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In obsolete terms the difference between child and blood

is that child is a female infant; a girl while blood is a lively, showy man; a rake.

As nouns the difference between child and blood

is that child is a daughter or son; an offspring while blood is a vital liquid flowing in the bodies of many types of animals that usually conveys nutrients and oxygen. In vertebrates, it is colored red by hemoglobin, is conveyed by arteries and veins, is pumped by the heart and is usually generated in bone marrow.

As a verb blood is

to cause something to be covered with blood; to bloody.

child

English

Alternative forms

* (l) (archaic)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A daughter or son; an offspring.
  • (figuratively) An offspring; one born in, or considered a product of the culture of, a place.
  • * 1984 , Mary Jane Matz, The Many Lives of Otto Kahn: A Biography , page 5:
  • For more than forty years, he preached the creed of art and beauty. He was heir to the ancient wisdom of Israel, a child of Germany, a subject of Great Britain, later an American citizen, but in truth a citizen of the world.
  • (figuratively) A member of a tribe, a people or a race of beings; one born into or considered a product of a people.
  • * 2009 , Edward John Moreton Dunsany, Tales of Wonder , page 64:
  • Plash-Goo was of the children of the giants, whose sire was Uph. And the lineage of Uph had dwindled in bulk for the last five hundred years, till the giants were now no more than fifteen foot high; but Uph ate elephants
  • (figuratively) A thing or abstraction derived from or caused by something.
  • * 1991 , (w, Midnight's Children) , (Salman Rushdie) (title)
  • A person who is below the age of adulthood; a minor (person who is below the legal age of responsibility or accountability).
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Joseph Stiglitz)
  • , volume=188, issue=26, page=19, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Globalisation is about taxes too , passage=It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. […] It is the starving of the public sector which has been pivotal in America no longer being the land of opportunity – with a child' s life prospects more dependent on the income and education of its parents than in other advanced countries.}}
  • (computing) A data item, process or object which has a subservient or derivative role relative to another data item, process or object.
  • * 2011 , John Mongan, ?Noah Kindler, ?Eric Giguère, Programming Interviews Exposed
  • The algorithm pops the stack to obtain a new current node when there are no more children (when it reaches a leaf).
  • (obsolete) A female infant; a girl.
  • * Shakespeare
  • A boy or a child , I wonder?

    Synonyms

    * (daughter or son) boy, fruit of one's loins, girl, kid, offspring * (young person) bairn, boy, brat, girl, kid, lad, lass * See also

    Antonyms

    * (daughter or son) father, mother, parent * (person below the age of adulthood) adult * parent

    Derived terms

    * boomerang child * childhood * childish * childless * childlike * love-child * lovechild * manchild * middle child * only child * perpetual child * problem child * schoolchild * war child * with child

    See also

    * orling

    References

    * Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary (accessed November 2007). * American Heritage Dictionary , Fourth Edition, Houghton Mifflin Company (2003). English nouns with irregular plurals 1000 English basic words

    blood

    English

    (wikipedia blood)

    Alternative forms

    * bloud (obsolete)

    Noun

  • A vital liquid flowing in the bodies of many types of animals that usually conveys nutrients and oxygen. In vertebrates, it is colored red by hemoglobin, is conveyed by arteries and veins, is pumped by the heart and is usually generated in bone marrow.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1927, author= F. E. Penny
  • , chapter=4, title= Pulling the Strings , passage=The case was that of a murder. It had an element of mystery about it, however, which was puzzling the authorities. A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff.}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, title=A better waterworks, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838
  • , page=5 (Technology Quarterly), magazine=(The Economist) citation , passage=An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.}}
  • A family relationship due to birth, such as that between siblings; contrasted with relationships due to marriage or adoption. (See blood relative, blood relation, by blood.)
  • * (Edmund Waller) (1606-1687)
  • a friend of our own blood
  • * Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
  • to share the blood of Saxon royalty
  • A blood test or blood sample.
  • The sap or juice which flows in or from plants.
  • * 1841 , Benjamin Parsons, Anti-Bacchus , page 95:
  • It is no tautology to call the blood of the grape red or purple, because the juice of that fruit was sometimes white and sometimes black or dark. The arterial blood of our bodies is red, but the venous is called "black blood."
  • * 1901 , Levi Leslie Lamborn, American Carnation Culture , fourth edition, page 57:
  • Disbudding is merely a species of pruning, and should be done as soon as the lateral buds begin to develop on the cane. It diverts the flow of the plant's blood from many buds into one or a few, thus increasing the size of the flower, [...]
  • * 1916 , John Gordon Dorrance, The Story of the Forest , page 44:
  • Look at a leaf. On it are many little raised lines which reach out to all parts of the leaf and back to the stem and twig. These are "veins," full of the tree's blood . It is white and looks very much like water; [...]
  • (label) The juice of anything, especially if red.
  • * Bible, (w) xiix. 11
  • He washedhis clothes in the blood of grapes.
  • (label) Temper of mind; disposition; state of the passions.
  • * (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
  • when you perceive his blood inclined to mirth
  • (label) A lively, showy man; a rake.
  • * (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
  • Seest thou nothow giddily 'a turns about all the hot bloods between fourteen and five and thirty?
  • * (William Makepeace Thackeray) (1811-1863)
  • It was the morning costume of a dandy or blood .
  • (member of a certain gang).
  • Hyponyms

    * menstruation

    Derived terms

    {{der3, bad blood , blood atonement , blood bank , bloodbath, blood bath , blood blister , blood brother , blood-curdling , blood diamond , blood donor , blood drive , blood eagle , bloodhound , blood is thicker than water , bloodless , bloodletting , bloodline , bloodlust, blood lust , bloody-minded , blood money , blood moon , blood orange , blood poisoning , blood product , blood pudding , blood relative, blood relation , blood sample , blood sausage , bloodshed , bloodshot , bloodsome , blood sport , bloodstain , blood-stained, bloodstained , bloodstream , bloodsucker , blood test , bloodthirsty , blood type , blood vessel , bloodwood , bloody , bloody mary , by blood , cold-blooded , first blood , for one's blood to boil , give blood , have blood on one's hands , have someone's blood on one's head , hot-blooded , in cold blood , make someone's blood boil , make someone's blood run cold , one's blood runs cold , 'sblood , smell blood , too rich for one's blood , warm-blooded}}

    See also

    * coagulation * sanguinary * sanguine

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cause something to be covered with blood; to bloody.
  • To let blood (from); to bleed.
  • * 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, page 121:
  • To initiate into warfare or a blood sport.
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