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Nurse (noun)
A wet nurse.
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Nurse (noun)
A person (usually a woman) who takes care of other people’s young.
“They hired a nurse to care for their young boy.”
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Nurse (noun)
A person trained to provide care for the sick.
“The nurse made her rounds through the hospital ward.”
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Nurse (noun)
One 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”.”
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Nurse (noun)
A shrub or tree that protects a young plant.
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Nurse (noun)
A lieutenant or first officer who takes command when the captain is unfit for his place.
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Nurse (noun)
A larva of certain trematodes, which produces cercariae by asexual reproduction.
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Nurse (noun)
A nurse shark.
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Nurse (verb)
to breastfeed
“She believes that nursing her baby will make him strong and healthy.”
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Nurse (verb)
to care for the sick
“She nursed him back to health.”
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Nurse (verb)
to treat kindly and with extra care
“She nursed the rosebush and that season it bloomed.”
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Nurse (verb)
to manage with care and economy
“husband”
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Nurse (verb)
to drink slowly
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Nurse (verb)
to foster, to nourish
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Nurse (verb)
to hold closely to one’s chest
“Would you like to nurse the puppy?”
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Nurse (verb)
to strike (billiard balls) gently, so as to keep them in good position during a series of shots
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Doctor (noun)
A medical profession; one who is trained and licensed to heal the sick or injured. The final examination and qualification may award a doctor degree in which case the post-nominal letters are D.O., M.D., DMD, DDS, in the US or MBBS in the UK.
“If you still feel unwell tomorrow, see your doctor.”
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Doctor (noun)
A person who has attained a doctorate, such as a Ph.D. or Th.D. or one of many other terminal degrees conferred by a college or university.
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Doctor (noun)
A veterinarian; a medical practitioner who treats non-human animals.
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Doctor (noun)
A nickname for a person who has special knowledge or talents to manipulate or arrange transactions.
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Doctor (noun)
A teacher; one skilled in a profession or a branch of knowledge; a learned man.
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Doctor (noun)
Any mechanical contrivance intended to remedy a difficulty or serve some purpose in an exigency.
“the doctor of a calico-printing machine, which is a knife to remove superfluous colouring matter”
“the doctor, or auxiliary engine, also called “donkey engine””
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Doctor (noun)
A fish, the friar skate.
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Doctor (verb)
To act as a medical doctor to.
“Her children doctored her back to health.”
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Doctor (verb)
To act as a medical doctor.
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Doctor (verb)
To make (someone) into an (academic) doctor; to confer a doctorate upon.
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Doctor (verb)
To physically alter (medically or surgically) a living being in order to change growth or behavior.
“They doctored their apple trees by vigorous pruning, and now the dwarfed trees are easier to pick.”
“We may legally doctor a pet to reduce its libido.”
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Doctor (verb)
To genetically alter an extant species.
“Mendel’s discoveries showed how the evolution of a species may be doctored.”
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Doctor (verb)
To alter or make obscure, as with the intention to deceive, especially a document.
“To doctor the signature of an instrument with intent to defraud is an example of forgery.”
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Doctor (verb)
To take medicine.