Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - birth
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Birth
birth
(births) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. When a baby is born, you refer to this event as his or her birth. It was the birth of his grandchildren which gave him greatest pleasure... She weighed 5lb 7oz at birth. ...premature births. N-VAR 2. You can refer to the beginning or origin of something as its birth. ...the birth of popular democracy. N-UNCOUNT: with poss 3. Some people talk about a person’s birth when they are referring to the social position of the person’s family. ...men of low birth... His birth, background and career show that you can make it in this country on merit alone. N-UNCOUNT: usu supp N 4. see also date of birth, home birth 5. If, for example, you are French by birth, you are French because your parents are French, or because you were born in France. Sadrudin was an Iranian by birth. PHRASE: adj/n PHR 6. When a woman gives birth, she produces a baby from her body. She’s just given birth to a baby girl... PHRASE: V inflects 7. To give birth to something such as an idea means to cause it to start to exist. In 1980, strikes at the Lenin shipyards gave birth to the Solidarity trade union. PHRASE: V inflects 8. The country, town, or village of your birth is the place where you were born. PHRASE: n PHR
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I. noun Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English, from Old Norse byrth; akin to Old English beran Date: 13th century 1. a. the emergence of a new individual from the body of its parent b. the act or process of bringing forth young from the womb 2. a state resulting from being born especially at a particular time or place a Southerner by ~ 3. a. lineage, extraction marriage between equals in ~ b. high or noble ~ 4. a. archaic one that is born b. beginning, start the ~ of an idea II. verb Date: 1855 transitive verb 1. chiefly dialect to bring forth 2. a. to give rise to ; originate b. to give ~ to intransitive verb to bring forth or be brought forth as a child or young III. adjective Date: 1975 biological 3 his ~ mother ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. & v. --n. 1 the emergence of a (usu. fully developed) infant or other young from the body of its mother. 2 rhet. the beginning or coming into existence of something (the birth of civilization; the birth of socialism). 3 a origin, descent, ancestry (of noble birth). b high or noble birth; inherited position. --v.tr. US colloq. 1 to give birth to. 2 to assist (a woman) to give birth. Phrases and idioms birth certificate an official document identifying a person by name, place, date of birth, and parentage. birth control the control of the number of children one conceives, esp. by contraception. birth pill the contraceptive pill. birth rate the number of live births per thousand of population per year. give birth bear a child etc. give birth to 1 produce (young) from the womb. 2 cause to begin, found. Etymology: ME f. ON byrth f. Gmc: see BEAR(1), -TH(2) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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размножение, рождение theory of birth and death processes — теория процессов рождения и гибели ...Англо-русский Русско-английский научно-технический словарь
Англо-русский Русско-английский экономический словарь
Англо-русский Русско-английский биологический словарь
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1. рождение; зарождение, начало, источник to give birth to —- родить, произвести на свет; дать начало (чему-л) to crush a movement at birth —- подавить движение в самом начале new birth —- второе рождение; возрождение 2. роды two at a birth —- двойня 3. происхождение English by birth —- англичанин по происхождению of good birth —- знатного происхождения 4. знатное происхождение he is a man of birth and breeding —- он из знати 5. натура; призвание musician by birth —- музыкант по призванию 6. редк. родить ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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noun 1) рождение an artist by birth - художник по призванию - give birth to - new birth - second birth 2) роды - two at a birth 3) начало, источник; происхождение to give birth to - дать начало чему-л. [ср. тж. birth 1) ] BIRTH control регулирование рождаемости BIRTH-CONTROL noun 1) регулирование рождаемости 2) противозачаточные меры ...Англо-русский словарь
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~ n 1 give birth (to) if a woman gives birth, she produces a baby from her body (She gave birth to a fine healthy girl.) 2 the time when a baby comes out of its mother's body (Congratulations on the birth of your daughter! | Were you present at the birth? | at birth) (He only weighed three pounds at birth.) 3 the character, language, social position etc that you have because of the family or country you come from (of noble birth | She is French by birth.) 4 the time when something new starts to exist (the birth of an idea | the birth of a nation) 5 the town/country etc of your birth the town, country etc where you were born ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- 12c., from O.N. byrth, which replaced O.E. gebyrd "birth" 13c., from P.Gmc. *gaburthis, from PIE *bhrto pp. of base *bher- "to bear." Suffix -th is for "process" (as in bath, death). Birthday is M.E.; birthnight is 1628; birthplace is from 1607; birthright is 1535. Birth control first attested 1914. Birthday suit first attested 1730s, but probably much older. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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