physical
noun/ˈfɪzɪkl/
/ˈfɪzɪkl/
(also physical examination)
- a medical examination of a person’s body, for example to check that they are fit enough to do a particular job
- He was accepted onto the course after passing the physical.
- Pilots undergo routine physicals.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- complete
- annual
- routine
- …
- have
- undergo
- fail
- …
Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘relating to medicine’): from medieval Latin physicalis, from Latin physica ‘things relating to nature’, from Greek phusikē (epistēmē) ‘(knowledge) of nature’. Sense 2 dates from the late 16th cent. and sense 1 from the late 18th cent.Definitions on the go
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