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# nurse

«nurse» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person trained to look after sick or injured people…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a nurse, nurses); verb (nurse, nurses, nursed, nursing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A nurse is a person trained to look after sick or injured people, usually in a hospital, clinic or school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nurse/#m1)

2) To nurse someone means to take care of them when they are ill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nurse/#m2)

3) To nurse a baby can mean to feed it milk from the breast. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nurse/#m3)

4) To nurse a feeling means to keep it for a long time: nurse a grudge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nurse/#m4)

5) A nanny or nurse can also be a person, often a woman, who looks after a young child in a family home. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nurse/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In health lessons nurses are people who help: the school nurse checks injuries, hearing and eyesight; in hospitals nurses give medicine and care for patients. Nurses can be men or women. In stories a nurse often helps a hurt or sick character. Phrases: school nurse, nurse someone back to health, nursing home, nursery (a place for babies or young children, or for growing plants).

### examples

- The school nurse put a plaster on my knee. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nurse/#x1)
- My aunt is a nurse at the hospital. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nurse/#x2)
- The nurse checked my temperature. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nurse/#x3)
- Dad nursed me when I had the flu. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nurse/#x4)
- They nursed the injured bird back to health. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nurse/#x5)
- Nurses work day and night shifts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nurse/#x6)
- My grandad lives in a nursing home. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nurse/#x7)
- If you feel sick at school, ask to see the nurse. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nurse/#x8)
- Were his nurses comely or harsh-looking? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nurse/#x9)

### note

Countable: nurses. Nurses can be men or women: «he is a nurse» is correct. «Nurse» and «nursery» are related; a nursery can be a room for a baby, a place for young children, or a place that grows plants.

### In the corpora

- [Night shifts mean working through the night and sleeping in the day; nurses, drivers, bakers and warehouse workers often do them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/2-shifts-nights-and-other-ways-of-working/6/)
- [A midwife is a nurse trained to care for women and babies during pregnancy, birth and the first days after.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/18-were-having-a-baby/16/)
- [Hospitals limit visiting hours and the number of visitors so patients can rest and doctors and nurses can work.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/21-hospitals-operations-and-serious-illness/11/)
- [Strange hours often mean a shift worker, like a nurse, porter or baker, keeping everyone safe and fed.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/43-our-street-when-a-guess-becomes-a-reputation/14/)
- [The Mole: «And no more weeks in hospital, being ordered about by female nurses».](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/46-willows-ch6-part2-not-sorry-and-locked-up/35/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «nurse» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nurse/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.