Love vs Drug - What's the difference?
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(label) Strong affection.
# An intense feeling of affection and care towards another person.
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# A deep or abiding liking for something.
# A profound and caring attraction towards someone.
#* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
(countable) The object of one’s romantic feelings; a darling or sweetheart.
* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
(colloquial)
(euphemistic) A sexual desire; sexual activity.
*1986, Ben Elton & al., ":
*:—What think you, my lord, of... love ?
*:—You mean ‘rumpy-pumpy’.
(obsolete) A thin silk material.
* 1664 , (Robert Boyle), Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours,
A climbing plant, Clematis vitalba .
To have a strong affection for (someone or something).
* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter VI
* 2013 February 26, and (Nate Ruess), (Just Give Me a Reason) :
To need, thrive on.
(colloquial) To be strongly inclined towards something; an emphatic form of like .
To care deeply about, to be dedicated to (someone or something).
* John 3:16
* Matthew: 37-38
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-21, author=(Oliver Burkeman)
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, title= To derive delight from a fact or situation.
To lust for.
(euphemistic) To have sex with, (perhaps from make love.)
To praise; commend.
To praise as of value; prize; set a price on.
(racquet sports) Zero, no score.
* The Field
* John Betjeman, A Subaltern's Love Song
(pharmacology) A substance used to treat an illness, relieve a symptom, or modify a chemical process in the body for a specific purpose.
* Milton
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:
* March 1991 , unknown student, "Antihero opinion", SPIN ,
* 2005 , Thomas Brent Andrews, The Pot Plan: Louie B. Stumblin and the War on Drugs , Chronic Discontent Books, ISBN 0976705605,
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:
* 2009 , Niki Flynn, Dances with Werewolves , page 8:
* 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:
Any commodity that lies on hand, or is not salable; an article of slow sale, or in no demand.
* Fielding
* Dryden
To administer intoxicating drugs to, generally without the recipient's knowledge or consent.
To add intoxicating drugs to with the intention of drugging someone.
To prescribe or administer drugs or medicines.
(drag)
* 2005 , Diane Wilson, An Unreasonable Woman: A True Story of Shrimpers (ISBN 1603580417), page 193:
(obsolete) A drudge.
* William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens
As nouns the difference between love and drug
is that love is money while 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.As a verb drug is
to administer intoxicating drugs to, generally without the recipient's knowledge or consent or drug can be (drag).love
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) . The closing-of-a-letter sense is presumably a truncation of With love or the like. The verb is from (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) .Noun
- He on his side / Leaning half-raised, with looks of cordial love / Hung over her enamoured.
- Open the temple gates unto my love .
- Such a kind of transparency, as that of a Sive, a piece of Cyprus, or a Love -Hood.
Synonyms
* (sense) baby, darling, lover, pet, sweetheart, honey, love bird * (term of address) mate, lover. darling, sweetyAntonyms
* (strong affection) hate, hatred, angst; malice, spite * (absence of love) indifferenceVerb
(lov)- I wanted to take her in my arms and tell her how I loved her, and had taken her hand from the rail and started to draw her toward me when Olson came blundering up on deck with his bedding.
- Just give me a reason, / just a little bit's enough, / just a second we're not broken, just bent / and we can learn to love again.
- For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
- You shall love' the Lord your God with your whole heart, and your whole mind, and your whole soul; you shall ' love your neighbor as yourself.
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Antonyms
* hate, despiseDerived terms
* all's fair in love and war * cupboard love * in love * I love you * fall in love * first love * lady love * love affair * love at first sight * love bird/lovebird * love bite/lovebite * love bomb * love bug * lovebunny * love child * loved-up * love egg * love feast * love game * love grass * love handle * love-hate * love-in * love-in-a-mist * love is blind * love life * lovely * love-making * love match * love nest * love potion * lover * love rat * lovertine * love seat * loveship * love-shyness * lovesick * love song * lovestone * love story * love tap * love toy * love triangle * lovey-dovey * loving kindness * loyal love * make love * unrequited love * no love lost * puppy love * tough love * true love * unconditional loveSee also
* charityEtymology 2
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) . See also (l).Verb
(lov)Etymology 3
From the phrase Neither for love nor for money , meaning "nothing". The previously held belief that it originated from the (etyl) term , due to its shape, is no longer widely accepted.Noun
(-)- So that’s fifteen-love to Kournikova.
- He won the match by three sets to love .
- Love -thirty, love-forty, oh! weakness of joy, / The speed of a swallow, the grace of a boy, / With carefullest carelessness, gaily you won, / I am weak from your loveliness, Joan Hunter Dunn.
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English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- 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.
- whence merchants bring their spicy drugs
- We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.
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- 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.
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- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- But sermons are mere drugs .
- And virtue shall a drug become.
Usage notes
* Adjectives often used with "drug": dangerous, illicit, illegal, psychoactive, generic, hard, veterinary, recreationalSynonyms
* See alsoDerived 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 * wonderdrugVerb
(drugg)- She suddenly felt strange, and only then realized she'd been drugged .
- She suddenly felt strange. She realized her drink must have been drugged .
- (Ben Jonson)
Etymology 2
Germanic ablaut formation, cognate with (etyl) droeg, (etyl) trug, (etyl) drog, (etyl) .Verb
(head)- You look like someone drug you behind a horse for half a mile.
- 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)- 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
