drug
Meaning
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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.
Synonyms
medicinal drug
psychoactive drug
psychoactive substance
pharmaceutical product
make drunk
medicamentum
drug of abuse
apply a medicine
narcotic drug
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/dɹʌɡ/
Etymology
From Middle English drogge (“medicine”), from Old French drogue, drocque (“tincture, pharmaceutical product”), from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German droge, as in droge vate (“dry vats, dry barrels”), mistaking droge for the contents, which were usually dried herbs, plants or wares. Droge comes from Middle Dutch drōghe (“dry”), from Old Dutch drōgi (“dry”), from Proto-Germanic *draugiz (“dry, hard”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrewgʰ- (“to strengthen; become hard or solid”), from *dʰer- (“to hold, hold fast, support”). Cognate with English dry, Dutch droog (“dry”), German trocken (“dry”).
Cognate with English
dry
Cognate with Dutch
droog
Cognate with German
trocken
Cognate with Dutch
droeg
Cognate with German
trug
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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