Symbol Character guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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symbol
A prescription.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Canada, Philippines, US
Qualifier: pharmacy
Topics: medicine, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
symbol
Take (used to begin a list of ingredients of a compound).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: pharmacy
Topics: medicine, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
symbol
Marks the congregation's response to the versicle.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: R
Antonyms: none provided
symbol
Retrograde.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: astrology, human-sciences, mysticism, philosophy, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
An R with a cross-stroke indicating an abbreviation (of recipe, response, retrograde etc). In the case of a prescription, abbreviating Latin recipe (“take this”, second-person singular imperative of recipiō); it is sometimes typeset as, or even interpreted as, a digraph Rx. Compare also Dx (“diagnose, diagnosis”) and Hx (“history”).
