What is the difference between parent and paw?
parent | paw | Hypernyms |
One of the two persons from whom one is immediately biologically descended; a mother or father.
* c. 1595 , (William Shakespeare), The Tempest , First Folio 1623, I.2:
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* 2005 , Siobhan O'Neill, The Guardian , 24 Aug 2005:
A person who acts as a parent in rearing a child; a step-parent or adoptive parent.
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, title= (obsolete) A relative.
The source or origin of something.
* 1785 , (Thomas Jefferson), Notes on the State of Virginia :
(biology) An organism from which a plant or animal is immediately biologically descended.
(label) Sponsor, supporter, owner, protector.
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, title= # A parent company.
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, title= (computing) The object from which a child or derived object is descended; a node superior to another node.
To act as parent, to raise or rear.
The soft foot of a mammal or other animal, generally a quadruped, that has claws or nails; comparable to a human hand or foot.
(humorous) A hand.
(of an animal) To go through something (such as a garbage can) with paws
(of an animal) To gently push on something with a paw.
(of an animal) To draw the forefoot along the ground; to beat or scrape with the forefoot.
* Bible, Job xxxix. 21
(by extension, of a human) To touch someone (with the hands) in a sexual way.
* August 17 1997 , Robert Spector, in misc.fitness.weights :
* October 26 1997 , Verbotene, quoted by Amy McWilliams, in rec.arts.tv.soaps.abc :
* July 18 2002 , Lurker Dave, in rec.arts.comics.marvel.universe :
(by extension, of a human) To clumsily dig through something.
Parent is a hypernym of paw.
As nouns the difference between parent and paw
is that parent is one of the two persons from whom one is immediately biologically descended; a mother or father while paw is (nonstandard|or|rural) father; pa or paw can be the soft foot of a mammal or other animal, generally a quadruped, that has claws or nails; comparable to a human hand or foot.As verbs the difference between parent and paw
is that parent is to act as parent, to raise or rear while paw is (of an animal) to go through something (such as a garbage can) with paws.parent
English
(wikipedia parent)Noun
(en noun)- My twin sister says she loves our parents , but honestly, I dislike them .
- my trust / Like a good parent , did beget of him / A falsehood in it's contrarie, as great / As my trust was, which had indeede no limit, / A confidence sans bound.
- And they asked them, saying, Is this your son, who ye say was born blind? how then doth he now see? His parents answered them and said, We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind [...].
- The NHS is naturally pro-immunisation, reassuring parents that their babies can easily cope with these jabs.
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.}}
- Misery is often the parent of the most affecting touches in poetry.
The Three Corpse Trick, section=chapter 5 , passage=The dinghy was trailing astern at the end of its painter, and Merrion looked at it as he passed. He saw that it was a battered-looking affair of the prahm type, with a blunt snout, and like the parent ship, had recently been painted a vivid green.}}
T time, passage=The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them
Synonyms
* (person from whom one is descended) progenitor * motherAntonyms
* (person from whom one is descended) child, offspring * childHyponyms
* (person from whom one is descended) father, motherDerived terms
* parentage * parental * parentdom * parenthood * parentish * parentless * parentlike * parently * parentness * parentship * parent companyVerb
Derived terms
* parentingReferences
See also
* fosterAnagrams
* 1000 English basic words ----paw
English
Alternative forms
* paEtymology 1
The word probably has an origin in : see ‘pa’ .Synonyms
* (father :) pawpaw, pa, papa, father, dad, daddy, pappyHypernyms
* (father :) parentHyponyms
* (father :) step-pawCoordinate terms
* maw, brother, sis/sissyDerived terms
* pawpawEtymology 2
(etyl) pawe'', from (etyl) '' *''p?ta'' (compare Dutch ''poot'', Low German Pote, German ''Pfote''), from *''p?ton'' 'to put, stick, plant' (compare Dutch ''poten'' 'to plant'), from (etyl) 'paw'), Ancient Greek "????". More at put.Noun
(en noun)- Get your grubby paws off my things!
Synonyms
* (of a mammal :) hand, footHypernyms
* (foot of a mammal :) limb extremityMeronyms
* claw, fingerHolonyms
* limbCoordinate terms
* hoof, talonDerived terms
* paw (verb ) * pawprint(s) * catpawEtymology 3
From the noun paw'', meaning ''an animal's hand or foot .Verb
(en verb)- He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength: he goeth on to meet the armed men.
- IronMan used to be good in this way, back in the '80s. They wouldn't subscribe to the old, "Let's put a male bodybuilder with silicone babes pawing him" cover that's mainstay now.
- So, Katherine was out with Luke and they were both quite dolled up and swoon-worthy. Katherine fawned all over Luke and pawed him, but to what end? Was Stefan supposed to believe that Luke and Katherine have some sort of a thing going? What was the point of this display from Katherine's perspective?
- Subtlety is great, but what exactly happened with Jessica and the cop during sex that he locked her up afterwards? Also, what was the item she nicked from his shirt while she pawed him?