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词汇 infant
释义 infant
noun
uk /ˈɪn.fənt/ us /ˈɪn.fənt/

infantnoun (YOUNG CHILD)


C2[ C ]
a baby or a very young child: 婴儿
newborn infantThe most important thing is for parents to spend time with their newborn infant.
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

a baby
babyShe is having a baby in the spring.
newbornNewborn babies are not able to focus their eyes fully for the first few weeks of life.
new babyBringing home a new baby can be a confusing time for parents.
bundle of joyCongratulations on bringing home your little bundle of joy!
neonateThe doctor headed up a study on perception in neonates.
infantInfants under 2 years of age must travel on an adult's lap.
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a child
childWhen I was a child the summers seemed to go on for ever.
boyThere's a new boy in my class.
girlThe girl's name is Sally.
kidI'm off to pick up the kids from school.
kiddieI saw her with a little kiddie in a pushchair.
little oneThe little ones must be hungry by now.
 
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She has five children, the youngest of whom is still an infant.
He was very unwell as an infant, and was not expected to live into adulthood.
Separated from his mother when he was just an infant, the boy grew up in a children's home.
She isn't able to look after herself at all - she's as helpless as an infant.
I'll give you this booklet to read, which gives advice about feeding infants of under four months.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Children & babies
ankle-biter
arrival
babe
babe in arms
baby
children
comfort blanket
crawler
designer baby
devil
munchkin
neonate
new addition
nipper
only child
tantrum
teethe
tiddler
tike
toddler

infantnoun (SCHOOL)


[ C ]UK
a student at an infant school: 幼儿学校的学生
Jenny is a top-year infant now.珍妮现在是一所幼儿学校的大班生。
 the infants[ plural ]UK
→ infant school: 幼儿学校(同 infant school)
in the infantsAndrew's still in the infants.安德鲁还在上幼儿学校。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Students & pupils
-grader
alum
alumna
alumnae
alumni
alumnus
apprentice
entrant
frosh
graduate
homeschooler
house officer
houseman
pupil
school kid
school-leaver
schoolboy
schoolchild
schoolgirl
theologian
infant
adjective
UKuk /ˈɪn.fənt/ us /ˈɪn.fənt/
related to or connected with the first stage of school in the UK, for children aged four to seven years: 学前班的,幼儿的
an infant teacher/class幼师/学前班
See also
junior school
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Schools in general
admission
assembly
bailey
blackboard
blackboard jungle
break something up
bursar
classroom
interschool
intramural
ivory tower
jolly hockey sticksidiom
kindergarten
language laboratory
reception
school run
schoolchild
schoolgirl
seat of learningidiom
sixth form

infant | American Dictionary


infant
noun[ C ]
us/ˈɪn·fənt/
a baby

Examples of infant


infant
To understand what causes development in infants, we must be able to link the emerging behaviour to the unfolding of the underlying biological structures.
No attempt to break infant's fixation on the correct well or to prevent position cueing.
First, recent developmental research provides some insights into the process of acquisition of reach in infants.
However, the proportion of such infants varies from 32% to 61% depending on the criteria used to define their hand-use preference.
The infants are actually assigning the sounds of speech to categories that have or will come to have linguistic significance.
I first describe evidence from the perception of speech by infants during the first year of life.
Another 39 infants made up the control group.
However, this speech register is not limited to use with infants, for whom these attentional biases have been demonstrated.
The results of this first experiment demonstrate that there were no observed differences in discrimination between the monolingual and bilingual infants.
The literature on the phonetic development of infants being raised in bilingual environments is generally sparse.
In their study, 4-month-old infants did not distinguish between coincident and noncoincident speech.
In particular, very few adult ages are given during the 1730s and 1740s, in contrast to the burials of infants and children.
Our initial attempt at venous access is via the umbilical vein in infants presenting in the first week of life.
An associated congenital noncardiac anomaly was identified in 5 patients (3 first seen as infants).
Symptoms, such as congestive heart failure and cyanosis are more frequently observed in infants than in children, and arrhythmias are less frequent during childhood.
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infant

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full-term infants
They compared preterm and full-term infants on measures of maternal depression, infant health characteristics, and attachment security at 1 year postterm.
healthy infant
At some point in the first year of life, it becomes clear that the healthyinfant has a mind of his or her own.
infant baptism
Entry is a function of heredity, via infantbaptism.
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