child

niño, niña

Persona joven que todavía no es adulta.

En inglés sencillo: 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?

Sinónimos: kid, youngster

Antónimos: adult

Expresiones frecuentes: young child, small child, child development

hijo, hija

El hijo o la hija de alguien, sin importar su edad.

En inglés sencillo: Someone’s son or daughter, whatever their age.

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

Cómo se usa: someone’s child (Their youngest child is now a doctor.)

Sinónimos: offspring, son or daughter

Antónimos: parent

Expresiones frecuentes: only child, adult child, eldest child

producto

Persona cuya forma de pensar y actuar está muy marcada por una época, un lugar o una experiencia.

En inglés sencillo: 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.

Cómo se usa: a child of something (She is a child of the digital age.)

Sinónimos: product

Expresiones frecuentes: child of someone, child of something

hijo, nodo hijo

Dato, objeto o proceso que depende de otro y está situado bajo él en un sistema informático.

En inglés sencillo: 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.

Antónimos: parent

Expresiones frecuentes: child node, child process, child object

producto, fruto

Algo que surge de una idea, un acontecimiento o un esfuerzo concreto.

En inglés sencillo: 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.

Cómo se usa: a child of something (The project is a child of their shared imagination.)

Sinónimos: product, result

Expresiones frecuentes: child of something, a child of

hijo, criatura

En «with child», se refiere al bebé que se espera; la expresión significa estar embarazada.

En inglés sencillo: 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.

Cómo se usa: be with child (The queen was with child again.)

Expresiones frecuentes: with child, be with child