child

bambino, bambina

Persona giovane che non è ancora adulta.

In inglese semplice: A young person who has not yet become an adult.

• The child is asleep.
• The children played outside after school.
• How old was your child when she learned to read?

Sinonimi: kid, youngster

Contrari: adult

Espressioni comuni: young child, small child, child development

figlio, figlia

Il figlio o la figlia di qualcuno, a qualsiasi età.

In inglese semplice: Someone’s son or daughter, whatever their age.

• She has one child.
• All their children have left home.
• His eldest child is forty now.

Come si usa: someone’s child (Their youngest child is now a doctor.)

Sinonimi: offspring, son or daughter

Contrari: parent

Espressioni comuni: only child, adult child, eldest child

figlio, figlia

Persona le cui idee e azioni sono state fortemente influenzate da un’epoca, un luogo o un’esperienza.

In inglese semplice: A person whose ideas and behaviour were strongly shaped by a particular time, place, or experience.

• He is a child of his time.
• As children of the war, they valued peace.
• She remains a child of the culture that shaped her.

Come si usa: a child of something (She is a child of the digital age.)

Sinonimi: product

Espressioni comuni: child of someone, child of something

figlio, nodo figlio

Dato, oggetto o processo che si trova sotto un altro nella struttura di un sistema informatico.

In inglese semplice: A data item, object, or process that belongs under another in a computer system.

• This node has one child.
• The program created two child processes.
• Each child inherits settings from its parent.

Contrari: parent

Espressioni comuni: child node, child process, child object

frutto, prodotto

Qualcosa che nasce da una particolare idea, un evento o uno sforzo.

In inglese semplice: Something that was produced by a particular idea, event, or effort.

• The book was a child of hope.
• This invention is the child of years of research.
• Their new festival was a child of that cultural movement.

Come si usa: a child of something (The project is a child of their shared imagination.)

Sinonimi: product, result

Espressioni comuni: child of something, a child of

figlio, bambino

In «with child» indica il bambino atteso; l’espressione significa essere incinta.

In inglese semplice: In the phrase with child, expecting a baby.

• She was with child.
• They learned that the princess was with child.
• He returned to find his wife with child.

Come si usa: be with child (The queen was with child again.)

Espressioni comuni: with child, be with child