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Orphan and Batman Definitions

Orphan

A child whose parents are dead.

Batman

A British military officer's orderly.

Orphan

A child who has been deprived of parental care and has not been adopted.

Batman

(military) A servant or valet to a military officer.

Orphan

A young animal that has been prematurely separated from its parents or its mother.

Batman

A personal assistant or supporter.
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Orphan

One that lacks support, supervision, or care
A lack of corporate interest has made the subsidiary an orphan.

Batman

A unit of weight established in 1931 equal to 10 kg.

Orphan

A technology or product that has not been developed or marketed, especially on account of being commercially unprofitable.

Batman

A Turkish unit of weight varying by location, time, and item from 2–8 okas (about 2.5–10 kg).

Orphan

(Printing) A very short line of type at the bottom of a paragraph, column, or page.

Batman

To act as a batman, wait on an officer.
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Orphan

Deprived of parents.

Batman

To climb up or down a rope free hand (i.e. as Batman does).

Orphan

Intended for orphans
An orphan home.

Batman

A weight used in the East, varying according to the locality; in Turkey, the greater batman is about 157 pounds, the lesser only a fourth of this; at Aleppo and Smyrna, the batman is 17 pounds.

Orphan

Lacking support, supervision, or care.

Batman

A man who has charge of a bathorse and his load.
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Orphan

Being a technology or product that is an orphan.

Batman

An orderly assigned to serve a British military officer

Orphan

To deprive (a child or young animal) of a parent or parents.

Orphan

A person, especially a minor, both or (rarely) one of whose parents have died.

Orphan

A person, especially a minor, whose parents have permanently abandoned them.

Orphan

A young animal with no mother.

Orphan

(figuratively) Anything that is unsupported, as by its source, provider or caretaker, by reason of the supporter's demise or decision to abandon.

Orphan

(typography) A single line of type, beginning a paragraph, at the bottom of a column or page.

Orphan

(computing) Any unreferenced object.

Orphan

Deprived of parents (also orphaned).
She is an orphan child.

Orphan

Remaining after the removal of some form of support.
With its government funding curtailed, the gun registry became an orphan program.

Orphan

(transitive) To deprive of parents used almost exclusively in the passive
What do you do when you come across two orphaned polar bear cubs?

Orphan

To make unavailable, as by removing the last remaining pointer or reference to.
When you removed that image tag, you orphaned the resized icon.
Removing categories orphans pages from the main category tree.

Orphan

A child bereaved of both father and mother; sometimes, also, a child who has but one parent living.

Orphan

Bereaved of parents, or (sometimes) of one parent.

Orphan

To cause to become an orphan; to deprive of parents.

Orphan

A child who has lost both parents

Orphan

Someone or something who lacks support or care or supervision

Orphan

The first line of a paragraph that is set as the last line of a page or column

Orphan

A young animal without a mother

Orphan

Deprive of parents

Orphan

Deprived of parents by death or desertion

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