chemistnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈkem.ɪst/us/ˈkem.ɪst/chemist noun [ C ] (SCIENCE)
B1 a person who studies chemistry, or a scientist who works with chemicals or studies their reactions
Examples
- Chemists at pharmaceutical companies are vying to create a cure for migraine.
- Chemists at Princeton University have been following a new curriculum.
- She worked as a chemist for the water company.
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Chemistry - general words
- acceptor
- allotrope
- amphiprotic
- amphoteric
- atomic
- atomicity
- balanced equation
- catalyst
- chemical equation
- double bond
- electrolyte
- equation
- inorganic chemistry
- ionic bond
- nonelectrolyte
- organic chemistry
- reactivity
- solute
- stably
- the nitrogen cycle
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chemist noun [ C ] (MEDICINE)
UK US pharmacist a person whose job is to prepare and sell medicines and other goods in a shop
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pharmacist
A2 UK UK also chemist's, US drugstore a shop where you can buy medicines, make-up, and sometimes other things such as chocolate
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Examples
- I was given the wrong tablets when the chemist misread my prescription.
- I'm just going to the chemist's for some aspirin.
- Where's the nearest chemist?
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Medical studies & the people who study them
- anatomist
- apothecary
- audiology
- dietitian
- epidemiological
- epidemiology
- etiology
- geriatrician
- gerontologist
- gerontology
- hematology
- mannikin
- obstetrician
- oculist
- ophthalmology
- paediatrics
- pathological
- pediatrician
- pharmacologist
- physiotherapist
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