Nightingale, Florence


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Pronunciation: / ˈnʌɪtɪŋˌɡeɪl /

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  1. (1820-1910) a British nurse who set up a hospital for soldiers in Turkey during the CRIMEAN WAR . She was called the 'Lady with the Lamp', because she walked around the hospital in the evenings with a lamp to check that everything was in order. She set up a school for nurses, making NURSING (= the job of being a nurse) into a real profession.
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Pronunciation: ˈdʌb(ə)l rɪˈpleɪsm(ə)nt rɪˈakʃ(ə)n
Parts of Speech: noun
a chemical reaction between two compounds where the positive ion of one compound is exchanged with the positive ion of another compound