give birth
[ T ]
to help a baby or young animal to be born:
Many of these midwives have decades of experience birthing babies.
A team of elephant keepers and trainers helped to birth the calf.
[ T ]
to produce or create something; to cause something to start existing:
Greece is the nation that birthed the Olympics.
I wanted him to be involved in the film because after all, he birthed the idea.
I know all the trouble my mum went through birthing me and my siblings.
I think the mother should get all the gifts as she has actually birthed the child.
I know many women who have birthed successfully at home.
The actor came out of the same British comedy scene that birthed Monty Python.
Agriculture gave rise to the city-state, birthing the human ecosystem that has been our home for millennia.

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Creating and producing

birth | American Dictionary

birth
noun[ C/U ]
us/bɜrθ/
the occasion when a baby comes out of its mother’s body:
[ C ]He remembered the birth of their first child.
[ U ]Their son weighed eight pounds at birth.
Birth also refers to your family origin:
[ U ]She was Swedish by birth.
When a woman gives birth, one or more babies come out of her body:
[ U ]She gave birth to twins.

Examples of birth

birth
One thousand and thirty-five patients (22 %) reported that they were pregnant or had recently given birth.
Their families, recruited from local birth records, had agreed to participate with their children in a longitudinal study of language development.
The families were recruited from local birth records.
The average susceptibility of hosts at birth in our model remains approximately constant with time.
Birth intervals in the ' known to have died ' category therefore have a very different distribution from those in the ' known to have survived' group.
If the answer was no, the age of the last live birth (surviving child) was determined.
Similar representations of the social gender division can be found throughout the different cultural forms of the traditions surrounding birth and socialisation.
The final personal characteristic we examine is country of birth, which has not been as extensively studied in the literature as the other personal characteristics.
Those who had suffered at some time with kwashiorkor showed a significantly higher mean interval previous to the birth, compared with those who had not.
During selected 24-hr sampling periods in 1991, 8,986 women giving birth were visited in the hospital.
Proportions of births in each village, for each religious group, given in parentheses.
Proportion of births in each village, for each religious group, given in parentheses.
To be precise, the number of births recorded on the family reconstitution forms of completed families was 5n5 per cent of the total (p. 430).
The covariates include the control variables mentioned above (parity, season, education, and religion) plus the length of the previous birth interval.
For example, the birth rate of cells in mouse 1 is 0.33/h and the differentiation rate, when cell concentration is low, is 0.15/h.
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Collocations withbirth

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birth attendant
Once the anterior shoulder has been moved successfully to the oblique position, the birthattendant then applies traction to the head to complete delivery.
birth cohort
Every birthcohort group can be distinguished in its material circumstances from every other birthcohort group.
birth order
Resolving the debate over birthorder, family size, and intelligence.
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