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Professional vs Nurse - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between professional and nurse

is that professional is a person who belongs to a profession while nurse is (archaic) a wet-nurse.

As an adjective professional

is of, pertaining to, or in accordance with the (usually high) standards of a profession.

As a verb nurse is

to breast feed.

professional

English

Noun

(wikipedia professional) (en noun)
  • A person who belongs to a profession
  • A person who earns his living from a specified activity
  • An expert.
  • * 1934 , edition, ISBN 0553278193, page 97:
  • I have learned that there is a person attached to a golf club called a professional'. Find out who fills that post at the Green Meadow Club; invite the ' professional , urgently, to dine with us this evening.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of, pertaining to, or in accordance with the (usually high) standards of a profession.
  • *
  • *:His forefathers had been, as a rule, professional men—physicians and lawyers; his grandfather died under the walls of Chapultepec Castle while twisting a tourniquet for a cursing dragoon; an uncle remained indefinitely at Malvern Hill;.
  • That is carried out for money, especially as a livelihood.
  • (lb) Expert.
  • Derived terms

    * non-professional, nonprofessional * professionalism * unprofessional

    nurse

    English

    (wikipedia nurse)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) A wet-nurse.
  • A person (usually a woman) who takes care of other people’s young.
  • They hired a nurse to care for their young boy
  • A person trained to provide care for the sick.
  • The nurse made her rounds through the hospital ward
  • One who, or that which, brings up, rears, causes to grow, trains, fosters, or the like.
  • * Burke
  • the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise
  • (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.
  • 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)
  • to breast feed
  • She believes that nursing her baby will make him strong and healthy .
  • to care for the sick
  • She nursed him back to health.
  • to treat kindly and with extra care
  • She nursed the rosebush and that season it bloomed.
  • to drink slowly
  • to foster, to nourish
  • to hold closely to one's chest
  • Would you like to nurse the puppy?
  • 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
  • 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 also

    Derived terms

    * nurse practitioner * wet nurse, wet-nurse

    See also

    * matron * sister

    Anagrams

    * (l), (l), (l)