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Orphan

Noun

Definiciones

1.NounA person, especially a minor, both or (rarely) one of whose parents have died.
2.NounA person, especially a minor, whose parents have permanently abandoned them.
3.NounA young animal with no mother.
4.NounAnything that is unsupported, as by its source, provider or caretaker, by reason of the supporter's demise or decision to abandon.
5.NounA single line of type, beginning a paragraph, at the bottom of a column or page.
6.NounAny unreferenced object.
7.AdjectiveDeprived of parents (also orphaned).
"She is an orphan child."
8.AdjectiveRemaining after the removal of some form of support.
"With its government funding curtailed, the gun registry became an orphan program."
9.VerbTo deprive of parents .
"What do you do when you come across two orphaned polar bear cubs?"
10.VerbTo make unavailable, as by removing the last remaining pointer or reference to.
"When you removed that image tag, you orphaned the resized icon.; Removing categories orphans pages from the main category tree."
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