Palavra Inglês do Dia

nurse

enfermeira

Definições

inglês > português

nurse

1. (tu) tratas

2. (nós) tratamos

3. tratar

4. enfermeiro

inglês > inglês

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

português > inglês

enfermeira

1. n-f. female equivalent of enfermeiro (sister, nurse)