What is the difference between nurse and sister?
nurse | sister |
(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
A daughter of the same parents as another person; a female sibling.
A female member of a religious community; a nun.
(British) A senior or supervisory nurse, often in a hospital.
Any woman or girl with whom a bond is felt through common membership of a race, profession, religion or organization, such as feminism.
* 1985 , (Eurythmics) and (Aretha Franklin), Who’s Zoomin' Who? :
(slang) A black woman.
(informal) A form of address to a woman.
* What’s up, sister ?
A woman, in certain labour or socialist circles; also as a form of address.
* Thank you, sister'''. I would like to thank the '''sister who just spoke.
(attributively) Of or relating to an entity that has a special or affectionate, non-hierachical relationship with another.
(usually, attributively) In the same class.
(construction) To strengthen (a supporting beam) by fastening a second beam alongside it.
(obsolete) To be sister to; to resemble closely.
As nouns the difference between nurse and sister
is that nurse is a wet-nurse while sister is a daughter of the same parents as another person; a female sibling.As verbs the difference between nurse and sister
is that nurse is to breast feed while sister is to strengthen (a supporting beam) by fastening a second beam alongside it.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)sister
English
Noun
(en-noun)- My sister is always driving me crazy.
- Michelle left behind her bank job and became a sister at the local convent.
- Connie was very close to her friend Judy and considered her to be her sister .
- [song title] Sisters Are Doin’ It for Themselves
- sister''' publication, '''''sister''' city'', '''''sister projects
- sister''' ships'', '''''sister facility
Synonyms
* (woman or girl with the same parents) (slang) sis * (member of religious community) nun, sistren * (supervisory nurse) charge nurse * darling, dear, love, (US) lady, miss, (northern UK) pet * affiliate, affiliatedAntonyms
* (with regards to gender) brotherHypernyms
* (daughter of common parents) siblingDerived terms
* big sister * half-sister * kid sister * little sister * sis * sissy * sister city * sisterhood * sister-in-law * sisterly * sister ship * stepsister * weak sisterVerb
(en verb)- I’m trying to correct my sagging floor by sistering the joists.
- (Shakespeare)