drink
verb
- consume liquid
- consume alcohol
- salute
noun
- kind of liquid which is specifically prepared for human consumption
- act of ingesting fluid
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈdɹɪŋk/ / [ˈd͡ɹ̝ʷɪŋk] ~ [ˈd̠͡ɹ̠˔ʷɪŋk] / /ˈdɹiŋk/
noun
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *drinkaną Proto-Germanic *drunkiz Proto-West Germanic *drunki Old English drynċ Middle English drink English drink From Middle English drink, drinke (also as drinche, drunch), from Old English drynċ, from Proto-Germanic *drunkiz, *drankiz. Cognates Cognate with Saterland Frisian Dronk (“drink”), Cimbrian gatrànkh (“drink”), Dutch drank, dronk (“drink”), German Getränk, trank, Trunk (“drink”), German Low German Drank, Drunk (“drink”), Vilamovian gytrenḱ (“drink”), Danish drik (“drink, beverage”), Icelandic drykkur (“drink, beverage”), Norwegian Bokmål drikk (“drink”), Norwegian Nynorsk drikk, drykk (“drink, alcohol”), Swedish dryck (“drink”), Gothic 𐌳𐍂𐌰𐌲𐌲𐌺 (draggk), 𐌳𐍂𐌰𐌲𐌺 (dragk, “drink”).
- A beverage.
“I’d like another drink please.”
- Drinks in general; something to drink.
“For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink”
“These sources do not, however, state why the drink is called lambswool. The name comes from the way the apples are roasted until they split open, and their pulp froths over the skin; this is used to float on top of the bowl of drink.”
- A type of beverage (usually mixed).
“My favourite drink is the White Russian.”
- A (served) alcoholic beverage.
“Can I buy you a drink?”
- The action of drinking, especially with the verbs take or have.
“He was about to take a drink from his root beer.”
- Alcoholic beverages in general.
“She mixed furniture with the same fatal profligacy as she mixed drinks, and this outrageous contact between things which were intended by Nature to be kept poles apart gave her an inexpressible thrill.”
“By the late twenties father has died of drink and his wife is left to raise their two sons.”
- A standard drink.
“A drink of wine is about 5 ounces”
“And when (SUBJECT) was 55, would you say (he/she) drank more than, less than, or about 2 to 3 drinks a day?”
- Any body of water.
“If he doesn't pay off the mafia, he’ll wear cement shoes to the bottom of the drink!”
“When in mid-Channel the speed slowed and I was informed by A.C. Russell that another dinghy had been spotted. This turned out to contain a Canadian fighter pilot who had been in the drink for three days and was in rather a bad way. He said he had seen all the aircraft flying over in the two days before D-Day and since, but no one had sighted him.”
- A downpour; a cloudburst; a rainstorm; a deluge; a lot of rain.
“Now this is going to bring some huge totals of rainfall with it—200 to 400 millimetres with it—and along with that, these winds—gusts to 275 kilometres an hour near the cyclone [Cyclone Ilsa] core—and that's a real concern. That's very destructive winds and it's going to carry this inertia and the rain with it well inland. And we're likely going to be talking about a cyclone all the way through Friday as it slowly weakens, eventually washing that moisture out into a front going through the south. It means the southeast is getting a drink but W.A.'s northwest really copping it, individual totals significantly higher than what you're seeing here [on the weather map].”
- Amount.
“He [a sea-serpent] was giant, massive. A huge drink of man-eater. But even now, you know, I could take him.”
verb
Etymology: From Middle English drinken, from Old English drincan (“to drink, swallow up, engulf”), from Proto-West Germanic *drinkan, from Proto-Germanic *drinkaną (“to drink”), of uncertain origin; possibly from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrenǵ- (“to draw into one's mouth, sip, gulp”), nasalised variant of *dʰreǵ- (“to draw, glide”). Cognates Cognate with Yola drink (“to drink”), North Frisian drank, drainke, drink, drinke (“to drink”), West Frisian drinke (“to drink”), Alemannic German trénge, trenhu, trinche, tringhien, trinke (“to drink”), Bavarian dringa, trinckn, trinkhn, trinkn (“to drink”), Cimbrian trinkan, trinkhan (“to drink”), Dutch and Low German drinken (“to drink”), German and Mòcheno trinken (“to drink”), Luxembourgish drénken (“to drink”), Yiddish טרינקען (trinken, “to drink”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål drikke (“to drink”), Elfdalian drikka (“to drink”), Faroese and Icelandic drekka (“to drink”), Jutish drenk (“to drink”), Norwegian Nynorsk drikka, drikke (“to drink”), Swedish dricka (“to drink”), Gothic 𐌳𐍂𐌹𐌲𐌺𐌰𐌽 (drigkan, “to drink”), Vandalic drincan (“to drink”), French trinquer (“to booze, drink alcohol”), Italian trincare (“to knock back (a drink)”), Spanish trincar (“to get drunk”).
- To consume (a liquid) through the mouth.
“He drank the water I gave him.”
“You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink.”
- To consume the liquid contained within (a bottle, glass, etc.).
“Jack drank the whole bottle by himself.”
- To consume alcoholic beverages.
“You've been drinking, haven't you?”
“No thanks, I don't drink.”
- To take in (a liquid), in any manner; to suck up; to absorb; to imbibe.
“Let the purple violets drink the stream.”
- To take in; to receive within one, through the senses; to inhale; to hear; to see.
“My ears have not yet drunk a hundred words / Of that tongue's utterance.”
“to drink the cooler air”
- To toast (someone or something) with a drink, honour; to wish well (see drink to), especially
“Drink to lofty hopes that cool — Visions of a perfect State : Drink we, last, the public fool, Frantic love and frantic hate.”
- To toast (someone or something) with a drink, honour; to wish well (see drink to), especially:
“At the same time were great Acclamations & they drunk Damnation to Dʳ. Sacheverell, Mʳ Tilly, and all the Dʳˢ friends.”
“I ought not to have neglected a request of one of my correspondents so long as I have; but I dare say I have given him time to add practice to profession. He sent me some time ago a bottle or two of excellent wine to drink the health of a gentleman had by the penny post advertised him of an egregious error in his conduct. […]”
- To toast (someone or something) with a drink, honour; to wish well (see drink to), especially:
“Had our great Pall ace the capacity To Campe this hoſt, we all would ſup together, And drinke Carowſes to the next dayes Fate Which promiſes Royall perill, Trumpetters With brazen dinne blaſt you the Cittics eare, Make mingle with our ratling Tabourines, That heauen and earth may ſtrike their ſounds together, Applauding our approach.”
- To smoke, as tobacco.
“And some men now live ninety yeeres and past, Who never dranke tobacco first nor last.”
- Used in phrasal verbs: drink down, drink in, drink off, drink out, drink to, drink up.