Definition of Nurse

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Definition of Nurse

Nurse

One who nourishes; a person who supplies food, tends, or brings up; as: (a) A woman who has the care of young children; especially, one who suckles an infant not her own. (b) A person, especially a woman, who has the care of the sick or infirm.

One who, or that which, brings up, rears, causes to grow, trains, fosters, or the like.

A lieutenant or first officer, who is the real commander when the captain is unfit for his place.

A peculiar larva of certain trematodes which produces cercariae by asexual reproduction. See Cercaria, and Redia.

Either one of the nurse sharks.

To nourish; to cherish; to foster

To nourish at the breast; to suckle; to feed and tend, as an infant.

To take care of or tend, as a sick person or an invalid; to attend upon.

To bring up; to raise, by care, from a weak or invalid condition; to foster; to cherish; -- applied to plants, animals, and to any object that needs, or thrives by, attention.

To manage with care and economy, with a view to increase; as, to nurse our national resources.

To caress; to fondle, as a nurse does.

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Nurse Quotations

Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.
Henry David Thoreau

Better murder an infant in its cradle than nurse an unacted desire.
William Blake

The reason I used a name was because I was a nurse at the time, and I didn't want my name in Timeout and people from working coming along and taking the piss.
Jo Brand

Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
Dag Hammarskjold

I would say that IQ is the strongest predictor of which field you can get into and hold a job in, whether you can be an accountant, lawyer or nurse, for example.
Daniel Goleman

I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.
Clara Barton

Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous.
Jeremy Taylor

That is what I'm looking forward to the most, practical learning. I want to be a registered nurse so getting to talk to people who already work in those jobs can really teach me what to expect when I get out in the real world.
Angela Carter

By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.
John Dryden

This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.
Harold Pinter

Nurse Translations

nurse in Afrikaans is verpleeg, suster, verpleegster
nurse in Danish is sygeplejerske, se after, pleje
nurse in Dutch is verzorgen, zorgen voor, verplegen
nurse in Finnish is hoitaa
nurse in Italian is allattamento, coltivare, badare
nurse in Norwegian is sykepleierske
nurse in Portuguese is enfermeira
nurse in Spanish is enfermera, acostumbrar

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