Drug vs Weed - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between drug and weed

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 weed is pasture or weed can be willow.

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 ----

weed

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

A plant.

# (label) Any plant growing in cultivated ground to the injury of the crop or desired vegetation, or to the disfigurement of the place; an unsightly, useless, or injurious plant.

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, title= The Three Corpse Trick, chapter=5 , passage=The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds . Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.}}

# (label) A species of plant considered harmful to the environment or regarded as a nuisance.

# Short for duckweed.

# Underbrush; low shrubs.

#* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)

one rushing forth out of the thickest weed

#* (1809-1892)

A wild and wanton pard/ Crouched fawning in the weed .

A drug or the like made from the leaves of a plant.

# Marijuana.

# Tobacco.

# A cigar.

A horse unfit to breed from.

A puny person; one who has with little physical strength.

A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which attacks women in childbed.

Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless.

Synonyms

* See also

Derived terms

* goutweed * hawkweed * horseweed * in the weeds * knapweed * knotweed * milkweed * pigweed * ragweed * tumbleweed

Etymology 2

From (etyl) .

Verb

(en verb)

To remove unwanted vegetation from a cultivated area.

I weeded my flower bed.

Etymology 3

From (etyl) , from which also wad, wadmal. Cognate to Dutch lijnwaad, gewaad, German Wat.

Noun

(en noun)

(archaic) A garment or piece of clothing.

(archaic) Clothing collectively; clothes, dress.

* 1599 ,

DON PEDRO. Come, let us hence, and put on other weeds ;

And then to Leonato's we will go.

CLAUDIO. And Hymen now with luckier issue speed's,

Than this for whom we rend'red up this woe!

* 1819 , Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

These two dignified persons were followed by their respective attendants, and at a more humble distance by their guide, whose figure had nothing more remarkable than it derived from the usual weeds of a pilgrim.

(archaic) An article of dress worn in token of grief; a mourning garment or badge.

He wore a weed on his hat.

(archaic) widow's weeds : female mourning apparel

* Milton

In a mourning weed , with ashes upon her head, and tears abundantly flowing.

Etymology 4

From the verb wee.

Verb

(head)

(wee)

References

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