HOW TO PRONOUNCE
prescription
/pɹəˈskɹɪpʃən/
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Stress “scrip” and keep the consonants together.
Use three syllables, with a light first vowel. Keep the skr sequence intact in the middle and finish with a light shun rather than stressing the ending.
3 syllables · Stress on syllable 2
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“The pharmacist checked the prescription.”
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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗What does prescription mean?
noun
- 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 medicine or treatment provided by such an order.
- (figuratively) Any plan of treatment or handling; the treatment or handling thus provided.
More meanings (5)
noun
- Synonym of enactment, the act of establishing a law, regulation, etc., particularly in writing; an instance of this.
- 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.
- An established time period within which a right must be exercised and after which it is null and permanently unenforceable.
- An established time period after which a person who has uninterruptedly, peacefully, and publicly used another's property acquires full ownership of it.
- (obsolete) Synonym of self-restraint, limiting of one's actions especially according to a moral code or social conventions.
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IPA pronunciation
/pɹəˈskɹɪpʃən/
Pronunciation used in the listening tip.
CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗Pronunciation varies by speaker and region. About these dictionary pronunciations.
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The most sovereign prescription in Galen is but empiricutic and, to this preservative, of no better report than a horse drench.
On the contrary, with the advance of social differentiation it has acquired the axiomatic force due to ancient and unquestioned prescription.
More book examples (3)
Yet God commits the managing so great a trust, without particular law or prescription, wholly to the demeanour of every grown man.
He had a particular fondness for what the modern physician speaks of as a "shot-gun" prescription--one containing a great variety of ingredients.
He remembered the scuffle on the Bridge, the whispering in the alley, and the sinister face of the druggist at his prescription counter.