alcohol | | |
n. (food) | 1. alcohol, alcoholic beverage, alcoholic drink, inebriant, intoxicant | a liquor or brew containing alcohol as the active agent.; "alcohol (or drink) ruined him" |
| ~ drug of abuse, street drug | a drug that is taken for nonmedicinal reasons (usually for mind-altering effects); drug abuse can lead to physical and mental damage and (with some substances) dependence and addiction. |
| ~ beverage, drinkable, potable, drink | any liquid suitable for drinking.; "may I take your beverage order?" |
| ~ proof spirit | a mixture containing half alcohol by volume at 60 degrees Fahrenheit. |
| ~ home brew, homebrew | an alcoholic beverage (especially beer) made at home. |
| ~ hooch, hootch | an illicitly distilled (and usually inferior) alcoholic liquor. |
| ~ kava, kavakava | an alcoholic drink made from the aromatic roots of the kava shrub. |
| ~ aperitif | alcoholic beverage taken before a meal as an appetizer. |
| ~ brew, brewage | drink made by steeping and boiling and fermenting rather than distilling. |
| ~ rice beer, sake, saki | Japanese alcoholic beverage made from fermented rice; usually served hot. |
| ~ nipa | made from sap of the Australasian nipa palm. |
| ~ vino, wine | fermented juice (of grapes especially). |
| ~ booze, hard drink, hard liquor, john barleycorn, liquor, spirits, strong drink | an alcoholic beverage that is distilled rather than fermented. |
| ~ neutral spirits, ethyl alcohol | nonflavored alcohol of 95 percent or 190 proof used for blending with straight whiskies and in making gin and liqueurs. |
| ~ pulque | fermented Mexican drink from juice of various agave plants especially the maguey. |
| ~ cordial, liqueur | strong highly flavored sweet liquor usually drunk after a meal. |
| ~ mixed drink | made of two or more ingredients. |
| ~ hard cider | alcoholic drink from fermented cider; `cider' and `cyder' are European (especially British) usages for the fermented beverage. |
| ~ perry | a fermented and often effervescent beverage made from juice of pears; similar in taste to hard cider. |
| ~ rotgut | any alcoholic beverage of inferior quality. |
| ~ slug | an amount of an alcoholic drink (usually liquor) that is poured or gulped.; "he took a slug of hard liquor" |
| ~ koumiss, kumis | an alcoholic beverage made from fermented mare's milk; made originally by nomads of central Asia. |
n. (substance) | 2. alcohol | any of a series of volatile hydroxyl compounds that are made from hydrocarbons by distillation. |
| ~ methanol, methyl alcohol, wood alcohol, wood spirit | a light volatile flammable poisonous liquid alcohol; used as an antifreeze and solvent and fuel and as a denaturant for ethyl alcohol. |
| ~ ethanol, ethyl alcohol, fermentation alcohol, grain alcohol | the intoxicating agent in fermented and distilled liquors; used pure or denatured as a solvent or in medicines and colognes and cleaning solutions and rocket fuel; proposed as a renewable clean-burning additive to gasoline. |
| ~ isopropanol, isopropyl alcohol | alcohol used as antifreeze or a solvent. |
| ~ allyl alcohol, propenyl alcohol | an unsaturated primary alcohol present in wood spirit; use to make resins and plasticizers and pharmaceuticals. |
| ~ amyl alcohol | a mixture of 2 or more isomeric alcohols; used as a solvent and in organic synthesis. |
| ~ butanol, butyl alcohol | a flammable alcohol derived from butanes and used for solvents. |
| ~ cyclohexanol | a colorless oily alcohol that smells like camphor. |
| ~ dihydric alcohol, diol, glycol | any of a class of alcohols having 2 hydroxyl groups in each molecule. |
| ~ glycerin, glycerine, glycerol | a sweet syrupy trihydroxy alcohol obtained by saponification of fats and oils. |
| ~ 1-dodecanol, lauryl alcohol | a colorless insoluble solid alcohol used to make detergents and pharmaceuticals. |
| ~ liquid | a substance that is liquid at room temperature and pressure. |
| ~ propanol, propyl alcohol | a clear colorless volatile liquid (alcohol) used as a solvent and antiseptic. |
| ~ steroid alcohol, sterol | any of a group of natural steroid alcohols derived from plants or animals; they are waxy insoluble substances. |
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