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Infant vs Cloth - What's the difference?

infant | cloth |

As nouns the difference between infant and cloth

is that infant is a very young human being, from birth to somewhere between six months and two years of age, needing almost constant care and/or attention while cloth is (uncountable) a woven fabric such as used in dressing, decorating, cleaning or other practical use.

As a verb infant

is (obsolete) to bear or bring forth (a child); to produce, in general.

infant

English

(wikipedia infant)

Alternative forms

* infaunt (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A very young human being, from birth to somewhere between six months and two years of age, needing almost constant care and/or attention.
  • (legal) A minor.
  • (obsolete) A noble or aristocratic youth.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.2:
  • Retourned home, the royall Infant fell / Into her former fitt [...].

    See also

    * sudden infant death syndrome * newborn * neonate

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To bear or bring forth (a child); to produce, in general.
  • * Milton
  • This worthy motto, "No bishop, no king," is infanted out of the same fears.
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    cloth

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l) (obsolete) * (l), (l), (l) (Scotland)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (uncountable) A woven fabric such as used in dressing, decorating, cleaning or other practical use.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1905, author=
  • , title= , chapter=2 citation , passage=“H'm !” he said, “so, so—it is a tragedy in a prologue and three acts. I am going down this afternoon to see the curtain fall for the third time on what [...] will prove a good burlesque ; but it all began dramatically enough. It was last Saturday […] that two boys, playing in the little spinney just outside Wembley Park Station, came across three large parcels done up in American cloth . […]”}}
  • A piece of cloth used for a particular purpose.
  • A form of attire that represents a particular profession.
  • (in idioms) Priesthood, clergy.
  • Synonyms

    * (woven fabric) material, stuff * See also

    Derived terms

    (terms derived from "cloth") * cheesecloth * cut from the same cloth * dishcloth * facecloth * horsecloth * loincloth * man of the cloth * sackcloth * tablecloth * take the cloth * washcloth * whole cloth, from whole cloth, out of whole cloth * wire cloth