Le mot anglais du jour

nurse

infirmière

Définitions

anglais > français
nurse
1. n. Infirmière, infirmier.
2. n. Nourrice.
3. v. Soigner.
Aucune mère n'eût pu entourer son enfant unique de soins plus dévoués que ce qu'Edgar lui prodigua.
4. v. Allaiter, donner le sein.
anglais > anglais
nurse
1. n. (archaic) A wet-nurse.
2. n. A person (usually a woman) who takes care of other people’s young.
They hired a nurse to care for their young boy
3. n. A person trained to provide care for the sick.
The nurse made her rounds through the hospital ward
4. n. One who, or that which, brings up, rears, causes to grow, trains, fosters, or the like.
5. n. (horticulture) A shrub or tree that protects a young plant.
6. n. (nautical) A lieutenant or first officer who takes command when the captain is unfit for his place.
7. n. A larva of certain trematodes, which produces cercariae by asexual reproduction.
8. n. A nurse shark.
9. v. to breastfeed
She believes that nursing her baby will make him strong and healthy.
10. v. to care for the sick
She nursed him back to health.
11. v. to treat kindly and with extra care
She nursed the rosebush and that season it bloomed.
12. v. to manage with care and economy
Synonyms: husband
13. v. to drink slowly
14. v. to foster, to nourish
15. v. to hold closely to one's chest
Would you like to nurse the puppy?
16. v. to strike (billiard balls) gently, so as to keep them in good position during a series of shots
français > anglais
infirmière
1. n-f. nurse