Child vs Hello - What's the difference?
child | hello |
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:
(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:
(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= (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
(obsolete) A female infant; a girl.
* Shakespeare
* , chapter=7
, title= (colloquial)
"!" or an equivalent greeting.
* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=April 29, author=Stephanie Rosenbloom, title=A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, work=New York Times
, passage=In many new buildings, though, neighbors are venturing beyond tight-lipped hellos at the mailbox.}}
To greet with "hello".
* 2013 , Ivan Doig, English Creek (page 139)
As nouns the difference between child and hello
is that child is a daughter or son; an offspring while hello is "!" or an equivalent greeting.As an interjection hello is
.As a verb hello is
to greet with "hello".child
English
Alternative forms
* (l) (archaic)Noun
(en-noun)- 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.
- 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
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.}}
- The algorithm pops the stack to obtain a new current node when there are no more children (when it reaches a leaf).
- 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 alsoAntonyms
* (daughter or son) father, mother, parent * (person below the age of adulthood) adult * parentDerived terms
* boomerang child * childhood * childish * childless * childlike * love-child * lovechild * manchild * middle child * only child * perpetual child * problem child * schoolchild * war child * with childSee also
* orlingReferences
*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
hello
English
Alternative forms
* hallo * hilloa (obsolete) * hullo (UK)Interjection
(en interjection)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=I made a speaking trumpet of my hands and commenced to whoop “Ahoy!” and “Hello!'” at the top of my lungs.
Usage notes
* The greeting hello is among the most generic and neutral in use. It may be heard in nearly all social situations and in nearly all walks of life, and is unlikely to cause offense.Quotations
* (English Citations of "hello")Synonyms
* (greeting) ** g'day, hey, hi, ** hallo, hi, hiya, ey up ** hallo, hey, hi, howdy ** how's it going, hey, hi ** howzit ** (slang) wassup, what's up, yo, sup * See alsoAntonyms
* (greeting) bye, goodbyeDerived terms
*See also
* * (wikipedia "hello")Noun
(en noun)citation
Synonyms
* greetingVerb
(en verb)- I had to traipse around somewhat, helloing' people and being ' helloed , before I spotted my mother and my father, sharing shade and a spread blanket with Pete and Marie Reese and Toussaint Rennie near the back of the park.