nurse

«nurse» in Mova's school dictionary: a person trained to look after sick or injured people… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

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 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

• 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

• 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.
• Strange hours often mean a shift worker, like a nurse, porter or baker, keeping everyone safe and fed.
• The Mole: «And no more weeks in hospital, being ordered about by female nurses».

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «nurse» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.