MANICURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does manicure mean? 

• MANICURE (noun)
  The noun MANICURE has 1 sense:

1. professional care for the hands and fingernails

  Familiarity information: MANICURE used as a noun is very rare.

• MANICURE (verb)
  The verb MANICURE has 2 senses:

1. trim carefully and neatly

2. care for (one's hand) by cutting and shaping the nails, etc.

  Familiarity information: MANICURE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MANICURE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Professional care for the hands and fingernails

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

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

beauty treatment (enhancement of someone's personal beauty)

aid; attention; care; tending (the work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or something)

Derivation:

manicure (care for (one's hand) by cutting and shaping the nails, etc.)

manicure (trim carefully and neatly)

manicurist (a beautician who cleans and trims and polishes the fingernails)

• MANICURE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they manicure    ... he / she / it manicures   
Past simple: manicured   
Past participle: manicured   
-ing form: manicuring   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Trim carefully and neatly

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Context example:

manicure fingernails

Hypernyms (to "manicure" is one way to...):

cut (separate with or as if with an instrument)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

manicure (professional care for the hands and fingernails)

manicurist (a beautician who cleans and trims and polishes the fingernails)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Care for (one's hand) by cutting and shaping the nails, etc.

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Hypernyms (to "manicure" is one way to...):

groom; neaten (care for one's external appearance)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

manicure (professional care for the hands and fingernails)

manicurist (a beautician who cleans and trims and polishes the fingernails)