Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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prescription

/pɹəˈskɹɪp.ʃən/ noun

Forms prescriptions præscription

  1. noun (medicine, pharmacy, pharmacology) A written order from an authorized medical practitioner for provision of a medicine or other treatment, such as (ophthalmology) the specific lenses needed for a pair of glasses. “The surgeon had written thousands of prescriptions for pain killers without proper examinations before the police raided the clinic.”
  2. noun (medicine) The medicine or treatment provided by such an order. “I need you to pick up gramma's prescriptions on your way home.”
  3. noun (figurative) Any plan of treatment or handling; the treatment or handling thus provided. “Early to bed and early to rise is a prescription for a long, healthy, and terrible life.”
  4. noun (law) Synonym of enactment, the act of establishing a law, regulation, etc., particularly in writing; an instance of this.
  5. noun (linguistics) The act of establishing or formalizing ideal norms for language use, as opposed to describing the actual norms of such use; an instance of this.
  6. noun (law) An established time period within which a right must be exercised and after which it is null and permanently unenforceable.
  7. noun (law) An established time period after which a person who has uninterruptedly, peacefully, and publicly used another's property acquires full ownership of it.
  8. noun (obsolete) Synonym of self-restraint, limiting of one's actions especially according to a moral code or social conventions.

Synonyms

scrip forescript Rx ℞ enactment extinctive prescription liberative prescription acquisitive prescription usucaption self-restraint prescription drug prescription medicine ethical drug

Antonyms

nonprescription

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French, from Old French prescripcion, from Latin praescriptio (“preface; pretext; something written ahead of time”), from prae- (“pre-, before”) + scribere (“to write”) + -tio (“-tion, forming nouns”). Equivalent to prescribe + -tion.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of prescribing, directing, or dictating; direction; precept; also, that which is prescribed.
  2. noun A direction of a remedy or of remedies for a disease, and the manner of using them; a medical recipe; also, a prescribed remedy.

Etymology [F. prescription, L. praescriptio,an inscription, preface, precept, demurrer, prescription (in sense 3), fr. praescribere. See Prescribe.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “prescription”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “prescription” (best matches first).