The difference between Child and Mother

When used as nouns, child means a person who has not yet reached adulthood, whether natural (puberty), cultural (initiation), or legal (majority), whereas mother means a (human) female who (a) parents a child (b) gives birth to a baby (c) donates a fertilized egg or (d) donates a body cell which has resulted in a clone. sometimes used in reference to a pregnant female, possibly as a shortened form of mother-to-be.

Mother is also verb with the meaning: to give birth to or produce (as its female parent) a child.

check bellow for the other definitions of Child and Mother

  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."

  1. Mother as a noun:

    A (human) female who (a) parents a child (b) gives birth to a baby (c) donates a fertilized egg or (d) donates a body cell which has resulted in a clone. Sometimes used in reference to a pregnant female, possibly as a shortened form of mother-to-be.

    Examples:

    "I am visiting my mother<sup>(a)</sup> today.'' — ''My sister-in-law has just become a mother.<sup>(b)</sup>'' — ''Nutrients and oxygen obtained by the mother<sup>(c)</sup> are conveyed to the fetus."

  2. Mother as a noun:

    A female parent of an animal.

    Examples:

    "The lioness was a mother of four cubs."

  3. Mother as a noun (figuratively):

    A female ancestor.

  4. Mother as a noun (figuratively):

    A source or origin.

    Examples:

    "The Mediterranean was mother to many cultures and languages."

  5. Mother as a noun:

    Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind. .}}

  6. Mother as a noun (when followed by a surname):

    A title of respect for one's mother-in-law.

    Examples:

    "Mother Smith, meet my cousin, Doug Jones."

  7. Mother as a noun (figuratively):

    Any elderly woman, especially within a particular community.

  8. Mother as a noun (figuratively):

    Any person or entity which performs mothering.

  9. Mother as a noun:

    The principal piece of an astrolabe, into which the others are fixed.

  10. Mother as a noun:

    The female superior or head of a religious house; an abbess, etc.

  11. Mother as a noun (obsolete):

    Hysterical passion; hysteria.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Shakespeare"

  1. Mother as a verb (chiefly, transitive):

    To give birth to or produce (as its female parent) a child.

  2. Mother as a verb (transitive):

    To treat as a mother would be expected to treat her child; to nurture.

  1. Mother as a noun:

    A stringy, mucilaginous or film- or membrane-like substance (consisting of acetobacters) which develops in fermenting alcoholic liquids (such as wine, or cider), and turns the alcohol into acetic acid with the help of oxygen from the air.

    Examples:

    "pieces of mother'', ''adding mother to vinegar"

  1. Mother as a verb (transitive):

    To cause to contain .

    Examples:

    "mothered oil / vinegar / wine"

  2. Mother as a verb (intransitive, of an alcohol):

    To develop mother.

  1. Mother as a noun (euphemistic, coarse, slang):

    Motherfucker.

  2. Mother as a noun (euphemistic, colloquial):

    A striking example.

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