Nurse vs Protect - What's the difference?
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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.
* 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 keep safe; to defend; to guard; to prevent harm coming to.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-03
, author=William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter
, title=The British Longitude Act Reconsidered
, volume=100, issue=2, page=87
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Nurse is a related term of protect.
As verbs the difference between nurse and protect
is that nurse is to breast feed while protect is to keep safe; to defend; to guard; to prevent harm coming to.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.
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)protect
English
Verb
(en verb)citation, passage=But was it responsible governance to pass the Longitude Act without other efforts to protect British seamen? Or might it have been subterfuge—a disingenuous attempt to shift attention away from the realities of their life at sea.}}
