[nəːs], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a person trained to care for the sick or infirm, especially in a hospital
(e.g: a team of doctors and nurses)

- a worker bee, ant, or other social insect, caring for a young brood


Phrases:

Origin:
late Middle English: contraction of earlier nourice, from Old French, from late Latin nutricia, feminine of Latin nutricius ‘(person) that nourishes’, from nutrix, nutric- ‘nurse’, from nutrire ‘nourish’. The verb was originally a contraction of nourish, altered under the influence of the noun

[nəːs], (Verb)

Definitions:
- give medical and other attention to (a sick person)
(e.g: he was gradually nursed back to health)

- feed (a baby) at the breast
(e.g: the women nursed their babies)

- try to play strokes which keep (the balls) close together


Phrases:

Origin:
late Middle English: contraction of earlier nourice, from Old French, from late Latin nutricia, feminine of Latin nutricius ‘(person) that nourishes’, from nutrix, nutric- ‘nurse’, from nutrire ‘nourish’. The verb was originally a contraction of nourish, altered under the influence of the noun

[nəːs], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a greyish Australian shark of shallow inshore waters


Phrases:

Origin:
late 15th century: originally as nusse, perhaps derived (by wrong division) from an huss (see huss)