Huge vs Child - What's the difference?
huge | child |
Very large.
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*:“I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera,the neurotic victims of mental cirrhosis, the jewelled animals whose moral code is the code of the barnyard—!”
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess), chapter=1 *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= (lb) Distinctly interesting, significant, important, likeable, well regarded.
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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
As an adjective huge
is very large.As a noun child is
a daughter or son; an offspring.huge
English
Adjective
(er)citation, passage=The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century,
Out of the gloom, passage=[Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.}}
Synonyms
* (very large) colossal, enormous, giant, gigantic, immense, prodigious, vast * See alsoAntonyms
* (very large) tiny, small, minuscule,Derived terms
* hugely * hugeness * hugeous * superhugeExternal links
* * ----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