| slovo | definícia |
nurse
(mass) | nurse
- sestrička |
nurse
(encz) | nurse,chůva n: Zdeněk Brož |
nurse
(encz) | nurse,kojná n: Zdeněk Brož |
nurse
(encz) | nurse,opatrovat v: |
nurse
(encz) | nurse,ošetřovat v: Zdeněk Brož |
nurse
(encz) | nurse,ošetřovatelka n: |
nurse
(encz) | nurse,sestřička n: (zdravotní) Martin Dvořák |
nurse
(encz) | nurse,zdravotní sestra n: |
Nurse
(gcide) | Nurse \Nurse\ (n[^u]rs), n. [OE. nourse, nurice, norice, OF.
nurrice, norrice, nourrice, F. nourrice, fr. L. nutricia
nurse, prop., fem. of nutricius that nourishes; akin to
nutrix, -icis, nurse, fr. nutrire to nourish. See Nourish,
and cf. Nutritious.]
1. 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.
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2. One who, or that which, brings up, rears, causes to grow,
trains, fosters, or the like.
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The nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise.
--Burke.
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3. (Naut.) A lieutenant or first officer, who is the real
commander when the captain is unfit for his place.
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4. (Zool.)
(a) A peculiar larva of certain trematodes which produces
cercariae by asexual reproduction. See Cercaria, and
Redia.
(b) Either one of the nurse sharks.
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Nurse shark. (Zool.)
(a) A large arctic shark (Somniosus microcephalus),
having small teeth and feeble jaws; -- called also
sleeper shark, and ground shark.
(b) A large shark (Ginglymostoma cirratum), native of
the West Indies and Gulf of Mexico, having the dorsal
fins situated behind the ventral fins.
To put to nurse, or To put out to nurse, to send away to
be nursed; to place in the care of a nurse.
Wet nurse, Dry nurse. See Wet nurse, and Dry nurse,
in the Vocabulary.
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Nurse
(gcide) | Nurse \Nurse\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Nursed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Nursing.]
1. To nourish; to cherish; to foster; as:
(a) To nourish at the breast; to suckle; to feed and tend,
as an infant.
(b) To take care of or tend, as a sick person or an
invalid; to attend upon.
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Sons wont to nurse their parents in old age.
--Milton.
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Him in Egerian groves Aricia bore,
And nursed his youth along the marshy shore.
--Dryden.
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2. 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 nurse the saplings tall." --Milton.
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By what hands [has vice] been nursed into so
uncontrolled a dominion? --Locke.
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3. To manage with care and economy, with a view to increase;
as, to nurse our national resources.
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4. To caress; to fondle, as a nurse does. --A. Trollope.
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To nurse billiard balls, to strike them gently and so as to
keep them in good position during a series of caroms.
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nurse
(gcide) | Redia \Re"di*a\ (r?"d?*?), n.; pl. L. Rediae (-[=e]), E.
Redias (-?z). [NL.; of uncertain origin.] (Zool.)
A kind of larva, or nurse, which is prroduced within the
sporocyst of certain trematodes by asexual generation. It in
turn produces, in the same way, either another generation of
rediae, or else cercariae within its own body. Called also
proscolex, and nurse. See Illustration in Appendix.
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nurse
(wn) | nurse
n 1: one skilled in caring for young children or the sick
(usually under the supervision of a physician)
2: a woman who is the custodian of children [syn: nanny,
nursemaid, nurse]
v 1: try to cure by special care of treatment, of an illness or
injury; "He nursed his cold with Chinese herbs"
2: maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings); "bear a grudge";
"entertain interesting notions"; "harbor a resentment" [syn:
harbor, harbour, hold, entertain, nurse]
3: serve as a nurse; care for sick or handicapped people
4: treat carefully; "He nursed his injured back by lying in bed
several hours every afternoon"; "He nursed the flowers in his
garden and fertilized them regularly"
5: give suck to; "The wetnurse suckled the infant"; "You cannot
nurse your baby in public in some places" [syn: breastfeed,
suckle, suck, nurse, wet-nurse, lactate, {give
suck}] [ant: bottlefeed] |
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day nursery
(mass) | day nursery
- jasle |
nursery
(mass) | nursery
- jasle |
wetnurse
(mass) | wet-nurse
- kojiť |
day nursery
(encz) | day nursery,jesle Pavel Cvrček |
dry nurse
(encz) | dry nurse, n: |
dry-nurse
(encz) | dry-nurse, v: |
foster-nurse
(encz) | foster-nurse, n: |
graduate nurse
(encz) | graduate nurse, n: |
head nurse
(encz) | head nurse, n: |
licensed practical nurse
(encz) | licensed practical nurse, |
nurse clinician
(encz) | nurse clinician, n: |
nurse log
(encz) | nurse log, n: |
nurse practitioner
(encz) | nurse practitioner, n: |
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