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nurture 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
Verb
/ˈnərCHər/,
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nurtured, past participle; nurtured, past tense; nurtures, 3rd person singular present; nurturing, present participle;
  1. Care for and encourage the growth or development of
    • - my father nurtured my love of art
  2. Cherish (a hope, belief, or ambition)
    • - for a long time she had nurtured the dream of buying a shop
Noun
  1. The process of caring for and encouraging the growth or development of someone or something
    • - the nurture of ethics and integrity
  2. Upbringing, education, and environment, contrasted with inborn characteristics as an influence on or determinant of personality

  1. foster: help develop, help grow; "nurture his talents"
  2. raising: the properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child
  3. breeding: helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community; "they debated whether nature or nurture was more important"
  4. rear: bring up; "raise a family"; "bring up children"
  5. nourish: provide with nourishment; "We sustained ourselves on bread and water"; "This kind of food is not nourishing for young children"
  6. "Nature versus nurture" is a term coined http://books.google.com/books?id=GkMJDdcL7QUC&pg=PA35&dq=Nature+versus+nurture+galton&lr=&as_drrb_is=q&as_minm_is=1&as_miny_is=1800&as_maxm_is=1&as_maxy_is=1900&as_brr=0&cd=7#v=onepage&q&f=false by the English Victorian polymath Francis Galton regarding ...
  7. The act of nourishing or nursing; tender care; education; training; That which nourishes; food; diet; The environmental influences that contribute to the development of an individual; see also nature; to nourish or nurse
  8. (NURTURES) the soil so as to leave it more serviceable after bioremediation than it was prior to “land farming” the spill. ...
  9. (nurturing) nourishing, sustaining life, caring “To be nourishing, Architecture must match what we need” Day, C... but what do we actually need? what are human needs? dont we need to be nourished... to be nourishing, architecture must be nourishing?
  10. Theory that holds that physical and cognitive development is determined by environmental factors
  11. the social environment in which biological potentials are expressed and developed.
  12. In the "nature versus nurture" expression it refers to what we learn or gain through social interaction.
  13. An organism's environmental experience.
  14. Nature nurture controversy
  15. The process of identifying potential customers, initiating an exchange of information, and moving consumers or businesses through the buying cycle toward a purchase.