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Word: orphan
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Meaning:
Adjective:
- figurative Remaining after the removal of some form of support.
- Deprived of parents (also orphaned).
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Noun:
- A young animal with no mother.
- A person, especially a minor, both or (rarely) one of whose parents have died.
- computing Any unreferenced abstract object.
- figurative Anything that is unsupported, as by its source, provider or caretaker, by reason of the supporter's demise or decision to abandon.
- typography A single line of type, beginning a paragraph, at the bottom of a column or page.
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Verb:
- transitive computing To make unavailable, as by unlinking the last remaining pointer to.
- transitive To deprive of parents (''used almost exclusively in the passive'')
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