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What (who) is cradle - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Cradle (disambiguation); Cradling; Cradle (song); The Cradle; The Cradle (film); The Cradle (band)
cradle
n.
1) to rock a cradle
2) (misc.) from the cradle to the grave ('during one's whole life')
cradle
(cradles, cradling, cradled)
1.
A cradle is a baby's bed with high sides. Cradles often have curved bases so that they rock from side to side.
= crib
N-COUNT
2.
The cradle is the part of a telephone on which the receiver rests while it is not being used.
I dropped the receiver back in the cradle.
N-COUNT
3.
A cradle is a frame which supports or protects something.
He fixed the towing cradle round the hull.
N-COUNT
4.
A place that is referred to as the cradle of something is the place where it began.
Mali is the cradle of some of Africa's richest civilizations.
N-COUNT: usu sing, the N of n
5.
If you cradle someone or something in your arms or hands, you hold them carefully and gently.
I cradled her in my arms...
He was sitting at the big table cradling a large bowl of milky coffee.
VERB: V n in n, V n
6.
If something affects you from the cradle to the grave, it affects you throughout your life.
The bond of brotherhood was one to last from the cradle to the grave.
PHRASE: PHR after v
Cradle
·noun Infancy, or very early life.
II. Cradle ·vt To nurse or train in infancy.
III. Cradle ·vi To lie or lodge, as in a cradle.
IV. Cradle ·noun A suspended scaffold used in shafts.
V. Cradle ·noun A case for a broken or dislocated limb.
VI. Cradle ·vt To cut and lay with a cradle, as grain.
VII. Cradle ·vt To transport a vessel by means of a cradle.
VIII. Cradle ·noun A frame to keep the bedclothes from contact with the person.
IX. Cradle ·vt To lay to rest, or rock, as in a cradle; to lull or quiet, as by rocking.
X. Cradle ·noun The ribbing for vaulted ceilings and arches intended to be covered with plaster.
XI. Cradle ·noun A machine on rockers, used in washing out auriferous earth;
- also called a rocker.
XII. Cradle ·noun A tool used in mezzotint engraving, which, by a rocking motion, raises burrs on the surface of the plate, so preparing the ground.
XIII. Cradle ·noun The basket or apparatus in which, when a line has been made fast to a wrecked ship from the shore, the people are brought off from the wreck.
XIV. Cradle ·noun An implement consisting of a broad scythe for cutting grain, with a set of long fingers parallel to the scythe, designed to receive the grain, and to lay it evenly in a swath.
XV. Cradle ·noun A framework of timbers, or iron bars, moving upon ways or rollers, used to support, lift, or carry ships or other vessels, heavy guns, ·etc., as up an inclined plane, or across a strip of land, or in launching a ship.
XVI. Cradle ·noun A bed or cot for a baby, oscillating on rockers or swinging on pivots; hence, the place of origin, or in which anything is nurtured or protected in the earlier period of existence; as, a cradle of crime; the cradle of liberty.
Wikipedia
Cradle
Cradle may refer to:
- Cradle (bed)
- Bassinet, a small bed, often on rockers, in which babies and small children sleep
Examples of use of cradle
1. "Today, the party that in 1'45 promised that generation welfare from cradle to grave is about to give this generation surveillance from cradle to grave," Mr Davis said.
2. "The party that in 1'45 promised that generation welfare from cradle to grave is about to give this generation surveillance from cradle to grave," said Mr Davis.
3. Wed even bought things clothes, a cradle, she said.
4. "Even the child in the mother‘s cradle cries: ‘Moqtada!
5. We are, of course, the cradle of Islam,» he explained.