orphan
- Noun. A person, especially a minor, both or (rarely) one of whose parents have died.
- Noun. A young animal with no mother.
- Noun. (figuratively) Anything that is unsupported, as by its source, provider or caretaker, by reason of the supporter's demise or decision to abandon.
- Noun. (typography) A single line of type, beginning a paragraph, at the bottom of a column or page.
- Noun. (computing) Any unreferenced abstract object.
- Adjective. Deprived of parents (also (term, orphaned) ).
- Adjective. (by extension, figuratively) Remaining after the removal of some form of support.
- Verb. (transitive) To deprive of parents (''used almost exclusively in the passive'').
- Verb. (transitive) (computing) To make unavailable, as by unlinking the last remaining pointer to.
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