B1noun · countable / uncountable · common

prescription

prescription · prescriptions

рецепт

предписание, рецепт, распоряжение, срок давности

Rezept, Verschreibung, Verjährung, Rechtssetzung

A written order from an authorized medical practitioner for provision of a medicine or…A written order from an authorized medical practitioner for provision of a medicine or other treatment, such as (ophthalmology) the specific lenses needed for a pair of glasses.

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/pɹəˈskɹɪp.ʃən/

» I'll give you a prescription.

Ich stelle Ihnen ein Rezept aus.

Я выпишу вам рецепт.

Я випишу тобі рецепт.

Я випишу вам рецепт.

Meaning

8 senses

(countable, uncountable)A written order from an authorized medical practitioner for provision of a medicine or other treatment, such as (ophthalmology) the specific lenses needed for a pair of glasses.
The surgeon had written thousands of prescriptions for pain killers without proper examinations before the police raided the clinic.
Rezept, Verschreibung
реце́птrecépt, предписа́ниеpredpisánije
реце́птrecépt
(countable, uncountable)The medicine or treatment provided by such an order.
I need you to pick up gramma's prescriptions on your way home.
(countable, figuratively, uncountable)Any plan of treatment or handling; the treatment or handling thus provided.
Early to bed and early to rise is a prescription for a long, healthy, and terrible life.
лека́рство по реце́птуlekárstvo po recéptu
(countable, uncountable)Synonym of enactment, the act of establishing a law, regulation, etc., particularly in writing; an instance of this.
Rechtssetzung, Verjährung
предписа́ниеpredpisánije, распоряже́ниеrasporjažénije, прескри́пцияpreskrípcija
(countable, uncountable)The act of establishing or formalizing ideal norms for language use, as opposed to describing the actual norms of such use; an instance of this.
прескри́пцияpreskrípcija
(countable, uncountable)An established time period within which a right must be exercised and after which it is null and permanently unenforceable.
(countable, uncountable)An established time period after which a person who has uninterruptedly, peacefully, and publicly used another's property acquires full ownership of it.
(countable, obsolete, uncountable)Synonym of self-restraint, limiting of one's actions especially according to a moral code or social conventions.

More definitions

written instructions from a physician or dentist to a druggist concerning the form and dosage of a drug to be issued to a given patient
written instructions for an optician on the lenses for a given person
directions prescribed beforehand; the action of prescribing authoritative rules or directions
a drug that is available only with written instructions from a doctor or dentist to a pharmacist

Examples

95 sentences

I'll give you a prescription.
Я випишу тобі рецепт. — deniko
ruЯ выпишу вам рецепт. — Airy
deIch stelle Ihnen ein Rezept aus. — Alois
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Take this prescription to your pharmacy.
deGehen Sie mit diesem Rezept zu Ihrer Apotheke. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
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Sorry, we can't fill this prescription here.
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What non-prescription medications are you taking?
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To get a prescription, go to a doctor.
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Translations

9 languages

Українська

By meaning 1

written order for the administration of a medicine:

Русский

By meaning 4

written order for the administration of a medicine:

plan of treatment or planned treatment:

the act of establishing a law or regulation in writing; an instance of this:

extinctive or liberative prescription — see also statute of limitations:

Deutsch

By meaning 3

written order for the administration of a medicine:

the act of establishing a law or regulation in writing; an instance of this:

extinctive or liberative prescription — see also statute of limitations:

Origin

Borrowed from Middle French, from Old French prescripcion, from Latin praescriptio (“prefa

Borrowed from Middle French, from Old French prescripcion, from Latin praescriptio (“preface; pretext; something written ahead of time”), from prae- (“pre-, before”) + scribere (“to write”) + -tio (“-tion, forming nouns”). Equivalent to prescribe + -tion.

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