Child vs Litter - What's the difference?
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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
(countable) A platform mounted on two shafts, or a more elaborate construction, designed to be carried by two (or more) people to transport one (in luxury models sometimes more) third person(s) or (occasionally in the elaborate version) a cargo, such as a religious idol.
* Shakespeare
(countable) The offspring of a mammal born in one birth.
* D. Estrange
(uncountable) Material used as bedding for animals.
(uncountable) Collectively, items discarded on the ground.
* Jonathan Swift
(uncountable) Absorbent material used in an animal's litter tray
(uncountable) Layer of fallen leaves and similar organic matter in a forest floor.
A covering of straw for plants.
* Evelyn
To drop or throw trash without properly disposing of it (as discarding in public areas rather than trash receptacles).
* By tossing the bottle out the window, he was littering .
To strew with scattered articles.
* Jonathan Swift
To give birth to, used of animals.
* Sir Thomas Browne
* Shakespeare
To produce a litter of young.
* Macaulay
To supply (cattle etc.) with litter; to cover with litter, as the floor of a stall.
* Bishop Hacke
* Dryden
To be supplied with litter as bedding; to sleep or make one's bed in litter.
* Habington
Child is a related term of litter.
As nouns the difference between child and litter
is that child is a daughter or son; an offspring while litter is (countable) a platform mounted on two shafts, or a more elaborate construction, designed to be carried by two (or more) people to transport one (in luxury models sometimes more) third person(s) or (occasionally in the elaborate version) a cargo, such as a religious idol.As a verb litter is
to drop or throw trash without properly disposing of it (as discarding in public areas rather than trash receptacles).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
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- 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
litter
English
Noun
(wikipedia litter)- There is a litter ready; lay him in 't.
- A wolf came to a sow, and very kindly offered to take care of her litter .
- Strephon / Stole in, and took a strict survey / Of all the litter as it lay.
- Take off the litter from your kernel beds.
Synonyms
* (platform designed to carry a person or a load): palanquin, sedan chair, stretcher, cacolet * (items discarded on the ground): waste, rubbish, garbage (US), trash (US), junkDerived terms
* cat litter * litter bin * litter bug, litterbug * litter frogVerb
(en verb)- the room with volumes littered round
- We might conceive that dogs were created blind, because we observe they were littered so with us.
- The son that she did litter here, / A freckled whelp hagborn.
- A desert where the she-wolf still littered .
- Tell them how they litter their jades.
- For his ease, well littered was the floor.
- The inn where he and his horse littered .
