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child
Noun
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A child is a young person, usually older than a baby but younger than a teenager.
The children were playing in the park.
Most three-year-old children speak very well.
Even as a child of six, I knew what hard work was.
Taking care of young children is difficult work.
This kind of teaching is useful for all children, not just those children with learning disabilities.
We need to do a better job of educating our children.
We're collecting food for needy children.
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A child is the son or daughter of someone.
I am my mother's child in every way.
My eldest child is now a doctor.
I drove a motorcycle until my children were born.
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A child of a particular time, situation, or idea is a person who is strongly influenced by it.
As a child of the 90s, I grew up with computers.
There isn't actually that much anger among children of divorce.
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A child is the product or result of something.
This book is the child of an earlier generation of grammatical theory.
Anthropology is the child of Western colonialism.
The very idea of a garden is the child of water.
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If a woman is with child, she is pregnant.
She told no one about the sex, even when she realized she was with child.
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A child in a tree structure is piece of data, process or object with a role or position closer to the root.
need
Verb
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If you need something, you want it and must have it.
Everyone needs food and water.
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If you need to do something, it is very important that you do it.
Sir, you need to leave now.
need
Verb
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If you need do something, you have to do it.
Need you do that all the time?
You needn't keep telling me. I heard you the first time.
need
Noun
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If you have a need for something, you must have it; something necessary or required.
I've always tried to have few needs beyond food, clothing and shelter.
sleep
Verb
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If you sleep, you rest quietly with eyes shut, usually in bed for many hours at night.
I need to sleep now because I'm tired.
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if you sleep with someone, you have sex with them.
I haven't slept with my husband in like eight months
sleep
Noun
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Sleep is the activity or time of resting quietly with eyes shut, usually in bed for many hours at night.