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Nurture can simply mean provide with nourishment, but more often it means to provide care, upbringing, love if it applies to human beings or even animals.
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nourish, nourishment
From the American Heritage Dictionary:
Noun:
1. Something that nourishes; sustenance.
2. The act of bringing up.
3. Biology. The sum of environmental influences and conditions acting on an organism.
Verb:
1. To nourish; feed.
2. To educate; train.
3. To help grow or develop; cultivate. Example: nurture a student's talent
Noun:
1. Something that nourishes; sustenance.
2. The act of bringing up.
3. Biology. The sum of environmental influences and conditions acting on an organism.
Verb:
1. To nourish; feed.
2. To educate; train.
3. To help grow or develop; cultivate. Example: nurture a student's talent
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Refugio
: In the education context, we instruct the mind but we also try to nurture the whole child.
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to foster, nourish, nurse, cultivate
are a number of yet to be mentioned
alternatives and also e.g.
- to nurture a grudge (in the area of cultivating a grudge, not letting it be)
(to nurture a wound (nursing a wound to heal)
alternatives and also e.g.
- to nurture a grudge (in the area of cultivating a grudge, not letting it be)
(to nurture a wound (nursing a wound to heal)
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nature vs nurture = genes vs environment
a long standing conflict in the human mind :-)
are we mainly the product of our genes (nature) or of the environment in which we grow up (nurture)?
(IMO, the answer is in giving up asking such a clear-cut and "intransigent" question :) in the end, it's fifty-fifty, don't we all know this?
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some links on the dilemma:
Categoria: Science > Social Sciences > Psychology > Social Nature, nurture: not mutually exclusive - [ Traduci questa pagina ]
Nature, nurture: not mutually exclusive. ... By Beth Azar Monitor Staff. Psychologist
Robert Plomin, PhD, would like to see the nature versus nurture debate end. ...
www.snc.edu/psych/korshavn/natnur02.htm - 10k - Copia cache - Pagine simili
The Nature-Nurture Controversy - [ Traduci questa pagina ]
The Nature/Nurture Controversy. ... Introduction, Index. One of the big debates that
occupies a lot of many people\'s time is the Nature/Nurture controversy. ...
www.iusb.edu/~ffujita/Documents/nn.html - 10k - Copia cache - Pagine simili
THE GREAT NATURE-NURTURE DEBATE - [ Traduci questa pagina ]
... 7. THE GREAT NATURE-NURTURE DEBATE. t about the age of thirteen I began to notice
girls -- or should I say, it was then that I began to notice little else. ...
www.messiah.edu/hpages/facstaff/ chase/h/articles/schmidt/ - 70k - Copia cache - Pagine simili
are we mainly the product of our genes (nature) or of the environment in which we grow up (nurture)?
(IMO, the answer is in giving up asking such a clear-cut and "intransigent" question :) in the end, it's fifty-fifty, don't we all know this?
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Note added at 2003-01-13 00:56:35 (GMT)
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some links on the dilemma:
Categoria: Science > Social Sciences > Psychology > Social Nature, nurture: not mutually exclusive - [ Traduci questa pagina ]
Nature, nurture: not mutually exclusive. ... By Beth Azar Monitor Staff. Psychologist
Robert Plomin, PhD, would like to see the nature versus nurture debate end. ...
www.snc.edu/psych/korshavn/natnur02.htm - 10k - Copia cache - Pagine simili
The Nature-Nurture Controversy - [ Traduci questa pagina ]
The Nature/Nurture Controversy. ... Introduction, Index. One of the big debates that
occupies a lot of many people\'s time is the Nature/Nurture controversy. ...
www.iusb.edu/~ffujita/Documents/nn.html - 10k - Copia cache - Pagine simili
THE GREAT NATURE-NURTURE DEBATE - [ Traduci questa pagina ]
... 7. THE GREAT NATURE-NURTURE DEBATE. t about the age of thirteen I began to notice
girls -- or should I say, it was then that I began to notice little else. ...
www.messiah.edu/hpages/facstaff/ chase/h/articles/schmidt/ - 70k - Copia cache - Pagine simili
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Paula Ibbotson
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thanks Ruth! I'm simply too tired of reading again and again the same old stuff in each brand new book :)
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Refugio
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thanks Paula :)
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aivars
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thanks aivars :)
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Anna Moorby DipTrans
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thanks MooMel - and sorry for the inversion, Paula and Ruth! :)
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Christopher Crockett
: My first thought, too, since the word rarely occurs in any other context.
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thanks Christopher :)
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Jacqueline van der Spek
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Breeding, upbringing, training, education (received or possessed by one).
Though the O.E.D. notes that this meaning is "Now rare," that certainly seems to be the sense in the "nature vs nurture" usage which luskie pointed out.
I very rarely hear the word used in any other context, btw.
The O.E.D. offers this instance of use :
"1867 Parkman Jesuits in N. Amer. ix. (1875) 99 Both were of noble birth and gentle nurture."
And offers a variant definition :
"The bringing-up or rearing of some one; tutelage; fostering care."
And this instance of use :
"1875 Manning Mission H. Ghost ix. 230 Even in the lower animals there is a certain love, and care, a nurture in the parent towards its offspring."
I very rarely hear the word used in any other context, btw.
The O.E.D. offers this instance of use :
"1867 Parkman Jesuits in N. Amer. ix. (1875) 99 Both were of noble birth and gentle nurture."
And offers a variant definition :
"The bringing-up or rearing of some one; tutelage; fostering care."
And this instance of use :
"1875 Manning Mission H. Ghost ix. 230 Even in the lower animals there is a certain love, and care, a nurture in the parent towards its offspring."
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