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chemist

[ kem-ist ]

noun

  1. a specialist in chemistry.
  2. British. a druggist.
  3. Obsolete. alchemist.


chemist

/ ˈkɛmɪst /

noun

  1. a shop selling medicines, cosmetics, etc
  2. a qualified dispenser of prescribed medicines
  3. a person studying, trained in, or engaged in chemistry
  4. See alchemist
    an obsolete word for alchemist


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  • non·chemist noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of chemist1

First recorded in 1555–65; from Greek chēm(ía) (also chēmeía, chymeía ) “art of alloying metals; alchemy” + -ist; replacing chymist, from Medieval Latin alchimista; alchemist ( def )

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Word History and Origins

Origin of chemist1

C16: from earlier chimist, from New Latin chimista, shortened from Medieval Latin alchimista alchemist

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Example Sentences

Since, realistically, plastic is not going away any time soon, chemists who understand the ins and outs of all this pesky plastic are working to make it easier to recycle and turn into higher-quality material that’s useful for more things.

Tiancun Xiao is a chemist at the University of Oxford in England.

The skeleton’s strength derives from its peculiar lattice pattern, which first intrigued the Harvard materials scientist and chemist Joanna Aizenberg about 20 years ago.

It remained a puzzle until Hyman fortuitously met a chemist when presenting a seminar in Bangalore.

Kim Prather, an atmospheric chemist at UC San Diego who is helping San Diego Unified on its reopening plan, disagrees with the district’s plans to reopen in January.

The new Research Institute set features an all-female cast: a paleontologist, astronomer, and chemist.

She started her career as a physical chemist and now teaches philosophy at San Jose State University.

The other, Sophie Berthelot, was allowed in so she could repose in aeternum next to her spouse, the chemist Marcellin.

As a cook, you are a chemist and you are a physicist and you are a cultural historian all at once.

After serving in two world wars and entering middle age, he moved to Switzerland and befriended a chemist named Albert Hofmann.

Now it so happened that the attorneys for the defense had consulted with a chemist, who was in the court room by request.

But perhaps you are a chemist, and proud, as most chemists are, of the accuracy attainable in that most demonstrative science.

A chemist would regard it as waste of time to discuss his science with an alchemist.

Thomas Garnet died; an English physician and chemist, and an author on chemistry, &c.

The emphatic al places the alchemist as much above the ordinary chemist as the gold which he obtains is superior to other metals.

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