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BIRTH
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The event of being born
Example:
they celebrated the birth of their first child
Synonyms:
birth; nascence; nascency; nativity
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("birth" is a kind of...):
alteration; change; modification (an event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "birth"):
delivery (the event of giving birth)
live birth (the birth of a living fetus (regardless of the length of gestation))
posthumous birth (birth of a child by Caesarean section after the death of the mother)
posthumous birth (birth of a child after the father has died)
rebirth; reincarnation; renascence (a second or new birth)
Antonym:
death (the event of dying or departure from life)
Derivation:
be born (come into existence through birth)
birth (cause to be born)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A baby born; an offspring
Example:
the overall rate of incidence of Down's syndrome is one in every 800 births
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("birth" is a kind of...):
individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The process of giving birth
Synonyms:
birth; birthing; giving birth; parturition
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("birth" is a kind of...):
biological process; organic process (a process occurring in living organisms)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "birth"):
brooding; incubation (sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the body)
calving (giving birth to a calf)
accouchement; childbearing; childbirth; vaginal birth (the parturition process in human beings; having a baby; the process of giving birth to a child)
farrow; farrowing (the production of a litter of pigs)
hatch; hatching (the production of young from an egg)
egg laying; laying (the production of eggs (especially in birds))
childbed; confinement; labor; labour; lying-in; parturiency; travail (concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child)
Holonyms ("birth" is a part of...):
reproduction (the process of generating offspring)
Derivation:
be born (come into existence through birth)
birth (cause to be born)
Sense 4
Meaning:
The kinship relation of an offspring to the parents
Synonyms:
birth; parentage
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("birth" is a kind of...):
family relationship; kinship; relationship ((anthropology) relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption)
Sense 5
Meaning:
The time when something begins (especially life)
Example:
his election signaled the birth of a new age
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("birth" is a kind of...):
beginning; commencement; first; get-go; kickoff; offset; outset; showtime; start; starting time (the time at which something is supposed to begin)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "birth"):
cradle (birth of a person)
Holonyms ("birth" is a part of...):
life; life-time; lifespan; lifetime (the period during which something is functional (as between birth and death))
Antonym:
death (the time when something ends)
Derivation:
be born (come into existence through birth)
birth (cause to be born)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Cause to be born
Example:
My wife had twins yesterday!
Synonyms:
bear; birth; deliver; give birth; have
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Hypernyms (to "birth" is one way to...):
bring forth; produce (bring forth or yield)
"Birth" entails doing...:
conceive (become pregnant; undergo conception)
Verb group:
bear; carry; expect; gestate; have a bun in the oven (be pregnant with)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "birth"):
twin (give birth to twins)
drop (give birth; used for animals)
foal (give birth to a foal)
cub (give birth to cubs)
kitten (give birth to kittens)
lamb (give birth to a lamb)
litter (give birth to a litter of animals)
pup; whelp (give birth to (a puppy))
farrow; pig (give birth to (piglets))
fawn (have fawns)
calve; have young (give birth to (a calf))
bear; carry; expect; gestate; have a bun in the oven (be pregnant with)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Derivation:
birth (the event of being born)
birth (the process of giving birth)
birth (the time when something begins (especially life))
Context examples:
A blood disorder characterized by low hemoglobin levels in premature neonates that usually spontaneously resolves within 3-6 months post birth.
(Anemia of Prematurity, NCI Thesaurus)
Having to do with the time a female is pregnant, before birth occurs.
(Antenatal, NCI Dictionary)
The strain has a low reproductive performance with small litter sizes at birth and weaning.
(AKR/J Mouse, NCI Thesaurus)
The age at which a woman gave birth to her first live child.
(Age at First Live Birth, NCI Thesaurus)
The length of a person's life, stated in months since birth.
(Age-Months, NCI Thesaurus)
The length of a person's life, stated in years since birth.
(Age-Years, NCI Thesaurus)
This third scenario mimicked the changes the human heart undergoes during the last few weeks of fetal development and after birth.
(Early stimulation improves performance of bioengineered human heart cells, National Institutes of Health)
They collected umbilical cord blood from 996 births and measured the amount of acetaminophen and two of its byproducts in each sample.
(Acetaminophen exposure in pregnancy linked to higher risk of ADHD, autism, National Institutes of Health)
They implanted 42 surrogates, resulting in 22 pregnancies, but there were still only two infant macaques, and they died soon after birth.
(Healthy cloned monkeys born in Shanghai, Wikinews)
On its quadruped stance, an average specimen is believed to be 1.2 meters tall and its maximum height was likely to be reached two years after birth.
(Brazil and China scientists unearth pterosaur eggs with preserved embryos, Agência Brasil)
