Synonyms for chemist
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : kem-ist |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈkɛm ɪst |
Définition of chemist
Origin :- 1560s, chymist, "alchemist," from Middle French chimiste, from Medieval Latin chimista, reduced from alchimista (see alchemy). Modern spelling is from c.1790. Meaning "chemical scientist" is from 1620s; meaning "dealer in medicinal drugs" (mostly in British English) is from 1745.
- As in scientist : noun researcher
- Above this were the four "Intellectual Levels," on one of which I, as a chemist had my abode.
- Extract from : « City of Endless Night » by Milo Hastings
- "Tell the man to drive to a chemist's," he said to Mrs. Vansittart.
- Extract from : « Roden's Corner » by Henry Seton Merriman
- "I have heard of no explosion," replied the chemist, evidently bewildered.
- Extract from : « Jennie Baxter, Journalist » by Robert Barr
- His lordship had emerged from the chemist's across the street.
- Extract from : « Ruggles of Red Gap » by Harry Leon Wilson
- Now he was dreeing his weird, with such assistance as the chemist could afford.
- Extract from : « The Golden Age » by Kenneth Grahame
- The drug-store—it was a "chemist's shop" of course—was at the corner.
- Extract from : « Kent Knowles: Quahaug » by Joseph C. Lincoln
- It was the chemist's telephone that I had used when I called the doctor.
- Extract from : « Kent Knowles: Quahaug » by Joseph C. Lincoln
- I was standing at the door of a chemist's shop when the cavalry rode by at a walk.
- Extract from : « Barrington » by Charles James Lever
- He married the only daughter of a chemist who lived in Cambridge.
- Extract from : « Highacres » by Jane Abbott
- You can see how much shorter the chemist's way of writing it is.
- Extract from : « Common Science » by Carleton W. Washburne
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