What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Clinic vs Chemist - What's the difference?

clinic | chemist |

In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between clinic and chemist

is that clinic is (obsolete) one who receives baptism on a sickbed while chemist is (obsolete) an alchemist.

As nouns the difference between clinic and chemist

is that clinic is a medical facility, such as a hospital, especially one for the treatment and diagnosis of outpatients while chemist is a person who specializes in the science of chemistry, especially at a professional level.

clinic

English

(wikipedia clinic)

Alternative forms

* (archaic)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A medical facility, such as a hospital, especially one for the treatment and diagnosis of outpatients.
  • A group practice of several physicians.
  • A meeting for the diagnosis of problems, or training, on a particular subject.
  • A temporary office arranged on a regular basis to allow politicians to meet their constituents.
  • (wrestling) A series of workouts used to build skills of practitioners regardless of team affiliation.
  • (obsolete) One confined to bed by sickness.
  • (obsolete) One who receives baptism on a sickbed.
  • (Hook)
  • (medicine, obsolete) A school, or a session of a school or class, in which medicine or surgery is taught by the examination and treatment of patients in the presence of the pupils.
  • (Webster 1913)

    Derived terms

    * abortion clinic * clinical * clinically * clinician * dental clinic

    chemist

    Alternative forms

    * chimist (obsolete), chymist (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who specializes in the science of chemistry, especially at a professional level.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= A new prescription , passage=As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one.}}
  • (chiefly, British, NZ) A pharmacist.
  • (chiefly, British, NZ) A pharmacy.
  • (obsolete) An alchemist.
  • Synonyms

    * (pharmacist) apothecary, druggist, pharmacist * (pharmacy) chemist's (British), chemist's shop (British), drugstore (US), pharmacy (especially US)

    Anagrams

    * *