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Meaning of "soft drug" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SOFT DRUG

soft drug  [sɒft drʌɡ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SOFT DRUG

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verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Soft drug is 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.

WHAT DOES SOFT DRUG MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of soft drug in the English dictionary

The definition of soft drug in the dictionary is an illegal drug, such as cannabis, that some people take for pleasure, that is not considered very harmful or likely to cause addiction.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SOFT DRUG


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

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SOFT DRUG

soft centre
soft chancre
soft cheese
soft clam
soft coal
soft commodities
soft contact lens
soft copy
soft currency
soft drink
soft focus
soft fruit
soft furnishings
soft goods
soft hat
soft hyphen
soft ice-cream
soft iron
soft landing
soft launch

WORDS THAT END LIKE SOFT DRUG

anticancer drug
class A drug
class B drug
class C drug
controlled drug
designer drug
ethical drug
fertility drug
gateway drug
generic drug
hard drug
miracle drug
performance-enhancing drug
poly-drug
recreational drug
smart drug
sulfa drug
sulpha drug
truth drug
wonder drug

Synonyms and antonyms of soft drug in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «soft drug» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SOFT DRUG

Find out the translation of soft drug to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of soft 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 «soft drug» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

软性毒品
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

droga blanda
570 millions of speakers

English

soft drug
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

मुलायम दवा
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

المخدرات الناعمة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

мягкий препарат
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

drogas leves
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

নরম ড্রাগ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

drogue douce
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Ubat lembut
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

weichen Drogen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ソフトドラッグ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

소프트 약물
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tamba alus
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

thuốc mềm
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மென்மையான மருந்து
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मऊ औषध
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Yumuşak uyuşturucu
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

droga leggera
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

miękkich narkotyków
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

м´який препарат
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

de droguri moale
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μαλακά ναρκωτικά
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

sagte dwelms
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

mjuk drog
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

soft narkotika
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of soft drug

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SOFT DRUG»

The term «soft drug» is normally little used and occupies the 123.748 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SOFT DRUG» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «soft drug» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «soft 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 soft drug

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SOFT DRUG»

Discover the use of soft drug in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to soft drug and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Sequencing and Prediction of Adolescent Soft Drug ...
The systematic review cross-validation involved comparing the quantitative findings for two major hypotheses to those yielded from 36 primary studies examined in the systematic review.
Rebecca J. Howell, 2010
2
An Introduction to Drug Design
Definition and claimed advantages: (i) Soft Drug: The term 'Soft Drug' is taken from the concept of Hard and Soft acids and bases. Thus a hard drug means a compound which is hard to metabolise and is non-metabolisable, whereas a soft  ...
S. N. Pandeya, J. R. Dimmock, 1997
3
Dermal Absorption and Toxicity Assessment, Second Edition
Michael S. Roberts. Prodrug Soft drug + Pro-soft drug P Pharmacologically inactive Site of pharmacological action Site of metabolism + Pharmacologically inactive (A) Parent drug Promoeity Detoxification Detoxification P Elim. P P P +P Elim.
Michael S. Roberts, 2007
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Drug Metabolism: Current Concepts
A soft drug is a pharmacologically active compound that is deactivated in a predictable and controllable way after it has fulfilled its therapeutic role [14]. A soft drug, therefore, not only possesses the required pharmacological activity, but also ...
Corina Ionescu, Mino R. Caira, 2006
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Pharmacology: Principles and Practice
Uncontrolled duration Potential toxicity Shorten duration via metabolism/ elimination Scheme 19.13 Contrasting dispositions of a drug, prodrug, and soft drug. (A) depicts a generalized version of a standard drug's pattern of observed activities.
Miles Hacker, William S. Messer II, Kenneth A. Bachmann, 2009
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Current Medicinal Chemistry
In vivo metabolic pathways for an ideal soft drug. Bodor and coworkers have proposed the concept of soft drugs to minimize the problems associated with hard drugs in eliciting selective local action [2-6]. Soft drugs are " pharmacologically ...
7
Drug Misusing Offenders and the Criminal Justice System: The ...
Two countries - the United States and Northern Ireland - differ remarkably in this respect, with rates of more than 40 percent of all soft drug users who ever consume hard drugs. This may be due to the more trivial nature of some popular " hard" ...
‎1998
8
Ocular Theraputics and Drug Delivery
One aspect of Bodor' s work has been used to successfully design novel drugs for the eye using a soft drug approach. This design process starts with either a known inactive metabolite or a close analog. The metabolite is then chemically ...
Indra K. Reddy, 1995
9
New Drugs for Asthma, Allergy and COPD
Pharmacological and Chemical Aims for Soft-Drug Development A soft drug is active by itself, has therapeutic efficacy at the site of application, and is rapidly and predictably inactivated during its systemic uptake and distribution [10]. A soft ICS ...
Trevor T. Hansel, Peter J. Barnes, 2001
10
Prodrugs and Targeted Delivery: Towards Better ADME Properties
The term “soft drug” (sometimes called “antedrug”) was first introduced by Bodor [ 1] about 30 years ago to contrast Ariens' drug design concept of nonmetabolized “hard drugs,” the latter intending to avoid problems caused by reactive species ...
Jarkko Rautio, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SOFT DRUG»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term soft drug is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Police commissioner's cannabis U-turn after suggesting people …
“It does send a message that drugs are OK - there can be no doubt that there a significant amount of people ... Do we stop looking at burglaries, soft drug use? «Mirror.co.uk, Jul 15»
2
Techno guru: "Legalise soft drugs"
Peter Decuypere, the founder of the I Love Techno rave, has written an open letter in which he calls for the legalisation of soft drugs. Mr Decuypere intervenes in ... «Expatica Belguim, Jul 15»
3
'You will not be arrested for using drugs': What a sane drug policy …
Dutch law distinguishes between "soft drugs," like marijuana, and "hard" ones, like cocaine and heroin. Possession and use of up to 5 grams of marijuana, and 1 ... «Washington Post, Dec 14»
4
'Marijuana is no soft drug'
"DON'T believe anyone who tells you marijuana is a soft drug." This was the advice Judge Michael Rackemann gave to Joshua Matthew Gillham as he stood in ... «Mackay Daily Mercury, Aug 14»
5
Fight organized crime by legalizing soft drugs
Does caffeine lead to cocaine use? Obviously not. But if caffeine were outlawed, a black market would emerge. Drug gangs, which are highly skilled at operating ... «National Post, Jul 14»
6
Classifying between hard and soft drugs should be shunned …
Those caught in possession of cannabis – perceived by many as being a “softdrug – would instead be exempted from appearing before the social board, ... «MaltaToday, Jul 14»
7
Pope for Legal Dope? Still Nope.
In 2001, the Vatican's Pontifical Council for Health Care urged governments to resist legalization even on soft drugs in the manual “Church, Drugs, and Drug ... «TIME, Jun 14»
8
NZ's world-high drug use no surprise - Experts
The use of drugs like methamphetamine and ecstasy was also the highest in the world, ... "We've treated cannabis as a soft drug and we've ignored the risk of ... «New Zealand Herald, Jan 12»
9
Dutch fear threat to liberalism in "soft drugs" curbs
The push to clamp down on soft drugs has come mainly from the Christian Democrats, the junior partner in the minority government and one of the larger parties ... «Reuters, Oct 11»
10
Celebrities write to David Cameron urging decriminalisation of drug
If you decriminalise soft drugs but not hard drugs, all the profits for the drug barons will be in the hard drugs and those drugs will therefore be pushed to an even ... «Mirror.co.uk, Jun 11»

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