(n.) A child bereaved of both father and mother; sometimes, also, a child who has but one parent living.
(a.) Bereaved of parents, or (sometimes) of one parent.
(v. t.) To cause to become an orphan; to deprive of parents.
Example Sentences:
(1) It comes in defiant journalism, like the story televised last week of a gardener in Aleppo who was killed by bombs while tending his roses and his son, who helped him, orphaned.
(2) An Artist of the Floating World won the Whitbread Book of the Year award and was nominated for the Booker prize for fiction; The Remains of the Day won the Booker; and When We Were Orphans, perceived by many reviewers as a disappointment, was nominated for both the Booker and the Whitbread.
(3) The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved beta-carotene for use in humans for prevention of the photosensitivity associated with the orphan disease, erythropoietic protoporphyria.
(4) It has recorded donations totalling around £175,000 since 2002, and said in its latest Charity Commission accounts that money had been spent on mosque building projects, funding for orphan children, and refugee projects in Africa, the Middle East and Asia.
(5) Some 25,000 orphans in central Malawi are fed, clothed and housed by Madonna's charity.
(6) An additional 281 drugs and 141 biologicals have been entered into development and designated as orphans.
(7) In 2005, four years after Adam's body was found, two women and a man were convicted of child cruelty for torturing and threatening to kill an orphaned refugee who they claimed was a witch.
(8) And while I also believe that banning adoptions by Americans is unethical (this is personal for me – as an American, I am also now banned from adopting, and as a young mother, I find something seriously wrong with this), I also believe that Russia's orphan problem can be solved by making changes that must happen on a local level, and not as the result of a top-down decree.
(9) Others, who lost everyone, took in orphans in an attempt to rebuild a family.
(10) This includes safe disposal of bodies – which are highly infectious – tracing the contacts of people who are sick, protecting orphans and children left without families, raising awareness in communities of the risks of infection, providing food, clothing, medical supplies, water and sanitation services and also running some treatment centres.
(11) As part of their studies, orphans at the centre will be taught a curriculum based on Spirituality for Kids, linked to the Kabbalah school of mysticism, of which Madonna is a follower.
(12) Abraham’s uncle, who is already looking after three sets of orphaned relatives, said he would care for his nephew despite struggling to feed his enlarged family.
(13) "Pepfar would include one additional element: caring for victims of Aids, especially orphans.
(14) We must sent a strong message to the orphaned mothers who have lost their children that we stand beside our people."
(15) Here dominate some drugs for AIDS, which is a significant problem in medicine, but also some drugs for rare diseases ("orphan drugs"), like Gaucher's disease, precocious puberty etc.
(16) Of these children, 28% lived with their families, 30% were orphans, and 42% were abandoned.
(17) He said: “Among the horror of the refugee crisis, one of the most harrowing images has been the thousands of orphaned children fleeing conflict.” “Britain has always been a compassionate and welcoming country, and I am delighted that the government has finally, after months of pressure, committed to vital humanitarian aid.
(18) But the number of orphans we found was far more than we could cater for.
(19) In 2007, with war raging in Darfur, they realised that the orphans left stranded by the conflict would need a new home.
(20) The charity sent hundreds of social workers across the country to urban and rural communities to establish the true extent of the orphan problem.
Ward
Definition:
(a.) The act of guarding; watch; guard; guardianship; specifically, a guarding during the day. See the Note under Watch, n., 1.
(n.) One who, or that which, guards; garrison; defender; protector; means of guarding; defense; protection.
(n.) The state of being under guard or guardianship; confinement under guard; the condition of a child under a guardian; custody.
(n.) A guarding or defensive motion or position, as in fencing; guard.
(n.) One who, or that which, is guarded.
(n.) A minor or person under the care of a guardian; as, a ward in chancery.
(n.) A division of a county.
(n.) A division, district, or quarter of a town or city.
(n.) A division of a forest.
(n.) A division of a hospital; as, a fever ward.
(n.) A projecting ridge of metal in the interior of a lock, to prevent the use of any key which has not a corresponding notch for passing it.
(n.) A notch or slit in a key corresponding to a ridge in the lock which it fits; a ward notch.
(n.) To keep in safety; to watch; to guard; formerly, in a specific sense, to guard during the day time.
(n.) To defend; to protect.
(n.) To defend by walls, fortifications, etc.
(n.) To fend off; to repel; to turn aside, as anything mischievous that approaches; -- usually followed by off.
(v. i.) To be vigilant; to keep guard.
(v. i.) To act on the defensive with a weapon.
Example Sentences:
(1) The program met with continued support and enthusiasm from nurse administrators, nursing unit managers, clinical educators, ward staff and course participants.
(2) A total of 1,268 patients admitted to hospital wards were kept under surveillance by one observer throughout their stay in hospital.
(3) We propose that the results mainly reflect a variable local impact of infection control and that a much more restrictive use of IUTCs is possible in many wards.
(4) Pharmaceutical services were provided from a large tent near the hospital, which consisted of an emergency treatment facility, two operating rooms, and a small medical-surgical ward.
(5) Paul Doyle Kick-off Sunday midday Venue St Mary’s Stadium Last season Southampton 2 Leicester City 2 Live Sky Sports 1 Referee Michael Oliver This season G 18, Y 60, R 1, 3.44 cards per game Odds H 5-6 A 4-1 D 5-2 Southampton Subs from Taylor, Martina, Stephens, Davis, Rodriguez, Sims, Ward-Prowse Doubtful Bertrand, Davis, Van Dijk (all match fitness) Injured Boufal (knee, Jan), Hesketh (ankle, Feb), Targett (hamstring, Feb), Austin (shoulder, Mar), Pied (knee, Jun), Gardos (knee, unknown) Suspended None Form DWLLLL Discipline Y37 R2 Leading scorer Austin 6 Leicester City Subs from Zieler, Hamer, Wasilewski, Gray, Fuchs, James, Okazaki, Hernández, Kapustka, King Doubtful None Injured None Suspended None Unavailable Amartey, Mahrez, Slimani (Africa Cup of Nations) Form LDLWDL Discipline Y44 R1 Leading scorers Slimani, Vardy 5
(6) Transfer between different hospital wards or death were variables found to increase the probability of error.
(7) This has shown that, in spite of higher dose rates in the corridor areas because of the use of an MDR system and the increase in interstitial techniques, the doses to ward nurses have been significantly reduced by encouraging staff to comply with the ALARA principle and the introduction of afterloading systems.
(8) Refractory ischemia developed in the remaining patients while on the ward or in the intensive care unit.
(9) Ethological methods were employed to gather normative data on social behavior in long stay male inpatients in the ward environment.
(10) They were subsequently admitted to a research ward, and 4 days later their BPs were measured at resting baseline and in response to a series of stressful tasks.
(11) The only thing Michael Fabricant could reasonably be vice-chairman of is the steering committee of Nurse Ratched 's ward fete.
(12) The winter vomiting bug norovirus, which also puts strain on the NHS every winter because it leads to wards having to close, has not yet become a major problem, the latest evidence indicates.
(13) The revelations did not alter the huge body of evidence from a variety of scientific fields that supports the conclusion that modern climate change is caused largely by human activity, Ward said.
(14) The kit was also used on the ward by junior medical staff, who showed that after minimal training reproducible serum C reactive protein results could be obtained.
(15) A Hospital Stress Rating Scale questionnaire of 40 items tested for reliability and validity was used to elicit responses from 100 patients from the medical and surgical wards of the selected health care institutions.
(16) In the present study, an attempt was made to isolate and identify pathogenic bacteria, fungi and parasites from the housefly Musca domestica collected in the surgical ward of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences Hospital and also in a remote residential area located 5 km from the hospital.
(17) Many child analytic patients use defenses to ward off feelings, many have not even reached the developmental level of experiencing feelings.
(18) (4) Symptoms are exacerbated by a research ward that is disruptive to the community.
(19) We reviewed the routines for providing information on drugs, and for training in the use of drugs and aids to medication in hospital and nursing homes by interviewing 11 ward supervisors.
(20) You couldn’t walk into the ward in your own clothes.