Urine Definition–noun | the liquid-to-semisolid waste matter excreted by the kidneys, in humans being a yellowish, slightly acid, watery fluid. | |
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Drug Definition–noun | 1. | Pharmacolog
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y. a chemical substance used in the treatment, cure, prevention, or diagnosis of disease or used to otherwise enhance physical or mental well-being. | | 2. | (in federal law) | a. | any substance recognized in the official pharmacopoeia or formulary of the nation. | | b. | any substance intended for use in the
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diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease in humans or other animals. | | c. | any article, other than food, intended to affect the structure or any function of the body of humans or other animals. | | d. | any substance intended for use as a component of such a drug, but not a device or a part of a device. | | | 3. | a habit-forming medicinal or illicit substance, esp. a narcotic. | | 4. | drugs, | a. | chemical substances prepared and sold as pharmaceutical items, either by prescription or over the counter. | | b. | personal hygienic items sold in a drugstore, as toothpaste, mouthwash, etc. | | | 5. | Obsolete. any ingredient used in chemistry, pharmacy, dyeing, or the like. | –verb (used with object) | 6. | to administer a medicinal drug to. | | 7. | to stupefy or poison with a drug. | | 8. | to mix (food or drink) with a drug, esp. a stupefying, narcotic, or poisonous drug. | | 9. | to administer anything nauseous to. | —Verb phrase | 10. | drug up, to take a narcotic drug: The addict prowled about for a place to drug up. | —Idiom | 11. | drug on the market, a commodity that is overabundant or in excess of demand in the market. Also, drug in the market. | |
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Screen Definition–noun | 1. | a movable or fixed device, usually consisting of a covered frame, that provides shelter, serves as a partition, etc. | | 2. | a permanent, usually ornamental partition, as around the choir of a church or across the hall of a medieval house. | | 3. | a specially prepared, light-reflecting surface on which motion pictures, slides, etc., may be projected. | | 4. | motion pictures collectively or the motion-picture industry. | | 5. | Electronics, Television. the external surface of the large end of a cathode-ray tube of a television set, radar receiver, etc., on which an electronically created picture or image is formed. | | 6. | Computers. | a. | Also called video screen. the portion of a terminal or monitor upon which information is displayed. | | | 7. | anything that shelters, protects, or conceals: a screen of secrecy; A screen of fog prevented our seeing the ship. | | 8. | a frame holding a mesh of wire, cloth, or plastic, for placing in a window or doorway, around a porch, etc., to admit air but exclude insects. | | 9. | a sieve, riddle, or other meshlike device used to separate smaller particles or objects from larger ones, as for grain or sand. | | 10. | a system for screening or grouping people, objects, etc. | | 11. | Military. a body of troops sent out to protect the movement of an army. | | 12. | Navy. a protective formation of small vessels, as destroyers, around or in front of a larger ship or ships. | | 13. | Physics. a shield designed to prevent interference between various agencies: electric screen. | | 15. | Photography. a plate of ground glass or the like on which the image is brought into focus in a camera before being photographed. | | 16. | Photoengraving. a transparent pla
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te containing two sets of fine parallel lines, one crossing the other, used in the halftone process. | | 17. | Sports. | a. | any of various offensive plays in which teammates form a protective formation around the ball carrier, pass receiver, shooter, etc. | | b. | any of various defensive plays in which teammates conceal or block an opposing ball carrier, pass receiver, shooter, or the goal, basket, net, etc., itself. | | –verb (used with object) | 18. | to shelter, protect, or conceal with or as if with a screen. | | 19. | to select, reject, consider, or group (people, objects, ideas, etc.) by examining systematically: Job applicants were screened by the personnel department. | | 20. | to provide with a screen or screens to exclude insects: He screened the porch so they could enjoy sitting out on summer evenings. | | 21. | to sift or sort by passing through a screen. | | 22. | to project (a motion picture, slide, etc.) on a screen. | | 23. | Movies. | a. | to show (a motion picture), esp. to an invited audience, as of exhibitors and critics. | | b. | to photograph with a motion-picture camera; film. | | c. | to adapt (a story, play, etc.) for presentation as a motion picture. | | | 24. | to lighten (type or areas of a line engraving) by etching a regular pattern of dots or lines into the printing surface. | –verb (used without object) | 25. | to be projected on a motion-picture screen. | From DictionaryRelated topics from Britannica |
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