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birth 音標拼音: [b'ɚθ] n. 分娩; U出身 分娩; U出身 birth n 1: the time when something begins ( especially life); " they divorced after the birth of the child"; " his election signaled the birth of a new age" [ ant: { death}, { demise}, { dying}] 2: the event of being born; " they celebrated the birth of their first child" [ synonym: { birth}, { nativity}, { nascency}, { nascence}] [ ant: { death}, { decease}, { expiry}] 3: the process of giving birth [ synonym: { parturition}, { birth}, { giving birth}, { birthing}] 4: the kinship relation of an offspring to the parents [ synonym: { parentage}, { birth}] 5: a baby born; an offspring; " the overall rate of incidence of Down' s syndrome is one in every 800 births" v 1: cause to be born; " My wife had twins yesterday!" [ synonym: { give birth}, { deliver}, { bear}, { birth}, { have}] Berth \ Berth\ ( b[~ e] rth), n. [ From the root of bear to produce, like birth nativity. See { Birth}.] [ Also written { birth}.] [ 1913 Webster] 1. ( Naut.) ( a) Convenient sea room. ( b) A room in which a number of the officers or ship' s company mess and reside. ( c) The place where a ship lies when she is at anchor, or at a wharf. [ 1913 Webster] 2. An allotted place; an appointment; situation or employment. " He has a good berth." -- Totten. [ 1913 Webster] 3. A place in a ship to sleep in; a long box or shelf on the side of a cabin or stateroom, or of a railway car, for sleeping in. [ 1913 Webster] { Berth deck}, the deck next below the lower gun deck. -- Ham. Nav. Encyc. { To give} ( the land or any object) { a wide berth}, to keep at a distance from it. [ 1913 Webster]
Birth \ Birth\ ( b[~ e] rth), n. [ OE. burth, birth, AS. beor[ eth], gebyrd, fr. beran to bear, bring forth; akin to D. geboorte, OHG. burt, giburt, G. geburt, Icel. bur[ eth] r, Skr. bhrti bearing, supporting; cf. Ir. & Gael. beirthe born, brought forth. [ root] 92. See 1st { Bear}, and cf. { Berth}.] 1. The act or fact of coming into life, or of being born; -- generally applied to human beings; as, the birth of a son. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Lineage; extraction; descent; sometimes, high birth; noble extraction. [ 1913 Webster] Elected without reference to birth, but solely for qualifications. -- Prescott. [ 1913 Webster] 3. The condition to which a person is born; natural state or position; inherited disposition or tendency. [ 1913 Webster] A foe by birth to Troy' s unhappy name. -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] 4. The act of bringing forth; as, she had two children at a birth. " At her next birth." -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 5. That which is born; that which is produced, whether animal or vegetable. [ 1913 Webster] Poets are far rarer births than kings. -- B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster] Others hatch their eggs and tend the birth till it is able to shift for itself. -- Addison. [ 1913 Webster] 6. Origin; beginning; as, the birth of an empire. [ 1913 Webster] { New birth} ( Theol.), regeneration, or the commencement of a religious life. [ 1913 Webster] Syn: Parentage; extraction; lineage; race; family. [ 1913 Webster]
Birth \ Birth\, n. See { Berth}. [ Obs.] -- De Foe. [ 1913 Webster] 187 Moby Thesaurus words for " birth": Altmann theory, DNA, De Vries theory, Galtonian theory, Mendelianism, Mendelism, RNA, Verworn theory, Weismann theory, Weismannism, Wiesner theory, abiogenesis, abortion, accouchement, affiliation, allele, allelomorph, ancestry, animal spirits, animate existence, animation, apparentation, archigenesis, aristocracy, aristocraticalness, babyhood, bear, bearing, beget, beginning, beginnings, being alive, biogenesis, birth throes, birthing, blastogenesis, blessed event, blood, bloodline, blue blood, branch, breed, bring to birth, character, childbearing, childbed, childbirth, childhood, chromatid, chromatin, chromosome, commencement, common ancestry, confinement, consanguinity, cradle, creation, dawn, dawning, delivery, derivation, descent, determinant, determiner, development, diathesis, digenesis, direct line, distaff side, distinction, emergence, endowment, engender, epigenesis, eugenics, eumerogenesis, existence, extraction, factor, family, father, female line, filiation, freshman year, gene, generation, genesiology, genesis, genetic code, genetics, genteelness, gentility, give birth to, giving birth, hatching, having a baby, having life, hereditability, heredity, heritability, heritage, heterogenesis, histogenesis, homogenesis, honorable descent, house, immortality, inborn capacity, inception, inchoation, incipience, incipiency, incunabula, infancy, inheritability, inheritance, isogenesis, labor, life, lifetime, line, line of descent, lineage, liveliness, living, long life, longevity, male line, matrocliny, merogenesis, metagenesis, miscarriage, monogenesis, mother, multiparity, nascence, nascency, nativity, nobility, noble birth, nobleness, onset, opening, origin, origination, orthogenesis, outset, outstart, pangenesis, parentage, parthenogenesis, parturition, patrocliny, pharmacogenetics, phylum, pregnancy, procreate, procreation, quality, race, rank, recessive character, replication, royalty, seed, sept, side, sire, slip, spear side, spindle side, spontaneous generation, spriteliness, start, stem, stirps, stock, strain, succession, sword side, the Nativity, the stork, travail, viability, vitality, vivacity, youth |
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