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NURSERY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A child's room for a baby

Synonyms:

baby's room; nursery

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("nursery" is a kind of...):

child's room (a bedroom for a child)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "nursery"):

day care center; day nursery (a nursery for the supervision of preschool children while the parents work)

Derivation:

nurse (give suck to)

Credits

 Context examples: 

What looks like a red butterfly in space is in reality a nursery for hundreds of baby stars, revealed in this infrared image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.

('Space Butterfly' Is Home to Hundreds of Baby Stars, NASA)

I meet them wherever I go; and I declare, I never go twice into my nursery without seeing something of them.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

I suppose, sister, you will put the child in the little white attic, near the old nurseries.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

For the nursery phase of the study, one group of piglets was fed a diet containing the antibiotic chlortetracycline, another glutamine and a third group—used as experimental controls—nothing but feed ingredients.

(Antibiotic Alternative Scores Well in Second Round of Swine Trials, U.S. Department of Agriculture)

The OmegaCAM camera on ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope has captured a view of the stellar nursery called Sharpless 29.

(Stellar Nursery Blooms into View, ESO)

And this nursery was situated alongside the warm fluids issuing from the cracks in the outcrop.

(Giant group of octopus moms discovered in the deep sea, National Science Foundation)

Earlier observations of this area with NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory revealed a startling concentration of young stellar objects – protostars that have just begun to heat their stellar nurseries, causing them to glow brightly in infrared light.

(Stellar Embryos in Nearby Dwarf Galaxy Contain Surprisingly Complex Organic Molecules, National Radio Astronomy Observatory)

Over time, some stars begin to fall toward a common center of gravity, which is usually dominated by a particularly large protostar — and if the stars have a close encounter before they can escape their stellar nursery, violent interactions can occur.

(Dramatic Stellar Fireworks of Star Birth, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Over time, some stars begin to fall toward a common centre of gravity, which is usually dominated by a particularly large protostar — and if the stars have a close encounter before they can escape their stellar nursery, violent interactions can occur.

(ALMA Captures Dramatic Stellar Fireworks, ESO)

“I told you at the inn in London, I am heavy company for myself, sometimes. I have been a nightmare to myself, just now—must have had one, I think. At odd dull times, nursery tales come up into the memory, unrecognized for what they are. I believe I have been confounding myself with the bad boy who “didn't care”, and became food for lions—a grander kind of going to the dogs, I suppose.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)