PHYSIC (physicked, physicking)

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Irregular inflected forms: physicked    , physicking   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does physic mean? 

• PHYSIC (noun)
  The noun PHYSIC has 1 sense:

1. a purging medicine; stimulates evacuation of the bowels

  Familiarity information: PHYSIC used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PHYSIC (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A purging medicine; stimulates evacuation of the bowels

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

aperient; cathartic; physic; purgative

Hypernyms ("physic" is a kind of...):

medicament; medication; medicinal drug; medicine ((medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "physic"):

aloes; bitter aloes (a purgative made from the leaves of aloe)

castor oil (a purgative extracted from the seed of the castor-oil plant; used in paint and varnish as well as medically)

Epsom salts ((used with a singular noun) hydrated magnesium sulfate used as a laxative)

laxative (a mild cathartic)

milk of magnesia (purgative consisting of a milky white liquid suspension of magnesium hydroxide; used as a laxative and (in smaller doses) as an antacid)

Rochelle powder; Seidlitz powder; Seidlitz powders (an effervescing salt containing sodium bicarbonate and Rochelle salt and tartaric acid; used as a cathartic)

 Context examples 

Then he cut chemistry from his study-list, retaining only physics.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Unbeknownst to the entire space physics community, 34 years ago Voyager 2 flew through a plasmoid, a giant magnetic bubble that may have been whisking Uranus' atmosphere out to space.

(The ice giant Uranus appears to be losing a bit of its atmosphere to space, NASA)

The branch of physics that describes the behavior and properties of light and the interaction of light with matter.

(Optics, NCI Thesaurus)

An assistant professor of physics at Syracuse University is studying these materials, searching for the defects in each that produce a crack-like fissure called a shear band.

(Materials, like metallic glass, can help us understand how cells break, NSF)

It's like a pipeline going straight in, says California Institute of Technology professor of physics Christopher Martin, who is lead author of a new paper.

(Spiraling filaments feed young galaxies, National Science Foundation’s Division of Astronomical Sciences.)

The science concerned with phenomena that involve biology, physics, and chemistry principles.

(Biophysical Chemistry, NCI Thesaurus)

Understanding the conditions that lead to the formation of ice is an active quest in the environmental and earth sciences, physics, chemistry, biology and engineering.

(Scientists probe the limits of ice, National Science Foundation)

Understanding the physics of these violent events allows scientists to better understand how the seeds of chemical complexity and life itself have been scattered in space and time in our Milky Way galaxy.

(Kepler Catches Early Flash of an Exploding Star, NASA)

A non-SI unit of area used predominantly in nuclear physics, equal to 10E-28 square meter, or 100 square femtometers.

(Barn, NCI Thesaurus)

In short, it appears that dark energy may not actually exist since the acceleration of the expansion is contained in the equations of the physics.

(There May Be No Dark Matter, Dark Energy in Universe, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)