physic meaning
EN
[-ɪzɪk] WPhysic
- Physic may refer to:
- The study or practice of medicine
- A substance administered as medicine, or the medicinal plant from which it is extracted:
- Gillenia stipulata, a plant known commonly as Indian physic
- Jatropha, a genus of plants commonly known as the physic nut
- Veronicastrum virginicum, a plant known commonly as Culver's physic
- Physic garden, a type of herb garden with medicinal plants
- NounPLphysicsPREphysi-
- (countable) A medicine or drug, especially a cathartic or purgative.
- (uncountable) The art or profession of healing disease; medicine.
- (obsolete) A physician.
- (countable) A medicine or drug, especially a cathartic or purgative.
- VerbSGphysicsPRphysickingPT, PPphysicked
- (transitive) To cure or heal; to treat or administer medicine, especially to purge.
- (transitive) To cure or heal; to treat or administer medicine, especially to purge.
- AdjectiveCOMmore physicSUPmost physic
- Relating to or concerning existent materials; physical.
- Relating to or concerning existent materials; physical.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- The publication of their results is a call for help to pick holes in their methods, and save physics as we now know it.
- My friend’s carefully-compiled notebook was the Rosetta Stone that opened understanding of the physics lectures.
- At NASA, various brainiacs take hammers and tongs to physics at both the Johnson Space Center and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where supernerds take on the logistics of a rescue mission.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- To help pay her tuition, the college student began to tutor high school students in calculus and physics.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of physic in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Adjectives
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Singularia tantum
- Uncountable nouns
- Uncountable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Verbs
- Transitive verbs
- Transitive verbs
- Adjectives
- en physical
- en physician
- en physically
- en physicist
- en physick
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "physic" is an adjective. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun and a singularia tantum. It's also a verb, more specifically, a transitive verb.