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birth
Overview of noun birth
The noun birth has 4 senses (first 3 from tagged texts)
1. (6) birth -- (the time when something begins (especially life); "they divorced after the birth of the child"; "his election signaled the birth of a new age")
2. (2) birth, nativity, nascency, nascence -- (the event of being born; "they celebrated the birth of their first child")
3. (1) parturition, birth, giving birth, birthing -- (the process of giving birth)
4. parentage, birth -- (the kinship relation of an offspring to the parents)
Overview of verb birth
The verb birth has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)
1. give birth, deliver, bear, birth, have -- (cause to be born; "My wife had twins yesterday!")
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun birth
4 senses of birth
Sense 1
birth
=> beginning, commencement, first, outset, get-go, start, kickoff, starting time, showtime, offset
=> point, point in time
=> measure, quantity, amount
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 2
birth, nativity, nascency, nascence
=> change, alteration, modification
=> happening, occurrence, occurrent, natural event
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 3
parturition, birth, giving birth, birthing
=> organic process, biological process
=> process, physical process
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 4
parentage, birth
=> kinship, family relationship, relationship
=> relation
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun birth
3 of 4 senses of birth
Sense 1
birth
=> cradle
Sense 2
birth, nativity, nascency, nascence
=> delivery
=> live birth
=> posthumous birth
=> posthumous birth
=> reincarnation, rebirth, renascence
Sense 3
parturition, birth, giving birth, birthing
=> brooding, incubation
=> calving
=> childbirth, childbearing, accouchement, vaginal birth
=> farrow, farrowing
=> hatch, hatching
=> laying, egg laying
=> parturiency, labor, labour, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbed
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun birth
4 senses of birth
Sense 1
birth
=> beginning, commencement, first, outset, get-go, start, kickoff, starting time, showtime, offset
Sense 2
birth, nativity, nascency, nascence
=> change, alteration, modification
Sense 3
parturition, birth, giving birth, birthing
=> organic process, biological process
Sense 4
parentage, birth
=> kinship, family relationship, relationship
Antonyms of noun birth
2 of 4 senses of birth
Sense 1
birth
Antonym of death (Sense 6)
=>death, dying, demise
Sense 2
birth, nativity, nascency, nascence
Antonym of death (Sense 1)
=>death, decease, expiry
Member Holonyms of noun birth
Substance Holonyms of noun birth
Part Holonyms of noun birth
2 of 4 senses of birth
Sense 1
birth
PART OF: life, lifetime, life-time, lifespan
Sense 3
parturition, birth, giving birth, birthing
PART OF: reproduction
Member Meronyms of noun birth
Substance Meronyms of noun birth
Part Meronyms of noun birth
Meronyms of noun birth
Holonyms of noun birth
2 of 4 senses of birth
Sense 1
birth
PART OF: life, lifetime, life-time, lifespan
Sense 3
parturition, birth, giving birth, birthing
PART OF: reproduction
Attributes of noun birth
Derived Forms of noun birth
3 of 4 senses of birth
Sense 1
birth
RELATED TO>(verb) birth#1
=> give birth, deliver, bear, birth, have
RELATED TO>(verb) be born#1
=> be born
Sense 2
birth, nativity, nascency, nascence
RELATED TO>(verb) birth#1
=> give birth, deliver, bear, birth, have
RELATED TO>(verb) be born#1
=> be born
Sense 3
parturition, birth, giving birth, birthing
RELATED TO>(verb) birth#1
=> give birth, deliver, bear, birth, have
RELATED TO>(verb) be born#1
=> be born
Domain of noun birth
Domain Terms of noun birth
Familiarity of noun birth
birth used as a noun is uncommon (polysemy count =4)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun birth
4 senses of birth
Sense 1
birth
> beginning, commencement, first, outset, get-go, start, kickoff, starting time, showtime, offset
=> birth
=> incipiency, incipience
=> terminus a quo, starting point
=> threshold
Sense 2
birth, nativity, nascency, nascence
> change, alteration, modification
=> acceleration
=> deceleration, slowing, retardation
=> avulsion
=> break
=> mutation
=> sublimation
=> surprise
=> birth, nativity, nascency, nascence
=> separation, breakup, detachment
=> vagary
=> variation, fluctuation
=> conversion
=> death, decease, expiry
=> decrease, lessening, drop-off
=> destabilization
=> increase
=> easing, moderation, relief
=> deformation
=> transition
=> transformation, transmutation, shift
=> twinkle, scintillation, sparkling
=> shimmer, play
=> transmutation
=> damage, harm, impairment
=> development
=> revolution
=> mutation, genetic mutation, chromosomal mutation
=> sex change
=> loss of consciousness
Sense 3
parturition, birth, giving birth, birthing
> organic process, biological process
=> adaptation, adaption, adjustment
=> agglutination
=> aging, ageing, senescence
=> anovulation
=> antisepsis, asepsis
=> assimilation, absorption
=> autoregulation
=> bacteriostasis
=> blooming, bloom
=> bodily process, body process, bodily function, activity
=> carbon cycle
=> catabolism, katabolism, dissimilation, destructive metabolism
=> cell division, cellular division
=> crossing over, crossover
=> defoliation
=> deossification
=> digestion
=> eburnation
=> ecchymosis
=> effacement
=> erythropoiesis
=> eutrophication
=> evolution, organic evolution, phylogeny, phylogenesis
=> expression
=> extravasation
=> gastrulation
=> glycogenesis
=> growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis
=> hematopoiesis, haematopoiesis, hemopoiesis, haemopoiesis, hemogenesis, haemogenesis, hematogenesis, haematogenesis, sanguification
=> heredity
=> humification
=> hypostasis, epistasis
=> implantation, nidation
=> inhibition
=> invagination, introversion, intussusception, infolding
=> involution
=> cytokinesis
=> karyokinesis
=> keratinization, keratinisation
=> Krebs cycle, Krebs citric acid cycle, citric acid cycle, tricarboxylic acid cycle
=> lymphopoiesis
=> lysogenization, lysogenisation
=> maturation, ripening, maturement
=> metabolism, metabolic process, metastasis
=> metamorphosis, metabolism
=> nitrogen cycle
=> nitrogen fixation
=> nondevelopment
=> nutrition
=> organification
=> ossification
=> ovulation
=> oxidative phosphorylation
=> parturition, birth, giving birth, birthing
=> pathologic process, pathological process
=> perennation
=> preservation
=> quellung, quellung reaction
=> quickening
=> regeneration
=> regulation
=> replication
=> reproduction
=> resorption, reabsorption
=> ripening, aging, ageing
=> secretion, secernment
=> segregation
=> shedding, sloughing
=> summation
=> symphysis
=> synapsis
=> synizesis, synezesis
=> transcription
=> transduction
=> translation
=> protein folding, folding
=> translocation
=> translocation
=> transpiration
=> tumefaction
=> ulceration
=> vascularization, vascularisation
=> vesiculation, vesication, blistering
Sense 4
parentage, birth
> kinship, family relationship, relationship
=> affinity, phylogenetic relation
=> descent, line of descent, lineage, filiation
=> affinity
=> consanguinity, blood kinship, cognation
=> parentage, birth
=> fatherhood, paternity
=> motherhood, maternity
=> sisterhood, sistership
=> brotherhood
=> marital relationship, marital bed
Meronyms of noun birth
4 senses of birth
Holonyms of noun birth
2 of 4 senses of birth
Sense 1
birth
PART OF: life, lifetime, life-time, lifespan
Sense 3
parturition, birth, giving birth, birthing
PART OF: reproduction
Grep of noun birth
active birth
afterbirth
alternative birth
birth
birth-control campaigner
birth-control reformer
birth canal
birth certificate
birth control
birth control device
birth control pill
birth defect
birth pangs
birth prevention
birth rate
birth trauma
birthday
birthday cake
birthday card
birthday gift
birthday party
birthday present
birthday suit
birthing
birthmark
birthplace
birthrate
birthright
birthroot
birthwort
birthwort family
bradley method of childbirth
breech birth
calendar method of birth control
childbirth
cycle of rebirth
giving birth
lamaze method of childbirth
leboyer method of childbirth
live birth
low-birth-weight baby
low-birth-weight infant
natural childbirth
place of birth
posthumous birth
read method of childbirth
rebirth
rhythm method of birth control
spiritual rebirth
stillbirth
vaginal birth
virgin birth
Antonyms of verb birth
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb birth
1 sense of birth
Sense 1
give birth, deliver, bear, birth, have
=> produce, bring forth
=> make, create
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb birth
1 sense of birth
Sense 1
give birth, deliver, bear, birth, have
=> twin
=> drop
=> foal
=> kitten
=> lamb
=> litter
=> have a bun in the oven, bear, carry, gestate, expect
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb birth
1 sense of birth
Sense 1
give birth, deliver, bear, birth, have
=> produce, bring forth
'Cause To' of verb birth
Derived Forms of verb birth
1 sense of birth
Sense 1
give birth, deliver, bear, birth, have
RELATED TO>(noun) birth#1
=> birth
RELATED TO>(noun) birth#3
=> parturition, birth, giving birth, birthing
RELATED TO>(noun) birth#2
=> birth, nativity, nascency, nascence
Domain of verb birth
Domain Terms of verb birth
Familiarity of verb birth
birth used as a verb is very rare (polysemy count =1)
Sample Sentences of verb birth
1 sense of birth
Sense 1
give birth, deliver, bear, birth, have
*> Somebody ----s somebody
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb birth
1 sense of birth
Sense 1
give birth, deliver, bear, birth, have
> produce, bring forth
=> give birth, deliver, bear, birth, have
=> sporulate
=> grind out, crank out
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb birth
Sense 1
give birth, deliver, bear, birth, have
=> produce, bring forth
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Grep of verb birth
birth
give birth
Grep of adj birth
given birth
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