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medical
Adjective
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About physical health and medicine.
Dr. Barry was very creative in his teaching, research, and medical practice.
Often the poor do not go to a doctor because they are unable to pay for medical treatment.
medical
Noun
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A medical is a general check by a doctor.
I'd like to make an appointment for my annual medical.
record
Noun
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A record is something in writing to tell what happened.
Keep a record of the date and what you said every time you talk to that person.
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A record is a big round black plastic thing with music or other sounds on it.
Now people don't use records any more -- they use cassettes or CDs.
record
Verb
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To make a written record about something.
She recorded everything she did in a little book.
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To put music or other sounds onto a machine.
The singer recorded some songs on CDs to sell them.
clerk
Noun
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A clerk is a person who keeps an organization's records.
I called the city clerks office to see if they had a record of her birth.
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A sales clerk is the person in a shop who helps you find things you want to buy.
A convenience store clerk was arrested for selling cigarettes to children.
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A desk clerk is the person at a hotel who registers guests.
The desk clerk called a taxi for us.
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A law clerk is a person, often a junior lawyer, who is the assistant of a judge or another lawyer.
clerk
Verb
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If you clerk, you work as a clerk, especially as a law clerk.
She clerked for the judge in 1992, and says she and her fellow clerks worked "as many hours as we could stay awake, often past midnight and on weekends."