feed vs nurse

feed

verb
  • To satisfy, gratify, or minister to (a sense, taste, desire, etc.). 

  • To graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle. 

  • To give to a machine to be processed. 

  • To create the environment where another phonological rule can apply; to be applied before another rule. 

  • To create the syntactic environment in which another syntactic rule is applied; to be applied before another syntactic rule. 

  • To supply with something. 

  • To pass to. 

  • To give (someone or something) food to eat. 

  • To eat (usually of animals). 

  • To give (someone or something) to (someone or something else) as food. 

noun
  • The part of a machine that supplies the material to be operated upon. 

  • Something supplied continuously. 

  • Food given to (especially herbivorous) non-human animals. 

  • A meal. 

  • A gathering to eat, especially in large quantities. 

  • Encapsulated online content, such as news or a blog, that can be subscribed to. 

  • A straight man who delivers lines to the comedian during a performance. 

  • The forward motion of the material fed into a machine. 

nurse

verb
  • To foster, to nourish. 

  • To drink slowly, to make it last. 

  • To breastfeed: to be fed at the breast. 

  • To manage with care and economy. 

  • To care for (someone), especially in sickness; to tend to. 

  • To breastfeed: to feed (a baby) at the breast; to suckle. 

  • To treat kindly and with extra care. 

  • To hold closely to one's chest 

  • To strike (billiard balls) gently, so as to keep them in good position during a series of shots. 

noun
  • One who, or that which, brings up, rears, causes to grow, trains, or fosters. 

  • A larva of certain trematodes, which produces cercariae by asexual reproduction. 

  • A person (usually a woman) who takes care of other people’s young. 

  • A shrub or tree that protects a young plant. 

  • A person trained to provide care for the sick. 

  • A lieutenant or first officer who takes command when the captain is unfit for his place. 

  • A nurse shark or dogfish. 

How often have the words feed and nurse occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )