nurse
41nurse — [13] The ultimate source of nurse was Latin nūtrīre (which also gave English nourish [13], nutriment [16], and nutrition [16]). This originally meant ‘suckle’ (it is related to Sanskrit snauti ‘drips, trickles’), but was later generalized to… …
42nurse — 01. You d better call a [nurse] right away; the patient in the next bed is having trouble breathing. 02. He sat at the bar [nursing] his beer, and staring off into space. 03. A woman in Ontario successfully sued a restaurant that kicked her out… …
43nurse — 1. noun 1) skilled nurses Syn: caregiver, RN, LPN, nurse practitioner, physician s assistant, health care worker; informal Florence Nightingale 2) she had been his nurse in childhood Syn: nanny, nursemaid, governess, au pair …
44nurse — 1. noun /nɜːs,nɝs/ a) A wet nurse. They hired a nurse to care for their young boy b) A person (usually a woman) who takes care of other people’s young. The nurse made her rounds through the hospital ward 2. verb /nɜːs,nɝs/ a) to …
45nurse — nurse1 noun 1》 a person trained to care for the sick or infirm. ↘dated a person employed or trained to take charge of young children. 2》 Entomology a worker bee or other social insect that cares for a young brood. 3》 Forestry a tree or crop… …
46nurse — Kahu ma i, kahu mālama ma i; kahu keiki (of a child). ♦ Wet nurse, kahu waiū, kahu wale, nu akea, poliwaiū. ♦ To nurse or suckle, ai waiū, omo waiū, poli ai (intransitive); hānai i ka poli (transitive). ♦ To nurse or care for, as an… …
47nurse — [13] The ultimate source of nurse was Latin nūtrīre (which also gave English nourish [13], nutriment [16], and nutrition [16]). This originally meant ‘suckle’ (it is related to Sanskrit snauti ‘drips, trickles’), but was later generalized to… …
48nurse — Redia Re di*a (r? d?*?), n.; pl. L. {Redi[ae]} ( [=e]), E. {Redias} ( ?z). [NL.; of uncertain origin.] (Zo[ o]l.) A kind of larva, or nurse, which is prroduced within the sporocyst of certain trematodes by asexual generation. It in turn produces …
49nurse — (Voz inglesa.) ► sustantivo femenino OFICIOS Y PROFESIONES Empleada que cuida de los niños en una casa particular: ■ le crió una nurse inglesa. SINÓNIMO niñera * * * nurse (ingl.) f. Niñera extranjera. * * * (voz inglesa) ► femenino Niñera …
50nurse — to suckle (a baby) Perhaps from the wet nurse, who suckled another s child, or from the cradling of the child as it feeds: Priss... was nursing her baby... I never expected a breast fed grandson, said Priss s mother. (M. McCarthy, 1963) …
