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noun

an act or instance of being born: the day of his birth.

the act or process of bearing or bringing forth offspring; childbirth; parturition: a difficult birth.

lineage; extraction; descent: of Grecian birth.

high or noble lineage: to be foolishly vain about one's birth.

natural heritage: a musician by birth.

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any coming into existence; origin; beginning: the birth of Protestantism; the birth of an idea.

Archaic. something that is born.

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verb (used with object) Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S.

to give birth to.

to assist in giving birth; act as midwife for.

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Idiom

10.

give birth to,

to bear (a child).

to initiate; originate: Her hobby gave birth to a successful business.

Origin:
1150–1200; Middle English byrthe < Scandinavian; compare Old Swedish byrth; cognate with Old English gebyrd, Old High German giburt, Gothic gabaurths

Related forms

mul·ti·birth, noun

Can be confused: berth, birth.

Synonyms
3. parentage, ancestry, line, blood, family, race. 6. start, commencement, inception, genesis; launching, inauguration.

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Example Sentences

MY daughter, a divorced mother of three, called me recently to complain about the high cost of birth control.

Many people have responded about tenure-track positions and taking time off after giving birth.

Suggesting the absence baby bauble as a reason for low birth rates is simply over-fetched.

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MY daughter, a divorced mother of three, called me recently to complain about the high cost of birth control.

Many people have responded about tenure-track positions and taking time off after giving birth.

Suggesting the absence baby bauble as a reason for low birth rates is simply over-fetched.

Two new minerals that formed at the birth of our solar system have been found inside meteorites, new research shows.

Mothers living near freeways and congested roads are more likely to give birth to premature.

Not only that, the solution marked the birth of a new field, called compressive sampling.

She also has to be impregnated and give birth so that she'll lactate.

Women take a significant step forward as the first commercial birth control pill is approved, but the side effects can be deadly.

Indeed, birth order can be used to explain every trait and.

The general announcement traditionally comes with the birth itself, sadly because of the high mortality rates of old.

They have even turned around the country's declining birth rate.

Early whales plied the shallows but still hauled themselves onto shore, probably to rest and to give birth.

There were also four females who gave birth for the first time.

Babies also flex their mental muscles months before birth.

Mothers living near highways in wealthy neighborhoods are more likely to give birth to preterm or low-birth-weight babies.

Please redact out references to social security numbers and birth date on transcript copies.

More important than past changes in fertility is the sharp improvement in life expectancy between birth and the age of.

Researchers have discovered the earliest known ancestor of the group of mammals that give birth to live young.

So, good birth control that you only have to think about every three months, or every five years.

Other researchers were studying skin diseases, incontinence after giving birth and hair loss.

The mystery of why galaxies formed early in the history of the universe give birth to more stars than modern ones has been solved.

Birth control pills, also called oral contraceptives, are prescription medicines designed to prevent pregnancy.

Because no information about the birth parents was available, they could only test the two children.

But they do outdo human dads on one count-by giving birth.

Imagine being present at the birth of a new industry.

The processes that give birth to computers and other electronic devices are also cause for concern.

Scientists had been unsure whether they reflected the actual birth of animal life, or merely the beginning of the fossil record.

Afghan religious leaders attended a workshop on birth control, birth spacing and breast-feeding last month.

Birth name was longer, always have to spell it out, etc.

Well-fed females are more likely to give birth, and to give birth to healthy calves.

Blocking the birth of new neurons helps hook rats on cocaine.

The evolution of a new species would be its birth and extinction would be its death.

The birth of a new product category is similar to childbirth.

Gender, birth spacing and temperament help shape our individual characters, too.

But there is no question that down the birth order you do find more rebellion.

Or you wait a little too long and then the tornado forms before you are in position and you miss its birth.

The birth of something less beastly could not be ruled out.

Nineteen states have enacted laws allowing certificates of birth resulting in stillbirth.

Twins are separated at birth and are adopted by two separate families.

They also travel, mate, and sometimes give birth on the ice.

In other words, since birth fluids are such strong attractants, you should smear birth fluids onto the cross-fostered calf.

Like many other adoptees who search through phone books, birth and.

My beautiful, slightly premature son had shown enormous kindness in the timing of his birth.

At birth she was about the size and weight of a stick of butter.

Antibiotics prescribed for infants within six months of birth may be contributing to increased rates of asthma, scientists say.

But in the past few years, a handful of studies have found that the so-called birth order effect might be more myth than reality.

So, medically speaking, giving birth at home has some advantages.

The potential evidence for early star birth may shake commonly held theories of galaxy formation.

Birth control pills appear to remodel brain structure.

In delaying a trial so a lawyer can attend the birth of his child, a judge chastised the lawyer who opposed the request.

Women are less likely to get infections when they give birth at home rather than in a hospital.

Botok, a rare white camel, was rejected by his mother at birth.

He notes that untreated depression increases the risk of prematurity, low birth weight and neonatal complications, too.

She describes how women in her village give birth inside the temascal.

Over hundreds of thousands of years the clump in turn collapsed, triggering fusion and the birth of a star.

Pregnant women who contract the mosquito-borne disease can develop severe anemia and give birth to underweight babies.

Well, the birth was easy and there were no health problems anyway.

Marsupial and placental mammals all share the habit of giving birth to live young.

People blind since birth were able to distinguish individual fast touches to their fingertips better than were sighted people or.

She got tenure a couple of weeks after the birth of her second child.

Babies with low birth weights tend to be smaller and more prone to illness as adults, he says.

At birth time the hole in hearth is also closed and blood starts to flow through lungs.

The school received the scores of a test taker who not only shared my first and last names but also my exact date of birth.

The law had no provisions for genetics, so giving birth made her the legal mom.

And then a friend of mine who worked on an ambulance crew once picked up a young woman who gave birth in the ambulance.

Further, they studied birth cohorts: people all the same age but from different generations.

Anatomy at birth may influence many things, but it is not fate.

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World English Dictionary

birth (bɜːθ)

—n
1.	the process of bearing young; parturition; childbirthRelated: natal
2.	the act or fact of being born; nativity
3.	the coming into existence of something; origin
4.	ancestry; lineage: of high birth
5.	noble ancestry: a man of birth
6.	natural or inherited talent: an artist by birth
7.	archaic the offspring or young born at a particular time or of a particular mother
8.	give birth
	a. to bear (offspring)
	b. to produce, originate, or create (an idea, plan, etc)

—vb
9.	to bear or bring forth (a child)

Related: natal

[C12: from Old Norse byrth; related to Gothic gabaurths, Old Swedish byrdh, Old High German berd child; see bear¹, bairn]

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Word Origin & History

birth

early 13c., from O.N. *byrðr (replacing cognate O.E. gebyrd "birth, descent, race; offspring; nature; fate"), from P.Gmc. *gaburthis (cf. O.Fris. berd, O.S. giburd, Du. geboorte, Ger. geburt, Goth. gabaurþs), from PIE *bhrto pp. of base *bher- (1) "to bear" (cf. Skt. bhrtih "a bringing, maintenance,"

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L. fors, gen. fortis "chance;" see bear (v.)). Suffix -th is for "process" (as in bath, death). Meaning "parentage, lineage, extraction" (revived from O.E.) is from mid-13c. Birth control is from 1914; birth rate from 1859.

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American Heritage

Medical Dictionary

birth (bûrth)
n.

The emergence and separation of offspring from the body of the mother.
The act or process of bearing young; parturition.
The circumstances or conditions relating to this event, as its time or location.
The set of characteristics or circumstances received from one's ancestors; inheritance.
Origin; extraction.

American Heritage

Science Dictionary

birth   (bûrth) Pronunciation Key
Noun   The emergence and separation of offspring from the body of its mother, seen in all mammals except monotremes.

Adjective   Present at birth, as a defect in a bodily structure.

Easton

Bible Dictionary

Birth definition

As soon as a child was born it was washed, and rubbed with salt (Ezek. 16:4), and then swathed with bandages (Job 38:9; Luke 2:7, 12). A Hebrew mother remained forty days in seclusion after the birth of a son, and after the birth of a daughter double that number of days. At the close of that period she entered into the tabernacle or temple and offered up a sacrifice of purification (Lev. 12:1-8; Luke 2:22). A son was circumcised on the eighth day after his birth, being thereby consecrated to God (Gen. 17:10-12; comp. Rom. 4:11). Seasons of misfortune are likened to the pains of a woman in travail, and seasons of prosperity to the joy that succeeds child-birth (Isa. 13:8; Jer. 4:31; John 16:21, 22). The natural birth is referred to as the emblem of the new birth (John 3:3-8; Gal. 6:15; Titus 3:5, etc.).

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American Heritage

Idioms & Phrases

birth

see give birth to.

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