单词 | nurse |
释义 | Word Frequency nurse(nɜːs) noun 1. a person who tends sick, injured, or infirm people 2. short for nursemaid 3. a woman employed to breast-feed another woman's child; wet nurse 4. a worker in a colony of social insects that takes care of the larvae verb (mainly tr) 5. (also intr) to tend (a sick person or sick people) 6. (also intr) to feed (a baby) at the breast; suckle 7. to try to cure (an ailment) 8. to clasp carefully or fondly she nursed the crying child in her arms 9. (also intr) (of a baby) to suckle at the breast (of) 10. to look after (a child) as one's employment 11. to attend to carefully; foster, cherish I nursed the magazine through its first year having a very small majority she nursed the constituency diligently 12. to harbour; preserve to nurse a grudge 13. billiards to keep (the balls) together for a series of cannons Word origin C16: from earlier norice, Old French nourice, from Late Latin nūtrīcia nurse, from Latin nūtrīcius nourishing, from nūtrīre to nourishWord Frequency Nurse(nɜːs) noun Sir Paul (Maxime). born 1949, English cell biologist and geneticist; winner (2001), with LH Hartwell and RT Hunt, of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine |
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