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drug
English
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /d???/, [d????????]
- Rhymes: -??
Etymology 1
From Middle English drogge (“medicine”), from Middle French drogue (“cure, pharmaceutical product”), 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 dr?ghe (“dry”), from Old Dutch dr?gi (“dry”), from Proto-Germanic *draugiz (“dry, hard”). Cognate with English dry, Dutch droog (“dry”), German trocken (“dry”).
Noun
drug (plural drugs)
- (pharmacology) A substance used to treat an illness, relieve a symptom, or modify a chemical process in the body for a specific purpose.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pharmaceutical
- A psychoactive substance, especially one which is illegal and addictive, ingested for recreational use, such as cocaine.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:recreational drug
- 1971, Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Harper Perennial 2005 edition, page 3:
- We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.
- March 1991, unknown student, "Antihero opinion", SPIN, page 70
- You have a twelve-year-old kid being told from the time he's like five years old that all drugs are bad, they're going to screw you up, don't try them. Just say no. Then they try pot.
- 2005, Thomas Brent Andrews, The Pot Plan: Louie B. Stumblin and the War on Drugs, Chronic Discontent Books, ?ISBN, page 19
- The only thing working against the poor Drug Abuse Resistance Officer is high-school students. ... He'd offer his simple lesson: Drugs are bad, people who use drugs are bad, and abstinence is the only answer.
- Anything, such as a substance, emotion, or action, to which one is addicted.
- 2005, Jack Haas, Om, Baby!: a Pilgrimage to the Eternal Self, page 8
- Inspiration is my drug. Such things as spirituality, booze, travel, psychedelics, contemplation, music, dance, laughter, wilderness, and ribaldry — these have simply been the different forms of the drug of inspiration for which I have had great need […]
- 2010, Kesha Rose Sebert (Ke$ha), with Pebe Sebert and Joshua Coleman (Ammo), Your Love is My Drug
- 2005, Jack Haas, Om, Baby!: a Pilgrimage to the Eternal Self, page 8
- Any commodity that lies on hand, or is not salable; an article of slow sale, or in no demand.
- 1685, John Dryden, Albion and Albanius
- And virtue shall a drug become.
- 1742, Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews
- But sermons are mere drugs.
- 1685, John Dryden, Albion and Albanius
- (Canada, US, informal) Short for drugstore.
- 1980, Stephen King, The Mist
- “I’ll go this far,” I answered him. “We’ll try going over to the drug. You, me, Ollie if he wants to go, one or two others. Then we’ll talk it over again.”
- 1980, Stephen King, The Mist
Usage notes
- Adjectives often used with "drug": dangerous, illicit, illegal, psychoactive, generic, hard, veterinary, recreational
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
drug (third-person singular simple present drugs, present participle drugging, simple past and past participle drugged)
- (transitive) To administer intoxicating drugs to, generally without the recipient's knowledge or consent.
- (transitive) To add intoxicating drugs to with the intention of drugging someone.
- (intransitive) To prescribe or administer drugs or medicines.
- 1610, Ben Jonson, The Alchemist
- Past all the doses of your drugging doctors
- 1610, Ben Jonson, The Alchemist
Translations
Etymology 2
Germanic ablaut formation. If old, a doublet of drew, from Proto-Germanic *dr?g; compare Dutch droeg, German trug, Swedish drog. If secondary, probably formed by analogy with hang.
Verb
drug
- (dialect) simple past tense and past participle of drag
- You look like someone drug you behind a horse for half a mile.
- 1961 Kurt Vonnegut, Harrison Bergeron
- […] their faces were masked, so that no one, seeing a free and graceful gesture or a pretty face, would feel like something the cat drug in.
Usage notes
- Random House says that drug is "nonstandard" as the past tense of drag. Merriam-Webster once ruled that drug in this construction was "illiterate" but have since upgraded it to "dialect". The lexicographers of New World, American Heritage, and Oxford make no mention of this sense.
Etymology 3
Noun
drug (plural drugs)
- (obsolete) A drudge.
Romanian
Etymology
From Serbo-Croatian drug.
Noun
drug m (plural drugi)
- pole, stick
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *drug?, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *draugás, from Proto-Indo-European *d?rewg?-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /drû??/
Noun
dr?g m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)
- (Bosnia, Serbia, Montenegro) friend
- (dated) comrade (commonly used in parts of Former Yugoslavia among coworkers or friends)
Declension
Synonyms
- prijatelj
- drugar
- frend (slang, Croatia)
Derived terms
Related terms
- drugàrica
- drúga
- drùžica
Slovene
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /drú?k/
Adjective
dr?g (not comparable)
- other, another, different
Inflection
See also
- drúgi
Further reading
- “drug”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
Westrobothnian
Alternative forms
- dru
- dröuw
- dryg
Etymology
From Old Norse drjúgr, from Proto-Germanic *dreugaz.
Adjective
drug (comparative drugänä, superlative drugest)
- lasting
- haughty
Related terms
- dryj
- drögt
- drögnä
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mute
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: myo?ot, IPA(key): /mju?t/
- Rhymes: -u?t
- Homophone: moot (in some dialects)
Etymology 1
From Middle English muet, from Anglo-Norman muet, moet, Middle French muet, from mu (“dumb, mute”) + -et, remodelled after Latin m?tus.
Adjective
mute (comparative muter, superlative mutest)
- Not having the power of speech; dumb. [from 15th c.]
- 1717 Ovid: Metamorphoses, translated by John Dryden et al.
- Thus, while the mute creation downward bend / Their sight, and to their earthly mother tend, / Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes / Beholds his own hereditary skies. / From such rude principles our form began; / And earth was metamorphos'd into Man.
- 1717 Ovid: Metamorphoses, translated by John Dryden et al.
- Silent; not making a sound. [from 15th c.]
- 1956, Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins (?, translators), Lion Feuchtwanger (German author), Raquel: The Jewess of Toledo (translation of Die Jüdin von Toledo),[1] Messner, page 178:
- “ […] The heathens have broken into Thy Temple, and Thou art silent! Esau mocks Thy Children, and Thou remainest mute! Show thyself, arise, and let Thy Voice resound, Thou mutest among all the mute!”
- 1956, Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins (?, translators), Lion Feuchtwanger (German author), Raquel: The Jewess of Toledo (translation of Die Jüdin von Toledo),[1] Messner, page 178:
- Not uttered; unpronounced; silent; also, produced by complete closure of the mouth organs which interrupt the passage of breath; said of certain letters.
- Not giving a ringing sound when struck; said of a metal.
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
mute (plural mutes)
- (phonetics, now historical) A stopped consonant; a stop. [from 16th c.]
- Synonyms: occlusive, plosive, stop
- (obsolete, theater) An actor who does not speak; a mime performer. [16th-19th c.]
- 1668 OF Dramatick Poesie, AN ESSAY. By JOHN DRYDEN Esq; (John Dryden)
- As for the poor honest Maid, whom all the Story is built upon, and who ought to be one of the principal Actors in the Play, she is commonly a Mute in it:
- 1668 OF Dramatick Poesie, AN ESSAY. By JOHN DRYDEN Esq; (John Dryden)
- A person who does not have the power of speech. [from 17th c.]
- A hired mourner at a funeral; an undertaker's assistant. [from 18th c.]
- The little box was eventually carried in one hand by the leading mute, while his colleague, with a finger placed on the lid, to prevent it from swaying, walked to one side and a little to the rear.
- 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 481:
- Then followed a long silence during which the mute turned to them and said, ‘Of course you'll be wanting an urn, sir?’
- (music) An object for dulling the sound of an instrument, especially a brass instrument, or damper for pianoforte; a sordine. [from 18th c.]
- An electronic switch or control that mutes the sound.
- 2012, Tomlinson Holman, Sound for Film and Television (page 174)
- Another related primary control is called a mute, which is simply a switch that kills the signal altogether, allowing for a speedier turn-off than turning the fader all the way down rapidly. Mutes are probably more commonly used during multitrack music recording than during film mixing because in music all tracks are on practically all of the time, whereas workstations produce silence when there is no desired signal […]
- 2012, Tomlinson Holman, Sound for Film and Television (page 174)
- A mute swan.
- 1998, Bob Devine, National Geographic Society (U.S.), Alien invasion: America's battle with non-native animals and plants
- The trumpeters' fate seems likely to get tangled with that of the mute swan. Currently there's enough habitat for both species, but that may change if trumpeters flourish and mutes aren't controlled. Right now mutes are thriving.
- 1998, Bob Devine, National Geographic Society (U.S.), Alien invasion: America's battle with non-native animals and plants
Translations
Verb
mute (third-person singular simple present mutes, present participle muting, simple past and past participle muted)
- (transitive) To silence, to make quiet.
- (transitive) To turn off the sound of.
Derived terms
- muter
Translations
See also
- dumb
Etymology 2
From Middle French muetir, probably a shortened form of esmeutir, ultimately from Proto-Germanic.
Verb
mute (third-person singular simple present mutes, present participle muting, simple past and past participle muted)
- (now rare) Of a bird: to defecate. [from 15th c.]
- 1946, George Orwell, Animal Farm, Signet Classics, pages 40–41:
- All the pigeons, to the number of thirty-five, flew to and fro over the men's heads and muted upon them from mid-air;...
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Ben Jonson to this entry?)
- 1946, George Orwell, Animal Farm, Signet Classics, pages 40–41:
Noun
mute (plural mutes)
- The faeces of a hawk or falcon.
Translations
Etymology 3
From Latin mutare (“to change”).
Verb
mute (third-person singular simple present mutes, present participle muting, simple past and past participle muted)
- (transitive) To cast off; to moult.
- Have I muted all my feathers?
Esperanto
Etymology
From muta +? -e.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?mute/
- Hyphenation: mu?te
- Rhymes: -ute
- Audio:
Adverb
mute
- mutely, speechlessly
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /myt/
Verb
mute
- first/third-person singular present indicative of muter
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive of muter
- second-person singular imperative of muter
Anagrams
- émut, émût, meut, muet
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?mu.te/
- Hyphenation: mu?te
Adjective
mute
- feminine plural of muto
Noun
mute f pl
- plural of muta
Latgalian
Noun
mute f
- mouth
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?mu?.te/, [?mu?t??]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?mu.te/, [?mu?t??]
Adjective
m?te
- vocative masculine singular of m?tus
Latvian
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *mnt-, *ment- (“to chew; jaw, mouth”). Cognate with Latin mentum (“chin”) and mand? (“to chew”), Ancient Greek ?????? (mástax, “jaws, mouth”) and ???????? (masáomai, “to chew”), Welsh mant (“jawbone”), Hittite [script needed] (m?ni, “chin”), Proto-Germanic *munþaz (“mouth”) (English mouth, German Mund, Dutch mond, Swedish mun, Icelandic munnur, Gothic ???????????????????? (munþs)).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [mut?]
Noun
mute f (5th declension)
- (anatomy) mouth (orifice for ingesting food)
- orifice, opening, entrance
- face
- kiss
Declension
Derived terms
- mut?gs
- mutisks
Middle English
Adjective
mute
- Alternative form of muet
Murui Huitoto
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?mu.t?]
- Hyphenation: mu?te
Verb
mute
- (intransitive) to complain
References
- Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.?[3], Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 129
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology 1
From Old Norse múta.
Noun
mute f (definite singular muta, indefinite plural muter, definite plural mutene)
- bribe
- secrecy
Verb
mute (present tense mutar, past tense muta, past participle muta, passive infinitive mutast, present participle mutande, imperative mut)
- (transitive) to bribe
- (transitive) to hide, conceal
Etymology 2
From German muten.
Verb
mute (present tense mutar, past tense muta, past participle muta, passive infinitive mutast, present participle mutande, imperative mut)
- (mining) to apply for a mining permit
References
- “mute” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Serbo-Croatian
Verb
mute (Cyrillic spelling ????)
- third-person plural present indicative of mutiti
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?mute]
Verb
mute
- third-person singular present subjunctive of muta
- third-person plural present subjunctive of muta
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?mute/, [?mu.t?e]
Verb
mute
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of mutar.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of mutar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of mutar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of mutar.
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