different between lon vs nurse

Albanian

Etymology

Unknown. Compare Arabic ?????? (?alam). The standard Albanian equivalent is flamur.

Noun

lon m

1. (Arbëresh) flag

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish lon.

Noun

lon m (genitive singular loin, nominative plural lonta)

1. blackbird (Turdus merula)

Declension

Synonyms

• lon dubh

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse lón. Akin to Icelandic lón.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lu?n/ (example of pronunciation)

Noun

lon f (definite singular lona, indefinite plural loner, definite plural lonene)

1. a depression in the bottom of a river or creek

   Synonym: høl

2. a portion of a creek with slow-flowing water

Related terms

• logn

References

• “lon” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Irish

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?on/

Noun

lon m

1. blackbird

Inflection

Descendants

• Irish: lon, lon dubh
• Manx: lhondoo, lhonnag
• Scottish Gaelic: lon, lon-dubh

Mutation

Romani

Etymology

From Sanskrit ??? (lava?a, “salt”). Compare Hindi ??? (lon, “salt”) and Punjabi ??? (l??, “salt”)

Noun

lon m

1. salt

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology 1

From Middle Irish lon. Compare Irish lon. Cognate with Old Church Slavonic ???? (lan?, “hind”) and also related to Proto-Celtic *elant? (“doe, hind”) (whence eilid (“hind”)).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /???n/

Noun

lon m (genitive singular loin, plural loin)

1. moose
2. elk

Etymology 2

Apparently a condensation of lomhainn from St Kilda.

Noun

lon m (genitive singular loin, plural lonan)

1. a rope of raw hides

Etymology 3

From Middle Irish lon, from Old Irish lon.

Noun

lon m (genitive singular loin, plural loin)

1. blackbird (Turdus merula)
2. ouzel (Cinclus mexicanus)

Etymology 4

Shortening of lon-chraois, apparently from Middle Irish con cráis (“gluttony”). Kuno Keyer translates lon separately as "demon". Others suggest lon as "water". See craos for its etymology.

Noun

lon m (genitive singular loin, no plural)

1. insatiable hunger
2. unquenchable thirst
3. gluttony
4. voracity

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

From English run.

Verb

lon

1. to run

Swedish

Noun

lon

1. definite singular of lo

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà N?i) IPA^(key): [l?n??]
• (Hu?) IPA^(key): [l????]
• (H? Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [l????]

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

(classifier cái) lon • (?, ????)

1. beverage can

Etymology 2

From French galon.

Noun

lon

1. (military, informal) stripe

Derived terms

• lên lon (“to get militarily promoted”)

Walloon

Etymology

From Latin longe, from the adjective longus (“long, far-off”).

Adverb

lon

1. far

Antonyms

• près

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?n/

Adjective

lon

1. Soft mutation of llon.

Mutation

English

Alternative forms

• nourice (archaic)
• norice (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English norice, from Old French norrice, from Latin n?tr?cius (“that nourishes”), from n?tr?x (“wet nurse”), from n?tri? (“to suckle”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /n??s/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /n?s/
• Rhymes: -??(?)s

Noun

nurse (plural nurses)

1. (archaic) A wet nurse.
2. A person (usually a woman) who takes care of other people’s young.

3. A person trained to provide care for the sick.
   • 1990, Andrew Davies, Michael Dobbs, House of Cards, Season 1, Episode 4

     Francis Urquhart: Right. Mackenzie. Health. No chance of getting him into a demo at a hospital, I suppose?
     Tim Stamper: Doesn't go to hospitals any more. Kept getting beaten up by the nurses... I think he has trouble getting insured now.

4. (figuratively) One who, or that which, brings up, rears, causes to grow, trains, or fosters.
   • 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France

     the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise

5. (horticulture) A shrub or tree that protects a young plant.
6. (nautical) A lieutenant or first officer who takes command when the captain is unfit for his place.
7. A larva of certain trematodes, which produces cercariae by asexual reproduction.
8. 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.

Derived terms

• nurse practitioner
• snotty's nurse
• wet nurse, wet-nurse

Descendants

Translations

Verb

nurse (third-person singular simple present nurses, present participle nursing, simple past and past participle nursed)

1. (transitive) To breastfeed: to feed (a baby) at the breast; to suckle.

   She believes that nursing her baby will make him strong and healthy.

2. (intransitive) To breastfeed: to be fed at the breast.
3. (transitive) To care for (someone), especially in sickness; to tend to.

   She nursed him back to health.

4. to treat kindly and with extra care

   She nursed the rosebush and that season it bloomed.

5. to manage with care and economy

   Synonym: husband

6. to drink slowly, to make it last

   Rob was nursing a small beer.

7. to foster, to nourish
8. to hold closely to one's chest

   Would you like to nurse the puppy?

9. (billiards) 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 Thesaurus:drink

Translations

See also

• matron
• sister

Further reading

• nurse in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• nurse in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• nurse at OneLook Dictionary Search
• Nurse in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Anagrams

• Nuers, Suren, Unser, runes, urnes

Middle English

Noun

nurse

1. Alternative form of norice