cradle

Definition

  • noun: a bed for a baby that is usually designed to rock back and forth when pushed gently
  • noun: a bed or cot for a baby usually on rockers or pivots
  • verb: to hold (something or someone) gently in your arms or hands
  • verb: to place or keep in or as if in a cradle
  • sometimes used figuratively
  • synonyms: rocker, rest

Examples

  • She was 'cradling' the injured man's head in her arms.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) Scream, and your entire staff dies. I could've killed you, Helen, the night we met. I didn't. Do you expect a thank you note? I expect you to know why. The cradle. "This is the next thing, Tony." This...is the next me. The regeneration cradle prints tissue, it can't build a living body. (..)
    2015 Avengers: Age of Ultron
  • (..) His cells don't know they're bonding with simulacrum. She is creating tissue. If you brought him to my lab, the regeneration cradle could do this in twenty minutes. Oh, he's flatlining. Call it. Time? No, no, no I'm going to live forever. Heh heh. - I'm gonna be made of plastic. (..)
    2015 Avengers: Age of Ultron