Crossword clues for stimulant
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stimulant \Stim"u*lant\, a. [L. stimulans, p. pr.; cf. F. stimulant. See Stimulate.]
Serving to stimulate.
(Physiol.) Produced increased vital action in the organism, or in any of its parts.
Stimulant \Stim"u*lant\, n. [Cf. F. stimulant.]
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That which stimulates, provokes, or excites.
His feelings had been exasperated by the constant application of stimulants.
--Macaulay. (Physiol. & Med.) An agent which produces a temporary increase of vital activity in the organism, or in any of its parts; -- sometimes used without qualification to signify an alcoholic beverage used as a stimulant.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1772, from French stimulant or directly from Latin stimulantem (nominative stimulans), present participle of stimulare "to prick, urge, stimulate" (see stimulation). As a noun from 1794.
Wiktionary
a. Acting as a stimulant#Noun. n. 1 A substance that acts to increase physiological or nervous activity in the body. 2 Something that promotes activity, interest, or enthusiasm.
WordNet
adj. that stimulates; "stimulant phenomena" [syn: stimulating]
n. any stimulating information or event; acts to arouse action [syn: stimulation, stimulus, input]
a drug that temporarily quickens some vital process [syn: stimulant drug]
Wikipedia
Stimulants (also referred to as psychostimulants) are psychoactive drugs that induce temporary improvements in either mental or physical functions or both. Examples of these kinds of effects may include enhanced alertness, wakefulness, and locomotion, among others. Due to their rendering a characteristic "up" feeling, stimulants are also occasionally referred to as "uppers". Depressants or "downers", which decrease mental and/or physical function, are in stark contrast to stimulants and are considered to be the functionally opposite drug class. Stimulants are widely used throughout the world as prescription medicines as well as without a prescription (either legally or illicitly) as performance-enhancing or recreational drugs. Some examples of prescribed stimulants are Adderall, Ritalin, amphetamines, methamphetamine. Examples of Illicit stimulants (illegal stimulants) are cocaine, crystal meth, and yaba.
Usage examples of "stimulant".
But it might be better if you got him to a vet and had him given an analeptic, a respiratory stimulant.
It must have a secret ingredient, she reckons, that adds to her sluggish blood a squirt of analeptic or even a stimulant.
Dogwood, also known Boxwood, is tonic, astringent, and slightly stimulant.
The hour was half-past two, and he argued that a gentleman who had lunched droughtily in the Hydropathic might be inclined for a mild stimulant.
The fresh root of the Horse radish is a powerful stimulant by reason of its ardent and pungent volatile principle, whether it be taken as a medicament, or be applied externally to any part of the body.
Molecular analysis of the stimulants revealed the presence of nothing more sinister than the expected polypeptide chains of amino acids.
By these means we are able to trace the gradual diminution of responsiveness by fatigue, by extremes of heat and cold, its exaltation by stimulants, the arrest of the life-process by poison.
Outsiders would ask whether the sectarianism was there first and attached itself to the football, or was it that the 81 football created a focus and a stimulant for the sectarianism?
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Nevertheless, when I gave some phosphate of lime, which is a most powerful stimulant, to several submarginal tentacles already considerably inflected, but not yet in contact with some phosphate previously placed on two glands in the centre of the disc, the exterior tentacles on the same side were acted on.
The French botanist Weddell thought that coca contained some kind of mild stimulant such as theine, or perhaps even caffeine.
He was momentarily surprised to see tobacco among the stimulants but imagined there must be a demand from some of the refugees who had flooded the city to get away from the depredations of the roving gangs of outlaws in unpoliced areas, and from the hordes of enhanced animals that were rapidly turning the countryside into an uninhabitable wilderness.
They moored the flat at the head of the island, and there, unsheltered from the blazing sun, the half-naked occupants had to remain, without food or stimulants, or help for their hurts, during the rest of the day.
It took a security scan to release the stimulant to the Krai and, given the effect on Humans, Torin was glad to see Werst also wore an expression that promised critical damage should anyone try to take it from him.
He felt a jolt of energy course through his body, and knew it was bladderwort, a powerful stimulant.