The difference between Nurse and Sip
When used as nouns, nurse means a wet-nurse, whereas sip means a small mouthful of drink.
When used as verbs, nurse means to breastfeed, whereas sip means to drink slowly, small mouthfuls at a time.
check bellow for the other definitions of Nurse and Sip
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Nurse as a noun (archaic):
A wet-nurse.
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Nurse as a noun:
A person (usually a woman) who takes care of other people's young.
Examples:
"They hired a nurse to care for their young boy"
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Nurse as a noun:
A person trained to provide care for the sick.
Examples:
"The nurse made her rounds through the hospital ward"
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Nurse as a noun:
One who, or that which, brings up, rears, causes to grow, trains, fosters, or the like.
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Nurse as a noun (horticulture):
A shrub or tree that protects a young plant.
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Nurse as a noun (nautical):
A lieutenant or first officer who takes command when the captain is unfit for his place.
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Nurse as a noun:
A larva of certain trematodes, which produces cercariae by asexual reproduction.
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Nurse as a noun:
A nurse shark.
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Nurse as a verb:
to breastfeed
Examples:
"She believes that nursing her baby will make him strong and healthy''."
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Nurse as a verb:
to care for the sick
Examples:
"She nursed him back to health."
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Nurse as a verb:
to treat kindly and with extra care
Examples:
"She nursed the rosebush and that season it bloomed."
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Nurse as a verb:
to manage with care and economy
Examples:
"synonyms husband"
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Nurse as a verb:
to drink slowly
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Nurse as a verb:
to foster, to nourish
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Nurse as a verb:
to hold closely to one's chest
Examples:
"Would you like to nurse the puppy?"
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Nurse as a verb:
to strike (billiard balls) gently, so as to keep them in good position during a series of shots
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Sip as a noun:
A small mouthful of drink
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Sip as a verb (transitive):
To drink slowly, small mouthfuls at a time.
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Sip as a verb (intransitive):
To drink a small quantity.
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Sip as a verb:
To taste the liquor of; to drink out of.
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Sip as a verb (Scotland, US, dated):
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Sip as a verb (figurative):
to consume slowly — in contrast to faster consumption, in contrast to zero consumption