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Meaning of "drug" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD DRUG

From Old French drogue, probably of Germanic origin.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF DRUG

drug  [drʌɡ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DRUG

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Drug is a verb and can also act as a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb drug in English.

WHAT DOES DRUG MEAN IN ENGLISH?

drug

Drug

A drug is, in the broadest of terms, a chemical substance that has known biological effects on humans or other animals. Foods are generally excluded from this definition, in spite of their physiological effects on animal species. In pharmacology, a drug is "a chemical substance used in the treatment, cure, prevention, or diagnosis of disease or used to otherwise enhance physical or mental well-being." Drugs may be used for a limited duration, or on a regular basis for chronic disorders. Recreational drugs are chemical substances that affect the central nervous system, such as opioids or hallucinogens. Alcohol, nicotine, and caffeine are the most widely consumed psychotropic drugs worldwide. They may be used for effects on perception, consciousness, personality, and behavior. Many recreational drugs are also used in medicine. Some drugs can cause addiction and habituation and all drugs have side effects. Many drugs are illegal for recreational purposes and international treaties such as the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs exist for the purpose of legally prohibiting certain substances.

Definition of drug in the English dictionary

The first definition of drug in the dictionary is any synthetic, semisynthetic, or natural chemical substance used in the treatment, prevention, or diagnosis of disease, or for other medical reasons related adjective pharmaceutical. Other definition of drug is a chemical substance, esp a narcotic, taken for the pleasant effects it produces. Drug is also to mix a drug with.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO DRUG

PRESENT

Present
I drug
you drug
he/she/it drugs
we drug
you drug
they drug
Present continuous
I am drugging
you are drugging
he/she/it is drugging
we are drugging
you are drugging
they are drugging
Present perfect
I have drugged
you have drugged
he/she/it has drugged
we have drugged
you have drugged
they have drugged
Present perfect continuous
I have been drugging
you have been drugging
he/she/it has been drugging
we have been drugging
you have been drugging
they have been drugging
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I drugged
you drugged
he/she/it drugged
we drugged
you drugged
they drugged
Past continuous
I was drugging
you were drugging
he/she/it was drugging
we were drugging
you were drugging
they were drugging
Past perfect
I had drugged
you had drugged
he/she/it had drugged
we had drugged
you had drugged
they had drugged
Past perfect continuous
I had been drugging
you had been drugging
he/she/it had been drugging
we had been drugging
you had been drugging
they had been drugging
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will drug
you will drug
he/she/it will drug
we will drug
you will drug
they will drug
Future continuous
I will be drugging
you will be drugging
he/she/it will be drugging
we will be drugging
you will be drugging
they will be drugging
Future perfect
I will have drugged
you will have drugged
he/she/it will have drugged
we will have drugged
you will have drugged
they will have drugged
Future perfect continuous
I will have been drugging
you will have been drugging
he/she/it will have been drugging
we will have been drugging
you will have been drugging
they will have been drugging
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would drug
you would drug
he/she/it would drug
we would drug
you would drug
they would drug
Conditional continuous
I would be drugging
you would be drugging
he/she/it would be drugging
we would be drugging
you would be drugging
they would be drugging
Conditional perfect
I would have drug
you would have drug
he/she/it would have drug
we would have drug
you would have drug
they would have drug
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been drugging
you would have been drugging
he/she/it would have been drugging
we would have been drugging
you would have been drugging
they would have been drugging
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you drug
we let´s drug
you drug
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to drug
Past participle
drugged
Present Participle
drugging
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DRUG


antidrug
ˌæntɪˈdrʌɡ
bedrug
bɪˈdrʌɡ
multidrug
ˈmʌltɪˌdrʌɡ
nondrug
ˌnɒnˈdrʌɡ
prodrug
ˈprəʊˌdrʌɡ
rug
rʌɡ
shrug
ʃrʌɡ
trug
trʌɡ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DRUG

drudgism
drug addict
drug addiction
drug baron
drug czar
drug dealer
drug habit
drug on the market
drug peddler
drug pusher
drug raid
drug runner
drug smuggler
drug squad
drug test
drug trafficker
drug trafficking
drug tsar
drug-driver
drug-driving

WORDS THAT END LIKE DRUG

anticancer drug
class A drug
class B drug
class C drug
controlled drug
designer drug
fertility drug
frug
gateway drug
generic drug
hard drug
miracle drug
oriental rug
performance-enhancing drug
Persian rug
prayer rug
rag rug
shag rug
sulfa drug
wonder drug

Synonyms and antonyms of drug in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «DRUG»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «drug» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of drug

Translation of «drug» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DRUG

Find out the translation of drug to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of drug from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «drug» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

medicamento
570 millions of speakers

English

drug
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

दवा
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مُخْدِّر
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

медикамент
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

droga
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ড্রাগ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

médicament
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Dadah
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Medikament
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tamba
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

thuốc
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மருந்து
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

औषध
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

ilaç
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

farmaco
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

lekarstwo
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

ліки
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

medicament
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

φάρμακο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

dwelm
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

läkemedel
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

medikament
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of drug

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DRUG»

The term «drug» is very widely used and occupies the 3.564 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of drug
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DRUG» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «drug» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «drug» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about drug

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10 QUOTES WITH «DRUG»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word drug.
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Douglas Adams
Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space.
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Sal Albanese
During my eleven years as a New York City public school teacher, I saw firsthand the impact that poverty has on the classroom. In low-income neighborhoods like Sunset Park, where I taught, students as young as five years old enter school affected by the stresses often created by poverty: domestic violence, drug abuse, gang activity.
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Corrine Brown
The punishment should fit the crime and if a doctor or drug company does harm knowingly or negligently to a patient they should be compensated to make them whole.
4
Alex Campbell
We have witnessed the terrible increases in the incidence of alcoholism, the advent of drug dependency, the protests, marches, strikes and human alienation.
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Jennifer Capriati
Let me say that the path I did take for a brief period of my life was not of reckless drug use, hurting others, but it was a path of quiet rebellion, of a little experimentation of a darker side of my confusion in a confusing world, lost in the midst of finding my identity.
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Paul Cellucci
We will have a border that is open for business, open for tourism, open for legitimate travelers; but that is closed to terrorists and drug pushers and smugglers and others who seek to break the law.
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Don Cheadle
I want to see somebody go to jail over the financial crisis and not just black, brown and poor whites over humbles and minor drug beefs.
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Wayne Coyne
People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
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Elijah Cummings
More than 26,000 lives may be lost to the effects of drug abuse this year. This tragic impact is felt in communities across this great nation. Sadly many of these deaths occur among our young people.
10
Ted Demme
There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DRUG»

Discover the use of drug in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to drug and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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2014 Lippincott's Nursing Drug Guide
This edition includes information on over 1500 drugs and drug combinations.
Amy M. Karch, 2013
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Drug Policy and the Public Good
The scope of the book is comprehensive and international. The authors describe the conceptual basis for a rational drug policy and present new epidemiological data on the global dimensions of drug misuse.
‎2010
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Bioequivalence Studies in Drug Development: Methods and ...
This text presents the required statistical methods, and with an outstanding practical emphasis, demonstrates their applications through numerous examples using real data from drug development.
Dieter Hauschke, Volker Steinijans, Iris Pigeot, 2007
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Drug Trafficking
Also covered are legalization of drug use, drug trafficking organizations, programs and organizations against illegal drugs, drug trafficking related to the global economy, and the cost of the U.S. war on drugs.
Jill Sherman, 2010
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Gangland: The Rise of the Mexican Drug Cartels from El Paso ...
In Gangland, bestselling author Jerry Langton details their frightening stranglehold on the economy and daily life of Mexico today—and what it portends for the future of Mexico and its neighbours.
Jerry Langton, 2011
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Bioadhesive Drug Delivery Systems: Fundamentals, Novel ...
Written by over 50 international experts and reflecting broad knowledge of both traditional bioadhesive strategies and novel clinical applications, Bioadhesive Drug Delivery Systems discusses mechanical and chemical bonding, polymer-mucus ...
Edith Mathiowitz, Donald E. Chickering III, Claus-Michael Lehr, 1999
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Textbook of Drug Design and Discovery, Third Edition
The book follows drug design from the initial lead identification through optimization and structure-activity relationship with reference to the final processes of clinical evaluation and registration.
Tommy Liljefors, Povl Krogsgaard-Larsen, Ulf Madsen, 2003
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Drug Lord: A True Story: The Life and Death of a Mexican Kingpin
"This book could function as an owner's manual for the Mexican drug cartels."--Charles Bowden
Terrence E. Poppa, 2013
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Drug Abuse
Describes drug abuse, the effects on the body, mind, and emotions, and when abuse becomes an addiction.
Bruce Edelfield, Tracey J. Moosa, 2011
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Handbook of Forensic Drug Analysis
The Handbook of Forensic Drug Analysis provides in-depth, up-to-date methods and results of forensic drug analyses.
Fred Smith, 2004

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DRUG»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term drug is used in the context of the following news items.
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New Heart Drug From Novartis Gets FDA Approval -- Now The Major …
It used to be that the major hurdle in getting a new drug approved was successfully completing phase 3 trials – the long-term studies needed to ... «Forbes, Jul 15»
2
Dr. Manny: Can Gov. Christie help tackle NJ's out-of-control drug
And it seems that the flow of this inexpensive drug in many of our communities is out of control. Too many of the programs in this country are ... «Fox News, Jul 15»
3
Dangerous drug linked to dozens of overdoses
Fentanyl is a threat to health and public safety. Those are strong words coming from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). «WSFA, Jul 15»
4
Bill Cosby's Moralizing Made a Judge Unseal Secret Drug Testimony
If Bill Cosby had resisted the urge to moralize, the 2005 deposition obtained this week by the Associated Press might have never come to light. «Slate Magazine, Jul 15»
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AstraZeneca divests gastrointestinal drug for $215 million
The British drugmaker, which has high hopes for its new drug pipeline but faces declining sales as older products lose patent protection, said ... «Reuters, Jul 15»
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New drug offers hope for those with cystic fibrosis
Now families like Avery's have a new hope – a drug just approved by the FDA known as 'Orkambi.' After promising clinical trials, the Food and ... «WBIR-TV, Jul 15»
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Hampden DA: 'Tens of thousands' of drug cases might have been …
SPRINGFIELD - Hampden District Attorney Anthony Gulluni said Wednesday there could be "tens of thousands" of past drug cases in this ... «MassLive.com, Jul 15»
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1st woman to run major drug cartel, 'La Jefa' Arellano Félix, named …
Drug Enforcement Administration officials told Fox News Latino that they are working with their Mexican counterparts to monitor the activities of ... «Fox News, Jul 15»
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Officials say on-campus drug violations are up, but not a concern
In 2011, 261 students were referred to the Office of Student Conduct for drug-related violations, whereas 145 were referred in 2013. However ... «Diamondback Online, Jul 15»
10
Rikers Island guard accused of moonlighting as a drug-dealer
A Rikers Island guard moonlighted as a drug-dealing member of the Bloods street gang, authorities said Wednesday. Correction officer Covel ... «New York Post, Jul 15»

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