The difference between Child and Parent

When used as nouns, child means a person who has not yet reached adulthood, whether natural (puberty), cultural (initiation), or legal (majority), whereas parent means one of the two persons from whom one is immediately biologically descended.

Parent is also verb with the meaning: to act as parent, to raise or rear.

check bellow for the other definitions of Child and Parent

  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. Parent as a noun:

    One of the two persons from whom one is immediately biologically descended; a mother or father.

  2. Parent as a noun:

    A surrogate mother

  3. Parent as a noun:

    A third person who has provided DNA samples in an IVF procedure in order to alter faulty genetic material

  4. Parent as a noun:

    A person who acts as a parent in rearing a child; a step-parent or adoptive parent.

  5. Parent as a noun (obsolete):

    A relative.

  6. Parent as a noun:

    The source or origin of something.

  7. Parent as a noun (biology):

    An organism from which a plant or animal is immediately biologically descended.

  8. Parent as a noun (attributive):

    Sponsor, supporter, owner, protector. A parent company.

  9. Parent as a noun (computing):

    The object from which a child or derived object is descended; a node superior to another node.

  1. Parent as a verb:

    To act as parent, to raise or rear.

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