The difference between Child and Hybrid
When used as nouns, child means a person who has not yet reached adulthood, whether natural (puberty), cultural (initiation), or legal (majority), whereas hybrid means offspring resulting from cross-breeding different entities, e.g. two different species or two purebred parent strains.
Hybrid is also adjective with the meaning: consisting of diverse 'hybridized' components.
check bellow for the other definitions of Child and Hybrid
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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."
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Child as a noun:
a female child, a girl.
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Child as a noun:
One's son or daughter, regardless of age.
Examples:
"My youngest child is forty-three."
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Child as a noun (cartomancy):
The thirteenth Lenormand card.
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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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Hybrid as a noun (biology):
Offspring resulting from cross-breeding different entities, e.g. two different species or two purebred parent strains.
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Hybrid as a noun (linguistics):
Something of mixed origin or composition; often, a tool or technology that combines the benefits of formerly separate tools or technologies. A word whose elements are derived from different languages. A hybrid vehicle (especially a car), one that runs on both fuel (gasoline/diesel) and electricity (battery or energy from the sun). A bicycle that is a compromise between a road bike and a mountain bike. A golf club that combines the characteristics of an iron and a wood. An electronic circuit constructed of individual devices bonded to a substrate or PCB.
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Hybrid as an adjective:
Consisting of diverse 'hybridized' components.