Elixirs - English meaning

verb

Make (beer) by soaking, boiling, and fermentation.

Usage examples:

Within five years the company will brew as much beer in china as in australia

noun

A kind of beer.

Usage examples:

Small breweries which are able to offer rare brews

verb

(of tea or coffee) to become stronger in taste in the container in which it is made, or to make a hot drink or beer

Usage examples:

[ t ] he’s working on a new way to brew the perfect cup of coffee., [ i ] i felt that trouble was b…

verb

Focus all one's attention on a particular object or activity.

Usage examples:

She couldn't concentrate on the film

noun

A substance made by removing or reducing the diluting agent; a concentrated form of something.

Usage examples:

Apple juice concentrate

noun

A mixture of various ingredients or elements.

Usage examples:

The facade is a strange concoction of northern mannerism and italian baroque

noun

Something put together from several different things

Usage examples:

She drinks this herbal concoction.

noun

A concentrated liquor resulting from heating or boiling a substance, especially a medicinal preparation made from a plant.

Usage examples:

A decoction of a root

noun

Something formed by distillation.

Usage examples:

Petroleum distillates

noun

A substance that is formed by distilling a liquid

noun

The action of purifying a liquid by a process of heating and cooling.

Usage examples:

The petroleum distillation process

noun

The process of heating a liquid until it becomes a gas, then making it liquid again by cooling

noun

A current of cool air in a room or other confined space.

Usage examples:

Heavy curtains at the windows cut out draughts

adjective

Denoting beer or cider served from a barrel or tank rather than from a bottle or can.

Usage examples:

Draught ale

verb

Prepare a preliminary version of (a document).

Usage examples:

I drafted a letter of resignation

noun

The intrinsic nature or indispensable quality of something, especially something abstract, which determines its character.

Usage examples:

Conflict is the essence of drama

noun

The basic meaning or importance of something

Usage examples:

The essence of punk was a revolt against both the sound and the system of popular music., in essenc…

verb

Remove or take out, especially by effort or force.

Usage examples:

The fossils are extracted from the chalk

noun

A short passage taken from a text, film, or piece of music.

Usage examples:

An extract from a historical film

verb

Remove, usually with some force or effort

noun

The science or practice of the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease (in technical use often taken to exclude surgery).

Usage examples:

He made distinguished contributions to pathology and medicine

noun

The science dealing with the preserving of health and with preventing and treating disease or injury

Usage examples:

Pediatrics is a branch of medicine., she continued to practice medicine until she was in her eighti…

noun

The treatment of illness or injury, or the study of how illnesses and injuries are treated

Usage examples:

Medicine has advanced enormously over the past 100 years., alternative/complementary/preventive med…

noun

A substance made by mixing other substances together.

Usage examples:

Form the mixture into a manageable dough

noun

A combination of substances resulting from mixing them together so that they cannot be easily separated

Usage examples:

It’s a highly explosive mixture and has to be handled carefully., good fashion designers often rely…

noun

A drink supposed to arouse love and desire for a particular person in the drinker; a love potion.

Usage examples:

His philtres and potions

noun

An alcoholic drink.

Usage examples:

Lite potations are very american

noun

A liquid with healing, magical, or poisonous properties.

Usage examples:

A healing potion

noun

A drink that is believed to be poisonous, to have magical power, or to be able to cure an illness

Usage examples:

We don’t have a magic potion to make you tell the truth.

noun

A means of solving a problem or dealing with a difficult situation.

Usage examples:

There are no easy solutions to financial and marital problems

A homogeneous mixture of two or more substances

noun

A medicine made by dissolving a drug in alcohol.

Usage examples:

The remedies can be administered in form of tinctures

verb

Be tinged or imbued with a slight amount of.

Usage examples:

Arthur's affability was tinctured with faint sarcasm

noun

A medicine that consists of a mixture of alcohol and a small amount of a drug

Usage examples:

A/some tincture of iodine/myrrh

noun

A medicinal substance taken to give a feeling of vigour or well-being.

Usage examples:

Nineteenth-century medicine vendors often peddled tonics as a cure-all for symptoms as varied as a …

adjective

Short for tonic water.

noun

A liquid medicine intended to make you feel better generally rather than treating a particular health problem

Usage examples:

Seeing his grandchildren was the perfect tonic for him.