What's the difference between grandmother and mother?

Grandmother


Definition:

  • (n.) The mother of one's father or mother.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As of July 1987, 10 states have prohibitory laws, five states have grandmother clauses authorizing practicing midwives under repealed statutes, five states have enabling laws which are not used, and 10 states explicitly permit lay midwives to practice.
  • (2) She said it could indicate Bernardi’s grandmother was Indigenous.
  • (3) As a mother and a grandmother I am deeply concerned about the impact that fracking will have on our environment, our water sources, air and way of life.
  • (4) (I leave it implicit, but that's the age the child would be when his — or her — grandmother completed two full terms in the White House.)
  • (5) "Everyone and their grandmother would have done it better, of course."
  • (6) I found it very moving,” she said, “an extraordinary period in our lives too that is now coming to an end.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Four-year-old Torin Weston, dressed as Richard III, waits with his grandmother outside the cathedral.
  • (7) Britain’s most controversial landlords, Fergus and Judith Wilson, whose property empire extends to nearly 1,000 homes in Kent, have begun evicting families with more than two children, banned tenants on zero-hours contracts and thrown out extended families where the grandmother comes to stay.
  • (8) And as someone who spent a lot of time with their grandmother, it seemed only natural that bank robbers would meet their match in a benevolent pensioner.
  • (9) Presumably one of these "gangbangers" is Carmen Ortega (pdf), a 62-year-old grandmother of 14 with Alzheimer's who has been ordered deported to the Dominican Republic, a country where she has no remaining family, after living in the US for 40 years.
  • (10) The authors present three cases of multiple, intra-cranial meningiomatosis with contact hyperostosis affecting the grandmother, mother and daughter, in a very stereotypic manner.
  • (11) My grandmother doesn't understand unpaid internships .
  • (12) The origin of the defect arises spontaneously in the grandmother of the proband and must be assumed to be a de novo mutation.
  • (13) It’s something that has always baffled and amused me about my grandmother.
  • (14) He survived but two days later his 13-year-old sister died, followed by his grandmother eight days later.
  • (15) The mother, aunt, and grandmother had varied features of the condition.
  • (16) The paternal grandmother was thought to carry the abnormal Factor X I gene, although her Factor XI level was normal, because of a significant bleeding history.
  • (17) They had a grandmother, her daughter and her grandchild all in the same ward.
  • (18) Bond yields continue to soar and it's become increasingly clear that markets read the papers like my grandmother used to: only registering the bad news.
  • (19) There has already been speculation that the baby’s birth could coincide with the 89th birthday of its great-grandmother the Queen on 21 April.
  • (20) The members of this family have since been followed-up regularly by the author, examination of the corneas of the grandmother and the grand'daughter made by electron microscopy, the morphology compared, and an attempt made to establish the progression of the lesion.

Mother


Definition:

  • (n.) A female parent; especially, one of the human race; a woman who has borne a child.
  • (n.) That which has produced or nurtured anything; source of birth or origin; generatrix.
  • (n.) An old woman or matron.
  • (n.) The female superior or head of a religious house, as an abbess, etc.
  • (n.) Hysterical passion; hysteria.
  • (a.) Received by birth or from ancestors; native, natural; as, mother language; also acting the part, or having the place of a mother; producing others; originating.
  • (v. t.) To adopt as a son or daughter; to perform the duties of a mother to.
  • (n.) A film or membrane which is developed on the surface of fermented alcoholic liquids, such as vinegar, wine, etc., and acts as a means of conveying the oxygen of the air to the alcohol and other combustible principles of the liquid, thus leading to their oxidation.
  • (v. i.) To become like, or full of, mother, or thick matter, as vinegar.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 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).
  • (2) The mothers of these babies do not show any evidence of alpha-thalassaemia.
  • (3) In addition, congenital anemias such as sickle cell disease can impact on the health of the mother and fetus.
  • (4) Previous studies have not always controlled for socioeconomic status (SES) of mothers or other potential confounders such as gestational age or birthweight of infants.
  • (5) Perelman is currently unemployed and lives a frugal life with his mother in St Petersburg.
  • (6) There is precedent in Islamic law for saving the life of the mother where there is a clear choice of allowing either the fetus or the mother to survive.
  • (7) A 45-year-old mother of four, named as Hediye Sen, was killed during clashes in Cizre, while a 70-year-old died of a heart attack during fighting in Silopi, according to hospital sources.
  • (8) Titre in newborn was as a rule lower than the corresponding titre of mother.
  • (9) The aim of this study was to plot the course of the transcutaneously measured PCO2 (tcPCO2) in the fetus during oxygenation of the mother.
  • (10) Mother and Sister take over with more nuanced emotional literacy.
  • (11) The presence of BLG in human milk is a common finding in both atopic and non-atopic mothers.
  • (12) A considerably greater increase in the peak plasma OT concentration resulted when hungry foster litters of 6 pups were suckled after the mothers' own 6 pups had been suckled.
  • (13) He stressed the importance of the motivation to the mother for breast feeding and the independence between levels of instruction and frequency of breast feeding.
  • (14) There are no published reports of its detection in neonates born to affected mothers.
  • (15) The mother in Arthur Ransome's children's classic, Swallows and Amazons, is something of a cipher, but her inability to make basic decisions does mean she receives one of the finest telegrams in all literature.
  • (16) Both mothers had been sniffing regularly throughout their pregnancies.
  • (17) Child age was negatively correlated with mother's use of commands, reasoning, threats, and bribes, and positively correlated with maternal nondirectives, servings, and child compliance.
  • (18) The mothers of 87 male and female adolescents accepted at a counseling agency described their offspring by completing the Institute of Juvenile Research Behavior Checklist.
  • (19) No woman is at greater risk for ovarian carcinoma than one who is a member of a hereditary ovarian carcinoma syndrome kindred and whose mother, sister, or daughter has been affected with this disease and with an integrally related hereditary syndrome cancer.
  • (20) This hormone alone or together with hPL could therefore take over the role of the lacking pituitary GH in the mother during the last half of pregnancy.