth, in the culmination of a case which put renewed focus on Latin America’s strict anti-abortion laws.

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