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Cradle vs Matrix - What's the difference?

cradle | matrix |

As nouns the difference between cradle and matrix

is that cradle is a bed or cot for a baby, oscillating on rockers or swinging on pivots while matrix is matrix.

As a verb cradle

is to contain in or as if in a cradle.

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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    matrix

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The womb.
  • * 1646 , Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica , III.17:
    • upon conception the inward orifice of the matrix exactly closeth, so that it commonly admitteth nothing after [...].
  • * 1969 , Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor , Penguin 2011, p. 296:
    • In very rare cases, when the matrix just goes on pegging away automatically, the doctor can take advantage of that and ease out the second brat who then can be considered to be, say, three minutes younger [...].
  • (biology) The material or tissue in which more specialized structures are embedded.
  • (biology) An extracellular matrix, the material or tissue between the cells of animals or plants.
  • (biology) Part of the mitochondrion.
  • (biology) The medium in which bacteria are cultured.
  • (mathematics) A rectangular arrangement of numbers or terms having various uses such as transforming coordinates in geometry, solving systems of linear equations in linear algebra and representing graphs in graph theory.
  • (computing) A two-dimensional array.
  • A table of data.
  • (geology) A geological matrix, the outer material of a rock consisting of larger grains embedded in a material consisting of smaller ones.
  • (archaeology and paleontology) The sediment surrounding and including the artifacts, features, and other materials at a site.
  • (analytical chemistry) The environment from which a given sample is taken.

    • Synonyms

    * (mathematics) array, table * (table of data) array, grid, spreadsheet, table * (computing) array

    Derived terms

    * dot matrix * extracellular matrix * geological matrix * matricial