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S vs Chemist - What's the difference?

s | chemist |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a noun chemist is

a person who specializes in the science of chemistry, especially at a professional level.

s

Translingual

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Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .

    • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.

    • See also

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    chemist

    English

    (wikipedia 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)

    Related terms

    * chemistry * alchemist

    Anagrams

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