Difference between Positive and Prescribed

What is the difference between Positive and Prescribed?

Positive as a noun is a thing capable of being affirmed; something real or actual. while Prescribed as a verb is to order (a drug or medical device) for use by a particular patient (under licensed authority).

Positive

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A thing capable of being affirmed; something real or actual. A favourable point or characteristic. Something having a positive value in physics, such as an electric charge. An adjective or adverb in the positive degree. A positive image; one that displays true colors and shades, as opposed to a negative.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Definitively laid down; explicitly stated; clearly expressed, precise, emphatic. Fully assured, confident; certain. Overconfident, dogmatic. Describing the primary sense of an adjective or adverb; not comparative or superlative. Derived from an object by itself; not dependent on changing circumstances or relations; absolute. Wholly what is expressed; colloquially downright, entire, outright. Characterized by the existence or presence of qualities or features, rather than by their absence. Characterized by the presence of features which support a hypothesis. Characterized by affirmation, constructiveness, or influence for the better; favourable. Actual, real, concrete. Of a visual image, true to the original in light, shade and colour values. Having more protons than electrons. Of number, greater than zero. HIV positive.

Example sentence: You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.

Prescribed

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To order (a drug or medical device) for use by a particular patient (under licensed authority).

We hope you now know whether to use Positive or Prescribed in your sentence.

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