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Definition: Drink |
DrinkNoun1. A single serving of a beverage; "I asked for a hot drink"; "likes a drink before dinner". 2. The act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess; "drink was his downfall". 3. Any liquid suitable for drinking: "may I take your beverage order?". 4. (informal) any large deep body of water; "he jumped into the drink and had to be rescued". 5. A liquor or brew containing alcohol as the active agent; "alcohol (or drink) ruined him". 6. The act of swallowing; "one swallow of the liquid was enough"; "he took a drink of his beer and smacked his lips". Verb1. Take in liquids. 2. Consume alcohol; "We were up drinking all night". 3. Propose a toast to; "Let us toast the birthday girl!" "Let's drink to the New Year". 4. Be fascinated or spell-bound by; pay close attention to; "The mother drinks in every word of her son on the stage". 5. Drink excessive amounts of alcohol; be an alcoholic; "The husband drinks and beats his wife". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "drink" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
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Bible | Drink The drinks of the Hebrews were water, wine, "strong drink," and vinegar. Their drinking vessels were the cup, goblet or "basin," the "cruse" or pitcher, and the saucer. To drink water by measure (Ezek. 4:11), and to buy water to drink (Lam. 5:4), denote great scarcity. To drink blood means to be satiated with slaughter. The Jews carefully strained their drinks through a sieve, through fear of violating the law of Lev. 11:20, 23, 41, 42. (See Matt. 23:24. "Strain at" should be "strain out."). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Literature | Drink Anacharsis said: "The first cup for thirst, the second for pleasure, the third for intemperance, and the rest for madness." Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Multilingual Slang | Dutch (slempen), Yiddish (shikker ). (references) |
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Alcoholic beverages are drinks containing ethanol, popularly called alcohol. (In chemical terminology, alcohol is a broad category of compounds, of which ethanol is only one.) They include low-alcohol-content beverages produced by fermentation of sugar- or starch-containing products, and high-alcohol-content beverages produced by distillation of the low-alcohol-content beverages. (Sometimes, the alcohol content of low-alcohol-content beverages is increased by adding distilled product, particularly in the case of wines. Such fortified wines include Port wine and Sherry.)The amount of alcohol in an alcoholic beverage may be specified in percent alcohol by volume, in percentage by weight (sometimes abbrieviated w/w for weight for weight), or in proof.
Alcoholic beverages generally produce an intoxicating effect and cause a hangover. The latter is partly due to the dehydrating effect, which can be mitigated by drinking plenty of water between and after the alcoholic consumptions.
On the other hand, in areas and eras with poor public sanitation, consumption of alcoholic beverages (particularly beer) was one method of avoiding water-borne diseases such as the cholera. Though strong alcohol kills bacteria, the low concentration in beer or even wine will not suffice. It is rather the boiling of water, which is required for the brewing of beer, which sanitizes it.
Source Name of fermented beverage Name of distilled beverage grain beer, ale, sake (rice) whiskey (also spelled whisky) juice of fruits, other than apples or pears wine (most commonly from grapes) brandy, grappa (Italy), trester (Germany) juice of appless ("hard") cider applejack (or apple brandy), Calvados juice of pears perry, or pear cider pear brandy juice of sugarcane, or molasses basi, betsa-betsa (regional) rum, cachaça juice of agave pulque tequila, mezcal juice of plums slivovitz honey mead Note that in common speech, wine or brandy is made from grapes unless the fruit is specified: "plum wine" or "cherry brandy" for example, although in some cases grape-derived alcohol is added.
In the U. S., cider often means unfermented apple juice (see the article on cider), while fermented cider is called hard cider. Unfermented cider is sometimes called sweet cider. Also, applejack was originally made by a freezing process described in the article on cider which was equivalent to distillation but more easily done in the cold climate of New England. In the UK, cider is always alcoholic, and in Australia it can be either.
Two common distilled beverages not listed in the above chart are vodka and gin. Vodka can be distilled from any source (grain and potatoes being the most common, also industrial cellulose for the cheapest!) but the main characteristic of vodka is that it is so thoroughly distilled as to exhibit none of the flavors derived from its source material. Gin is a similar distillate which has been flavored by contact with herbs and other plant products, especially juniper berries, from which it gets its name.
Uses
Alcoholic beverages often are used for ritualistic and symbolic purposes such as for mass or Passover wine. Some religions, most notably Islam, ban the consumption of alcoholic beverages.Alcoholic beverages can be combined to create cocktails.
Legal considerations
Please note: Wikipedia does not give legal advice.Most countries have rules forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages to children, e.g. in the Netherlands one has to be 16 to buy beer or wine and 18 to buy distilled alcoholic beverages. Also there are restrictions when driving. See also ethanol.
See also:
Chinese wine, Wikipedia Cocktail Guide, Moderate drinking controversy
External links
- New Scientist articles on alcohol
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The word drink is primarily a verb, meaning to ingest liquids, see Drinking.
As a noun, it refers to the liquid thus ingested. It is often used in a narrower sense to refer to alcoholic beverages (as both a verb and a noun).
Can also be used metaphorically, as in to drink in the scenery.A beverage is a drink specifically prepared for human consumption. Almost always it largely consists of water. These include:
Some substances may either be called food or drink, and accordingly be eaten with a spoon or drunk, depending on solid ingredients in it and on how thick it is, and on preference:
- Water, from the tap or from a bottle
- Juice
- Carbonated drinks (generally called sodas in the Eastern U.S, pop in the Midwestern U.S., and cokes in the Southern U.S.), including just carbonated water
- Cola
- Ginger ale
- Sports drinks
- Infusions
- Coffee
- Tea
- Dairy drinks, for example milk, yogurt drink, chocolate milk
- Alcoholic beverages
- Soft drink
- Cocktails - mixed drinks
- Soup
- Yoghurt
See also: food, vacuum flask, Wikipedia Cocktail Guide.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Drink."
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Drinking is the act of consuming a drink, almost always largely consisting of water. Lack of water in the diet will eventually cause death by dehydration. The sensation caused by dehydration of the body is called thirst.
Much of the world's disease is caused by the lack of clean drinking water.
Drinking vessels are a glass, a cup, a bottle, a canteen, or even a bowl in some cases.
The word drinking is in particular used as a euphemism for the consumption of alcoholic beverages, with the word thirst being the corresponding euphemism used by alcoholics for alcoholism.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Drinking."
Synonyms: DrinkSynonyms: alcohol (n), alcoholic beverage (n), beverage (n), boozing (n), crapulence (n), deglutition (n), drinkable (n), drinking (n), drunkenness (n), inebriant (n), intoxicant (n), potable (n), swallow (n), booze (v), drink in (v), fuddle (v), imbibe (v), pledge (v), salute (v), toast (v), tope (v), wassail (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Celebration | Pledge, drink to, toast, hob and nob. |
Courtesy | Salute; embrace; (endearment); kiss, kiss hands; drink to, pledge, hob and nob; move to, nod to; smile upon. |
Drunkenness | Verb: get drunk, be drunk; Adjective: see double; take a drop too much, take a glass too much; drink; tipple, tope, booze, bouse, guzzle, swill, soak, sot, bum, besot, have a jag on, have a buzz on, lush, bib, swig, carouse; sacrifice at the shrine of Bacchus; take to drinking; drink hard, drink deep, drink like a fish; have one's swill, drain the cup, splice the main brace, take a hair of the dog that bit you. |
Drunken, bibacious, sottish; given to drink, addicted to drink, addicted to the bottle; toping;Verb: | |
Drink; alcoholic drinks; blue ruin, grog, port wine; punch, punch bowl; cup, rosy wine, flowing bowl; drop, drop too much; dram; beer; (beverage); aguardiente; apple brandy, applejack; brandy, brandy smash; chain lightning, champagne, gin, ginsling; highball, peg, rum, rye, schnapps, sherry, sling, uisquebaugh, usquebaugh, whisky, xeres. | |
Food | Drink, beverage, liquor, broth, soup; potion, dram, draught, drench, swill; nip, sip, sup, gulp. |
Drink in, drink up, drink one's fill; quaff, sip, sup; suck, suck up; lap; swig; swill, chugalug, tipple; (be drunken); empty one's glass, drain the cup; toss off, toss one's glass; wash down, crack a bottle, wet one's whistle. | |
Giving | Alms, largess, bounty, dole, sportule, donative, help, oblation, offertory, honorarium, gratuity, Peter pence, sportula, Christmas box, Easter offering, vail, douceur, drink money, pourboire, trinkgeld, bakshish; fee; (recompense); consideration. |
Humility | Lower one's tone, lower one's note; sing small, draw in one's horns, sober down; hide one's face, hide one's diminished head; not dare to show one's face, take shame to oneself, not have a word to say for oneself; feel shame, be conscious of shame, feel disgrace, be conscious of disgrace; drink the cup of humiliation to the dregs. |
Learning | Verb: learn; acquire knowledge, gain knowledge, receive knowledge, take in knowledge, drink in knowledge, imbibe knowledge, pick up knowledge, gather knowledge, get knowledge, obtain knowledge, collect knowledge, glean knowledge, glean information, glean learning. |
Physical Pleasure | Verb: feel pleasure, experience pleasure, receive pleasure; enjoy, relish; luxuriate in, revel in, riot in, bask in, swim in, drink up, eat up, wallow in; feast on; gloat over, float on; smack the lips. |
Reception | Verb: give entrance to, give admittance to, give the entree; introduce, intromit; usher, admit, receive, import, bring in, open the door to, throw in, ingest, absorb, imbibe, inhale, breathe in; let in, take in, suck in, draw in; readmit, resorb, reabsorb; snuff up, swallow, ingurgitate; engulf, engorge; gulp; eat, drink; (food). |
Refreshment | Breathe, respire; drink in the ozone; take a break, take a breather, take five, draw breath, take a deep breath, take breath, gather breath, take a long breath, regain breath, recover breath; get better, raise one's head; recover one's strength, regain one's strength, renew one's strength; perk up, get one's second wind. |
Sufficiency | Verb: be sufficient; Adjective:; suffice, do, just do, satisfy, pass muster; have enough; Noun: eat. one's fill, drink one's fill, have one's fill; roll in, swim in; wallow in; (superabundance) ; wanton. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Drink |
| English words defined with "drink": drink down, Drink money, Drink penny, drink up ♦ Grace drink ♦ In drink ♦ strong drink ♦ To drink a health, To drink off, To drink the health of, To drink to, To drink to the health of. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "drink": Drink Deep, Drink like a Fish ♦ Kool Aid, to drink the ♦ PUG DRINK. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "drink": Valinch. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Drink" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Afrikaan (drink, drink to excess), German (drink), Swedish (cocktail, drink, juice, pickup, screwdriver). |
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Screenplays | I need a drink. (A Time to Kill; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman) Drink from me and you will live forever (Interview With the Vampire; writing credit: Anne Rice) Well then, I'm gonna buy you a drink. (Sweet Home Alabama; writing credit: C. Jay Cox) Can I buy you a drink, Maxine (Being John Malkovich; writing credit: Charlie Kaufman) He's an Irishman who doesn't drink, doesn't smoke, and doesn't chase dames (The Sting; writing credit: David S. Ward) | |
Lyrics | I think I'm gonna get me a drink, I'll call you tomorrow (We Need A Resolution; performing artist: Aaliyah) Like an exotic drink (Around the World (La la la la la); performing artist: ATC) Yes, they're sharing a drink they call loneliness ("Piano Man"; performing artist: Billy Joel) I shall drink in and always be full (Run-Around; performing artist: Blues Traveler) By the bottle that you drink (Wanted Dead or Alive; performing artist: Bon Jovi) | |
Clever | Sometimes too much drink is barely enough. (references; author: Mark Twain) Drink wet cement and get really stoned. (references; author: unknown) If You Drink Don't Park, Accidents Cause People. (references; author: unknown) Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow you may diet. (references; author: unknown) Don't drink and drive. You might hit a bump and spill your drink. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Don't Drink the Water (1974) I Drink Your Blood (1970) Drink and Make Merrie Eat (1969) Don't Drink the Water (1969) The Curse of Drink (1922) | |
Song Titles | Drink Down The Moon (performing artist: Steeleye Span) | |
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 | "Drink" by Daniel Bentham. |  | Sometimes old Betsy needs a drink of water. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Don't drink and drive - Bob Pryce on tractor in central Alaska. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Grabbing a drink from a snow-melt stream. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | A Union County farmer adjusts a nose pump. The pump, operated by cattle which nudge the control to pump them a drink of water, allows the manager to keep cattle a distance from the water supply, which makes for cleaner water. Credit: Laura Greiner. |  | A child enjoys a drink of fesh water. Credit: Charlie Rahm. |
 | Wild horses stop for a drink at Yuma Proving Ground. Credit: Vicki Fox. |  | A duck getting a drink of water. Credit: Unknown. |
 | There's no puzzle to giving your baby the best chance for health. Don't smoke or drink while you're pregnant. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Life without a driver's license? : Think about it before you drink and drive. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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| "Red drink" by Kimmo Kuisma Commentary: "A shot of a hotshot-glass using a red lightbulb." | "Drink" by Florian Geiger Commentary: "A drink..." |
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 | Suction; suck; sup; drink; vacuum; inhale; imbibe; . | | Blender; blending; blended; blends; motor; Cuisinart; whirl; whirling; chop; chopping; mix; mixing; liquefy; liquefying; daiquiri; margarita; blended drink; cocktail; pina colada. |
| Lap; drink; lapping; water; refreshment; dog; canine; pet; sip; lick; sipping; cool off. | | Drinking fountain; drink; slurp; slurping; water; refreshing; refresh; park. |
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Ben Jonson | As he brews, so shall he drink. |
Frantois Rabelais | When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink. |
Henry David Thoreau | Water is the only drink for a wise man. |
Robert E. Lee | I like whiskey. I always did, and that is why I never drink it. |
Sir Richard Steele | A little in drink, but at all times your faithful husband. |
Washington Irving | They who drink beer will think beer. |
William Hazlitt | Walk groundly, talk profoundly, drink roundly, sleep soundly. |
William Shakespeare | We'll teach you to drink deep ere you depart. |
| Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends. | |
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John Locke | 1690 | Whether we consider natural reason, which tells us, that men, being once born, have a right to their preservation, and consequently to meat and drink, and such other things as nature affords for their subsistence: or revelation, which gives us an account of those grants God made of the world to Adam, and to Noah, and his sons, it is very clear, that God, as King David says, Psal. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | Go and eat and drink a little more, and you will do very well |
Tangled Tale | Carroll, Lewis | It was scalding hot, and he decided not to drink it. |
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams | "Oh yes," said Arthur, "and how far's that?" "About twelve minutes away," said Ford, "come on, I need a drink." |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | Drink it |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | So they made up a party and plied the old roadsman with drink. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | They said you got stinking stuff to drink when you were in the infirmary |
Time Enough for Love | Robert Heinlein | Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors, and miss |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Joad got out his pint and took another short drink. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | I then made another sign that I wanted drink. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | It is the same whether a man eat, or drink, or cohabit, or sleep sensually |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Drink safe water. (references) | |
Get plenty to drink. (references) | ||
Drink a lot of fluids. (references) | ||
Business | It is polite to accept a drink with your host. (references) | |
Visitors are advised not to drink tap water in China. (references) | ||
Hotel rooms are almost always supplied with boiled water, which is safe to drink. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Cameroon | According to the report, a traditional court tried the accused by requiring them to drink poison that traditionally is believed to kill only those who lie to the court, convicted the accused when they refused to drink, ordered them to pay in-kind, blood-price damages, and expelled them from the locality when they refused to pay. (references) |
Economic History | Nicaragua | PEPSI-COLA, soft drink manufacturer. (references) |
Eq. Guinea | A U.S. soft drink bottling plant in Malabo has lain dormant for over a decade now. (references) | |
Human Rights | India | The two men's toenails allegedly were pulled out and they were forced to drink urine. (references) |
Paraguay | Some children also reported being denied food, drink, or access to toilets, sometimes for several days. (references) | |
Colombia | In the country's other prisons, inmates pay to eat, drink, sleep on a mattress, wash clothes, or make telephone calls, and also pay protection fees to fellow inmates or to corrupt prison guards. (references) | |
Minorities | Tanzania | Fundamentalist Muslims severely criticized secular Muslims who drink alcohol or marry Christian women. (references) |
Political Economy | Swaziland | The economy relied heavily on the export sector, especially on the wood pulp, soft drink concentrate, and sugar industries, which were composed primarily of large firms with mostly foreign ownership. (references) |
Trade | Germany | It is expected that beginning January 2002, German retailers will have to request a deposit for disposable or "one-way" drink packages, i.e., soft drink or beer cans. (references) |
Travel | Ghana | You should only drink bottled water. (references) |
Botswana | Tap water in the major towns is safe to drink. (references) | |
Barbados | Fresh water around the island is safe to drink. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | TOPE, v. To tipple, booze, swill, soak, guzzle, lush, bib, or swig. In the individual, toping is regarded with disesteem, but toping nations are in the forefront of civilization and power. When pitted against the hard-drinking Christians the absemious Mahometans go down like grass before the scythe. In India one hundred thousand beef- eating and brandy-and-soda guzzling Britons hold in subjection two hundred and fifty million vegetarian abstainers of the same Aryan race. With what an easy grace the whisky-loving American pushed the temperate Spaniard out of his possessions! From the time when the Berserkers ravaged all the coasts of western Europe and lay drunk in every conquered port it has been the same way: everywhere the nations that drink too much are observed to fight rather well and not too righteously. Wherefore the estimable old ladies who abolished the canteen from the American army may justly boast of having materially augmented the nation's military power. |
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Dennis Miller | America's ripe with slobs who won't drink any wine unless it's so sweet, every time they take a sip they look up to see if the Kool-aid man is crashing through the wall. |
Ed McMahon | Let me put it this way. I'm an Irishman. I was a Marine fighter pilot. We do tend to have a drink once in a while. When you get back from one of those missions, you do want to take a little taste of the sauce. |
Louise Ashby | I didn't drink or do anything for four years, and recently I spoke to my doctor and I said, do you think I can have the occasional glass of wine, and he said absolutely. So I have the occasional drink. |
Lynda Carter | That's kind of hard to say because I would either not drink for long periods of time and then I would drink. |
Matthew Perry | Yeah. Well, it was alcohol and then there were other drugs that are actually just as dangerous that I was taking to try to drink less. But it was a completely crazy time. |
Mattie Stepanek | You pray and you talk to them. Wars should be fought with words, not bombs, not weapons. And calm words. I think that wars should be fought over a chessboard and a cup of something to drink. |
Rush Limbaugh | Just Wednesday there was story out of Oklahoma City about a man causing a commotion at FBI headquarters by spilling a soft drink on the floor. |
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Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | We all drink water-pure water or polluted water. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Our communities are only as healthy as the air our children breathe, the water they drink, the Earth they will inherit. |
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| "Drink" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 62.19% of the time. "Drink" is used about 7,013 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 62.19% | 4,361 | 2,249 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 26.78% | 1,878 | 4,547 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 10.83% | 759 | 9,024 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.14% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Noun (common) | 0.04% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 7,013 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "drink": a drink with a rum base ♦ addicted to drink ♦ alcoholic drink ♦ be meat and drink to smb. ♦ be none the worse for drink ♦ be on the drink ♦ be the worse for drink ♦ black drink ♦ buy smb. drink ♦ carbonated drink ♦ cool drink ♦ cooling drink ♦ drink a lot ♦ drink a toast ♦ drink addiction ♦ drink at gulp ♦ drink at one gulp ♦ drink away ♦ drink away one's fortune ♦ drink deep ♦ drink deeply ♦ drink down ♦ drink from the bottle ♦ drink hard ♦ drink heavily ♦ drink in ♦ drink in knowledge ♦ drink like a fish ♦ Drink money ♦ drink of the gods ♦ drink off ♦ Drink offering ♦ drink on smth. ♦ drink one's fill ♦ drink oneself drunk ♦ drink oneself to death ♦ Drink penny ♦ drink smb. down ♦ drink smb. under the table ♦ drink smb.'s health ♦ drink smth. down ♦ drink smth. to the dregs ♦ drink the cup of humiliation to the dregs ♦ drink the cup of pain ♦ drink the health of smb. ♦ drink till all is blue ♦ drink to ♦ drink to smb. ♦ drink to the dregs ♦ drink to the health of smb. ♦ drink to the lees ♦ drink too much ♦ drink up ♦ drink up! ♦ drink wine ♦ drink with straw ♦ drive smb. to drink ♦ eat drink and be merry ♦ effervescent drink ♦ fizzy drink ♦ food and drink ♦ fruit drink ♦ get fuddled with drink ♦ get yourself a drink ♦ give to drink ♦ given to drink ♦ Grace drink ♦ half drink ♦ hard drink ♦ have a drink ♦ heavy drink ♦ i don't drink much ♦ i don't drink spirits ♦ i drink your health ♦ in drink ♦ invite smb. for a drink ♦ it will be meat and drink to him ♦ keep from drink ♦ kefir drink ♦ last drink ♦ let's drink to ♦ Love drink ♦ make to drink ♦ make yourself a drink ♦ meat and drink ♦ mixed drink ♦ nonalcoholic drink ♦ ply smb. with drink ♦ refreshing drink ♦ ruin oneself by drink ♦ saccharine drink ♦ short drink ♦ single drink ♦ small drink ♦ snort drink ♦ soft drink ♦ something to drink ♦ spend on drink ♦ stand a drink ♦ stand smb. a drink ♦ strong drink. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "drink": drink-and-a-rabbit, drink-and-drive, drink-associated, drink-based, drink-drive, drink-driver, drink-drivers, drink-driving, drink-laden, Drink-offering, drink-on-a-stick, drink-or, drink-pouring, drink-ravaged, drink-related, drink-shop, drink-sodden, drink-swilling, drink-then, drink-this-and-score, drink-up. | |
Ending with "drink": anti-drink, soft-drink. | |
Containing "drink": anti-drink-drive, anti-drink-driving, drug-and-drink-influenced. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
drink | 3,966 | drink piss | 165 |
drink recipe | 3,097 | vodka drink | 157 |
mixed drink | 2,477 | xs energy drink | 155 |
energy drink | 1,108 | rum drink | 147 |
alcoholic drink | 773 | frozen drink machine | 145 |
mixed drink recipe | 669 | mixing drink | 144 |
drink mix | 561 | frozen drink | 144 |
tropical drink | 545 | red bull energy drink | 136 |
food and drink | 431 | alcohol drink recipe | 126 |
bar drink | 402 | drink pee | 122 |
alcoholic drink recipe | 365 | drink hypnotic | 122 |
green drink | 319 | coffee drink | 115 |
cosmopolitan drink | 295 | margarita drink | 113 |
soft drink | 283 | cocktail drink | 112 |
drink cum | 281 | summer drink | 111 |
protein drink | 253 | make a drink | 109 |
alcohol drink | 219 | drink mixer | 108 |
drink coaster | 209 | party drink | 108 |
drink only she she smoke when | 195 | frozen drink recipe | 100 |
sports drink | 170 | fruit drink | 96 |
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| Language | Translations for "drink"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | suip (drink to excess), drink (drink to excess). (various references) | |
Albanian | deti (billow, blue, pelagian, salt, saltwater), thith (absorb, draw, draw down, imbibe, immerse, inhale, nipple, pull at, snuff, soak, soak up, sop, suck, suck in, take up), të pirë me tepri, pije alkoolike (alcohol, boose, booze, fuddle, grog, guzzle, hard drink, hooch, hootch, libation, liquor, lush, ratafee, ratafia, sauce), pije (beverage, cup, guzzle, hooker, liquor, orgeat, pick me up, pickup, quencher, rinse, tipple), pi pije, pi (boose, booze, bouse, consume, imbibe, liquor, lush, take a drink, take to drink, tipple, tope), oqeani (Oceania), ngre dolli, gllabërim (drop, gulp, mouthful, sip, swallow, swallowing up, take over), gllënjkë (craving, drachm, draft, drain, dram, draught, drop, gulp, longing, mouthful, nip, peg, pull, sip, smack, sup, swallow, swig, thirst, traction), fyt (gizzard, gullet, gulp, larynx, pharynx, throat), e pirë (boose, booze, drinking bout, potation). (various references) | |
Arabic | مشروب (beverage), تشرب (absorb, blot, imbibe), جرعة (dosage, dose, drench, gulp, measure, mouthful, nip, potion, pull, swallow), إمتص (absorb, drink in, imbibe, soak up), أنفق على الشراب, شراب مسكر (boose, booze, brandy, champagne, drinking, inebriant, intoxicant, medicine, nappy, peg, pot, rum), شراب (beverage, drinkable, slop, syrup), شرب نخب (drink to, pledge, raise one's glass, toast), شرب (bib, drain, imbibe, impregnate, infuse, ingrain, inoculate, quaff, stain, steep), دمن الشراب. (various references) | |
Asturian | beber (to drink). (various references) | |
Aymara | umaña (to drink). (various references) | |
Basque | edateko (to drink). (various references) | |
Bemba | ukunwa (to drink). (various references) | |
Blackfoot | simssín. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | смуквам влага, чашка (bell, calyx, chalice, cup, envelope, peg, pony, receptacle, shot, thalamus), глътка (drachm, drag, drain, dram, draught, drop, gulp, lap, mouthful, peg, pharynx, potion, pull, shot, sip, sup, swallow, taste), вдишвам дълбоко, напитка (beverage), пиячка (libation, liquor, something to drink), пиянствувам (bib, boose, booze, bouse, drinking, soak, spree, tope), пиянство (alcoholism, crapulence, drinking, fuddle, inebriation, inebriety, insobriety, intemperance, spree), питие (aperitif, beverage, booze, quencher, sauce), пия (consume, discuss, guzzle, have, hobnob, imbibe, lush, neck, take), пиене (booze, drinking, guzzle, potation, soak, something to drink, swill), изпито количество, изпивам (consume, down, drain, drink up, lower, put away, shift, suck down, suck up, take off). (various references) | |
Catalan | beure. (various references) | |
Cebuano | moinom (to drink). (various references) | |
Chamorro | para ma gimen (to drink). (various references) | |
Chinese | 饮料 (Beverage), 飲用 (drinking or drinkable), 飲 , 歃 , 啜 (sip, suck, taste). (various references) | |
Cornish | eva (to drink). (various references) | |
Czech | pít (booze, tipple), nápoj (beverage, junketing, the drink, thing). (various references) | |
Danish | drikke, drik (beverage). (various references) | |
Dutch | zuipen (drink to excess), pimpelen (drink to excess), drinken (drink to excess). (various references) | |
Ecuadorian Quechua | up'iana (to drink). (various references) | |
Esperanto | drinki (drink to excess), trinki, trinkaĵo (beverage). (various references) | |
Faeroese | drykkjuvøra (beverage), drekka (drink to excess), tostadrykkur (beverage). (various references) | |
Farsi | مشروب (Beverage, Liquor, Strunt, Sup, Tipple), نوشانیدن (Dram, Drench), نوشابه (Beverage, Liquor, Refreshment, Tipple), اشامیدنی (Beverage, Potable), اشامیدن (Bib, Swig). (various references) | |
Finnish | juoda. (various references) | |
French | boisson, boire (drain, drink away), s'enivrer (drink to excess). (various references) | |
Frisian | drinke (to drink), drank (beverage). (various references) | |
German | trinken (bib, drinking, imbibe, quaff, sup, to drink, to drink (drank, water), getränk (beverage, potation, tipple), zechen (booze, carouse, drink to excess, quaff, tipple, to carouse), trank (beverage, bibbed, drank, draught, potion), saufen (booze, drink to excess, drinking, guzzle, quaff, swig). (various references) | |
Greek | ποτό (beverage, brew, potation, shandy, shot), πίνω (bib, knock back). (various references) | |
Hebrew | משתה (banquet, board, drinking, feast), משקה חריף (hooch, liquor, lush, spirits), משקה (beverage, drinking, liquor, potion, reviver, wet), לשתות (imbibe), לסבוא (bib, quaff, tipple), שתיה (drinking, drunkenness, intoxication), שתינות (drinking, drunkenness), שקוי (draught, drinking, potion, refreshment), גמיעה (drinking, gulping, quaffing, sipping), גמיאה (drinking, gulping, sipping). (various references) | |
Hungarian | ital (beverage, booze, jake, potation, potion, quencher, snifter, swill), ivás (boozing, bowl, drinking, soak, wet), iszik (boose, booze, drank, drink to excess, drunk, have a booze, hobnob, take a drink, to carouse, to cup, to drink, to drink like a fish, to imbibe, to lush, to quaff, to soak up, to swig, to take the waters). (various references) | |
Icelandic | drekka. (various references) | |
Indonesian | minuman (beverage, drinking, potion), minum. (various references) | |
Inuktitut | imiqtuq (to drink). (various references) | |
Irish | deoch, ól. (various references) | |
Italian | bere (drinking, have, imbibe, sop up, swallow), bevanda (beverage, fizz), bibita (beverage). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 飲物 (beverage), 飲み物 (beverage), 飲み物 (beverage), ポーランド語 (beeper, death, drip, fall drop by drop, fried potato, mail box, making up only parts of one's face instead of doing a full make-up job, pager, pocket, pocket bell, pocket bike, pocket computer, pocket money, pocket monster, pocketable, pocket-size, pod, poem, poetic, poetical, poetry, point, point and shoot, point getter, point of sales system, point of view, point size, pointer, pointing, poison, pole, Polish, poll, polling, ponytail, pop, pop art, pop country, pop fly, pop gospel, pop jazz, popgroup, poppy, pops, popular, popular music, pop-up, pop-up window, POS system, position, positioning, positive, positive film, positron, possibility, post, post-, post office, postcard, post-doc, poster, poster color, poster session, poster value, Post-It, postmaster, postmodern, post-process, postscript, post-season, pot, potato, potato chip, potato chips, pot-au-feu, potency, potential, pottering, soup, to break down, to fail), ドラ息子 (being pegged to the dollar, Dolby, Dolby surround, dolce, dolcissimo, Doline, doll, dollar, dollar clause, dollar peg, dollar shift, dollar shock, dollar shop, dollar usance, dolly, dolman sleeve, dolmen, dolphin kick, doria, Dorian, Dortmund, dream, dreamer, dreaming, dreamy, dribble, drifter, drill, drip coffee, driven, durian, lazy son, profligate son), 召 (buy, call, catch, eat, put on, ride in, send for, take, wear). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ポタージュ (soup), ドリンク , しょう (actor, artisan, award, bruise, buy, call, carpenter, catch, chapter, commander, cut, destroy, eat, gash, general, government, hurt, idea, illness, important point, injury, label, leader, make up for, means, mechanic, medal, phenomenon, prize, put on, quotient, ride in, scar, scratch, section, send for, take, to be burdened with, to carry on back or shoulder, upper part, weak point, wear, workman, wound), のみもの (beverage). (various references) | |
Kongo | ku-nua (to drink). (various references) | |
Korean | 음료 (Beverage). (various references) | |
Macedonian | pie (to drink). (various references) | |
Manx | oyl, iu (imbibe, quaff, tipple), bine (drop, peg of whiskey). (various references) | |
Maori | inu-mia (to drink). (various references) | |
Maya | uk (to drink). (various references) | |
Mohawk | -hnekirha' (to drink). (various references) | |
Norwegian | drikke (imbibe). (various references) | |
Papago | ih'e (to drink). (various references) | |
Papiamen | bebida (beverage), bebe. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | inkdray.(various references) | |
Polish | pić alkohol (drink to excess), pić, napój (beverage). (various references) | |
Portuguese | bebida (bender, beverage, drinking, libation, lush, potation, quencher, refreshment, tap), beber (absorb, be filled, be fuddled, be inspired, bear, carouse, consume, down, drink away, drink to excess, endure, fuddle, imbibe, lush, soak up, take, tipple, tolerate). (various references) | |
Portuguese Brazilian | tomar (to drink, to get, to have, to take). (various references) | |
Provencal | beure (to drink). (various references) | |
Quechua | ujyasuncheq (we will drink). (various references) | |
Romanian | bea (bib, booze, carouse, consume, drink to excess, finish, have a drink, imbibe, sip, swig, take, take up). (various references) | |
Romany | matòo (to drink), erèy (yogurt drink). (various references) | |
Ruanda | kunwa (to drink). (various references) | |
Russian | пить (bib, drank). (various references) | |
Samoan | e inu (to drink). (various references) | |
Scottish | òl (drinking, habit of drinking intoxicating liquors). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | popiti (consume), piti (boose, booze), pijančiti (boose, booze, guzzle, revel), piće (beverage, drink: the drink, quencher), napitak (potion), lokati (lap, lap up), gutljaj (dram, gulp, nip, sip, swallow, swig, toothful). (various references) | |
Shona | chokunwa. (various references) | |
Sicilian | biviri (to drink). (various references) | |
Sotho | nowa. (various references) | |
Spanish | beber (boose, booze, imbibe, indulge, partake of, put back, swig, wet one's whistle), bebida (beverage, drinking, drunk, imbibition, inebriation, laggard, lagger, potation), tomar (accept, catch, draw, draw in, eat, engulf, get, have, impound, lay hold of, lift out, live, live off, live on, live through, pick up, receive, reduce, strike, swallow up, take, take in, take on, take out, take up, take upon, taking, throw out, to have, to take, touch, treat, understand). (various references) | |
Sranan | dringi. (various references) | |
Swahili | kinywaji. (various references) | |
Swazi | loku-nátfwakó. (various references) | |
Swedish | supa (bib, booze, drink to excess, fuddle, guzzle, lush, soak, tipple, tope), dryck (beverage, potation, potion), dricka (beer, drinking, fuddle, gratuity, have, imbibe, lemonade, quaff, soft drink, take, tipple). (various references) | |
Tagalog | uminóm, inumín (beverage). (various references) | |
Thai | เครื่องดื่ม (beverage, drinkable), ดื่ม (imbibe). (various references) | |
Turkish | deniz (brine, main, marine, maritime, nautical, naval, sea, thalasso-, the blue, the briny, the deep, the waters, the wave, the waves), okyanus (brine, main, ocean, oceanic, the deep), meşrubat (beverage, potable, soft drink), içmek (belt down, drinking, eat, have a drink, imbibe, indulge, knock back, propose, pull, slosh, slosh down, swig), içkiye harcamak (drink away), içki içmek (booze, carouse, drinking, get liquored up, go on the booze, have a wet, hit the booze, liquor, wet one's whistle), içki (alcohol, alcoholic drink, booze, bottle, drinking, hooch, juice, liquor, poison, potation, quencher, rum, stimulant, wet), içecek (beverage, pop, potable), bitirmek (break up, bring to an end, bring to completion, call it off, carry through, cease, clean up, clear off, close, complete, conclude, consume, deplete, end, end off, exhaust, expend, fetch up, finish, fulfil, fulfill, get through, graduate, leave off, make an end of, play out, point, polish off, put a stop to, put an end to, put through, round out, run out, sign off, snuff out, swallow up, terminate, use up, wind up, work off, wrap it up), şerefine içmek (pledge, pledge one's health, toast), íçmek (smoke), íçílen xey (beverage). (various references) | |
Turkmen | iзmek, hopurdatmak. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | спиртний напій (lush), ковток (draught, gulp, mouthful, potation, pull, sip, swallow, tasting), випивати (bibble, booze, libate, wine), напій (beverage, liquor, skink, tipple), напоювати, пияцтво (alcoholism, bibbing, debauchery, drinking, drunkenness, potations, suction), пити (bib, sot, tipple, water). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | ngụm (drank, sup, thimbleful, tiff), cốc (chalice, drank), đồ uống (beverage, drank). (various references) | |
Welsh | yfed (absorb). (various references) | |
Yucatec | uk'ik. (various references) | |
Zulu | -phuza, isiphuzo (beverage). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | na. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | hauri, hauriam, hauriant, haurias, hauriatur, hauriendam, hauriendas, hauriendum, hauriens, haurierant, hauriet, haurietis, haurire, hauriret, haurite, hauseris, hauserunt, hauseruntque, hausit, haustam, haustis, hausto, pocula, poculis, poculo, poculum, potabat, potabis, potabit, potabo, potabunt, potandum, potantem, potantium, potasti, potati, potationibus, potator, potatorum, potatum, potaverunt, poteris, potes, potibus, potio, potione, potionem, potu, potui, potum, potumque, potus, sorbet. (various references) |
| Middle French | 1400-1600 | carousser. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 9, Verse 17 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Artwn krufiwn hdewV ayasqe kai udatoV klophV glukerou |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Aquae furtivae dulciores sunt et panis absconditus suavior |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Stoln watris ben swettere, and hid bred more swete. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Drink taken without right is sweet, and food in secret is pleasing. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Proverbs Chapter 9, Verse 17 |
| Cebuano | Matam-is ang kinawat nga mga tubig, Ug lamian ang tinapay nga pagakan-on sa tago. |
| Chinese | 偷 來 的 水 是 甜 的 、 暗 喫 的 餅 是 好 的 。 |
| Croatian | "Kradena je voda slatka i ugodno je potajno jesti kruh." |
| Danish | Stjålen Drik er sød, lønligt Brød er lækkert! |
| Dutch | De gestolen wateren zijn zoet, en het verborgen brood is liefelijk. |
| Finnish | "Varastettu vesi on makeata, ja salattu leipä on suloista". |
| French | Les eaux dérobées sont douces, Et le pain du mystère est agréable! |
| German | "Die gestohlenen Wasser sind süß, und das verborgene Brot schmeckt wohl." |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | "Air curian rasanya manis, dan makan sembunyi-sembunyi lebih enak." |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Bahwa air curian itu manis rasanya dan roti larangan itu sedap. |
| Italian | «Le acque furtive sono dolci, il pane preso di nascosto è gustoso». |
| Maori | He reka te wai tahae, a he ahuareka te taro kai huna. |
| Norwegian | Stjålet vann er søtt, og brød som etes i lønndom, smaker herlig. |
| Portuguese | As águas roubadas são doces, e o pão comido às ocultas é agradável. |
| Rumanian | ,,Apele furate sknt dulci, wi pknea luatq pe ascuns este plqcutq!`` |
| Russian | `ЧПДЩ ЛТБДЕОЩЕ УМБДЛЙ, Й ХФБЕООЩК ИМЕВ РТЙСФЕО`. |
| Spanish | "Las aguas hurtadas son dulces, y el pan comido en oculto es delicioso." |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "drink": drinkabilities, drinkability, drinkable, drinkables, drinker, drinkers, drinking, drinks. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "drink": outdrink, overdrink. (additional references) | |
Words containing "drink": nondrinker, nondrinkers, nondrinking, outdrinking, outdrinks, overdrinking, overdrinks, undrinkable. (additional references) | |
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"Drink" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Darlink, deink, derik, Derynck, Dinko, Dirck, dirn, doink, Dorank, dranke, dreenk, drek, dren, drenk, Dreznik, drin, drine, dring, Drini, drinke, Drinsk, Drnis, dronk, Druick, drynke, dwink, dyrynk, Dziak, grink, orink, Trinko, wrink. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "drink" (pronounced dri"ngk) |
| 4 | -r i" ng k | brink, rink, shrink. |
| 3 | -i" ng k | blink, chink, cinque, clink, dink, fink, ink, interlink, link, mink, minke, pink, plink, rethink, sink, stink, swink, sync, think, wink, zinc. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-i-k-n-r" | |
-1 letter: dink, dirk, kind, kirn, rind, rink. | |
-2 letters: din, ink, irk, kid, kin, kir, rid, rin. | |
-3 letters: id, in. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-i-k-n-r" | |
+1 letter: drinks, kinder, kirned. | |
+2 letters: darking, dinkier, dirking, dornick, drinker, kindler, kindred, prinked, redskin, reinked. | |
+3 letters: blinkard, crinkled, darkling, deerskin, donniker, dornicks, drinkers, drinking, drouking, grandkid, kidnaper, kindlers, kindlier, kindreds, kingbird, nickered, outdrink, overkind, qindarka, redskins, rekindle, relinked, stinkard, tinkered, unkinder, wrinkled. | |
+4 letters: blinkards, blinkered, clinkered, dackering, daikering, darkening, debarking, deerskins, demarking, dickering, donnicker, donnikers, drawknife, drinkable, grandkids, handiwork, kidnapers, kidnapper, kilderkin, kingbirds, outdrinks, overdrink, qindarkas, redocking, reinvoked, rekindled, rekindles, reknitted, snakebird, snickered, spikenard, sprinkled, stinkards, trinketed, windbreak. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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