The difference between Child and Product
When used as nouns, child means a person who has not yet reached adulthood, whether natural (puberty), cultural (initiation), or legal (majority), whereas product means a commodity offered for sale.
check bellow for the other definitions of Child and Product
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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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Product as a noun (countable, uncountable):
A commodity offered for sale.
Examples:
"That store offers a variety of products.  We've got to sell a lot of product by the end of the month."
"synonyms: merchandise wares goods"
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Product as a noun (cosmetics, uncountable):
Any preparation to be applied to the hair, skin, nails, etc.
Examples:
"Wash excess product out of your hair."
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Product as a noun (chemistry):
Anything that is produced; a result. The amount of an artifact that has been created by someone or some process. A consequence of someone's efforts or of a particular set of circumstances. A chemical substance formed as a result of a chemical reaction. A quantity obtained by multiplication of two or more numbers. Any operation or a result thereof which generalises multiplication of numbers, like the multiplicative operation in a ring, product of types or a categorical product. Any tangible or intangible good or service that is a result of a process and that is intended for delivery to a customer or end user.
Examples:
"The product of last month's quality standards committee is quite good, even though the process was flawed."
"They improve their product every year; they export most of their agricultural production."
"synonyms: endwork production output creation yield"
"Skill is the product of hours of practice.  His reaction was the product of hunger and fatigue."
"This is a product of lime and nitric acid."
"The product of 2 and 3 is 6.  The product of 2, 3, and 4 is 24."
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Product as a noun (US, slang):
Illegal drugs, especially cocaine, when viewed as a commodity.
Examples:
"I got some product here – you buying?"