(n.) The act of nourishing or nursing; thender care; education; training.
(n.) That which nourishes; food; diet.
(v. t.) To feed; to nourish.
(v. t.) To educate; to bring or train up.
Example Sentences:
(1) In this study we have developed a measure of homemaker functioning based on conceptualizing the homemaker role on two dimensions: the instrumental functions associated with meeting the physical needs of the household and the nurturant dimension concerned with meeting the expressive needs of the household.
(2) The assessment of the infant's capacity to organize positive interaction experiences with a nurturing adult has led us to better understand the plasticity process which permits the neonate's recuperation form damage to the central nervous system (CNS).
(3) [We need to do more] to commission new work and nurture new talent [in the arts].
(4) Previous research by Bem has indicated that androgynous individuals of both sexes display "masculine" independence when under pressure to conform as well as "feminine" nurturance when interacting with a kitten.
(5) Thus the parents can utilize their nurturing capacities in their relationship with the child to bring about the best recuperation possible.
(6) That pattern is a dynamic tension that should be nurtured in the best interests of our options at the end of life.
(7) He says Britain needs to nurture manufacturing, perhaps taking a leaf out of Germany's book where businesses, regional and national banks work together to support enterprises for the long term.
(8) It is suggested that though competition with the maternal-nurturant rival may be worked through, often there is incomplete resolution of the surpassing and separation from the protective, loving, but dominant oedipal father, thus limiting true professional autonomy.
(9) Lord Mandelson, who has admitted New Labour did not do enough to nurture an active industrial policy in government, is leading a review of globalisation on behalf of the left-of-centre thinktank, the IPPR.
(10) By 2008, Ritchie realised he needed somebody to help nurture his baby.
(11) and emphasise nurturing, play and self-esteem (overfetishised!).
(12) Much of this money is being invested in nurturing new talent and producing great new music.
(13) What must be done to ensure a working environment that encourages and nurtures the development of young nurses?
(14) His ideas influenced the British Council of Churches’ reports The Child in the Church (1976) and Understanding Christian Nurture (1981).
(15) Nurturing a broad-based social consensus is more important than scoring points in a name-calling debate.
(16) But whatever, we have to look at the immediate future, make sure we have good people who can improve as individuals and good people at the top who can nurture them.
(17) However, nurturers of Britain’s nascent wine industry with an eye on an emerging market, where appreciation of wine is a status symbol, might hope that senior communist party palettes will have been tickled by the Ridgeview Grosvenor 2009, a sparking English wine originating in West Sussex.
(18) "The world that the nurturant parent seeks to create has exactly the opposite properties," Lakoff writes in Moral Politics .
(19) They were also remote from Chast, not particularly nurturing, and very much parents, not friends.
(20) MT: My sense is that theatre has been a place where people like Ian McKellen were nurtured and that that may have contributed to his powerful impact on the wider world.
Nutriment
Definition:
(n.) That which nourishes; anything which promotes growth and repairs the natural waste of animal or vegetable life; food; aliment.
(n.) That which promotes development or growth.
Example Sentences:
(1) Post-prandial intestinal motility depends on both chemical nature and caloric load of nutriments: DICM depends on those two factors but PSP only depends on nature of nutriments.
(2) Oxidation of the ingested nutriment over this period was 80% for glucose, 45% for MCTs, and 9% for LCTs.
(3) The results show that intra-oral stimuli control sucking for a nutriment in much the same way as they have already been shown to control nonnutritive sucking.
(4) The clinical course shows that the actual success of the treatment of resistance depends less on weight reduction than on a short interruption of the insulin therapy and withdrawal of nutriment at the same time.
(5) The pleasure is decreased (negative alliesthesia) after each of the ingestions.The negative alliesthesia for sweet stimuli is therefore not only a consequence of carbohydrate ingestion but it appears also when other nutriments, mainly proteins or their degradation products, are present in the intestinal tract.
(6) The effects of the reaction of disengagement and inactivity in relation to the external world which includes external nutriment may be constructive or destructive depending on when it is experienced and the length of time the reaction continues.
(7) Alternatively, vagal noncholinergic inhibition is a major mechanism modulating the motilin response after oral food but motilin release exclusively from intestinal nutriments is mediated by nonvagal, noncholinergic mechanisms.
(8) In order to improve the functional disorder of the bowel, it is necessary for those patients (1) to be careful not to take often refined cereals or manufactured foods, (2) to eat green and yellow vegetables and seaweeds positively, as well as, protein and fat in proper quantity, and (3) to take care of the well-balanced intake of various kinds of vitamins, minerals and other nutriments.
(9) It is important that those patients for whom such nutriment may be of particular interest should be identified.
(10) The main idea of the investigation was to find out the organic reserves of this nutriment in infants complaining of severe malnutrition.
(11) Therefore, from microecological-physiological aspects it is suggested to expand the term ballast matter by so-called "optional" or "potential" ballast matter (in the small intestine usually digestible but incompletely degraded nutriments) in addition to "obligatory" ballast matter (nutriments not digestible by indigene enzymes).
(12) Through assimilation, the inert nutriment taken from outside the body will wind up as elements making up part of our living being.
(13) After interruption of nutriment infusion, septic patients had normal FFA levels and only mild hyperglycemia and hyperinsulinemia.
(14) Results indicated that difficulty in stopping smoking was positively related to three non-nutriment oral preoccupations.
(15) It is generally considered that the teratogenic antibodies decrease internalization and degradation of maternal proteins by yolk sac epithelial cells leading to an inadequate supply of nutriments to the embryo.
(16) nutriments, and hypothyroidism on the peripheral conversion of thyroxine (T4) to 3,3', 5-triiodothyronine (T3) in the rat and mouse, an in vitro system for assessing T4 conversion to T3 by fresh liver homogenates was used.
(17) Therefore, the proposed frontier between nutriment and drug is not based on always controversial definitions but on their real nature allowing further adaptation to habits and knowledge.
(18) We presume that the changes in the articular cartilage are not related to an insufficient supply of the cartilage with nutriments, but probably to the high mechanical strain applied to its surface.
(19) These results are discussed in terms of the utilization of threonine in relation to the metabolic demands for various nutriments by the pregnant female.
(20) The mean serum glucose concentration was similar in all nutriment-infused groups, but serum insulin was significantly greater in the CHO- and P-infused as compared to the L-infused rats.