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名词 n. 动词 v.
/ˈpɛəɹənt/|/ˈpɛːɹənt/    /ˈpɛəɹənt/|/ˈpæɹənt/|/ˈpeːɹənt/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person who raises a child (which they have made, adopted, fostered, taken as their own, etc.). in-plural,often
    — After both her parents were killed in a forest fire, Sonia was adopted by her aunt and uncle.
  2. A person who has had a baby; this person in relation to their child or children. in-plural,often
  3. A surrogate parent.
  4. A third person who has provided DNA samples in an IVF procedure in order to alter faulty genetic material.
  5. A relative. obsolete
  6. The source or origin of something.
    — Misery is often the parent of the most affecting touches in poetry.
  7. An organism from which a plant or animal is immediately biologically descended.
  8. Sponsor, supporter, owner, protector. attributive
    — The dinghy was trailing astern at the end of its painter, and Merrion looked at it as he passed. He saw that it was a battered-looking affair of the prahm type, with a blunt snout, and like the parent ship, had recently been painted a vivid green.
  9. Sponsor, supporter, owner, protector.; A parent company. attributive
    — The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them[…]is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies.[…]current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate[…]“stateless income”: profit subject to tax in a jurisdiction that is neither the location of the factors of production that generate the income nor where the parent firm is domiciled.
  10. The object from which a child or derived object is descended; a node superior to another node.
  11. The nuclide that decays into a daughter nuclide.
动词 v.
  1. To act as parent, to raise or rear.
    — However, even with money and caregivers, the child is left without a parent and most likely without a plan for their emotional, psychological, and spiritual well-being. A time will come when you will no longer be able to parent your child, period.
  2. To provide a parent object for one or more other objects, which become the children.

词形变化

parents plural parents present,singular,third-person parenting participle,present parented participle,past parented past

词源

词源 1
From Middle English parent, borrowed from Anglo-Norman parent, Middle French parent, from Latin parentem, accusative of parēns (“parent”), present participle of pariō (“to breed, bring forth”).
词源 2
From Middle English parent, borrowed from Anglo-Norman parent, Middle French parent, from Latin parentem, accusative of parēns (“parent”), present participle of pariō (“to breed, bring forth”).
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