Orphan vs Deaf - What's the difference?
orphan | deaf |
A person, especially a , both or (rarely) one of whose parents have died.
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A young animal with no mother.
(figuratively) Anything that is unsupported, as by its source, provider or caretaker, by reason of the supporter's or decision to abandon.
(typography) A single line of type, beginning a paragraph, at the bottom of a column or page.
(computing) Any unreferenced object.
Deprived of parents (also (orphaned)).
(by extension, figuratively) Remaining after the removal of some form of support.
To deprive of parents (used almost exclusively in the passive )
(computing) To make unavailable, as by removing the last remaining pointer or reference to.
Unable to hear, or only partially able to hear.
* Shakespeare
* Dryden
Unwilling to listen or be persuaded; determinedly inattentive; regardless.
* Shakespeare
Obscurely heard; stifled; deadened.
* Dryden
(obsolete, UK, dialect) Decayed; tasteless; dead.
* Holland
Deaf people considered as a group.
As adjectives the difference between orphan and deaf
is that orphan is deprived of parents (also (orphaned)) while deaf is of or relating to the culture surrounding deaf users of sign languages.As a noun orphan
is a person, especially a , both or (rarely) one of whose parents have died.As a verb orphan
is to deprive of parents (used almost exclusively in the passive ).orphan
English
Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* orphanage * orphancy * orphandom * orphanhood * orphaner * orphanet * orphan initialism * orphanism * orphanity * orphanize * orphanotropism * orphanry * orphanship * orphanyAdjective
(-)- She is an orphan child.
- With its government funding curtailed, the gun registry became an orphan program.
Verb
(en verb)- What do you do when you come across two orphaned polar bear cubs?
- When you removed that image tag, you orphaned the resized icon.
- Removing categories orphans pages from the main category tree.
References
* "orphan" at OneLook® Dictionary Search .
deaf
English
Adjective
(er)- Come on my right hand, for this ear is deaf .
- Deaf with the noise, I took my hasty flight.
- Those people are deaf to reason.
- O, that men's ears should be / To counsel deaf , but not to flattery!
- A deaf murmur through the squadron went.
- a deaf''' nut; '''deaf corn
- (Halliwell)
- If the season be unkindly and intemperate, they [peppers] will catch a blast; and then the seeds will be deaf , void, light, and naught.