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Meaning of "designer baby" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF DESIGNER BABY

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DESIGNER BABY

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Designer baby is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES DESIGNER BABY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Designer baby

The term "designer baby" was originally derived from "designer clothing" and used pejoratively as implying commodification of children. The term can refer to the use of Preimplantation genetic diagnosis to select desired qualities of a child, and has also been used to describe the babies that would result if human gametes, zygotes, or embryos were to be genetically engineered.

Definition of designer baby in the English dictionary

The definition of designer baby in the dictionary is a baby that is the product of genetic engineering.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DESIGNER BABY

designable
designate
designated
designated area
designated driver
designated employment
designation
designative
designator
designatory
designedly
designee
designer
designer drug
designer stubble
designful
designing
designingly
designless
designment

WORDS THAT END LIKE DESIGNER BABY

baby
Band-Aid baby
be left holding the baby
blue baby
boom baby
bushbaby
crybaby
grandbaby
jelly baby
like taking candy from a baby
Plunket baby
rhesus baby
snowflake baby
tar baby
test-tube baby
thalidomide baby
war baby

Synonyms and antonyms of designer baby in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «designer baby» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DESIGNER BABY

Find out the translation of designer baby to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of designer baby from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «designer baby» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

设计师宝宝
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

bebé de diseño
570 millions of speakers

English

designer baby
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

डिजाइनर बच्चे
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مصمم الطفل
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

дизайнер ребенка
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

do bebê do desenhador
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ডিজাইনার বাচ্চা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

concepteur bébé
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Bayi berjenama
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Designer-Baby
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

デザイナーベビー
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

디자이너 아기
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Desainer bayi
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nhà thiết kế trẻ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வடிவமைப்பாளர் குழந்தை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

डिझायनर बाळा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Tasarımcı bebek
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

designer baby
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

projektant dziecko
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

дизайнер дитини
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

designer de copil
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μωρό σχεδιαστής
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

ontwerper baba
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

designer bebis
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

designer babyen
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of designer baby

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DESIGNER BABY»

The term «designer baby» is normally little used and occupies the 114.796 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DESIGNER BABY» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about designer baby

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DESIGNER BABY»

Discover the use of designer baby in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to designer baby and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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First Do No Harm: Law, Ethics and Healthcare
The 'saviour sibling' may eliminate an abnormal characteristic: the designer baby merely filters out what most would regard as a normal characteristic, albeit one to which those parents object. It may be difficult in the hard case to define a ...
Professor Sheila A McLean, 2013
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Born and Made: An Ethnography of Preimplantation Genetic ...
The punning and the humor around the “designer baby” issue in the British tabloid press is thus in many respects a kind of pantomime of the sober and bespectacled debates reviewed earlier about the future of human nature in the age of ...
Sarah Franklin, Celia Roberts, 2006
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Readings in Health Care Ethics, second edition
Thirdly, and finally, there is the fact that to get a fully-fledged designer baby—that is, one in whom numerous traits were selected for—a very large pool of preimplantation embryos would be required from which to select, thus imposing ...
Elisabeth (Boetzkes) Gedge, Wilfrid J. Waluchow, 2012
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Understanding Cloning
It's not yet clear exactly how you would go about building a designer baby, but here are a range of potential possibilities: * Screen an embryo for genetic disease. You may not think of this as helping build a designer baby, but in essence, it is.
Jay D. Gralla, Preston Gralla, 2004
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Genetics For Dummies
The rapidly growing field of genetics is contributing to ideas about how modern humans can mold the future of their offspring, so this chapter dispels the myth of the designer baby. You discover how information you give out and receive can be ...
Tara Rodden Robinson, 2010
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Modern Baby Bedding: A Consumer's Guide To Custom Baby ...
One website I have found which specializes in designer baby-wear, furniture and bedding is found at www.babyscribsupply.com This site allows you to shop by designer if you wish so that you can easily locate a specific product if you know ...
Denise C. Bright
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The Baby Diaries: Memories, Milestones and Misadventures
With regard to designer gear: ifyou're adamant that you want something a bit more upmarket,then TK MAXX do designer baby wear. Obviously there is no guarantee which labels you will get, but they are always well discounted and a mum that ...
Tess Daly, 2012
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Designer Babies
Journalists use the term designer baby to refer to children whose genetic traits are chosen by parents or doctors. This developing technology offers great benefits but also a range of ethical considerations. Right now, parents can't choose ...
John Bliss, 2011
9
Designer Food: Mutant Harvest Or Breadbasket of the World?
As "genetic" has shown in "genetically modified food," how a new biological product is named carries great importance for its emotional wallop on ordinary people (cf. "cloning," "test-tube baby," "designer baby"). Those in the dairy industry ...
Gregory E. Pence, 2002
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The Handbook of Genetics & Society: Mapping the New Genomic Era
Their analysis of the coverage of the Adam Nash story (involving the first ' designer baby' – a child born in August 2000 in the USA) exemplifies this strand of their work. Adam's mother underwent IVF and pre- implantation genetic diagnosis in ...
Paul Atkinson, Peter Glasner, Margaret Lock, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DESIGNER BABY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term designer baby is used in the context of the following news items.
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Texas couple pays $100K to ensure baby is a girl
The controversial “designer baby” procedures are banned in some European countries, as well as China and India. Critics cry foul ethics. «KSL.com, Jul 15»
2
No Legit Precedent for Gay Marriage
I wrote about this a decade ago when I talked about the designer baby craze where parents were engaged in choosing the eye color, gender, ... «GOPUSA, Jul 15»
3
Flowers: Same-sex marriage ruling negates humility
I wrote about this a decade ago when I talked about the designer baby craze where parents were engaged in choosing the eye color, gender, ... «Online Athens, Jul 15»
4
Is Being Smarter Just A Drug, Chip Or Gene Away?
Why can't I have a designer baby?' And it I think that is a long way off, because intelligence is incredibly complicated, and there's no such thing ... «Here And Now, Jul 15»
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Save the date
When I'm up to my elbows in Johnsons & Johnsons in the sink (we did away with the designer baby bath about three weeks in) at 7pm, I wish ... «Irish Independent, Jun 15»
6
Medical Experts Talk Kim Kardashian, Sex Selection, And The Fear …
There's something wrong with deliberately choosing characteristics. It smacks of the 'designer baby' idea. Then you have to examine that: why ... «ThinkProgress, Jun 15»
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Debenhams: Discounts on men's and women's fashion, homeware …
Baby essentials are included in the sale, with up to 50% off designer baby grows from Ted Baker and Jasper Conran. The kidswear range goes ... «Manchester Evening News, Jun 15»
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Is Dencia Nigeria's Queen Of Labels? We'd Let You Be The Judge
... shared with her 33.3k Instagram followers a photo of her in so many labels we are still yet to process it because… well, it's designer baby! «360Nobs.com, Jun 15»
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Kim Kardashian Denies Using IVF to Create 'Unethical' Designer Baby
Kim Kardashianas denied a story first reported by IM that she was impregnated with a designer embryo to guarantee she has a boy. But she's ... «TheImproper.com, Jun 15»
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Do You Fear Eugenics? China Does Not, and that's a Problem …
Even the term “designer baby” is used in a negative way; it's regarded as a dirty little secret and a sell-out. There is a cultural block in the West ... «Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, Jun 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Designer baby [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/designer-baby>. Apr 2024 ».
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