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Definitions

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun British a retail shop where medicine and other articles are sold; a drugstore.

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  • noun UK, New Zealand A pharmacy.

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  • noun a retail shop where medicine and other articles are sold

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Examples

  • As a result, environmental scientists are forever looking for real-world events that, like a chemist's laboratory experiments, directly test specific aspects of the Earth system.

    Bill Chameides: BP Lands the '2010 Accidental Earth Experiment' Prize!!! Bill Chameides 2011

  • They also used the term "the prebiotic chemist's nightmare" to describe another part of the picture: How did that first self-replicating RNA arise?

    Berlinski stirring the pot 2010

  • It's there in Magnolia, when Linda Partridge realises too late that she actually loves the dying husband she married for money, and breaks down in a chemist's: "You have the balls, the indecency to ask me a question about my life," she bellows at the pharmacist, "suck my dick!"

    Julianne Moore: 'I'm going to cry. Sorry' Kira Cochrane 2010

  • Crunching beats, good tune, video of a model having an emotional breakdown in the chemist's … it effectively said to Fenech-Soler, the band who guested on the single, this is how you do it.

    This week's new live music Andrew Clements 2010

  • I like 'Mighty-sinewed chemist's daughter' myself, though I suspect that's not a kenning because it's, y'know.

    mrissa: Also mrissa 2010

  • Knowing that even the suggestion of fruit evokes powerful associations of health, freshness and cleanliness, brands across all categories have gone fruity on us, infusing everything from shampoos to bottled waters with pineapple, oranges, peaches, passion fruit and banana fragrances—engineered in a chemist's laboratory, of course.

    Selling Illusions of Cleanliness Martin Lindstrom 2011

  • As a result, environmental scientists are forever looking for real-world events that, like a chemist's laboratory experiments, directly test specific aspects of the Earth system.

    Bill Chameides: BP Lands the '2010 Accidental Earth Experiment' Prize!!! Bill Chameides 2011

  • I am not an all-organic eater, except in the sense that I try not to eat things that are composed entirely of borosilicates, and I am too much the chemist's daughter (mighty-sinewed chemist's daughter!) not to make that joke.

    mrissa: State of the Mris Report mrissa 2010

  • And most of those meals eaten at home are produced in plants, not grown on plants, are from a food chemist's lab, not a farmer's field.

    Mark Hyman, MD: Why Quick, Cheap Food Is Actually More Expensive 2010

  • And most of those meals eaten at home are produced in plants, not grown on plants, are from a food chemist's lab, not a farmer's field.

    Mark Hyman, MD: Why Quick, Cheap Food Is Actually More Expensive 2010

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