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

  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. 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"

  2. 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."

  3. 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."

  4. Product as a noun (US, slang):

    Illegal drugs, especially cocaine, when viewed as a commodity.

    Examples:

    "I got some product here – you buying?"