different between chicks vs offspring
chicks
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t??ks/
Noun
chicks
- plural of chick
Verb
chicks
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chick
Anagrams
- Schick
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- what chicks are yellow
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offspring
English
Etymology
From Middle English ofspring, from Old English ofspring (“offspring, descendants, posterity”), equivalent to off- +? spring. Compare Icelandic afspringur (“offspring”). More at off, spring.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /??fsp???/
- (US) enPR: äf?spr?ng, IPA(key): /??fsp???/, /??fsp???/
Noun
offspring (plural offspring or offsprings)
- A person's daughter(s) and/or son(s); a person's children.
- All of a person's descendants, including further generations.
- An animal or plant's progeny or young.
- (figuratively) Anything produced; the result of an entity's efforts.
- (computing) A process launched by another process.
Usage notes
- The plural offsprings is mainly used for the computing sense.
Synonyms
- (daughter(s) and/or son(s)): baby/babies, child/children, fruit of one's loins, issue (plural only), get, kid/kids
- (all descendants): binary clone, descendants, fruit of one's loins, get, lineage, progeny, seed
Antonyms
- (daughter(s) and/or son(s)): genitor (rare), parent, progenitor, father (male), mother (female)
- (descendants): ancestors, forbears/forebears, forefathers
Derived terms
- donor offspring
- grandoffspring
- parent-offspring conflict
Translations
offspring From the web:
- what offspring means
- offsprings or offspring
- why are they called offspring
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