(v. t.) To feed; to nourish; to support; to bring up.
(v. t.) To cherish; to promote the growth of; to encourage; to sustain and promote; as, to foster genius.
(v. i.) To be nourished or trained up together.
(v. t.) Relating to nourishment; affording, receiving, or sharing nourishment or nurture; -- applied to father, mother, child, brother, etc., to indicate that the person so called stands in the relation of parent, child, brother, etc., as regards sustenance and nurture, but not by tie of blood.
(n.) A forester.
(n.) One who, or that which, fosters.
Example Sentences:
(1) Training in social skills specific to fostering intimacy is suggested as a therapeutic step, and modifications to the social support measure for future use discussed.
(2) Implications for practice and research include need for support groups with nurses as facilitators, the importance of fostering hope, and need for education of health care professionals.
(3) A considerably greater increase in the peak plasma OT concentration resulted when hungry foster litters of 6 pups were suckled after the mothers' own 6 pups had been suckled.
(4) Children and adopters are encouraged to meet with foster carers after placement to show the child they are well.
(5) SHR control and in-fostered animals responded similarly in the open field; however, SHR cross-fostered rats (particularly females) tended to be more active than controls.
(6) I had two friends who were fostered, and they went through this.
(7) The approach must create an organizational culture which fosters commitment to overall goals in the system's members.
(8) Endocrinological studies of the time to the 1st ovulatory cycle in early and late maturing girls in Finland (Apter and Vihko, 1983) are contrary to the Bangladeshi results reported by Foster in 1986.
(9) The reform had already been put to me by the excellent John Simmonds at British Association for Adoption and Fostering (BAAF) who – without much success – had been urging this reform for some years.
(10) Procurement has already brought down prices in foster care significantly in recent years, so differences between the costs of placement options may now be marginal.
(11) Secularism is the only way to stop collapse and chaos and to foster bonds of citizenship in our complex democracy.
(12) The capacity to sublimate and to foster sublimation in children is a prerequisite for normal motherhood.
(13) The authors provide an important description of a successful alternative foster parent recruitment effort, including the provision of fiscal incentives for foster parent recruiters.
(14) Lord Foster, the architect, who was ennobled in 1999, and Lord Bagri, the Indian metal magnate, resigned last night.
(15) These courses will provide foster carers with more understanding and new techniques to apply in their fostering.
(16) Six groups of primiparous females were tested for maternal behavior to foster pups presented 9-10 days after Cesarean delivery: three groups were permitted to interact with pups for a 2-h period 36 h after Cesarean delivery; and three groups were separated from pups until testing and were given no maternal experience.
(17) A patient was observed with limited adhesive arachnitis of nontuberculous origin producing Foster-Kennedy syndrome.
(18) The coroner also raised concerns that although the aim of the operation in which Duggan was killed was to take guns off the streets, little attempt was made to seize weapons believed to be held by Hutchinson-Foster.
(19) Training for foster carers often depends on the standards of the local authority or fostering agency in question, and we are lucky to have strong support from our social worker and agency.
(20) We have also shown the influence of age, but not of parity, of foster mothers on DMBA-induced transmammary carcinogenesis in F1 individuals.
Nursery
Definition:
(n.) The act of nursing.
(n.) The place where nursing is carried on
(n.) The place, or apartment, in a house, appropriated to the care of children.
(n.) A place where young trees, shrubs, vines, etc., are propagated for the purpose of transplanting; a plantation of young trees.
(n.) The place where anything is fostered and growth promoted.
(n.) That which forms and educates; as, commerce is the nursery of seamen.
(n.) That which is nursed.
Example Sentences:
(1) Newspapers and websites across the country have been reporting the threat facing nursery schools for weeks, from Lancashire to Birmingham and beyond.
(2) Somewhat more children of both Head Start and the nursery school showed semantic mastery based on both heard and spoken identification for positions based on body-object relations (in, on, and under) than for those based on object-object relations (in fromt of, between, and in back of).
(3) Controversy exists regarding immunization with pertussis vaccine of high-risk special care nursery graduates.
(4) We retrospectively investigated the influence of gestational age, perinatal risk, and the duration of incubator care periods in 193 surviving preterm infants with a gestational age between 28 and 36 weeks raised in our intensive care nursery incubators from 1965--1967.
(5) Provision of breast feeding education, along with improved maternal nutrition, extension of maternity leave, and availability of nurseries at the work place, may sustain a longer period of breast feeding.
(6) Newborn nursery nursing staff members were surveyed to determine their attitudes and teaching practices regarding breast- and bottle-feeding.
(7) Our university hospital reports a 20 month experience in which numerator data was collected as per the National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance System criteria for hospital-wide, high-risk nursery and ICU surveillance.
(8) Wetlands also act as nursery grounds for juvenile fish and prawns.
(9) But we will need the nurseries as they are going to be very important in restocking woods" if varieties that are resistant to ash dieback become available.
(10) In 1983 an outbreak of necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) and hemorrhagic gastroenteritis occurred in our newborn nurseries.
(11) Laboratory fees accounted for the largest percentage (41.5%) of the total cost of hospitalization in the NICU, while rooming charges are the major factor (50.8%) in the normal nursery.
(12) A nursery supervisor with smear- and culture-positive pulmonary tuberculosis and a productive cough exposed 528 newborns over a three-month period before her disease was diagnosed.
(13) "Pulpit poofs" were hounded from the church, playground workers were exposed as "lesbians plotting to pervert nursery tots", celebrities such as Kenny Everett, Russell Harty and Freddie Mercury were hounded as diseased vermin.
(14) In the nursery, the premeasured and prefiltered blood was ready for immediate infusion, and the syringe was attached directly to a mechanical infusion pump.
(15) Whatever social progress that marks her era came mainly from those Labour punctuations – abolition of capital punishment, Race Relations Act, abortion and homosexual law reform, equal pay and sex discrimination acts, civil partnerships, minimum wage, Sure Start, devolution, human rights, nursery education, a vast expansion of universities and more.
(16) More pertinent is how this became such a pressing matter of government concern – the conversation around early years is becoming increasingly prescriptive, with specific reference to the neuroscience of the infant brain: Aric Sigman came out this week with a paper in which he drew an express link between going to nursery, having raised levels of cortisol (the stress hormone), and this leading to almost limitless problems in later life.
(17) This term, the nursery school boasts eight nationalities.
(18) These data indicate that the nursery outbreak was caused by phage group I staphylococci rather than group II organisms previously associated with staphylococcal scalded-skin syndrome.
(19) Generally, fewer than one-third of RV-infected neonates have diarrhea, although rates have reached 77% in some hospital nursery populations.
(20) Ultimately the safety of infants in nurseries rests upon the degree to which each individual involved in their care pays attention to the agreed policies of general and personal hygiene.