Foster vs Urge - What's the difference?
foster | urge |
Providing parental care to unrelated children.
Receiving such care
Related by such care
(countable, obsolete) A forester
(uncountable) The care given to another; guardianship
To nurture or bring up offspring; or to provide similar parental care to an unrelated child.
To cultivate and grow something.
To nurse or cherish something.
(obsolete) To be nurtured or trained up together.
To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward.
* Alexander Pope
To press the mind or will of; to ply with motives, arguments, persuasion, or importunity.
* Shakespeare
To provoke; to exasperate.
* Shakespeare
To press hard upon; to follow closely.
* Alexander Pope
To present in an urgent manner; to insist upon.
(obsolete) To treat with forcible means; to take severe or violent measures with.
To press onward or forward.
To be pressing in argument; to insist; to persist.
In transitive terms the difference between foster and urge
is that foster is to nurse or cherish something while urge is to be pressing in argument; to insist; to persist.As an adjective foster
is providing parental care to unrelated children.As a proper noun Foster
is {{surname|A=An|English|from=occupations}}, variant of Forster.foster
English
Adjective
(-)Noun
Verb
(en verb)- Our company fosters an appreciation for the arts.
- (Spenser)
Antonyms
* (cultivate and grow) hinderDerived terms
* fosterable * fosterage * foster-child, foster child * fosterer * foster home * fosterhood * fostering * fosterment * foster parentAnagrams
* * * * ----urge
English
Verb
(urg)- through the thick deserts headlong urged his flight
- My brother never / Did urge me in his act; I did inquire it.
- Urge not my father's anger.
- Heir urges heir, like wave impelling wave.
- to urge''' an argument; to '''urge the necessity of a case
- to urge an ore with intense heat