The difference between Adult and Child

When used as nouns, adult means a fully grown human or animal, whereas child means a person who has not yet reached adulthood, whether natural (puberty), cultural (initiation), or legal (majority).

Adult is also verb with the meaning: to (cause to) be or become an adult.

Adult is also adjective with the meaning: fully grown.

check bellow for the other definitions of Adult and Child

  1. Adult as a noun:

    A fully grown human or animal.

  2. Adult as a noun:

    A person who has reached the legal age of majority.

  1. Adult as an adjective:

    Fully grown.

    Examples:

    "an adult human, animal, or plant"

  2. Adult as an adjective:

    Intended for or restricted to adults rather than children.

    Examples:

    "adult clothes"

  3. Adult as an adjective:

    Containing material of an explicit sexual nature; of, or pertaining to, pornography.

    Examples:

    "an adult movie"

    "This program contains adult content. Parental discretion is advised."

  4. Adult as an adjective:

    Vulgar or profane.

  1. Adult as a verb (nonstandard, rare):

    To (cause to) be or become an adult.

  1. Child as a noun:

    A person who has not yet reached adulthood, whether natural (puberty), cultural (initiation), or legal (majority)

    Examples:

    "Go easy on him: he is but a child."

  2. Child as a noun:

    a female child, a girl.

  3. Child as a noun:

    One's son or daughter, regardless of age.

    Examples:

    "My youngest child is forty-three."

  4. Child as a noun (cartomancy):

    The thirteenth Lenormand card.

  5. Child as a noun (computing):

    A figurative offspring, particularly: A person considered a product of a place or culture, a member of a tribe or culture, regardless of age. Anything derived from or caused by something. A data item, process, or object which has a subservient or derivative role relative to another.

    Examples:

    "The children of Israel."

    "He is a child of his times."

    "Poverty, disease, and despair are the children of war."

    "The child node then stores the actual data of the parent node."

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