Orphan vs Food - What's the difference?
orphan | food |
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.
(uncountable) Any substance that can be consumed by living organisms, especially by eating, in order to sustain life.
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
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Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer. […]”}}* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=72-3, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= (countable) A foodstuff.
(uncountable, figuratively) Anything that nourishes or sustains.
* (and other bibiographic particulars) (William Shakespeare)
* (and other bibiographic particulars) (William Wordsworth)
As nouns the difference between orphan and food
is that orphan is a person, especially a minor, both or (rarely) one of whose parents have died while food is any substance that can be consumed by living organisms, especially by eating, in order to sustain life.As an adjective orphan
is deprived of parents (also {{term|orphaned}}).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 .
food
English
Noun
(en-noun)citation, passage=“[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes like
Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer. […]”}}
A punch in the gut, passage=Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism.}}
- Mozart and Bach are food for my soul.
- This may prove food to my displeasure.
- In this moment there is life and food / For future years.