Moses vs Mongoloid - What's the difference?
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The pharaonic patriarch who led the slaved Jews out of Egypt, the brother of Aaron and Miriam described in the Book of Exodus and the Quran.
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* 1952 (w, Singin' in the Rain): Moses supposes (a song):
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A dialect of the Columbia-Wenatchi language
A large flatboat used in the West Indies for taking freight from shore to ship.
(Webster 1913)
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(anthropology) A member of the racial classification of humanity composed of peoples native to North Asia, East Asia, Pacific Oceania, and Greenland, as well as their diaspora in other parts of the world.
* 1983 , Bertha Pauline Dutton, American Indians of the Southwest ,
* 1991 , Floyd James Davis, Who is Black?: One Nation's Definition ,
* 1997 , Masatoshi Nei, Arun K. Roychoudhury, Genetic Relationship and Evolution of Human Races ,
A person with Down syndrome.
* 1967 , W. Wolfensberger, 13: Counseling Parents of the Retarded'', Alfred A. Baumeister (editor), ''Ameliorating Mental Disability: Questioning Retardation , 2009,
* 1977 , Diana Crane, The Sanctity of Social Life: Physicians' Treatment of Critically Ill Patients ,
* 1994 , Meira Weiss, Conditional Love: Parents' Attitudes Toward Handicapped Children ,
(offensive) Idiot, retard; a general term of abuse, due to association with Down syndrome .
As nouns the difference between moses and mongoloid
is that moses is a large flatboat used in the West Indies for taking freight from shore to ship while mongoloid is a member of the racial classification of humanity composed of peoples native to North Asia, East Asia, Pacific Oceania, and Greenland, as well as their diaspora in other parts of the world.As a proper noun Moses
is the pharaonic patriarch who led the slaved Jews out of Egypt, the brother of Aaron and Miriam described in the Book of Exodus and the Quran.moses
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- And the LORD came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the mount: and the LORD called Moses' up to the top of the mount; and ' Moses went up.
- Moses' supposes his toeses are roses, / But '''Moses''' supposes erroneously, / '''Moses''' he knowses his toeses aren't roses, / As ' Moses supposes his toeses to be!
Derived terms
* Moses basketNoun
mongoloid
English
(wikipedia mongoloid)Alternative forms
* Mongoloid (especially the racial classification)Noun
(en noun)page 3,
- Both American Indians and Mongoloids' have shovel-shaped incisor teeth and, at birth, display the '''Mongoloid''' spot — a blue spot above the rump, which fades within a short time; many also have the ' Mongoloid , or epicanthic, fold of the inner part of the upper eyelid.
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- On the average, he found caucasoids to have the longest heads and mongoloids' the roundest; ' mongoloids the straightest hair and negroids the most tightly curled; caucasoids the narrowest noses and negroids the broadest.
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- As before, the genetic distance between Caucasoid and Mongoloid is the smallest and that between Negroid and Mongoloid is the largest.
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- Kirman (1953) drew attention to some physicians' reluctance to offer even ordinary and routine medical care to mongoloids , whose treatment they consider a waste of time.
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- It is therefore of interest to examine hospital records of mongoloid children with heart defects in order to find out how frequently operations are performed upon these children.
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- The operation made each feature, itself, look O.K., but her overall looks are still those of a Mongoloid . Her facial expression immediately reveals that she is different. She still has that peculiar look. You can see she has Down's syndrome.