different between chemistry vs geography

English

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Etymology

First coined 1605, from chemist +? -ry. From chemist, chymist, from Latin alchimista, from Arabic ?????????????? (al-k?miy??), from article ???? (al-) + Ancient Greek ?????? (khumeía, “art of alloying metals”), from ???? (khúma, “fluid”), from ????? (khumós, “juice”), from ??? (khé?, “I pour”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: k?m'?str?, IPA^(key): /?k?m.?.st?i/

Noun

chemistry (countable and uncountable, plural chemistries)

1. (uncountable) The branch of natural science that deals with the composition and constitution of substances and the changes that they undergo as a consequence of alterations in the constitution of their molecules.
2. (countable) An application of chemical theory and method to a particular substance.
   • 1984, North American Lake Management Society, Lake and Reservoir Management: Proceedings of the Third Annual Conference (page 250)

     The aquatic chemistries of iron and manganese are similar; this “is reflected geologically in their common association in rocks of all kinds” (Bortleson and Lee, 1974).

3. (informal) The mutual attraction between two people; rapport.

Usage notes

• Historical note: This word and its derivatives were formerly spelled chy- or sometimes chi- (i.e., chymistry, chymist, chymical, etc., or chimistry, chimist, chimical, etc.) with pronunciation depending on the spelling.

Meronyms

• See also Thesaurus:chemistry

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Derived terms

• biochemistry

English

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Etymology

From Middle French géographie, from Latin ge?graphia, from Ancient Greek ????????? (ge?graphía, “a description of the earth”), from ?? (gê, “earth”) + ????? (gráph?, “write”).

Use in reference to lavatories derives from the mid-20th century euphemism "show one the geography of the house" in reference to pointing out the toilets.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d???????fi/, /?d?????fi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /d?i?????fi/
• Rhymes: -????fi
• Hyphenation: ge?og?ra?phy

Noun

geography (countable and uncountable, plural geographies)

1. A description of the earth: a treatise or textbook on geography; (archaic) an atlas or gazetteer.
2. The study of the physical properties of the earth, including how humans affect and are affected by them.
3. Terrain: the physical properties of a region of the earth.
   • 1973, Helen Miller Bailey, Abraham Phineas Nasatir, Latin America: the development of its civilization

     The geography of the Andes approaches never made transportation easy; routes to Bogota, Quito, La Paz, and Cuzco were so precipitous as to slow down the development of those Spanish cities in the interior.

4. Any subject considered in terms of its physical distribution.
5. (astronomy) Similar books, studies, or regions concerning other planets.
6. The physical arrangement of any place, particularly (Britain, slang) a house.
7. (chiefly upper-class Britain, euphemistic) The lavatory: a room used for urination and defecation.
   • 1967 December 21, The Listener, p. 802:

     The Business Man Jocular: ‘I say, where's the geography, old son?’

8. (figuratively) The relative arrangement of the parts of anything.
9. (chiefly business and marketing) A territory: a geographical area as a field of business or market sector.

Synonyms

• (upper-class British slang for lavatory): loo; see also Thesaurus:bathroom

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Translations

See also

• geography on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• Oxford English Dictionary. "geography, n."