Drug vs Double - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between drug and double

is that drug is (pharmacology) a substance used to treat an illness, relieve a symptom, or modify a chemical process in the body for a specific purpose or drug can be (obsolete) a drudge while double is .

As a verb drug

is to administer intoxicating drugs to, generally without the recipient's knowledge or consent or drug can be (drag).

drug

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

(pharmacology) A substance used to treat an illness, relieve a symptom, or modify a chemical process in the body for a specific purpose.

Aspirin is a drug that reduces pain, acts against inflammation and lowers body temperature.

The revenues from both brand-name drugs''' and generic '''drugs have increased.

* Milton

whence merchants bring their spicy drugs

A psychoactive substance, especially one which is illegal and addictive, ingested for recreational use, such as cocaine.

* 1971 , , Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas , Harper Perennial 2005 edition, page 3:

We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.

* March 1991 , unknown student, "Antihero opinion", SPIN , page 70:

You have a twelve-year-old kid being told from the time he's like five years old that all drugs are bad, they're going to screw you up, don't try them. Just say no. Then they try pot.

* 2005 , Thomas Brent Andrews, The Pot Plan: Louie B. Stumblin and the War on Drugs , Chronic Discontent Books, ISBN 0976705605, page 19:

The only thing working against the poor Drug' Abuse Resistance Officer is high-school students. ... He'd offer his simple lesson: '''Drugs''' are bad, people who use ' drugs are bad, and abstinence is the only answer.

Anything, such as a substance, emotion or action, to which one is addicted.

* 2005 , Jack Haas, Om, Baby! : a Pilgrimage to the Eternal Self , page 8:

Inspiration is my drug'. Such things as spirituality, booze, travel, psychedelics, contemplation, music, dance, laughter, wilderness, and ribaldry — these have simply been the different forms of the ' drug of inspiration for which I have had great need

* 2009 , Niki Flynn, Dances with Werewolves , page 8:

Fear was my drug of choice. I thrived on scary movies, ghost stories and rollercoasters. I dreamed of playing the last girl left alive in a slasher film — the one who screams herself hoarse as she discovers her friends' bodies one by one.

* 2010', Kesha Rose Sebert (Ke$ha), with Pebe Sebert and Joshua Coleman (Ammo), ''Your Love Is My '''Drug

* 2011 , Joslyn Shy, Introducing the Truth , page 5:

The truth is...eating is my drug . When I am upset, I eat...when I am sad, I eat...when I am happy, I eat.

Any commodity that lies on hand, or is not salable; an article of slow sale, or in no demand.

* Fielding

But sermons are mere drugs .

* Dryden

And virtue shall a drug become.

Usage notes

* Adjectives often used with "drug": dangerous, illicit, illegal, psychoactive, generic, hard, veterinary, recreational

Synonyms

* See also

Derived terms

* antidrug * blockbuster drug * club drug * counterdrug * date rape drug * designer drug * disease modifying drug * dissociative drug * do drugs * drug abuse * drug addict * drug baron * drug dealer * drug dog * drug of choice * drug on the market * drug test * drug-ridden * drugfree * druggist * druggie * drugless * druglord * drugstore * drugtaker * drugtaking * druggy * fertility drug * gateway drug * love drug * multidrug * nondrug * on drugs * orphan drug * polydrug * postdrug * prescription drug * prodrug * recreational drug * small molecule drug * street drug * wonderdrug

Verb

(drugg)

To administer intoxicating drugs to, generally without the recipient's knowledge or consent.

She suddenly felt strange, and only then realized she'd been drugged .

To add intoxicating drugs to with the intention of drugging someone.

She suddenly felt strange. She realized her drink must have been drugged .

To prescribe or administer drugs or medicines.

(Ben Jonson)

Etymology 2

Germanic ablaut formation, cognate with (etyl) droeg, (etyl) trug, (etyl) drog, (etyl) .

Verb

(head)

(drag)

You look like someone drug you behind a horse for half a mile.

* 2005 , Diane Wilson, An Unreasonable Woman: A True Story of Shrimpers (ISBN 1603580417), page 193:

When Blackburn called, I drug the telephone cord twenty feet out of the office and sat on the cord while I talked with him.

Usage notes

* Random House says that and Oxford make no mention of this word.

Etymology 3

Noun

(en noun)

(obsolete) A drudge.

* William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens

Hadst thou, like us from our first swath, proceeded / The sweet degrees that this brief world affords / To such as may the passive drugs of it / Freely command, thou wouldst have plunged thyself / In general riot

References

* English irregular past participles English irregular simple past forms English transitive verbs ----

double

English

Adjective

(-)

Made up of two matching or complementary elements.

*:“[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Lexington

, title= Keeping the mighty honest , passage=The [Washington] Post's proprietor through those turbulent [Watergate] days, Katharine Graham, held a double place in Washington’s hierarchy: at once regal Georgetown hostess and scrappy newshound, ready to hold the establishment to account.}}

Twice the quantity.

Of a family relationship, related on both the maternal and paternal sides of a family.

Designed for two users.

Folded in two; composed of two layers.

Stooping; bent over.

Having two aspects; ambiguous.

False, deceitful, or hypocritical.

Of flowers, having more than the normal number of petals.

(lb) Of an instrument, sounding an octave lower.

(lb) Of time, twice as fast.

Derived terms

* double-cross/doublecross * double agent * double bed * double cousin * double date/double-date * double double * double Dutch * double entendre * double exposure * double fault * doublehearted * double life * double meaning * double negative * double strength * double take * double-team * double tongue * double-tongued * double U * double vision

Adverb

(-)

Twice over; twofold.

* Jonathan Swift

I was double their age.

Two together; two at a time. (especially in see double)

Noun

(en noun)

Twice the number, amount, size, etc.

A person who resembles and stands in for another person, often for safety purposes

Saddam Hussein was rumored to have many doubles .

A drink with two portions of alcohol

On second thought, make that a double .

A ghostly apparition of a living person; .

A sharp turn, especially a return on one's own tracks.

A redundant item for which an identical item already exists

:I have more than 200 stamps in my collection but they're not all unique: some are doubles .

:Before printing the photos, Liam deleted the doubles .

(baseball) A two-base hit

The catcher hit a double to lead off the ninth.

(bridge) A call that increases certain scoring points if the last preceding bid becomes the contract.

(billiards) A strike in which the object ball is struck so as to make it rebound against the cushion to an opposite pocket.

A bet on two horses in different races in which any winnings from the first race are placed on the horse in the later race.

(darts) The narrow outermost ring on a dartboard.

(darts) A hit on this ring.

(dominoes) A tile that has the same value (i.e., the same number of pips) in both sides.

(computing, programming) A double-precision floating-point number.

The sin() function returns a double.

(soccer) Two competitions, usually one league and one cup, won by the same team in a single season.

(sports) The feat of scoring twice in one game.

* {{quote-news

, year=2010 , date=December 28 , author=Owen Phillips , title=Sunderland 0 - 2 Blackpool , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=DJ Campbell grabbed a second-half double as Blackpool made Sunderland pay for a host of missed chances to secure a fifth away league win of the season.}}

(historical) A former French coin worth one-sixth of a sou.

(historical, Guernsey) A copper coin worth one-eighth of a penny.

* 1974 , (GB Edwards), The Book of Ebenezer Le Page , New York 2007, p. 196:

As for doubles , they are not worth anything now; and I have still got an egg-cupful my mother used to keep handy to give the baker change from a farthing.

(music) Playing the same part on two instruments, alternately.

Derived terms

* body double * double-count * see double * stunt double

Verb

To multiply by two.

The company doubled their earnings per share over last quarter.

To fold over so as to make two folds.

To make a pleat, double the material at the waist.

To be the double of; to exceed by twofold; to contain or be worth twice as much as.

* Dryden

Thus reinforced, against the adverse fleet, / Still doubling ours, brave Rupert leads the way.

To increase by 100%, to become twice as large in size.

Our earnings have doubled in the last year.

(baseball) To get a two-base hit.

The batter doubled into the corner.

(sometimes followed by up ) To clench (a fist).

(often followed by together'' or ''up ) To join or couple.

To repeat exactly; copy.

To play a second part or serve a second role.

A spork is a kind of fork that doubles as a spoon.

To turn sharply; following a winding course.

(nautical) To sail around (a headland or other point).

* Knolles

Sailing along the coast, he doubled the promontory of Carthage.

* 1719 ,

I found a great ledge of rocks lie out about two leagues into the sea...so that I was obliged to go a great way out to sea to double the point.

(music) To duplicate (a part) either in unison or at the octave above or below it.

To be capable of performing (upon an additional instrument).

(bridge) To make a call that will double certain scoring points if the preceding bid becomes the contract.

To double down.

(billiards, snooker, pool) To cause (a ball) to rebound from a cushion before entering the pocket.

(followed by for ) To act as substitute.

To go or march at twice the normal speed.

* 1919 ,

"You double down to the harbour, my lad," said the Captain to Strickland, "and sign on. You've got your papers."

Strickland set off at once, and that was the last Captain Nichols saw of him.

To multiply the strength or effect of by two.

Sorry, this store does not double coupons.

(military) To unite, as ranks or files, so as to form one from each two.

(radio, informal, of a station) To transmit simultaneously on the same channel as another station, either unintentionally or deliberately, causing interference.

Could you please repeat your last transmission? Another station was doubling with you.

Derived terms

* double down * double over * doubler * double up