英语词汇“nurse”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词

nurse

释义

a person skilled or trained in caring for the sick or infirm, esp under the supervision of a physician

dated a woman employed to take care of a young child

archaic = wet nurse

a member of the worker caste in an ant, bee, etc society, that cares for the young

in forestry, a tree planted to provide shelter for others

[Middle English via Old French nurice from late Latin nutricia nurse, fem of Latin nutricius: see nutritious]

to tend (a sick or injured person)

to treat (e.g. an illness or injury) with care

to suckle (a baby)

to rear or nurture (a child)

to hold (e.g. a baby) lovingly or caressingly

to hold or handle (something) carefully

nursing his laptop on his knee

to hold (a drink), drinking it slowly

to nourish and promote the growth of (a plant, etc)

to harbour (a feeling) in one's mind

to attend to the needs or whims of (a person) to keep their goodwill

You have to nurse your best customers

in billiards, to play shots that keep (the balls) together

verb intrans

to act or serve as a nurse

said of a mother: to suckle an offspring

said of a baby: to suck at the breast

[alteration of nourish by association with nurse¹]

a grey shark of Australia, found in shallow coastal waters: Odontaspis arenarius

[orig nusse, alteration of huss by misdivision of an huss]

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