different between reform vs nurture

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French reformer, from Latin reformo, reformare. As a noun since 1660s, from French réforme.

Pronunciation

• ("to form again"):
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /??i??f??m/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??i??f??m/
• (other senses):
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /???f??m/, /???f??m/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???f??m/
• Rhymes: -??(?)m

Noun

reform (countable and uncountable, plural reforms)

1. The change of something that is defective, broken, inefficient or otherwise negative, in order to correct or improve it
   • 19 February 2011, Barack Obama, Presidential Weekly Address, America Will Win the Future

     ...over the past two years, my administration has made education a top priority. We’ve launched a competition called “Race to the Top” – a reform that is lifting academic standards and getting results; not because Washington dictated the answers, but because states and local schools pursued innovative solutions.

Synonyms

• reformation
• amendment
• rectification
• correction

Derived terms

• monetary reform

Related terms

• reformation

Translations

Verb

reform (third-person singular simple present reforms, present participle reforming, simple past and past participle reformed)

1. (transitive) To put into a new and improved form or condition; to restore to a former good state, or bring from bad to good; to change from worse to better
   • 15 January 2018, Adebisi Onanuga and Robert Egbe in The Nation, ‘How we stopped DPP’s office from being used to settle scores’

     In this interview with Law Editors and Correspondents, he speaks on the gains of reforming the Directorate of Public Prosecutions (DPP), efforts to keep underage persons out of jail.

   • 1909, H. G. Wells, The History of Mr. Polly Chapter 9

   to reform a profligate man; to reform corrupt manners or morals; to reform a criminal

   • “There was always something a bit wrong with him,” she said, “but nothing you mightn’t have hoped for, not till they took him and carried him off and reformed him"
2. (intransitive) To return to a good state; to amend or correct one's own character or habits

3. (transitive, intransitive) To form again or in a new configuration.

   This product contains reformed meat.

Synonyms

• (put into a better condition): amend, correct, rectify, mend, repair, better, improve, restore, reclaim

Translations

References

reform in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

• Wells, John, Longman Pronunciation Dictionary, ?ISBN, page 640

Further reading

• "reform" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 262.

Anagrams

• former

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /re?f?rm/, [???f??m]

Noun

reform c (singular definite reformen, plural indefinite reformer)

1. reform

Declension

References

• “reform” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “reform” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Hungarian

Etymology

From English reform and German Reform, from French réforme.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?r?form]
• Hyphenation: re?form
• Rhymes: -orm

Noun

reform (plural reformok)

1. reform

   Synonym: újítás

Declension

References

Further reading

• reform in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From French réforme

Noun

reform m (definite singular reformen, indefinite plural reformer, definite plural reformene)

1. reform

Related terms

• reformere

References

• “reform” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From French réforme

Noun

reform f (definite singular reforma, indefinite plural reformer, definite plural reformene)

1. reform

References

• “reform” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /re?f?rm/

Noun

reform c

1. reform

Declension

Related terms

• högskolereform
• reformation
• reformator
• reformatorisk
• reformera
• reformist
• reformistisk
• reformutrymme
• stavningsreform

References

• reform in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)

Anagrams

• former

Turkish

Etymology

From French réforme.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???fo?m/

Noun

reform (definite accusative reformu, plural reformlar)

1. reform

Further reading

• reform in Turkish dictionaries at Türk Dil Kurumu

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