今日の英語単語

medicine

薬

解説

英語 > 日本語

medicine

1. 名詞. () 医学。医療。

2. 名詞. () 薬。

3. 名詞. （未開社会での）魔法。魔術。まじない。

4. 動詞. (まれ, 廃語但し)薬でなおす。

英語 > 英語

medicine

1. n. A substance which specifically promotes healing when ingested or consumed in some way.

2. n. A treatment or cure.

3. n. The study of the cause, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of disease or illness.

4. n. The profession of physicians, surgeons and related specialisms; those who practice medicine.

5. n. Ritual Native American magic used by a medicine man to promote a desired outcome in healing, hunting, warfare etc.

6. n. Among the Native Americans, any object supposed to give control over natural or magical forces, to act as a protective charm, or to cause healing.

7. n. (obsolete) black magic, superstition.

8. n. (obsolete) A philter or love potion.

9. n. (obsolete) A physician.

10. n. (slang) recreational drugs, especially alcoholic drinks

11. v. (rare, obsolete) To treat with medicine.

日本語 > 英語

薬

1. n. A medicine or drug.

2. n. Usage: Only used in compounds.

3. n. A substance with mystical properties, especially one that has an effect on the body, health, or lifespan.

4. n. A medicine or drug, a pharmaceutical.

5. n. A chemical, generally toxic and used for its effect on living organisms, such as insecticide or herbicide.

6. n. A substance that has a beneficial effect in improving or maintaining one's health.

7. n. (figurative) Something that has a beneficial effect in correcting one's mistakes.

8. n. Gunpowder (from the “mystical substance” sense, and the second character in the word 火薬).

9. n. (figurative) A small bribe.

10. n. Usage: The medicine sense is probably the most common in modern Japanese.

11. n. (slang) A medicine or drug, especially a narcotic or other recreational drug.

12. n. Usage: The slang meaning is generally limited to when the term yaku is used as a standalone noun. In compounds, yaku refers more generally to pharmaceuticals, or sometimes chemicals.

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What else is there but the medicine.
She looks at me with this painful glee in her eyes and tells me that she's not feeling well and has to take her medicine.
Two orderlies enter with a medicine tray.
People need water and food and medicine, and the sewers have to work, the electricity has to work.
Drops of silver medicine were used by doctors to fight all kinds of infections.

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