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BORN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
British nuclear physicist (born in Germany) honored for his contributions to quantum mechanics (1882-1970)
Synonyms:
Born; Max Born
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
nuclear physicist (a physicist who specializes in nuclear physics)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Being talented through inherited qualities
Example:
an innate talent
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
intelligent (having the capacity for thought and reason especially to a high degree)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Brought into existence
Example:
he was a child born of adultery
Classified under:
Similar:
hatched (emerged from an egg)
Antonym:
unborn (not yet brought into existence)
III. (verb)
Sense 1
Past participle of the verb bear
Context examples:
Some people are born with one.
(Disabilities, Department of Health and Human Services)
She was born for all that is beautiful and dainty.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But say no more than you are told to say, or’—here came the nervous giggle again—‘you had better never have been born.’
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The period at birth when a newborn is born after the full gestational period.
(Full Term Neonatal Stage, NCI Thesaurus)
Most people who have the condition are born with it.
(Mitral Valve Prolapse, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)
Some people are born with peripheral nerve disorders.
(Peripheral Nerve Disorders, NIH: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)
Here he was born, and here he had lived the four years of his life.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
All babies born in U.S. hospitals must now have a screening test for PKU.
(Phenylketonuria, NIH: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development)
If she had been born a Queen Bee, and they labouring Bees, they could not have been more satisfied of that.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I, their eldest child, was born at Naples, and as an infant accompanied them in their rambles.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
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