mother 音标拼音: [m'ʌðɚ]
n . 母亲,修女院长
vt . 产生,照看,收养
母亲,修女院长产生,照看,收养
mother 母
mother n 1 :
a woman who has given birth to a child (
also used as a term of address to your mother ); "
the mother of three children "
[
synonym : {
mother }, {
female parent }] [
ant : {
begetter },
{
father }, {
male parent }]
2 :
a stringy slimy substance consisting of yeast cells and bacteria ;
forms during fermentation and is added to cider or wine to produce vinegar 3 :
a term of address for an elderly woman 4 :
a term of address for a mother superior 5 :
a condition that is the inspiration for an activity or situation ; "
necessity is the mother of invention "
v 1 :
care for like a mother ; "
She fusses over her husband " [
synonym :
{
mother }, {
fuss }, {
overprotect }]
2 :
make children ; "
Abraham begot Isaac "; "
Men often father children but don '
t recognize them " [
synonym : {
beget }, {
get },
{
engender }, {
father }, {
mother }, {
sire }, {
generate }, {
bring forth }]
Mauther \
Mau "
ther \ (
m [
add ]"[
th ][~
e ]
r ),
n . [
Cf .
AS .
maeg [
thorn ]
a maid .] [
Also spelled {
mawther }, {
mother }.]
A girl ;
esp .,
a great ,
awkward girl ;
a wench . [
Prov .
Eng .]
[
1913 Webster ]
Mother \
Moth "
er \ (
m [
u ^][
th ]"[~
e ]
r ),
n . [
OE .
moder ,
AS .
m [=
o ]
dor ;
akin to D .
moeder ,
OS .
m [=
o ]
dar ,
G .
mutter ,
OHG .
muotar ,
Icel .
m [=
o ][
eth ]
ir ,
Dan . &
Sw .
moder ,
OSlav .
mati ,
Russ .
mate ,
Ir . &
Gael .
mathair ,
L .
mater ,
Gr .
mh `
thr ,
Skr .
m [=
a ]
t [.
r ];
cf .
Skr .
m [=
a ]
to measure . [
root ]
268 .
Cf .
{
Material }, {
Matrix }, {
Metropolis }, {
Father }.]
1 .
A female parent ;
especially ,
one of the human race ;
a woman who has borne a child .
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1913 Webster ]
2 .
That which has produced or nurtured anything ;
source of birth or origin ;
generatrix .
[
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Alas !
poor country ! . . .
it can not Be called our mother ,
but our grave . --
Shak .
[
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I behold . . .
the solitary majesty of Crete ,
mother of a religion ,
it is said ,
that lived two thousand years . --
Landor .
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3 .
An old woman or matron . [
Familiar ]
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4 .
The female superior or head of a religious house ,
as an abbess ,
etc .
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5 .
Hysterical passion ;
hysteria . [
Obs .] --
Shak .
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{
Mother Carey '
s chicken } (
Zool .),
any one of several species of small petrels ,
as the stormy petrel ({
Procellaria pelagica }),
and Leach '
s petrel ({
Oceanodroma leucorhoa }),
both of the Atlantic ,
and {
Oceanodroma furcata }
of the North Pacific .
{
Mother Carey '
s goose } (
Zool .),
the giant fulmar of the Pacific .
See {
Fulmar }.
{
Mother '
s mark } (
Med .),
a congenital mark upon the body ;
a birthmark ;
a naevus .
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Mother \
Moth "
er \,
a .
Received by birth or from ancestors ;
native ,
natural ;
as ,
mother language ;
also acting the part ,
or having the place of a mother ;
producing others ;
originating .
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It is the mother falsehood from which all idolatry is derived . --
T .
Arnold .
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{
Mother cell } (
Biol .),
a cell which ,
by endogenous divisions ,
gives rise to other cells (
daughter cells );
a parent cell .
{
Mother church },
the original church ;
a church from which other churches have sprung ;
as ,
the mother church of a diocese .
{
Mother country },
the country of one '
s parents or ancestors ;
the country from which the people of a colony derive their origin .
{
Mother liquor } (
Chem .),
the impure or complex residual solution which remains after the salts readily or regularly crystallizing have been removed .
{
Mother queen },
the mother of a reigning sovereign ;
a queen mother .
{
Mother tongue }.
(
a )
A language from which another language has had its origin .
(
b )
The language of one '
s native land ;
native tongue .
{
Mother water }.
See {
Mother liquor } (
above ).
{
Mother wit },
natural or native wit or intelligence .
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1913 Webster ]
Mother \
Moth "
er \,
n . [
Akin to D .
modder mud ,
G .
moder mold ,
mud ,
Dan .
mudder mud ,
and to E .
mud .
See {
Mud }.]
A film or membrane which is developed on the surface of fermented alcoholic liquids ,
such as vinegar ,
wine ,
etc .,
and acts as a means of conveying the oxygen of the air to the alcohol and other combustible principles of the liquid ,
thus leading to their oxidation .
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1913 Webster ]
Note :
The film is composed of a mass of rapidly developing microorganisms of the genus {
Mycoderma },
and in the {
mother of vinegar }
the microorganisms ({
Mycoderma aceti })
composing the film are the active agents in the Conversion of the alcohol into vinegar .
When thickened by growth ,
the film may settle to the bottom of the fluid .
See {
Acetous fermentation },
under {
Fermentation }.
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Mother \
Moth "
er \,
v .
i .
To become like ,
or full of ,
mother ,
or thick matter ,
as vinegar .
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1913 Webster ]
mother \
moth "
er \ (
m [
u ^][
th ]"[~
e ]
r ),
n . [
Shortened from motherfucker as a euphemism .]
1 .
Same as {
motherfucker }. [
Vulgar slang ]
[
PJC ]
2 .
A person or thing with some exceptional quality ,
as great size or power ;
as ,
a grizzly stuck his nose in my tent and I grabbed my pistol and shot the mother . [
Slang ]
[
PJC ]
Mother \
Moth "
er \,
v .
t . [
imp . &
p .
p . {
Mothered };
p .
pr . &
vb .
n . {
Mothering }.]
To adopt as a son or daughter ;
to perform the duties of a mother to .
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1913 Webster ]
The queen ,
to have put lady Elizabeth besides the crown ,
would have mothered another body '
s child .
--
Howell .
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1913 Webster ]
233 Moby Thesaurus words for "
mother ":
SOB ,
agent ,
ancestorial ,
ancestors ,
ancestral ,
apprentice ,
architect ,
artificer ,
artist ,
attend to ,
aunt ,
auntie ,
author ,
baby ,
baby -
sit ,
bastard ,
bear ,
beget ,
begetter ,
beginner ,
birth ,
blood brother ,
breed ,
breed true ,
brethren ,
bring to birth ,
brother ,
bub ,
bubba ,
bud ,
buddy ,
bugger ,
builder ,
care for ,
catalyst ,
causer ,
chaperon ,
cherish ,
coddle ,
conceiver ,
conserve ,
constructor ,
copulate ,
cosset ,
country cousin ,
cousin ,
cousin once removed ,
cousin twice removed ,
cradle ,
craftsman ,
creator ,
creep ,
crossbreed ,
cultivate ,
dam ,
daughter ,
designer ,
deviser ,
discoverer ,
dry -
nurse ,
effector ,
engender ,
engenderer ,
engineer ,
executor ,
executrix ,
fart ,
father ,
fatherlike ,
fatherly ,
feed ,
first cousin ,
fondle ,
foster ,
foster brother ,
foster mother ,
founder ,
frater ,
generate ,
generator ,
genesis ,
genetrix ,
get ,
give birth to ,
grandfatherly ,
grandmotherly ,
grandnephew ,
grandniece ,
grandparental ,
granduncle ,
great -
aunt ,
great -
uncle ,
grower ,
half brother ,
heel ,
hood ,
hooligan ,
inaugurator ,
inbreed ,
indulge ,
industrialist ,
initiator ,
innate ,
inspirer ,
instigator ,
institutor ,
introducer ,
inventor ,
jerk ,
journeyman ,
keep watch over ,
kid brother ,
lavish care on ,
look after ,
look out for ,
look to ,
louse ,
ma ,
make love ,
maker ,
mam ,
mama ,
mamma ,
mammy ,
manufacturer ,
master ,
master craftsman ,
mater ,
materfamilias ,
maternal ,
maternal ancestor ,
matriarch ,
matronize ,
maw ,
meanie ,
mind ,
minister to ,
mom ,
mommy ,
motherlike ,
motherly ,
mover ,
multiply ,
mum ,
mummy ,
native ,
natural ,
nephew ,
niece ,
nourish ,
nuncle ,
nunks ,
nunky ,
nurse ,
nurture ,
nurturer ,
old ,
old lady ,
old woman ,
organizer ,
origin ,
originator ,
outbreed ,
pamper ,
parent ,
parental ,
past master ,
paternal ,
patriarchal ,
pill ,
planner ,
precursor ,
preserve ,
prime mover ,
primum mobile ,
procreate ,
producer ,
progenitrix ,
proliferate ,
propagate ,
protect ,
protege ,
provide for ,
raiser ,
rat ,
realizer ,
reproduce in kind ,
ride herd on ,
second cousin ,
see after ,
see to ,
serve ,
shaper ,
shelter ,
shepherd ,
shit ,
shithead ,
shitheel ,
sire ,
sis ,
sissy ,
sister ,
sister -
german ,
sistern ,
smith ,
son ,
source ,
spoil ,
spoon -
feed ,
stepbrother ,
stepmother ,
stepsister ,
stinkard ,
stinker ,
suckle ,
support ,
sustain ,
take care of ,
take charge of ,
tend ,
the old woman ,
turd ,
unc ,
uncle ,
uncs ,
uterine brother ,
wait on ,
watch ,
watch out for ,
watch over ,
wellspring ,
wet -
nurse ,
wright {
parent }
MOTHER ,
domestic relations .
A woman who has borne a child .
2 .
It is generally the duty of a mother to support her child ,
when she is left a widow ,
until he becomes of age ,
or is able to maintain himself ;
8 Watts ,
R .
366 ;
and even after he becomes of age ,
if he be chargeable to the public ,
she may ,
perhaps ,
in all the states ,
be compelled ,
when she has sufficient means ,
to support him .
But when the child has property sufficient for his support ,
she is not ,
even during his minority ,
obliged to maintain him .
1 Bro .
C .
C .
387 ;
2 Mass .
R .
415 ;
4 Miss .
R .
97 .
3 .
When the father dies without leaving a testamentary guardian ,
at common law ,
the mother is entitled to be the guardian of the person and estate of the infant ,
until he arrives at fourteen years ,
when he is able to choose a guardian .
Litt .
sect .
123 ;
3 Co .
38 ;
Co .
Litt .
84 b ;
2 Atk .
14 ;
Com Dig .
B ,
D ,
E ;
7 Ves .
348 .
See 10 Mass .
135 ,
140 ;
15 Mass .
272 ;
4 Binn .
487 ;
4 Stew . &
Part .
123 ;
2 Mass .
415 ;
Harper ,
R .
9 ;
1 Root ,
R .
487 .
4 .
In Pennsylvania ,
the orphans '
court will ,
in such case ,
appoint a guardian until the infant shall attain his fourteenth year .
During the joint lives of the parents , (
q .
v .)
the father (
q .
v .)
is alone responsible for the support of the children ;
and has the only control over them ,
except when in special cases the mother is allowed to have possession of them .
1 P .
A .
Browne '
s Rep .
143 ;
5 Binn .
R .
520 ;
2 Serg . &
Rawle 174 .
Vide 4 Binn .
R .
492 ,
494 .
5 .
The mother of a bastard child ,
as natural guardian ,
has a right to the custody and control of such child ,
and is bound to maintain it .
2 Mass .
109 ;
12 Mass .
387 ,
433 ;
2 John .
375 ;
15 John .
208 ;
6 S . &
R .
255 ;
1 Ashmead ,
55 .
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Scrubs S6E11 Script I'm assuming since you already went ahead and took everything else,that you're here for my self-respect,but there's bad news on that one, sweet-cheeks,I already gave it to your mom when she begged me to marry you
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Scrubs S7E2 Script I do He just broke up with me! What? No, no! Technically, I didn't break up with her I just told her I didn't love her Who did he say that to? The mother of his baby No, he didn't Man, she looks familiar Get out!
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