(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.
Stepmother
Definition:
(n.) The wife of one's father by a subsequent marriage.
Example Sentences:
(1) Because of multiple effusions of blood of variable age located at the child's body the stepmother was noticed and accused of assault and battery, but the trial ended in acquittal.
(2) Every now and again, the bin lid came up a tiny bit and then went down again,” says his stepmother, Liz.
(3) Let me know how you get on ... in due course.” His nest had been half empty for a while, in that my mother had died 10 years beforehand, and when I left for university, he was beginning a relationship with the charming woman who became my stepmother.
(4) So they took me in for admission with my stepmother and younger brother who was just about two years old.
(5) Domestic violence also affects children, more than 40% of Indigenous children witnessing violence against their mother or stepmother in the NT, compared with 23% of all children.
(6) Saliu said she fled Nigeria in 2011 after her stepmother told her she would get her oldest daughter, Bassy, cut.
(7) My father and stepmother have said that they could act as a guarantors for the mortgage.
(8) Transposing the Brothers Grimm to 1920s Spain, he doffs his montera not only to European silent cinema of the period, but to bullfighting and flamenco, with an atmospheric Gothic melodrama that has lashings of humour – mostly provided by Maribel Verdú as the social-climbing evil stepmother with a penchant for S&M – bags of invention, and an expressive, flamenco-inflected score by Alfonso de Vilallonga.
(9) First, his lab technician father, followed by his stepmother, his grandmother, two-year-old brother and 13-year-old sister.
(10) Society, in times and places, has seemed to perceive stepmothers in a negative way.
(11) The novelist Martin Amis has given credit for his career in literature: it's not due to his novelist father, Kingsley, but all down to his stepmother, Elizabeth Jane Howard – and Jane Austen .
(12) They had likewise sold my stepmother quite unnecessary insurances, but repaid in full (£750) and sent me a personal cheque of £50 for my trouble and a Christmas hamper to my stepmother."
(13) An impressive case of a 48-year-old woman is reported who after parental divorce when she was two-year-old grew up under a wicked stepmother and developed various obsessive symptoms.
(14) Lee Hunter, Lisa Lees’s brother, wrote on Facebook: “For those who don’t know, Lisa is gone but never, ever forgotten.” Jordan Howe confirmed his stepmother had died.
(15) I don’t know what to do.” Mark Stocker has asked for help in locating his father and stepmother, John and Janet.
(16) Forty-two percent of Indigenous young people report witnessing violence against a mother or stepmother, compared with 23% of all children.
(17) His stepmother, an impassioned national socialist, later encouraged him to join the SS, the Nazi party’s elite paramilitary organisation, rather than the armed forces of the Wehrmacht.
(18) British Gas Several readers had complaints about the energy provider, including Andrew Joslin, who said: "My stepmother is a widow who lives alone 90 miles from me.
(19) They knew it was their fault, because the boy was seen as a collaborator.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Danny Fitzsimons’ father Eric and stepmother Liz are desperate to bring him home.
(20) We really are concerned that wherever he does end up he is safe," said his stepmother.