nurse
part of speech
noun (a nurse, nurses); verb (nurse, nurses, nursed, nursing)
meaning for a pupil
1) A nurse is a person trained to look after sick or injured people, usually in a hospital, clinic or school. tree →
2) To nurse someone means to take care of them when they are ill. tree →
3) To nurse a baby can mean to feed it milk from the breast. tree →
4) To nurse a feeling means to keep it for a long time: nurse a grudge. tree →
5) A nanny or nurse can also be a person, often a woman, who looks after a young child in a family home. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In the Torah, a nurse is a woman who feeds and raises a child, like Rebekah's nurse Deborah or the woman Miriam suggests for baby Moses. In the later books Naomi becomes a nurse to her grandson Obed, and Joash is hidden with his nurse to save him from being killed. Interpretation: Tradition notes Moses' own mother was brought as the "nurse," so Pharaoh's daughter unknowingly paid her to raise him. In the primary lessons: In health lessons nurses are people who help: the school nurse checks injuries, hearing and eyesight; in hospitals nurses give medicine and care for patients. Nurses can be men or women. In stories a nurse often helps a hurt or sick character. Phrases: school nurse, nurse someone back to health, nursing home, nursery (a place for babies or young children, or for growing plants).
examples
- And they sent away Rebekah their sister, and her nurse, and Abraham's servant, and his men. (Torah GEN.24.59, JPS 1917) tree →
- And Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was buried below Beth-el under the oak; and the name of it was called Allon-bacuth. (Torah GEN.35.8, JPS 1917) tree →
- Then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter: 'Shall I go and call thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee?' (Torah EXO.2.7, JPS 1917) tree →
- And Naomi took the child, and laid it in her bosom, and became nurse unto it. (Writings RUT.4.16, JPS 1917) tree →
- But Jehoshabeath, the daughter of the king, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him away from among the king's sons that were slain, and put him and his nurse in the bed-chamber. (Writings 2CH.22.11, JPS 1917) tree →
- The school nurse put a plaster on my knee. tree →
- My aunt is a nurse at the hospital. tree →
- The nurse checked my temperature. tree →
- Dad nursed me when I had the flu. tree →
- They nursed the injured bird back to health. tree →
- Nurses work day and night shifts. tree →
- My grandad lives in a nursing home. tree →
- If you feel sick at school, ask to see the nurse. tree →
- Were his nurses comely or harsh-looking? tree →
note
Countable: nurses. Nurses can be men or women: «he is a nurse» is correct. «Nurse» and «nursery» are related; a nursery can be a room for a baby, a place for young children, or a place that grows plants.
In the corpora
- And they sent away Rebekah their sister, and her nurse, and Abraham's servant, and his men.
- And Naomi took the child, and laid it in her bosom, and became nurse unto it.
- Night shifts mean working through the night and sleeping in the day; nurses, drivers, bakers and warehouse workers often do them.
- A midwife is a nurse trained to care for women and babies during pregnancy, birth and the first days after.
- Hospitals limit visiting hours and the number of visitors so patients can rest and doctors and nurses can work.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «nurse» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.