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CUB
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Irregular inflected forms: cubbed , cubbing
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The young of certain carnivorous mammals such as the bear or wolf or lion
Synonyms:
cub; young carnivore
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("cub" is a kind of...):
young mammal (any immature mammal)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cub"):
lion cub (a young lion)
bear cub (a young bear)
tiger cub (a young tiger)
Derivation:
cub (give birth to cubs)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A male child (a familiar term of address to a boy)
Synonyms:
cub; lad; laddie; sonny; sonny boy
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("cub" is a kind of...):
boy; male child (a youthful male person)
Sense 3
Meaning:
An awkward and inexperienced youth
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("cub" is a kind of...):
beginner; initiate; novice; tiro; tyro (someone new to a field or activity)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Give birth to cubs
Example:
bears cub every year
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Hypernyms (to "cub" is one way to...):
bear; birth; deliver; give birth; have (cause to be born)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Derivation:
cub (the young of certain carnivorous mammals such as the bear or wolf or lion)
Context examples:
The killing of a polar bear is very dangerous, but thrice dangerous is it, and three times thrice, to kill a mother bear with her cubs.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
It chanced that a cub reporter sat in the audience, detailed there on a day dull of news and impressed by the urgent need of journalism for sensation.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
The cub had broken through the wall of the world, the unknown had let go its hold of him, and here he was without hurt.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
According to the Cheetah Conservation Fund, about 85% of an estimated 1,200 trafficked cheetah cubs have died within the past ten years, perishing en route.
(Around 7,100 cheetahs remain, say experts, Wikinews)
One day, at dinner, this malicious little cub was so nettled with something I had said to him, that, raising himself upon the frame of her majesty’s chair, he took me up by the middle, as I was sitting down, not thinking any harm, and let me drop into a large silver bowl of cream, and then ran away as fast as he could.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
He was not a bright cub reporter.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
And the cub felt that somehow he had escaped a great hurt.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Causes of cheetah decline have been mostly habitat loss, killings of cheetahs by humans, human hunting of cheetah's resources such as antelope, illegal fur trade, illegal cub trafficking, and roadkill.
(Around 7,100 cheetahs remain, say experts, Wikinews)
However, I once caught a young male of three years old, and endeavoured, by all marks of tenderness, to make it quiet; but the little imp fell a squalling, and scratching, and biting with such violence, that I was forced to let it go; and it was high time, for a whole troop of old ones came about us at the noise, but finding the cub was safe (for away it ran), and my sorrel nag being by, they durst not venture near us.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
The cub reporter was a trifle perplexed by this talking over him and around him and at him.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
