Definitionen
1.NounA person involved in providing direct care for the sick:
Anyone performing this role, regardless of training or profession."My aunt was my nurse while I recuperated at home from surgery.; The nurse made her rounds through the hospital ward."
2.NounAnyone performing this role, regardless of training or profession."My aunt was my nurse while I recuperated at home from surgery."
3.NounA medical worker performing this role, typically someone trained to provide such care but having credentials and rank below a doctor or physician assistant."The nurse made her rounds through the hospital ward."
4.NounA medical worker, such as a registered nurse, having training, credentials, and rank above a nurse assistant.
5.NounA person (usually a woman) who takes care of other people’s children."They hired a nurse to care for their young boy."
6.NounOne 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"."
7.NounA shrub or tree that protects a young plant.
8.NounA lieutenant or first officer who takes command when the captain is unfit for his place.
9.NounA larva of certain trematodes, which produces cercariae by asexual reproduction.
10.NounA wet nurse.
11.VerbTo breastfeed: to feed (a baby) at the breast; to suckle."She believes that nursing her baby will make him strong and healthy."
12.VerbTo breastfeed: to be fed at the breast.
13.VerbTo care for (someone), especially in sickness; to tend to."She nursed him back to health."
14.VerbTo tend gently and with extra care."She nursed the rosebush and that season it bloomed."
15.VerbTo manage or oversee (something) with care and economy.
16.VerbTo drink (a beverage) slowly, so as to make it last."Rob was nursing a small beer."
17.VerbTo cultivate or persistently entertain (an attitude, usually negative) in one's mind; to brood or obsess over."to nurse a grudge"
18.VerbTo hold closely to one's chest."Would you like to nurse the puppy?"
19.VerbTo strike (billiard balls) gently, so as to keep them in good position during a series of shots.
20.NounA nurse shark or dogfish.