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Childhood vs Cradle - What's the difference?

childhood | cradle |

As nouns the difference between childhood and cradle

is that childhood is the state of being a child while cradle is a bed or cot for a baby, oscillating on rockers or swinging on pivots.

As a verb cradle is

to contain in or as if in a cradle.

childhood

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (uncountable) The state of being a child.
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    • , magazine=(American Scientist), title= Lifelong Impact of Early Self-Control , passage=To our own surprise, our 40-year study of 1,000 children revealed that childhood self-control strongly predicts adult success, in people of high or low intelligence, in rich or poor, and does so throughout the entire population, with a step change in health, wealth, and social success at every level of self-control.}}
  • The time during which one is a child, from between infancy and puberty.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=Foreword citation , passage=He stood transfixed before the unaccustomed view of London at night time, a vast panorama which reminded him […] of some wood engravings far off and magical, in a printshop in his childhood .}}
  • (by extension) The early stages of development of something.
  • * Shakespeare
    • the childhood of our joy

    Derived terms

    * second childhood

    See also

    * (wikipedia)

    cradle

    English

    (wikipedia cradle)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A bed or cot for a baby, oscillating on rockers or swinging on pivots.
  • * Cowper
    • the cradle that received thee at thy birth
  • * Shakespeare
    • No sooner was I crept out of my cradle / But I was made a king, at nine months old.
  • (figuratively) The place of origin, or in which anything is nurtured or protected in the earlier period of existence.
    • a cradle of crime
    the cradle of liberty
  • (figuratively) Infancy, or very early life.
    • from the cradle to the grave
  • * Shakespeare
    • from their cradles bred together
  • * Clarendon
    • a form of worship in which they had been educated from their cradles
  • An implement consisting of a broad scythe for cutting grain, with a set of long fingers parallel to the scythe, designed to receive the grain, and to lay it evenly in a swath.
  • A tool used in mezzotint engraving, which, by a rocking motion, raises burrs on the surface of the plate, so preparing the ground.
  • A framework of timbers, or iron bars, moving upon ways or rollers, used to support, lift, or carry ships or other vessels, heavy guns, etc., as up an inclined plane, or across a strip of land, or in launching a ship.
  • A case for a broken or dislocated limb.
  • A frame to keep the bedclothes from contact with the sensitive parts of an injured person.
  • (mining) A machine on rockers, used in washing out auriferous earth.
  • (mining) A suspended scaffold used in shafts.
  • (carpentry) A ribbing for vaulted ceilings and arches intended to be covered with plaster.
    • (Knight)
  • (nautical) A basket or apparatus in which, when a line has been made fast to a wrecked ship from the shore, the people are brought off from the wreck.
    • The cradle was ill-made. One victim fell into the sea and was lost and the ensuing delay cost three more lives.
  • A rest for the receiver of a telephone, or for certain computer hardware.
    • He slammed the handset into the cradle .
  • (contact juggling) A hand position allowing a contact ball to be held steadily on the back of the hand.

    • Synonyms

    * (machine on rockers used in washing out auriferous earth) rocker * (rest for receiver of a telephone) rest

    Derived terms

    * cat's cradle * cradle cap * cradleland * cradlesong * from the cradle to the grave * the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world * rob the cradle

    See also

    * crib

    Verb

    (cradl)
  • To contain in or as if in a cradle.
  • To rock (a baby to sleep).
  • To wrap protectively.
  • * cradling the injured man’s head in her arms
  • To lull or quieten, as if by rocking.
  • * D. A. Clark
    • It cradles their fears to sleep.
  • To nurse or train in infancy.
  • * Glanvill
    • He that hath been cradled in majesty will not leave the throne to play with beggars.
  • (lacrosse) To rock the lacrosse stick back and forth in order to keep the ball in the head by means of centrifugal force.
  • To cut and lay (grain) with a cradle.
  • To transport a vessel by means of a cradle.
  • * Knight
    • In Lombardy boats are cradled and transported over the grade.
  • To put ribs across the back of (a picture), to prevent the panels from warping.

    • Anagrams

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