orphan

Definition of orphan in English English dictionary: A person, especially a minor, both or (rarely) one of whose parents have died; A young animal with no mother; A single line of type, beginning a paragraph, at the bottom of a column or page; To make unavailable, as by unlinking the last remaining pointer to
Removing categories orphans pages from the main category tree.; Anything that is unsupported, as by its source, provider or caretaker, by reason of the supporter's demise or decision to abandon; Deprived of parents (also orphaned)
She is an orphan child.; To deprive of parents (used almost exclusively in the passive)
What do you do when you come across two orphaned polar bear cubs?.; Remaining after the removal of some form of support
With its government funding curtailed, the gun registry became an orphan program.; Any unreferenced abstract object; {n} a fatherless child; {a} bereft of parents; The Immigration and Nationality Act provides a definition of an orphan for the purposes of immigration to the United States; Intended for orphans; Single sentence that appears at the bottom of a page, separated from the rest of its paragraph on the next page; The First line of a paragraph occurring at the bottom of a page An orphan has no past; Of, pertaining to, or resembling the nature of an orphan; the first line of a paragraph that is set as the last line of a page or column; The first line of a paragraph that falls at the bottom of a text column and is separated from the remainder of the paragraph by a page or column break Also, the last line of a paragraph that falls at the top of a text column and is separated from the remainder of the paragraph by a page or column break Compare widow; deprive of parents; deprived of parents by death or desertion; Deprived of parents; the first line of a paragraph that is at the last line of a page to top; What your company is called if you don't have a venture capital champion; one who has lost one or both parents by death; A child without living parents; line of type on its own at the top or bottom of a page; DISEASES: isolated yet deadly diseases which have no cure as yet; An orphan is (1) a GroupWise message that has been deleted by all users but still exists in the message database, or (2) a file in the attachment directory that is not referenced by any messages Orphans will be deleted when you run Mailbox/Library Maintenance with the Contents option selected; a young animal without a mother; If a child is orphaned, their parents die, or their remaining parent dies. a fifteen-year-old boy left orphaned by the recent disaster. a child whose parents are both dead (orphanus, from orphanos). be orphaned to become an orphan; An orphan is a child whose parents are dead. a young orphan girl brought up by peasants; A word or incomplete line of text that appears alone at the bottom of a text column or paragraph Editors and designers prefer to move such lines back up so that they appear with the whole paragraph; A web page which remains on the web but has no links to it, or has had its links from the main site severed Similarly, a file created by a programme but which remains on your computer after that programme has been deleted might be deemed an 'orphan'; To dereference or unlink the last remaining pointer to any object; A child bereaved of both father and mother; sometimes, also, a child who has but one parent living; (1) an object which cannot be accessed either as a local automatic variable, a global variable, via a pointer or as the result of any function call; (2) to create such an object Orphaned objects are undesirable as they use unrecoverable system resources There are two types of orphaned object: objects orphaned on the stack and objects orphaned on the heap Orphans can be created through program errors, or by a function leaving It does not matter if T objects are orphaned on the stack All other orphans are undesirable and, in the case of leave processing, it is essential to ensure that cleanup code handles objects that would otherwise be orphaned; The first or last line of a paragraph left alone at the top or the bottom of a page or column; a young animal without a mother the first line of a paragraph that is set as the last line of a page or column a child who has lost both parents someone or something who lacks support or care or supervision deprived of parents by death or desertion; In word processing and publishing, the last line of a paragraph appearing on the first line of a page Some applications adjust for this Orphan is synonymous with widow; The first line of a paragraph left by itself at the bottom of a page See also widow; The first line of a paragraph appearing by itself at the bottom of a page as the last line of the page; {f} make into an orphan, cause to become orphan; someone or something who lacks support or care or supervision; Bereaved of parents, or (sometimes) of one parent; In wordprocessing (qv) or desktop publishing (qv), a single line of text which appears at the bottom of a page, having been separated from the rest of the following paragraph (cf widow); {i} child whose parents are dead; A single line of text at the bottom or top of a page or column The text is either the first line or the last line of a paragraph, respectively See also: bad break; widow; A resource or file that exists on your Web server or in your file system, although nothing in your Web site links to it (Content Analyzer); When the first line of a paragraph appears of by itself at the bottom of a page; To cause to become an orphan; to deprive of parents; a child who has lost both parents; A page with no links from other pages You can view lists of orphaned articles and images
orphan drug: A drug as defined under the Orphan Drug Act (1983)
orphan drug: A medicinal drug which is effective in the treatment of some disease(s), but which is not manufactured or marketed because the demand is insufficient to cover the costs of supply
Tragically, her disease is so rare that the only effective medicine is an orphan drug.
orphan medicine: orphan drug
orphan site: a toxic waste area where the polluter could not be identified or the polluter refused to take action or pay for the cleanup
half orphan: A person, especially a child, with only one living parent
orphanhood: The state of being an orphan
orphanhood: The losing of both parents through death
success has many fathers, failure is an orphan: Many will seek credit for success, few will accept responsibility for failure
An orphan: orpheline
Little Orphan Annie: a character in the US cartoon strip Little Orphan Annie. She is an orphan (=a child whose parents have died) who gets into a lot of trouble, especially when the man who takes care of her, Daddy Warbucks, is away
Orphanhood: orphancy
Orphanhood: orphanism
Widow Orphan Control: (Computers) Microsoft Word command that prevents a paragraph from being split in such a way that a single line remains at the top or bottom of a page so that if there is room for only the first line of a paragraph at the bottom of a page Microsoft Word will move the full paragraph to the next page leaving an empty line space
becoming an orphan: being left with no parents, losing one's parents
orphaned: {s} solitary; made orphan; deprived of parents due to death of of parents or abandonment by of parents
orphaned: Simple past and past participle of orphan
orphaned: deprived of parents by death or desertion
orphanhood: {i} state of being without parents
orphanhood: The state or condition of being an orphan; orphanage
orphaning: present participle of orphan
orphans: Third person singular simple present of to orphan
orphans: plural of orphan

orphan

Hyphenation

or·phan

Turkish pronunciation

ôrfın

Synonyms

foundling, ragamuffin, stray, waif

Pronunciation

/ˈôrfən/ /ˈɔːrfən/

Etymology

[ 'or-f&n ] (noun.) 15th century. From Late Latin orphanus, from Ancient Greek ὀρφανός (orphanos, “without parents, fatherless”), from Proto-Indo-European *Hórbʰo-. Cognate with Sanskrit अर्भ (árbha), Latin orbus (“orphaned”), Old High German arabeit (German Arbeit).