(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.
Nother
Definition:
(conj.) Neither; nor.
Example Sentences:
(1) A nother morning, another news story of a woman being gang raped in India's cities.
(2) A nother day has just broken in Liberia's capital, Monrovia.
(3) A nother week, and another set of Republicans have endorsed Hillary Clinton .
(4) Surveys of low-income women in Los Angeles County in 1985 and 1986 were used to examine the relative impact of child-bearing motivations versus life circumstances on the intention to have a(nother) child.
(5) A nother week, another heated debate over the tactics and language used by the feminist protest group Femen, which last Thursday launched an International Topless Jihad Day.
(6) A nother day, another list of things that pregnant women might do wrong.
(7) A nother mishap yesterday rammed into the back of Iain Duncan Smith's pile-up of car crashes, as his roll-out of new disability benefits was delayed, yet again .
(8) A nother week, another ill-conceived bout of social media diarrhoea.
(9) A nother week, another fraught selection of noises off at Tottenham Hotspur: Spurs may be on course for a creditable fifth place in the Premier League but this season will surely take its place as one of the more relentlessly tortured episodes of par-score achievement in recent Premier League history.
(10) A nother day, another viral video of a beauty queen fluffing an interview.
(11) A nother day, another opportunity to whack the bonds of the weaklings of the eurozone.
(12) A nother day, another anti-gay marriage statement from some Roman Catholic grandee.
(13) A nother prime minister has gone, this one the self-proclaimed champion for Indigenous people whose personal mission was to redress our country’s “national failure”.
(14) A nother of the government’s mad, bad and ill-prepared schemes is in deep trouble.
(15) # MGEITF August 23, 2012 7.14pm BST Lisa O'Carroll continues: lisa o'carroll (@lisaocarroll) lis Murdoch: My parents spoke to us over breakfast table about our purpose, that we could be obliged to be outsiders and constant nomads August 23, 2012 and lisa o'carroll (@lisaocarroll) L Murdoch talks about building TV cathedrals of future combining vision of Steve Jobs + Lord Reith (nother ref 2 value of public service TV) August 23, 2012 Updated at 7.18pm BST 7.11pm BST Lisa O'Carroll has just tweeted: lisa o'carroll (@lisaocarroll) Lis Murdoch lets her respect for her dad shine through.
(16) The operative protocols, conditions and experimentation, as well as the results, will be studied as objectively as possible so as to determine the essential efficacy of one or nother product.
(17) A nother day has passed in Australian politics, and, with it, the prime-ministerial career of Julia Gillard .
(18) A nother Sunday, another vote in the Greek parliament, another self-imposed punishment beating as the parliament in Athens votes through fresh austerity measures.
(19) Jamie Vardy ’s having a(nother) party: he’s going to get married at Peckforton Castle in Cheshire – actually not a castle, just a big and kind-of-oldish house with crenellations – on 25 May.
(20) A nother engine breaks away from Gordon Brown's fuselage, and the damage done looks set to bring him crashing out of the sky.