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mother1 1. a. a female who has given birth to offspring b. (as modifier): a mother bird 2. a title given to certain members of female religious orders 3. Christian Science God as the eternal Principle mother2 a stringy slime containing various bacteria that forms on the surface of liquids undergoing acetous fermentation. It can be added to wine, cider, etc. to promote vinegar formation mother [′məthยทər] (engineering acoustics) A mold derived by electroforming from a master; used to produce the stampers from which disk records are molded in large quantities. Also known as metal positive.
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Although concerns about safety are real and may be well-founded, they also can lead parents to overprotect their children to an extent that is not helpful to the students' development. If parents just swim with the tide (here it's easy to come down on the side of those salmon swimming upstream), they will overprotect, overindulge, and over schedule their children. There is a tendency for some gardeners to overprotect them and keep them close to patios and overhangs. |
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