Berth vs. Birth

Berthnoun

A fixed bunk for sleeping in (caravans, trains, etc).

Berthnoun

Room for maneuvering or safety. (Often used in the phrase a wide berth.)

Berthnoun

A space for a ship to moor or a vehicle to park.

Berthnoun

(nautical) A room in which a number of the officers or ship's company mess and reside.

Berthnoun

A job or position, especially on a ship.

Berthnoun

(sports) Position or seed in a tournament bracket.

Berthnoun

(sports) position on the field of play

Berthverb

(transitive) to bring (a ship or vehicle) into its berth

Berthverb

(transitive) to assign a berth (bunk or position) to

Berthnoun

Convenient sea room.

Berthnoun

An allotted place; an appointment; situation or employment.

Berthnoun

A place in a ship to sleep in; a long box or shelf on the side of a cabin or stateroom, or of a railway car, for sleeping in.

Berthverb

To give an anchorage to, or a place to lie at; to place in a berth; as, she was berthed stem to stern with the Adelaide.

Berthverb

To allot or furnish berths to, on shipboard; as, to berth a ship's company.

Berthnoun

a job in an organization;

Berthnoun

a place where a craft can be made fast

Berthnoun

a bed on a ship or train; usually in tiers

Berthverb

provide with a berth

Berthverb

secure in or as if in a berth or dock;

Berthverb

come into or dock at a wharf;

Birthnoun

(uncountable) The process of childbearing; the beginning of life.

Birthnoun

(countable) An instance of childbirth.

Birthnoun

(countable) A beginning or start; a point of origin.

Birthnoun

(uncountable) The circumstances of one's background, ancestry, or upbringing.

Birthnoun

That which is born.

Birthnoun

misspelling of berth

Birthadjective

A familial relationship established by childbirth.

Birthverb

To bear or give birth to (a child).

Birthverb

(figuratively) To produce, give rise to.

Birthnoun

The act or fact of coming into life, or of being born; - generally applied to human beings; as, the birth of a son.

Birthnoun

Lineage; extraction; descent; sometimes, high birth; noble extraction.

Birthnoun

The condition to which a person is born; natural state or position; inherited disposition or tendency.

Birthnoun

The act of bringing forth; as, she had two children at a birth.

Birthnoun

That which is born; that which is produced, whether animal or vegetable.

Birthnoun

Origin; beginning; as, the birth of an empire.

Birthnoun

See Berth.

Birthnoun

the time when something begins (especially life);

Birthnoun

the event of being born;

Birthnoun

the process of giving birth

Birthnoun

the kinship relation of an offspring to the parents

Birthverb

give birth (to a newborn);

Birthnoun

the emergence of a baby or other young from the body of its mother; the start of life as a physically separate being

Birthnoun

the beginning or coming into existence of something

Birthnoun

a person's origin, descent, or ancestry

Birthverb

give birth to (a baby or other young)

Birth

Birth is the act or process of bearing or bringing forth offspring, also referred to in technical contexts as parturition. In mammals, the process is initiated by hormones which cause the muscular walls of the uterus to contract, expelling the fetus at a developmental stage when it is ready to feed and breathe.