(n.) A female child, from birth to the age of puberty; a young maiden.
(n.) A female servant; a maidservant.
(n.) A roebuck two years old.
Example Sentences:
(1) He still denied it and said he was giving the girl a lift.
(2) In a debate in the House of Commons, I will ask Britain, the US and other allies to convert generalised offers of help into more practical support with greater air cover, military surveillance and helicopter back-up, to hunt down the terrorists who abducted the girls.
(3) To be fair to lads who find themselves just a bus ride from Auschwitz, a visit to the camp is now considered by many tourists to be a Holocaust "bucket list item", up there with the Anne Frank museum, where Justin Bieber recently delivered this compliment : "Anne was a great girl.
(4) All the twins were born in years 1973-1987, the total number was 2,226 boys and 2,302 girls.
(5) The authors report an ocular luxation of a four-year-old girl after a bicycle accident.
(6) Our findings indicate that Turner girls have a functional brain disorder more often than the controls, particularly at the occipital and parietal areas and in those with hemispheric differences most often in the right hemisphere.
(7) In seven girls with early adrenarche, plasma concentrations of DHEA were in the upper range of normal values, whereas T levels were within the normal range.
(8) In contrast, idiopathic GH deficient girls have an onset of puberty and PHV nearer to a normal chronological age and at an early bone age.
(9) As many girls as boys receive primary and secondary education, maternal mortality is lower and the birth rate is falling .
(10) Over a period of 9 months a 12-year-old girl spontaneously developed a palpable cystic tumor in the upper eye lid which led to an indentation and downward displacement of the globe.
(11) This study examined the effects of cultural factors on perception of 15 boys and 21 girls in Nigeria.
(12) The information about her father's semi-brainwashing forms an interesting backdrop to Malala's comments when I ask if she ever wonders about the man who tried to kill her on her way back from school that day in October last year, and why his hands were shaking as he held the gun – a detail she has picked up from the girls in the school bus with her at the time; she herself has no memory of the shooting.
(13) The court heard that Hall confronted one girl in the staff quarters of a hotel within minutes of her being chosen to appear as a cheerleader on his BBC show It's a Knockout.
(14) With baseline measures and body mass index controlled for, analyses of covariance showed that adults had greater systolic blood pressure responses than did children; men had greater blood pressure responses to all stressors than did women; and high school boys had greater systolic blood pressure responses than did high school girls.
(15) He gets Lyme disease , he dates indie girls and strippers; he lives in disused warehouses and crappy flats with weirded-out flatmates who want to set him on fire and buy the petrol to do so.
(16) All the same, it's hard to approach the school, which charges nearly £28,000 for boarders and nearly £19,000 for day girls and is sometimes called "the girls' Eton", without a few prejudices.
(17) She has imbued me with the confidence of encouraging other girls to dream alternative futures that do not rely on FGM as a prerequisite.
(18) My father wrote to the official who had ruled I could not ride and asked for Championships to be established for girls.
(19) According to perimeter of leg, 13% of these girl students might he considered affected of second degree malnutrition, this situation prevailed from 13 to 18 years of age, but was not true in the 12--year--old group.
(20) The controversy about "fasting girls" and the all-dominating diagnosis of neurasthenia may explain the delay in the American interest in the new disorder.
Nursemaid
Definition:
(n.) A girl employed to attend children.
Example Sentences:
(1) Important oedipal role played by a nursemaid in Freud's life made him vulnerable to being left by Dora.
(2) Mothers are traditionally supposed to be all kinds of everything to their children: nursemaid, cook, homework coach, laundry manager, personal assistant.
(3) In addition, since Dora had left him as he must have felt his childhood nursemaid had, he reacted as if she were that maid.
(4) America and its allies were able to destroy the caliphate project [ie the Islamic State of Iraq] to a great extent in Iraq after they established the Sunni Iraqi Sahwa forces [Sunni Awakening tribal forces that fought the Islamic State of Iraq] and struck the Sunni nursemaid [ie basis of Sunni support for the Islamic State of Iraq], by portraying it as a treacherous terrorist state of hypocritical political projects, with great marshalling of the media to accomplish that.
(5) "I think they still think Asian women should be their ayahs, their nursemaids, or selling them takeaways.
(6) A nursemaid - albeit with a whole retinue of staff to cover for the thrice-weekly lunch dates - to a husband who had long ceased to recognise her, and a campaigner on Alzheimer’s disease.
(7) Children were left in the charge of young nursemaids for up to 40% of the day while the mothers tended the crops.
(8) Subsequent pain and limitation of motion were typical of nursemaid's elbow.
(9) In the "general hygiene room", in the eternal press, women with little tubs attempt to wash their "nursemaids" (as they call them in Mordovia) as fast as they can, heaped onto one another.
(10) Six instances of subluxation of the radial head ("nursemaid's elbow, pulled elbow") in babies in the first 6 months of life are presented.
(11) This study suggests that even in the absence of the classic history of upper extremity traction, radial head subluxation should be suspected in any pediatric patient with an upper extremity complaint who presents with the affected arm in the nursemaid's position.
(12) The complexity and intimacy of relationships of glia with neurons suggest that some glial cells may have roles other than that of nursemaids, possibly in modulation of behavior-determining neural activity, and in learning and other adaptive acts.
(13) All patients were in minimal distress, holding their affected arms semiflexed and pronated (the nursemaid's position).