Parent
Meanings and phrases
parent
- a father or mother; one who begets or one who gives birth to or nurtures and raises a child; a relative who plays the role of guardian
- an organism (plant or animal) from which younger ones are obtained
parent
- bring up; rear; raise; bring up; nurture
n.
- a woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother); mother
n.
- a person who acts as parent and guardian for a child in place of the child's natural parents but without legally adopting the child; foster-parent
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- British Bakeries parent company is Premier Foods.
- Today, KTM AG is the parent company of the KTM Group.
- The parent company is Prettl Produktions Holding GmbH.
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- and returned to his parent club on 16 June 2015.
- In April, he returned to his parent club.
- After making three appearance, Wedderburn return to his parent club.
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- She returned home to Texas, and is still a single parent to Justus.
- Like mitochondria, chloroplasts are usually inherited from a single parent.
- Valentine grew up in a poor, single parent home in Moundsville, West Virginia.
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- Brittany Spanos of "Rolling Stone" considered it a "weak spot" in the parent album.
- On its parent album, where every song stands for a "deadly sin", "Égal" represents pride.
- A companion to "Apple Venus Volume 1", it has the same running order as its parent album.
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- Monthly remuneration to staff is as per the rules of concerned parent organization.
- Casa Alianza's parent organization Covenant House stated he was actually dismissed.
- BREADA is the parent organization of the Red Stick Farmers Market and the Main Street Market.
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- It differs from the parent body mainly on two points.
- It is, however, run independently from the parent body.
- Its parent body may be the asteroid Icarus.
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- For autosomal genes, diploid organisms inherit one copy from each parent.
- Instead, each parent chose a name, hence his legal name Christopher Robin.
- For the most part, chromosomes come in pairs, one chromosome from each parent.
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- Its parent star has 88% less volume than the Sun.
- As of May 25, 2013 it is 110 AU from its parent star.
- It orbits its parent star every 3.36 days at a distance of 0.042 astronomical units (AU).
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- The sori are pale brown, resembling those of the parent species.
- It is one of the parent species of the hybrid "Eurybia × herveyi".
- Both parent species prefer acidic soil, typically growing on sandstone.
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- Additional locomotives were leased as needed from PRSL's parent companies, PRR and RDG.
- This did not affect control of Eldon as Arron Banks was then majority shareholder in both parent companies.
- As equally-owned company, it is governed by a board of directors composed of two members from each of the parent companies.
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- OSG again formed the bulk of the policing response along with their parent unit, PORS.
- By mid-April, Delta had advanced into Baghdad and 'Team Tank' returned to its parent unit.
- The OTU program involved the use of an oversized parent unit to provide cadres to "satellite groups."
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- Fox News' former parent company News Corporation has a stake in both SKY and Prime.
- It also produces buses and trucks and is known for its former parent company's name, AvtoZAZ.
- It was created in 2001 when the CPR's former parent company, Canadian Pacific Limited, spun off its railway operations.
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- Both segments follow former alignments of their parent route.
- In Lenox, Route 7A splits with its parent route just south of US 7's junction with US 20.
- These special routes, which boast "Scenic" banners are typically longer than the "parent route".
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- Ingall's retains its own board and president but its corporate parent is now UChicago Medicine.
- The bank's most direct corporate parent was established in 1891 in Atlanta, where it was headquartered.
- Allegations of insider trading on the part of Noël Forgeard, CEO of EADS, its majority corporate parent, promptly followed.