Verb

Infinitive to drink

Third person singular drinks

Simple past drank

Past participle drunk (or drank)

Present participle drinking

to drink (third-person singular simple present drinks, present participle drinking, simple past drank, past participle drunk (or drank))

1. (transitive) To consume (a liquid) through the mouth.

   He drank the water I gave him.

2. (intransitive) To consume liquid through the mouth.

   You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink.

3. (intransitive) To consume alcoholic beverages.

   You've been drinking, haven't you?

   No thanks, I don't drink.

Synonyms

• (consume (liquid) through the mouth): gulp, imbibe, quaff, sip
• (consume alcoholic beverages): drink alcohol

Derived terms

• drinkable
• drink and drive
• drinker
• drinking
• drink like a fish
• drink under the table
• drink up

Related terms

• drunken, drunk

A drink, or beverage, is a liquid which is specifically prepared for human consumption. In addition to filling a basic human need, beverages form part of the culture of human society.

Water

Despite the fact that all beverages contain water, water itself is not classed as a beverage. The word beverage has traditionally been defined as not referring to water.

Alcoholic beverages

An alcoholic beverage is a drink that contains ethanol, commonly known as alcohol (although in chemistry the definition of “alcohol” includes many other compounds).

Beer has been a part of human culture for 8,000 years. In Germany, Ireland, the United Kingdom, and many other European countries, drinking beer (and other alcoholic beverages) in a local bar or pub is a cultural tradition.

This entry should contain ONLY quotes about alcohol in general; quotes about beer or wine specifically should go in those respective entries. An alcoholic beverage is a drink containing ethanol, commonly known as alcohol — although in chemistry the definition of alcohol includes many other compounds. Alcoholic beverages are divided into three general classes: beers, wines, and spirits.

Contents

• 1 Sourced
• 2 Unsourced
  • 2.1 W. C. Fields
• 3 Attributed
• 4 See also

Sourced

• The use of intoxicating drinks as a beverage is as much an infatuation as is the smoking of opium by the Chinese, and the former is quite as destructive to the success of the business man as the latter.
  • P. T. Barnum, American showman. ‘Sundry Business Enterprises’, Ch XIV, The Life of P. T. Barnum (1855)

• There's nought, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.
  • Lord Byron, Don Juan, Second Canto

• I fought against a bottle, but I had to do it drunk
  • Leonard Cohem, Canadian singer, poet and novelist^{[citation needed]}

• There's alcohol in plant and tree. It must be Nature's plan That there should be in fair degree Some alcohol in Man.
  • A. P. Herbert, Number Nine (1952), p. 151.

From Wikiquote under the GNU Free Documentation License.
Sun Aug 15 00:55:41 2010