nurse
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A person involved in providing direct care for the sick
A person involved in providing direct care for the sick:
- My aunt was my nurse while I recuperated at home from surgery.
A person (usually a woman) who takes care of other people’s children.
- They hired a nurse to care for their young boy.
One who, or that which, brings up, rears, causes to grow, trains, or fosters.
- Eton College has been called "the chief nurse of England's statesmen".
- the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise
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A shrub or tree that protects a young plant.
A lieutenant or first officer who takes command when the captain is unfit for his place.
A larva of certain trematodes, which produces cercariae by asexual reproduction.
A wet nurse.
To breastfeed
To breastfeed: to feed (a baby) at the breast; to suckle.
- She believes that nursing her baby will make him strong and healthy.
To care for (someone), especially in sickness
To care for (someone), especially in sickness; to tend to.
- She nursed him back to health.
To tend gently and with extra care.
- She nursed the rosebush and that season it bloomed.
To manage or oversee (something) with care and economy.
To drink (a beverage) slowly, so as to make it last.
- Rob was nursing a small beer.
To cultivate or persistently entertain (an attitude, usually negative) in one's mind
To cultivate or persistently entertain (an attitude, usually negative) in one's mind; to brood or obsess over.
- to nurse a grudge
- to nurse a grievance
To hold closely to one's chest.
- Would you like to nurse the puppy?
To strike (billiard balls) gently, so as to keep them in good position during a series of…
To strike (billiard balls) gently, so as to keep them in good position during a series of shots.
- It is to our interest to let Lee and Johnston come together, just as a billiard-player would nurse the balls when he has them in a nice place
A nurse shark or dogfish.
A surname.
The neighborhood
Derived
allonurse, charge nurse, community nurse, community psychiatric nurse, district nurse, dry nurse, dry-nurse, drynurse, flight nurse, goodnight nurse, graduate nurse, hello nurse, murse, nit nurse, nonnurse, nursable, nurse-assistant, nurse assistant, nurse auxiliary, nursebot, nursedom, nursegirl, nursehound, nurse-in, nursekeeper, nursekin, nurseless, nurselet, nurselike, nurse log, nursely, nursemaid, nurseman, nurse merger, nursepond, nurse practitioner, nurse-practitioner, nurser, nursery nurse, nursetender · +21 more
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at nurse. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at nurse. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
6 hops · closes at nurse
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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