(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.
Nuzzle
Definition:
(v. t.) To noursle or nurse; to foster; to bring up.
(v. t.) To nestle; to house, as in a nest.
(v. i.) To work with the nose, like a swine in the mud.
(v. i.) To go with head poised like a swine, with nose down.
(v. t.) To hide the head, as a child in the mother's bosom; to nestle.
(v. t.) To loiter; to idle.
Example Sentences:
(1) One weekend, I saw two men of my age holding hands and nuzzling as they strolled among the stalls at Borough market.
(2) Don was there first, nuzzling his tumbler, mulling on the quality of his creative.
(3) But he did his best to puncture an Italian defender, the deep red marks on Giorgio Chiellini’s shoulder appearing to confirm the suspicion that the striker had leaned in for more than just a friendly nuzzle as the pair tussled off the ball in the 79th minute.
(4) A colleague said she had later seen the diary secretary "nuzzle" Mr Prescott's neck in the lift.
(5) They come into the room and one plays on the floor with the laundry basket, while the other climbs into the middle of the bed, nuzzles into his father's armpit. "
(6) Budd reckons marriage and children - Lisa, seven, and four-year-old twins Mikey and Azelle - are the best things she has done, the twins taking turns to nuzzle in her arms.
(7) Prior to assuming the upright crouching posture over their pups during nursing bouts, lactating rats typically engage in several oral behaviors, including nuzzling, licking and rearranging pups.
(8) At the end of 4 h dams were reunited with their calves in S + C and S + GnRH groups, while dams of calves in NS + C and NS + GnRH groups remained separated an additional 2 h. Cows were injected iv with saline or GnRH following the 4-h isolation period, 5 min after calves had begun suckling or nuzzling the udder.
(9) She also stopped by to nuzzle faces with Jay-Z as he performed his track Picasso Baby for six hours in homage to her 2010 performance, The Artist is Present , where she sat motionless in MoMA's atrium for 736 hours.
(10) The main behavioural events of the male (nuzzling and mounting) did not differ in the presence of receptive or non-receptive females.
(11) Plasma relaxin levels were measured in animals at different stages of lactation and related to the amount of nuzzling and suckling behavior exhibited by the piglets.
(12) The image that springs to mind is of John Cleese's response when Michael Palin's pet shop owner insists that were the Norwegian Blue not nailed to its perch "it would nuzzle up to those bars and 'voom'".
(13) An eight-part tribute to the 1939-1945 pluck of our agricultural predecessors, it appears to have borrowed its MO from Abigail; draping its lovely soppy labradoriness over our slippers and nuzzling into our lap with its damp-nosed facts and historical bonhomie, even though it's actually a cow and, as such, has ruined the carpet.
(14) But if that nuzzling cetacean on his right turned nasty, I think we all know who would come out on top.
(15) It is worth it – if nothing else for the cave's rare depiction of reindeer, a male nuzzling the face of a kneeling female, which is touching, deftly constructed and reveals not only the artistic skills of its creators but their considerable knowledge of animal behaviour and anatomy.
(16) Cabe, a watchdog ever fond of nuzzling the developers it was supposed to be watching, has been shrunk and further enfeebled.
(17) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Steve McCurry On one visit, I fell asleep under a tree and woke to the feeling of something nuzzling my leg.