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drug
Betekenis
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- A substance used to treat an illness, relieve a symptom, or modify a chemical process in the body for a specific purpose.
- A psychoactive substance, especially one which is illegal and addictive, ingested for recreational use, such as cocaine.
- Anything, such as a substance, emotion, or action, to which one is addicted.
- Any commodity that lies on hand, or is not salable; an article of slow sale, or in no demand.
- (informal) Short for drugstore.
Uitgesproken als (IPA)
/dɹʌɡ/
Cognate met Engels
dry
Cognate met Nederlands
droog
Cognate met Duits
trocken
Cognate met Nederlands
droeg
Cognate met Duits
trug
Nieuw
drag
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- Resistance of a fluid to something moving through it.
- Any force acting in opposition to the motion of an object.
- The bottom part of a sand casting mold.
- A device dragged along the bottom of a body of water in search of something, e.g. a dead body, or in fishing.
- (informal) A systematic search for someone over a wide area, especially by the authorities; a dragnet.
- A double drum-stroke played at twice the speed of the context in which it is placed.
- (informal) A puff on a cigarette or joint.
- (slang) Someone or something that is annoying or frustrating, or disappointing; an obstacle to progress or enjoyment.
- (slang) A long open horse-drawn carriage with transverse or side seats.
- (slang) A street.
- The scent-path left by dragging a fox, or some other substance such as aniseed, for training hounds to follow scents.
- A large amount of backspin on the cue ball, causing the cue ball to slow down.
- A heavy harrow for breaking up ground.
- A kind of sledge for conveying heavy objects; also, a kind of low car or handcart.
- The bottom part of a flask or mould, the upper part being the cope.
- A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone.
- The difference between the speed of a screw steamer under sail and that of the screw when the ship outruns the screw; or between the propulsive effects of the different floats of a paddle wheel.
- Anything towed in the water to retard a ship's progress, or to keep her head up to the wind; especially, a canvas bag with a hooped mouth (drag sail), so used.
- A pulled load.
- A skid or shoe for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel.
- Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged.
- Witch house music.
- The last position in a line of hikers.
- A push somewhat under the centre of the cue ball, causing it to follow the object ball a short way.
- A device for guiding wood to the saw.
- A mailcoach.
- (slang) A prison sentence of three months.
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