different between prescription vs advice

English

Alternative forms

• præscription (archaic)

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French, from Old French prescripcion, from Latin praescriptio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p???sk??p??n/, (proscribed) /p??sk??p??n/

Noun

prescription (countable and uncountable, plural prescriptions)

1. (law)
   1. The act of prescribing a rule, law, etc..
      • "Jurisdiction to prescribe" is a state's authority to make its laws applicable to certain persons or activities. -- Richard G. Alexander, Iran and Libya Sanctions Act of 1996: Congress exceeds its jurisdiction to prescribe law. Washington and Lee Law Review, 1997.
   2. Also called extinctive prescription or liberative prescription. A time period within which a right must be exercised, otherwise it will be extinguished.
   3. Also called acquisitive prescription. A time period after which a person who has, in the role of an owner, uninterruptedly, peacefully, and publicly possessed another's property acquires the property. The described process is known as acquisition by prescription and adverse possession.
2. (medicine, pharmacy, pharmacology) A written order, as by a physician or nurse practitioner, for the administration of a medicine or other intervention. See also scrip.
   • The surgeon wrote a prescription for a pain killer and physical therapy.
3. (medicine) The prescription medicine or intervention so prescribed.
   • The pharmacist gave her a bottle containing her prescription.
4. (ophthalmology) The formal description of the lens geometry needed for spectacles, etc..
   • The optician followed the optometrist's prescription for her new eyeglasses.
5. (linguistics) The act or practice of laying down norms of language usage, as opposed to description, i.e. recording and describing actual usage.
6. (linguistics) An instance of a prescriptive pronouncement.
7. A plan or procedure to obtain a given end result; a recipe.
   • "Early to bed and early to rise" is a prescription for a healthy lifestyle.
8. (obsolete) Circumscription; restraint; limitation.
   • 1853, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, ch 2:

     There is an air of prescription about him which is always agreeable to Sir Leicester; he receives it as a kind of tribute. ... It expresses, as it were, the steward of the legal mysteries, the butler of the legal cellar, of the Dedlocks.

Usage notes

• Do not confuse with proscription.

Synonyms

• forescript
• (medicine): ?, Rx
• (a plan or procedure): recipe

Related terms

• prescribe

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

prescription (not comparable)

1. (of a drug, etc.) only available with a physician or nurse practitioner's written prescription

   Many powerful pain killers are prescription drugs in the U.S.

Translations

See also

• prescriptivism

French

Etymology

From Old French prescripcion, borrowed from Latin praescriptio, praescriptionem.

Pronunciation

Noun

prescription f (plural prescriptions)

1. prescription (all senses)

Norman

Etymology

From Old French prescripcion, borrowed from Latin praescriptio, praescriptionem.

Noun

prescription f (plural prescriptions)

1. (Jersey) prescription

English

Etymology

From Middle English avys, from Old French avis, from the phrase ce m'est a vis ("in my view"), where vis is from Latin visus, past participle of videre (“to see”). See vision, and confer avise, advise. The unhistoric -d- was introduced in English 15c. Doublet of aviso.

Displaced native Old English r?d.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?d?va?s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /æd?va?s/
• Rhymes: -a?s

Noun

advice (countable and uncountable, plural advices)

1. (uncountable) An opinion offered in an effort to be helpful.
2. (uncountable, obsolete) Deliberate consideration; knowledge.
   • c. 1589-1593, William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona

     How shall I dote on her with more advice,
     That thus without advice begin to love her?

3. (archaic, commonly in plural) Information or news given; intelligence

4. (countable) In language about financial transactions executed by formal documents, an advisory document.
5. (uncountable) In commercial language, information communicated by letter; used chiefly in reference to drafts or bills of exchange

   (Can we find and add a quotation of McElrath to this entry?)

6. (countable, law) A communication providing information, such as how an uncertain area of law might apply to possible future actions
7. (uncountable, law) Counseling to perform a specific legal act.
8. (uncountable, law) Counseling to perform a specific illegal act.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Wharton to this entry?)

9. (countable, programming) In aspect-oriented programming, the code whose execution is triggered when a join point is reached.

Synonyms

• counsel, suggestion, recommendation, rede, admonition, exhortation, information, tip, notice
• See also Thesaurus:advice

Derived terms

• advice boat
• adviceful
• avizefull

Related terms

• advise
• adviso
• aviso

Translations

See also

• advice boat
• take advice

Verb

advice

1. Misspelling of advise.

References

• advice in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.