different between nurture vs grub

English

Alternative forms

• nouriture (obsolete)
• nutriture (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English norture, noriture, from Old French norriture, norreture, from Late Latin nutritura (“nourishment”), from Latin nutrire (“to nourish”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n???.t???/
• Rhymes: -??(?)t??(?)

Noun

nurture (countable and uncountable, plural nurtures)

1. The act of nourishing or nursing; tender care

   Synonyms: upbringing, raising, education, training

2. That which nourishes; food; diet.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, A Veue of the Present State of Ireland

     Other great houses there be of the English in Ireland, which, through licentious conversing with the Irish, or marrying, or fostering with them or lack of meet nurture, or other such unhappy occasions, have degenerated from their ancient dignities and are now grown as Irish as O'Hanlon's breech, as the proverb there is.

3. The environmental influences that contribute to the development of an individual (as opposed to "nature").
   • 1649, John Milton, Eikonoklastes

     A man neither by nature nor by nurture wise.

Translations

Verb

nurture (third-person singular simple present nurtures, present participle nurturing, simple past and past participle nurtured)

1. To nourish or nurse.
2. (figuratively, by extension) To encourage, especially the growth or development of something.
   • 2009, UNESCO, The United Nations World Water Development Report – N° 3 - 2009 – Freshwater and International Law (the Interplay between Universal, Regional and Basin Perspectives), page 10, ?ISBN

     The relationships between universal norms and specific norms nurture the development of international law.

Synonyms

• (figuratively, to encourage): See Thesaurus:nurture

Related terms

• nourish
• nourishment
• nurse
• nursery
• nurturance
• nutrient
• nutriment
• nutrition
• nutritional
• nutritious
• nutritive

Translations

Further reading

• nurture in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• nurture in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• U-turner, untruer

Middle English

Noun

nurture

1. Alternative form of norture

English

Etymology

From hypothetical Old English *grubbian, from Proto-Germanic *grubb- (compare Old High German grubil?n (“to dig, search”), German grübeln (“to meditate, ponder”)), from Proto-Germanic *grub- (“to dig”). The noun sense of "larva" (c. 1400) may derive from the notion of "digging insect" or from the possibly unrelated Middle English grub (“dwarfish fellow”). The slang sense of "food" is first recorded 1659, and has been linked with birds eating grubs or with bub (“drink”)."

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???b/
• Rhymes: -?b

Noun

grub (countable and uncountable, plural grubs)

1. (countable) An immature stage in the life cycle of an insect; a larva.

   Synonym: larva

2. (uncountable, slang) Food.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:food

3. (Australia, slang) A dirty person.
4. (Australia, slang) A despicable person; a lowlife.
5. (obsolete) A short, thick man; a dwarf.
   • 1602, Richard Carew, Survey of Cornwall

     John Romane, a short clownish grub, would bear the whole carcase of an ox, yet never tugged with him.

Derived terms

• grubby
• grublike
• witchety grub

Translations

See also

• caterpillar
• maggot
• worm

Verb

grub (third-person singular simple present grubs, present participle grubbing, simple past and past participle grubbed)

1. To scavenge or in some way scrounge, typically for food.
2. (transitive, intransitive) To dig; to dig up by the roots; to root out by digging; often followed by up.

   to grub up trees, rushes, or sedge

   • 1846, Julius Hare, The Mission of the Comforter

     They do not attempt to grub up the root of sin.

   • 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4

     Yet there was no time to be lost if I was ever to get out alive, and so I groped with my hands against the side of the grave until I made out the bottom edge of the slab, and then fell to grubbing beneath it with my fingers.

3. (slang, dated, transitive) To supply with food.
4. (slang, dated) To eat.

   • "John dear , we must give this little fellow his supper , you know ."
     “ Of course we must , my darling . "
     “ He has been grubbing and grubbing at school, ” said Bella

Translations

Anagrams

• -burg, Burg, burg

German

Pronunciation

Verb

grub

1. singular past imperfect of graben

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *gr?b?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?rû?b/

Adjective

gr?b (definite gr?b?, comparative gr?blj?, Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. rough, coarse
2. rude

Declension