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1. Mother
   Mother was the name of the first prototype tank.
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2. Mother
   The aspect of the Goddess representing motherhood, mid-life, and fertility. She is represented by the full moon, the egg, the colors red and green. Her Sabbats are Midsummer and Lughnasadh. The Full Moon Goddess.
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3. mother
   [n] - a stringy slimy substance consisting of yeast cells and bacteria 2. [n] - a term of address for an elderly woman 3. [n] - a woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother) 4. [n] - a condition that is the inspiration for an activity or situation 5. [v] - care for like a mother
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4. Mother
   First British fighting tank, developed in 1916. Originally called Big Willie (after the early prototype Little Willie), the name...
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5. mother
   parent
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6. Mother
   Mother: (1) The female parent. (2) To produce offspring as a female. To attribute the maternity of. (3) A cell or other structure from which similar cells or structures are formed. Accordingly, such a cell might be referred to as the mother cell.(4) To provide maternal protection, guidance, and nurturing to children.
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7. Mother
   Moth"er noun [ Middle English moder , Anglo-Saxon mōdor ; akin to Dutch moeder , Old Saxon mōdar , German mutter , Old High German muotar , Icelandic mōðir , Dan. & Swedish moder , OSlav. mati , Russian mate , Ir. & Gael. mathair , Latin mater , Greek mh`thr , Sanskrit m� …
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8. Mother
   Moth"er adjective 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. « It is the mother falsehood from which all idolatry is derived.» T. Arnold. Mother cell (Biol.) , a cell which, by endogenous divisions, gives rise to other cells (dau …
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9. Mother
   Moth"er transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Mothered ; present participle & verbal noun Mothering .] To adopt as a son or daughter; to perform the duties of a mother to. « The queen, to have put lady Elizabeth besides the crown, would have mothered another body's child.» Howell.
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10. Mother
    Moth"er noun [ Akin to Dutch modder mud, German moder mold, mud, Danish mudder mud, and to English 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 thei …
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11. Mother
    Moth"er intransitive verb To become like, or full of, mother, or thick matter, as vinegar.
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12. mother
    1. A female parent; especially, one of the human race; a woman who has borne a child. ... 2. That which has produced or nurtured anything; source of birth or origin; generatrix. "Alas! poor country! . It can not Be called our mother, but our grave." (Shak) "I behold . The solitary majesty of Crete, mother of a religion, it is said, that lived two th …
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13. mother
    noun a condition that is the inspiration for an activity or situation; `necessity is the mother of invention`
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14. mother
    female parent noun a woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother); `the mother of three children`
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15. mother
    noun a stringy slimy substance consisting of yeast cells and bacteria; forms during fermentation and is added to cider or wine to produce vinegar
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16. Mother
    A `mother` is a biological and/or social female parent of an offspring. In the case of a mammal such as a human, the biological mother gestates a fertilized ovum, which is called first an embryo, and then a fetus. This gestation occurs in the mother's uterus from conception until the fetus is sufficiently developed to be born. The mother then goes into labor and gives birth. Once the child is born, the mother produces milk in a process called lac...
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17. Mother
    A `mother` is a biological and/or social female parent of an offspring. In the case of a mammal such as a human, the biological mother gestates a fertilized ovum, which is called first an embryo, and then a fetus. This gestation occurs in the mother's uterus from conception until the fetus is sufficiently developed to be born. The mother then goes into labor and gives birth. Once the child is born, the mother produces milk in a process called lac...
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18. mother
    (muth´әr) the female parent. something from which another thing is derived, as a mother cell. genetic mother the woman whose contribution to the child was the oocyte, and hence genes. Sometimes a woman who cannot carry a fetus can nevertheless be a genetic mother via i...
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19. Mother
    • (n.) 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. • (n.) Hysterical passion; hysteria. • (n.) That which has prod...
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20. mother
    (from the article `lactation`) The nutritional status of the mother is important throughout this period. The Food and Nutrition Board of the National Research Council recommends a ... In the biological evolutionary scale, the more complex the species, the longer the offspring is dependent on its mother for survival from the time of ... ...
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21. Mother
    (from the article `Pudovkin, Vsevolod Illarionovich`) ...motion picture was Mekhanika golovnovo mozga (1925; Mechanics of the Brain), an educational film about Pavlov`s theories of action and reaction. ... Pudovkin`s major work is Mat (Mother, 1926), a tale of strikebreaking and terrorism in which a woman loses first her husband and the...
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22. Mother
    (from the article `Gorky, Maksim`) ...failures because of Gorky`s inability to sustain a powerful narrative, and also because of a tendency to overload his work with irrelevant ...
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