Drinks - English meaning

noun

(chiefly in commercial use) a drink other than water.

Usage examples:

Light lunch items and beverages will be available for sale

noun

A drink of any type

Usage examples:

Cool, refreshing beverages, what’s your favorite beverage?

noun

A drink that is produced to sell to people

Usage examples:

The alcoholic beverage, tobacco, and gambling industries, the agency regulates and controls the sal…

noun

An alcoholic drink intended to prepare one for something difficult or unpleasant.

Usage examples:

Much grappa disappears into steaming cups of espresso called caffé correcto as a midmorning bracer …

noun

A type of wrist guard used in archery and other sports.

Usage examples:

He finished buckling on the rest of his armour: chest-plate, shoulder-pads, bracers, shin-guards an…

noun

An arm guard worn by an archer (= a person who shoots arrows) or as part of a suit of armour (= strong covering that protects the body)

Usage examples:

In archery, the bracer protects the inside of the arm holding the bow from damage by the bowstring.…

verb

Eat, drink, or ingest (food or drink).

Usage examples:

People consume a good deal of sugar in drinks

verb

To use fuel, energy, or time, esp. in large amounts

Usage examples:

Weekend shopping chores consumed much of her time., they consume a lot of candy., fire had consumed…

verb

To use something such as fuel, energy, money, or time, especially in large quantities

Usage examples:

It's a province of china which consumes 180,000 tons of coal a year., this device will monitor how …

noun

A cup of tea.

Usage examples:

A good strong cuppa

contraction

Cup of.

Usage examples:

Let's have another cuppa tea

noun

A cup of tea

Usage examples:

Make us a cuppa, will you, love?

adverb

Towards or in a lower place or position, especially to or on the ground or another surface.

Usage examples:

She looked down

preposition

From a higher to a lower point of (something).

Usage examples:

Up and down the stairs

adjective

Directed or moving towards a lower place or position.

Usage examples:

The down escalator

verb

Cause the water or other liquid in (something) to run out, leaving it empty or dry.

Usage examples:

We drained the swimming pool

noun

A channel or pipe carrying off surplus liquid, especially rainwater or liquid waste.

Usage examples:

The room's toilet pipes and shower drains carry this waste to a holding tank.

verb

Emptying something by allowing liquid to run out of it

noun

A small drink of whisky or other spirits.

Usage examples:

A wee dram to ward off the winter chill

noun

The basic monetary unit of armenia, equal to 100 luma.

Usage examples:

Armenia's gross domestic product expanded 11.7% year-on-year to 1.16 trillion dram in january-augus…

noun

A memory chip that depends upon an applied voltage to keep the stored data.

noun

Infml something that is surprising and that teaches you something new

verb

Eat or drink (something) greedily.

Usage examples:

He would guzzle his ale

verb

To drink or eat something eagerly or in large amounts

Usage examples:

He sat in the shade, guzzling cold soda.

verb

Drink (alcohol).

Usage examples:

They were imbibing far too many pitchers of beer

verb

To drink

verb

Breathe in (air, gas, smoke, etc.).

Usage examples:

They were taken to hospital after inhaling fumes

verb

To breathe in something

Usage examples:

[ i/t ] she inhaled (the fresh air) deeply., two firefighters were treated for smoke inhalation.

verb

Cause the death of (a person, animal, or other living thing).

Usage examples:

Her father was killed in a car crash

noun

An act of killing, especially of one animal by another.

Usage examples:

A lion has made a kill

noun

(in place names, especially in new york, new jersey, and pennsylvania) a stream, creek, or tributary.

Usage examples:

Kill van kull

noun

A drink poured out as an offering to a deity.

Usage examples:

He poured the libation of rum on the ground

noun

An amount of alcoholic drink poured out or drunk in honour of a god or a dead relation

Usage examples:

Would you care for a libation?

noun

The part of a person's or animal's body connecting the head to the rest of the body.

Usage examples:

She had a silver crucifix around her neck

verb

(of two people) kiss and caress amorously.

Usage examples:

We started necking on the sofa

noun

The part of the body that joins the head to the shoulders

Usage examples:

She rubbed her neck., his shirt was open at the neck., a vase with a long neck

noun

A cap worn in bed.

Usage examples:

If i could get away with wearing a hat, i would (i've often joked with my wife that there is a vast…

noun

A drink, sometimes an alcoholic drink, that someone has just before going to bed

verb

Bite or pinch sharply.

Usage examples:

One of the dogs nipped him on the leg

noun

A sharp bite or pinch.

Usage examples:

A strong beak which can deliver a serious nip

verb

Take a sip or sips of spirits.

Usage examples:

The men nipped from the bottle

noun

A unit of liquid or dry capacity equal to one eighth of a gallon, in britain equal to 0.568 litre and in the us equal to 0.473 litre (for liquid measure) or 0.551 litre (for dry measure).

Usage examples:

I still talk about acres, yards, feet and inches; not forgetting gallons and pints and also hundred…

noun

A unit of measurement of volume equal to 1/2 quart or about 0.47 liter

noun

An alcoholic drink.

Usage examples:

Lite potations are very american

verb

Drink (something, especially an alcoholic drink) heartily.

Usage examples:

He quaffed pint after pint of good berkshire ale

noun

An alcoholic drink.

Usage examples:

Porter is a dark, malty quaff

verb

To drink something quickly or in large amounts

verb

Go down below the surface of something, especially of a liquid; become submerged.

Usage examples:

He saw the coffin sink below the surface of the waves

noun

A fixed basin with a water supply and outflow pipe.

Usage examples:

I stood at the kitchen sink

noun

Fall or descend to a lower place or level

verb

Drink (something) by taking small mouthfuls.

Usage examples:

I sat sipping coffee

noun

A small mouthful of liquid.

Usage examples:

She took a sip of the red wine

verb

Drink in sips

noun

A tough-skinned terrestrial mollusc which typically lacks a shell and secretes a film of mucus for protection. it can be a serious plant pest.

Usage examples:

Slugs and snails are mainly nocturnal, and the sun's heat can be fatal to slugs and to all mollusc …

verb

Drink (something, typically alcohol) in a large draught; swig.

Usage examples:

She picked up her drink and slugged it straight back

noun

A hard blow.

Usage examples:

Adam frowned and gave him a hard slug in the shoulder.

noun

A small round or roundish mark, differing in colour or texture from the surface around it.

Usage examples:

Ladybirds have black spots on their red wing covers

verb

Short for spotlight.

verb

A point located with respect to surface features of some region

verb

Take (drink or liquid food) by sips or spoonfuls.

Usage examples:

She supped up her soup delightedly

noun

A sip of liquid.

Usage examples:

He took another sup of wine

verb

Eat supper.

Usage examples:

You'll sup on seafood delicacies

verb

Cause or allow (something, especially food or drink) to pass down the throat.

Usage examples:

She swallowed a mouthful slowly

noun

An act of swallowing something, especially food or drink.

Usage examples:

He downed his drink in one swallow

noun

A migratory swift-flying songbird with a forked tail and long pointed wings, feeding on insects in flight.

Usage examples:

The central aim of our study was to demonstrate that both natural and sexual selection have been im…

verb

Drink in large gulps.

Usage examples:

Dave swigged the wine in five gulps

noun

A large gulp of drink.

Usage examples:

He took a swig of tea

verb

To drink something in large swallows

Usage examples:

He took a swig of coffee.

verb

Wash or rinse out (an area or container) by pouring large amounts of water or other liquid over or into it.

Usage examples:

I swilled out the mug

noun

Kitchen refuse and scraps of waste food mixed with water for feeding to pigs.

Usage examples:

Government yesterday also placed an immediate ban on swill (kitchen refuse) bought from ships after…

verb

To drink something, usually alcohol, in large amounts

verb

Lay hold of (something) with one's hands; reach for and hold.

Usage examples:

Mrs morgan took another biscuit

noun

A scene or sequence of sound or vision photographed or recorded continuously at one time.

Usage examples:

He completed a particularly difficult scene in two takes

verb

Get into one's hands

noun

A very young child.

Usage examples:

Dancing classes for tiny tots

verb

Add up numbers or amounts.

Usage examples:

She totted up some figures

verb

Salvage saleable items from dustbins or rubbish heaps.

Usage examples:

There was only a bent figure of a man totting among the refuse