Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: prescription
IPA transcription: [pɹəskɹ'ɪpʃən]
Pronunciations of prescription
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adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: prescription(a)
    Meaning: available only with a doctor's written prescription; "a prescription drug"
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: prescription
    Meaning: directions prescribed beforehand; the action of prescribing authoritative rules or directions; "I tried to follow her prescription for success"
  • Synonyms: prescription_drug, prescription, prescription_medicine, ethical_drug
    Meaning: a drug that is available only with written instructions from a doctor or dentist to a pharmacist; "he told the doctor that he had been taking his prescription regularly"
Usage examples
  • I certainly asked her for the prescription.
  • "Of course you asked her for the prescription?" I said.
  • "I must make a prescription that is to be called for soon."
  • I ask how prescription could take effect where a contrary title and possession already existed?
  • is simply His secret for the alleviation of human life, His prescription for the best and happiest method of living.
  • For sore throat, snail slime was a favorite prescription, and mouse flesh was considered excellent for disease of the lungs.
  • The above prescription was given to me many years ago by the late Dr. Walsh (Stonehenge), and I have found it of great service, both for my own eyes, also those of animals and birds.
  • The Countess, he said, had lain in danger of her life for the past two days; but after carefully following out Tronchin's singular prescription, she was now sufficiently recovered to receive visitors that evening.
  • The patient was in a somewhat critical condition, so Dr. Beaton hastily turned to a writing-table near at hand to write a prescription for her, and in so doing beheld among the trinkets on the table a miniature of Prince Charles, attired in the very uniform the doctor had seen him in at Culloden.
  • It macerates its opium and percolates its own laudanum and paregoric. To this day pills are made behind its tall prescription desk--pills rolled out on its own pill-tile, divided with a spatula, rolled with the finger and thumb, dusted with calcined magnesia and delivered in little round pasteboard pill-boxes.
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7. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Schizophrenia, License CC BY-SA 4.0
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