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(archaic) A wet-nurse.
A person (usually a woman) who takes care of other people’s young.
A person trained to provide care for the sick.
One who, or that which, brings up, rears, causes to grow, trains, fosters, or the like.
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(nautical) A lieutenant or first officer who takes command when the captain is unfit for his place.
A larva of certain trematodes, which produces cercariae by asexual reproduction.
A nurse shark.
to breast feed
to care for the sick
to treat kindly and with extra care
to drink slowly
to foster, to nourish
to hold closely to one's chest
to strike (billiard balls) gently, so as to keep them in good position during a series of shots
* 1866 , United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War, Supplemental report of the Joint Committee
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
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Spurious, artificial.
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*:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
(lb) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
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Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.
Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
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*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:whose false foundation waves have swept away
Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
(lb) Out of tune.
As a noun nurse
is (archaic) a wet-nurse.As a verb nurse
is to breast feed.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.nurse
English
(wikipedia nurse)Noun
(en noun)- They hired a nurse to care for their young boy
- The nurse made her rounds through the hospital ward
- the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise
Usage notes
* Some speakers consider nurses (medical workers) to be female by default, and thus use "male nurse" to refer to a man doing the same job.Verb
(nurs)- She believes that nursing her baby will make him strong and healthy .
- She nursed him back to health.
- She nursed the rosebush and that season it bloomed.
- Would you like to nurse the puppy?
- It is to our interest to let Lee and Johnston come together, just as a billiard-player would nurse the balls when he has them in a nice place.
Usage notes
In sense “to drink slowly”, generally negative and particularly used for someone at a bar, suggesting they either cannot afford to buy another drink or are too miserly to do so. By contrast, sip is more neutral.Synonyms
* (drink slowly) sip, see alsoDerived terms
* nurse practitioner * wet nurse, wet-nurseSee also
* matron * sisterExternal links
* * *Anagrams
* (l), (l), (l)false
English
Adjective
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