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noun

a father or a mother.

an ancestor, precursor, or progenitor.

a source, origin, or cause.

a protector or guardian.

Biology. any organism that produces or generates another.

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Physics. the first nuclide in a radioactive series.

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adjective

being the original source: a parent organization.

Biology. pertaining to an organism, cell, or complex molecular structure that generates or produces another: parent cell; parent DNA.

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natural selection that favors altruistic behavior toward close relatives resulting in an increase in the individual's genetic contribution to the gene pool

the compact area of a nerve cell that constitutes the nucleus and surrounding cytoplasm, excluding the axons and dendrites

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verb (used with object)

to be or act as parent of: to parent children with both love and discipline.

Origin:
1375–1425; late Middle English (< Middle French ) < Latin parent- (stem of parēns), noun use of present participle of parere to bring forth, breed

Related forms

par·ent·less, adjective

par·ent·like, adjective

non·par·ent, noun

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Example Sentences

Navigating that reality is the key to being a parent.

Parent pressure has also lowered teachers' absenteeism.

Behind the snarl lies a cagey opportunist, proficient hunter, and dutiful parent.

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Navigating that reality is the key to being a parent.

Parent pressure has also lowered teachers' absenteeism.

Behind the snarl lies a cagey opportunist, proficient hunter, and dutiful parent.

How a parent presents to a child is much more influential than what a parent presents.

Planted, they will produce trees similar but not identical to their two parent trees.

Layering is a propagation method that encourages new roots to form on branches still attached to the parent plant.

After all, saying you're against all vaccines does start to sound crazy, even to a parent in distress over a child's autism.

My conflict was part of the strange and inevitable burden of responsibility that moves in with an aging parent.

And heaven help any lone parent who must pay market rent.

One unusual characteristic of this fearsome predator is its caring nature as a parent.

In short, imprinting is a process by which a gene's expression in a child depends on which parent donated it before development.

Take cuttings from a healthy, vigorous parent plant.

Age ratings are more complicated than they first appear, especially if you are a parent who is new to gaming.

Thirty-three were from homes where a parent or grandparent smoked.

Such rapid orbits mean the planets in question are close to their parent stars, and thus likely to be tidally locked.

Grab a parent and check out our partners' websites below to find a jumping jack event near you.

Every parent needs a break from time to time-a few minutes to prepare dinner, do the laundry or quickly check e-mail.

With a knife, cut the parent rhizome into segments so each has its own leaf fan.

Others fear that linking children's disabilities to their parents' inclinations is a new way of blaming the parent.

There are several reasons children with a parent in prison are more likely to get in trouble, experts say.

Most of these discoveries have relied on detecting the indirect effects that a planet has on its parent star.

If the parent who is a photic sneezer has only one copy of the gene, this is true.

Tubers are the only predictable way to grow the same variety from a parent plant.

The books mix learning with crafts and small home projects that provide hours of combined efforts between parent and child.

If a parent is simply loud, he says, the effect is minimal.

These varieties would have then been propagated by growing cuttings from suckers that sprout out from the parent plant.

Consequently, any preschool program should make every effort to include parent participaton in the early education of children.

When growth recommences, new canes will appear all around parent plant and between rows.

Farmers propagated these varieties by taking cuttings from suckers that grow from the base of the parent plant.

Everyone has two copies of the gene, one from each parent.

And manga is all around us, especially if you're a parent of a boy.

In some ways prime brokers may also act against the interests of their own parent banks.

The composition of meteorites reflects what must have happened on their parent bodies.

If the special-purpose vehicle is not considered distinct from the parent company, its financing advantages will be lost.

The local media covered it shortly but was instructed to stop by pressure applied by political forces on the parent companies.

We concluded that behind the foreign banks stand their parent companies.

The importance of attachment-a sound emotional relationship-between a child and a parent has long been well understood.

All three funds certainly took good care of their parent.

Most of those hybrid speciations are examples of allopolyploidy, in which each parent contributes exactly half the genome.

Which suggests that some algae may be handed down directly from parent to child.

Arp stated that quasars are ejected at higher redshifts from the parent galaxy.

Some children become angry or protective toward one parent or the.

Stronach emphasized that his campus does not provide revenue to its parent university, but instead pays a management fee.

Disputes in a school playground have ended with a parent throwing a grenade or firing a warning.

Instead of having one set of chromosomes from each parent, it has two sets from one parent and one set from the other parent.

Get fast results by separating small offsets from a full-size parent.

Klein issued new rules on school zoning yesterday that give district parent councils only narrow authority to approve the.

One parent made multiple requests for a layout of the honors dorm so she could ensure that her son's room location was optimal.

If a parent disagrees with the school, he knows they could show up with their lawyer.

Watch an osprey parent go fishing to feed the hungry chicks waiting back at the nest.

Both sets of companies are now in messy public divorces, because the parent companies had to change their trajectories.

Guidelines for calling the authorities on a parent you think is wronging their child.

Consider how many of them have child-care expenses, a parent living with them, or a health scare recently survived.

Every parent has probably suffered from this type of near catastrophe.

Perhaps as a child you made a wish on a falling star, and perhaps as a parent you've encouraged your young ones to do the same.

Those are the kids who really need a book, about how to parent themselves through this process.

After your parent has activated your account, you will be able to upload photos.

As a parent of a three-year-old, distractions can be a powerful tool.

Just before the end of that day, the parent has to tell the nasty little kid to stop.

One of the joys of being a geeky parent is sharing your intense interests with your geeklings.

Ask a parent to help you cut cardboard into the shape of a television screen.

As the planet orbits, its gravity gently pulls its parent star back and forth.

Don't forget to print a submission form and have your parent or guardian sign it.

If you don't you can be arrested and jailed for not caring for your parent.

After all, a parent isn't an infinite source of food and protection.

Ask a parent or trusted adult to help you use the camera and develop the film or download the digital images.

Individuals are born with a set of traits that it receives from its parent or parents.

Each winner will bring a parent or guardian on the expedition.

These violently roiling columns of air originate from parent thunderstorms called supercells.

Grandmothers care for their dying adult children and then take on the role of parent for their orphaned grandchildren.

Individually these particles have the same energy as the parent two poled cell.

Study after study has shown that the best predictor of a child's success in school is an involved parent.

It shows up in cases where fluoride supplements were recommended to a child, but too much was given by the parent.

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World English Dictionary

parent (ˈpɛərənt)

—n
1.	a father or mother
2.	a person acting as a father or mother; guardian
3.	rare an ancestor
4.	a source or cause
5.	a. an organism or organization that has produced one or more organisms or organizations similar to itself
	b. (as modifier): a parent organism
6.	physics, chem
	a. a precursor, such as a nucleus or compound, of a derived entity
	b. (as modifier): a parent nucleus; a parent ion

[C15: via Old French from Latin parens parent, from parere to bring forth]

'parenthood

—n

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Word Origin & History

parent

1185, from O.Fr. parent (11c.), from L. parentem (nom. parens) "father or mother, ancestor," noun use of prp. of parere "bring forth, give birth to, produce," from PIE base *per- "to bring forth" (see pare). Began to replace native elder after c.1500. The verb is attested from

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1663. The verbal noun parenting is first recorded 1959 (earlier term had been parentcraft, 1930).

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Medical Dictionary

parent par·ent (pâr'ənt, pār'-)
n.

One who begets, gives birth to, or nurtures and raises a child; a father or a mother.
An ancestor; a progenitor.
An organism that produces or generates offspring.

v. par·ent·ed, par·ent·ing, par·ents

To act as a parent to; to rear and nurture.
To cause to come into existence; to serve as a source for; originate.

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Computing Dictionary

parent definition

mathematics, data
The ancestor node in a tree that points to the current node (one of its child nodes).
(2005-09-15)

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