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Tod vs Child - What's the difference?

tod | child |

In obsolete terms the difference between tod and child

is that tod is to weigh; to yield in tods while child is a female infant; a girl.

As a verb tod

is to weigh; to yield in tods.

tod

English

Etymology 1

Origin unknown.

Noun

(en noun)
  • A fox.
  • * Ben Jonson
    • the wolf, the tod , the brock
  • * Richard Adams, The Plague Dogs
    • Who am Ah? Ah'm tod , whey Ah'm tod, ye knaw. Canniest riever on moss and moor!
  • # A male fox; a dog; a reynard.
  • Someone like a fox; a crafty person.
    • Related terms
    * *

    Etymology 2

    Apparently cognate with East Frisian .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A bush; used especially of ivy .
  • * '', Act 4, Scene 2, 1997 , Lois Potter (editor), ''The Two Noble Kinsmen , page 277,
    • His head's yellow, / Hard-haired, and curled, thick-twined like ivy tods , / Not to undo with thunder.
  • * Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    • The ivy tod is heavy with snow.
  • An old English measure of weight, usually of wool, containing two stone or 28 pounds (13 kg).
  • * 1843 , The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge , Volume 27, p. 202:
    • Seven pounds make a clove, 2 cloves a stone, 2 stone a tod, 6 1/2 tods a wey, 2 weys a sack, 12 sacks a last. [...] It is to be observed here that a sack is 13 tods, and a tod 28 pounds, so that the sack is 364 pounds.
  • * 1882 , James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , Volume 4, p. 209:
    • Generally, however, the stone or petra, almost always of 14 lbs., is used, the tod of 28 lbs., and the sack of thirteen stone.

    Verb

    (todd)
  • (obsolete) To weigh; to yield in tods.

    • Anagrams

    * English terms with unknown etymologies ----

    child

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l) (archaic)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • 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:
    • 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.
  • (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:
    • 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
  • (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= 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.}}
  • (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
    • The algorithm pops the stack to obtain a new current node when there are no more children (when it reaches a leaf).
  • (obsolete) A female infant; a girl.
  • * Shakespeare
    • 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 also

    Antonyms

    * (daughter or son) father, mother, parent * (person below the age of adulthood) adult * parent

    Derived terms

    * boomerang child * childhood * childish * childless * childlike * love-child * lovechild * manchild * middle child * only child * perpetual child * problem child * schoolchild * war child * with child

    Related terms

    * chield, chiel * childe * Childermas

    See also

    * orling

    References

    * 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