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drink
has definitions from the fields of biology,food,pharmacology
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[ verb ] take in liquids
Synonyms Examples "The patient must drink several liters each day" "The children like to drink soda" Used in print (Helen Hooven Santmyer, "There Were Fences"...)I have no picture in my mind of the garden as_a_whole - that I could not see - but certain aspects of certain corners linger in the memory : wind-blown , frost-bitten , white chrysanthemums beneath a window , with their brittle brown leaves and their sharp scent of November ; ripe pears lying in long grass , to be turned_over by a dusty slippered foot , cautiously , lest bees still worked in the ragged , brown edged holes ; hot colored verbenas in the corner between the dining-room wall and the side porch , where we passed on_our_way to the pump with the half gourd tied to it as a cup by my grandmother for our childish pleasure in drinking from it . Three of these only were protected from us by stern commandment : the roses , whose petals might_not be collected until they had fallen , to be made into perfume or rose tea to drink ; the peonies , whose tight sticky buds would be blighted by the laying_on of_a finger , although they were not apparently harmed by the ants that crawled over them ; and the poppies . (R. F. Shaw, "The `Private Eye`"...)Wolfe refuses to ever leave his own house , and spends most_of his time drinking beer and playing with orchids . (Ralph B. Long. The Sentence and Its Parts: A...)In the second sentence if drinking water is a gerundial clause and without drinking water is roughly equivalent in meaning to unless I drink water , there will be stronger stress on water than on drinking ; but if drinking is a gerundial noun modifying water and without drinking_water is equivalent_to without water for drinking , there will be stronger stress on drinking than on water . In the second sentence if drinking water is a gerundial clause and without drinking water is roughly equivalent in meaning to unless I drink water , there will be stronger stress on water than on drinking ; but if drinking is a gerundial noun modifying water and without drinking_water is equivalent_to without water for drinking , there will be stronger stress on drinking than on water . |
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[ noun ] (food) a single serving of a beverage
Examples "I asked for a hot drink" "likes a drink before dinner" Used in print (Tristram Coffin, Not to the Swift....)This was one place where Moonan could go for a drink in a back booth without anyone noticing him , or at_least coming_up and hanging_around and wanting to know all the low-down . (John Dos Passos, Midcentury....)When I 'd delivered myself of that gem there was nothing to do but order up another drink . (John Cheever, "The Brigadier and the Golf Widow,"...)He was happy enough to take the convertible and race up the hill to the Blevins ' , thinking that they might give him a drink . A fire had just been lighted , he saw , and things had been set_out for drinks , and , like any stray , his response to these comforts was instantaneous . `` I am terribly sorry to keep you waiting '' , she said , `` but won't you make yourself a little drink while you wait ? |
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[ verb ] consume alcohol
Examples "We were up drinking all night" Used in print (Ann Hebson, The Lattimer Legend....)He claimed to be visiting the waterfront saloon at the crossroads to play cards and drink with his cronies , but Kate had not smelled brandy on him since Mrs._Lattimer 's funeral . (Arthur Miller, "The Prophecy," in The Best...)She enjoyed great parties when she would sit_up talking and dancing and drinking all night , but it always seemed to her that being alone , especially alone in her house , was the realest part of life . (Whit Masterson, Evil Come, Evil Go....)`` They 're drinking , are n't they '' ? (James Thurber, "The Future, If Any, of Comedy,"...)We sat for_a_while drinking in silence . (S. J. Perelman, The Rising Gorge. New York:...)Likewise the ivory Chinese female figure known as a `` doctor lady '' ( provenance Honan ) ; a friend of mine removing her from the curio cabinet for inspection was felled as if by a hammer , but he had previously drunk a quantity of applejack . |
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[ noun ] the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess
Synonyms Examples "drink was his downfall" Used in print (Howard Nemerov, "Themes and Methods: The Early...)His unsuccessful strivings to give_up drink are represented as religious strivings ; he keeps a bottle in a wardrobe at home , and `` before this wardrobe Praisegod_Piepsam had before now gone literally on his knees , and in his wrestlings had bitten his tongue - and still in_the_end capitulated '' . (Ann Hebson, The Lattimer Legend....)`` Everybody knows I'm just a harmless , deaf old_man who takes_to drink . (John Dos Passos, Midcentury....)He got no relief from drink because , though sometimes Precious would buy himself a drink if he went out with us in the evening , he 'd leave it on the table untouched . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (food) any liquid suitable for drinking
Examples : "may I take your beverage order?" Used in print (John Dos Passos, Midcentury....)He got no relief from drink because , though sometimes Precious would buy himself a drink if he went out with us in the evening , he 'd leave it on the table untouched . |
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[ verb ] propose a toast to
Examples "Let us toast the birthday girl!" "Let's drink to the New Year" Used in print (Clark McMeekin, The Fairbrothers....)Mr._Robards - Jenny was the only person she knew of in the Mt._Pleasant neighborhood who called him that - was kind but too easygoing . |
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[ noun ] (pharmacology,food) a liquor or brew containing alcohol as the active agent
Synonyms Examples "alcohol (or drink) ruined him" |
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[ noun ] (informal) any large deep body of water
Examples "he jumped into the drink and had to be rescued" Related terms |
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[ noun ] (biology) the act of swallowing
Synonyms Examples "one swallow of the liquid was enough" "he took a drink of his beer and smacked his lips" Related terms |
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