Nurse vs Nursle - What's the difference?
nurse | nursle |
(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.
* Burke
(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
To nurture, train, raise (up) (a person).
*1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.vi:
*:the late borne childe [...] till to ryper yeares he gan aspire, / He noursled vp in life and manners wilde [...].
As verbs the difference between nurse and nursle
is that nurse is to breast feed while nursle is to nurture, train, raise (up) (a person).As a noun nurse
is (archaic) a wet-nurse.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.