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Nurture
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(nurtures, nurturing, nurtured) 1. If you nurture something such as a young child or a young plant, you care for it while it is growing and developing. (FORMAL) Parents want to know the best way to nurture and raise their child to adulthood... The modern conservatory is not an environment for nurturing plants. VERB: V n, V n • nurturing She was not receiving warm nurturing care. ADJ • nurturing Which adult in these children’s lives will provide the nurturing they need? N-UNCOUNT 2. If you nurture plans, ideas, or people, you encourage them or help them to develop. (FORMAL) She had always nurtured great ambitions for her son. ...parents whose political views were nurtured in the sixties... VERB: V n, V n • nurturing The decision to cut back on film-making had a catastrophic effect on the nurturing of new talent. N-UNCOUNT 3. Nurture is care that is given to someone while they are growing and developing. The human organism learns partly by nature, partly by nurture. N-UNCOUNT
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I. noun Etymology: Middle English norture, ~, from Anglo-French nureture, from Late Latin nutritura act of nursing, from Latin nutritus, past participle of nutrire to suckle, nourish — more at nourish Date: 14th century 1. training, upbringing 2. something that nourishes ; food 3. the sum of the environmental factors influencing the behavior and traits expressed by an organism II. transitive verb (~d; nurturing) Date: 15th century 1. to supply with nourishment 2. educate 3. to further the development of ; foster • ~r noun ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. & v. --n. 1 the process of bringing up or training (esp. children); fostering care. 2 nourishment. 3 sociological factors as an influence on or determinant of personality (opp. NATURE). --v.tr. 1 bring up; rear. 2 nourish. Derivatives nurturer n. Etymology: ME f. OF nour(e)ture (as NOURISH) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. сущ.; с.-х. 1) выращивание (породы, сорта) 2) выведение (породы, сорта) 3) пища, корм 2. v. agric. 1) выращивать (породу, сорт) 2) выводить (породу, сорт) 3) опекать ...Англо-русский Русско-английский экономический словарь
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1) питание, кормление; кормить, выкармливать 2) воспитание, забота о потомстве; воспитывать ...Англо-русский Русско-английский биологический словарь
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1. воспитание; обучение nurture of the mind —- развитие умственных способностей 2. с-х. выращивание; выведение (породы, сорта) 3. питание, кормление 4. пища, еда; корм Id: nurture is stronger than nature —- посл. воспитание сильнее природы 5. воспитывать; обучать delicately nurtured girl —- благовоспитанная девица 6. с-х. выращивать; выводить (породу, сорт) 7. лелеять; питать (привязанность); вынашивать (план) ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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1. noun 1) воспитание; обучение 2) выращивание 3) питание; пища 2. v. 1) воспитывать; обучать 2) выращивать; вынашивать (план и т.п.) 3) питать ...Англо-русский словарь
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~1 v T often passive formal 1 to feed and take care of a child or a plant while it is growing (children nurtured in an overprotective environment | plants nurtured in the greenhouse) 2 to help a plan, idea, feeling etc to develop (European union is an ideal that has been nurtured since the post-war years.) ~2 n formal the education and care that you are given as a child, and the way it affects your later development and attitudes ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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