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Definition: Drinking |
DrinkingNoun1. The act of consuming liquids. 2. The act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess; "drink was his downfall". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "drinking" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
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Dream Interpretation | For a woman to dream of hilarious drinking, denotes that she is engaging in affairs which may work to her discredit, though she may now find much pleasure in the same. If she dreams that she fails to drink clear water, though she uses her best efforts to do so, she will fail to enjoy some pleasure that is insinuatingly offered her. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
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Alcoholism is an addictive dependency on alcohol characterised by craving (a strong need to drink); loss of control (being unable to stop); physical dependence and withdrawal symptoms; and tolerance (increasing difficulty of becoming drunk).
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engraving (detail) circa 1820Alcoholism is a life-threatening problem that often ends in death, particularly through liver disease and internal bleeding. In young alcoholics however, there are still risks of death by alcohol poisioning, alcohol related accidents, or suicide.
Stereotypes of alcoholics, often as a "town drunk", are often found in fiction.
Alcohol dependence is much harder to break and much more damaging than dependence on most other addictive substances. The physical symptoms when withdrawing from alcohol are seen to be equal to those experienced during withdrawal from heroin.
Treatments for alcoholism include detoxification programs run by medical institutions. This may involve a stay of a couple of weeks in a specialized hospital ward where drugs may be used to avoid withdrawal symptoms. After this detoxification, various forms of group therapy or psychotherapy are used to deal with the underlying problems. These therapies may be supported by drugs like Disulfiram which cause a strong and prompt hangover whenever alcohol is consumed.
The social problems arising from alcoholism can include loss of employment, financial problems, conviction for crimes such as drunk driving or public disorder, loss of accommodation, and loss of respect from others who may see the problem as self-inflicted and easily avoided. Exhaustive studies, including those by author Wayne Kritsberg, show that alcoholism affects not only the addicted but profoundly impacts the family members around them. Their children can be affected even after they are grown. The condition is usually referred to as The Adult Children of Alcoholics Syndrome.
Many people incorrectly assume that once the person quits drinking, all is well. However, a fair amount of people who have stopped drinking still refer to themselves as "alcoholics" or "recovering alcoholics."
Organisations working with alcoholics include:
- Alcoholics Anonymous
- Men For Sobriety (MFS)
- Moderation Management (MM)
- Rational Recovery (RR)
- Secular Organizations for Sobriety (SOS)
- Self-Management and Recovery Training (SMART)
- Women For Sobriety (WFS)
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Drinking is the act of consuming a drink, almost always largely consisting of water. Lack of water in the diet will eventually cause death by dehydration. The sensation caused by dehydration of the body is called thirst.
Much of the world's disease is caused by the lack of clean drinking water.
Drinking vessels are a glass, a cup, a bottle, a canteen, or even a bowl in some cases.
The word drinking is in particular used as a euphemism for the consumption of alcoholic beverages, with the word thirst being the corresponding euphemism used by alcoholics for alcoholism.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Drinking."
Synonyms: DrinkingSynonyms: boozing (n), crapulence (n), drink (n), drunkenness (n), imbibing (n), imbibition (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Drunkenness | Verb: get drunk, be drunk; Adjective: see double; take a drop too much, take a glass too much; drink; tipple, tope, booze, bouse, guzzle, swill, soak, sot, bum, besot, have a jag on, have a buzz on, lush, bib, swig, carouse; sacrifice at the shrine of Bacchus; take to drinking; drink hard, drink deep, drink like a fish; have one's swill, drain the cup, splice the main brace, take a hair of the dog that bit you. |
Noun: drunkenness; Adjective: intemperance; drinking; Verb: inebriety, inebriation; ebriety, ebriosity; insobriety; intoxication; temulency, bibacity, wine bibbing; comtation, potation; deep potations, bacchanals, bacchanalia, libations; bender. | |
Food | Drinking; Verb: potation, draught, libation; carousal; (amusement); drunkenness. |
Intemperance | Revels, revelry; debauch, carousal, jollification, drinking bout, wassail, saturnalia, orgies; excess, too much. |
Poetry | Song, ballad, lay; love song, drinking song, war song, sea song; lullaby; music; nursery rhymes. |
Punishment | Hara-kiri, seppuku; drinking the hemlock. |
Reception | Noun: reception; admission, admittance, entree, importation; introduction, intromission; immission, ingestion, imbibation, introception, absorption, ingurgitation, inhalation; suction, sucking; eating, drinking; (food); insertion; interjection; introit. |
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Crosswords: Drinking |
| English words defined with "drinking": drinking bout, drinking fountain, drinking glass, Drinking horn, drinking song, drinking vessel, drinking water. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "drinking": Alcohol Drinking ♦ Drinking at Freeman's Quay, Drinking Healths, drinking water cooler, Drinking Water State Revolving Fund. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "drinking": Whiskin. (references) |
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Screenplays | When you think about it, it's just as arbitrary as drinking coffee (Good Will Hunting; writing credit: Ben Affleck, Matt Damon) If you guys know so much about women, how come you're here at like the Gas 'n' Sip on a Saturday night completely alone drinking beers with no women anywhere (Say Anything; writing credit: Cameron Crowe.) And that's how it came to pass that on the second-to-last day of the job, the convict crew that tarred the plate factory roof in the spring of forty-nine wound up sitting in a row at ten o'clock in the morning drinking icy cold, Bohemia-style beer, courtesy of the hardest screw that ever walked a turn at Shawshank State Prison (The Shawshank Redemption; writing credit: Frank Darabont) If I was drinking out of the toilet, I may have been killed (Ace Ventura: Pet Detective; writing credit: Jack Bernstein, Jim Carrey, Tom Shadyac) She's obviously been drinking too much Coppertone (Miss Congeniality; writing credit: Marc Lawrence; Katie Ford) | |
Lyrics | As good as any to start drinking. Hey (You Me and The Bottle Makes Three Tonight; performing artist: Big Daddy) But it's better than drinking alone ("Piano Man"; performing artist: Billy Joel) But when his drinking and lusting and his hunger (Rasputin; performing artist: BONEY M) Them good ole boys were drinking whiskey and rye (American Pie; performing artist: Don McLean) I want to be what she's drinking, yeah I just want to be (Key West Intermezzo (I Saw You First); performing artist: John Mellencamp; writing credit: John Mellencamp and George Green) | |
Clever | 365.25 days of drinking low-calorie beer because it's less filling: 1 lite year. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Drinking Knight (1971) Why Bridget Stopped Drinking (1901) Drinking (1976) | |
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 | Shown are two old men in shirt-sleeves sitting on a bench outside and are drinking beer. It appears to be summer. This is meant to show the effects of drinking on people and the aging process. Credit: J. Troha (photographer). |  | Pictured is a Japanese-American family. There is a mother, father and a pre-school boy. They are seated in an outdoor restaurant and are eating hamburgers and drinking milk. Because Japanese-Americans tend to marry among themselves, factors other than genetic must be examined for cancer incidence. Diet and other lifestyle variations are being studied. Japanese who emigrate to California and change their lifestyles, seem to have an increased incidence of colon cancer. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). |
 | Accident resulted from use of alcohol. All three had been drinking. Credit: CDC. |  | Foreign trainees in the field operating a hypo-chlorinator, which is a chemical feed pump used in the disinfection of drinking water. Credit: CDC. |
 | Collecting ice to melt for drinking water Obviously not much water available for showers!. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Cow drinking from a watering trough in Omak, Wa. Credit: Gary Wilson. |
 | Medium shot of mare and her colt drinking from a South Steens Livestock Resevior. Credit: Mark Armstrong. |  | Cow drinking tank in the middle of rangeland. Credit: Unknown. |
 | An ecological model of drinking behavior. Credit: NIAA. |  | A group of young European males engaged in a drinking bout. / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by Jean Mohr.. |
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| "Afro drinking" by Stefan Weiss Commentary: "A close-up picture from a young afro-american who drinks out of a glass." | "Girl drinking wine" by Marco De Moulin Commentary: "Girl drinking wine." |
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 | Slurping water out of a drinking fountain. |
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Barry Goldwater | If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government. |
Henny Youngman | When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading. |
Homer | She [Helen] threw into the wine which they were drinking a drug which takes away grief and passion and brings forgetfulness of all ills. |
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | I will not be as those who spend the day in complaining of headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it. |
John Dryden | Drinking is the soldier's pleasure. |
John Selden | It's not the drinking to be blamed, but the excess. |
Oscar Wilde | Work is the curse of the drinking class. |
Pierre De Beaumarchais | Drinking, when we are not thirsty and making love all year round, madam; that is all there is to distinguish us from other animals. |
Samuel Johnson | Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking. |
Sir Walter Scott | Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness. |
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John Locke | 1690 | No body could think himself injured by the drinking of another man, though he took a good draught, who had a whole river of the same water left him to quench his thirst: and the case of land and water, where there is enough of both, is perfectly the same. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. | 1963 | Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1923) |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Grantaire began by drinking. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | He assured me upon his honor that he was not poisoned, but died of a fever by excessive drinking. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | The wonder is how they, how you and I, can live this slimy, beastly life, eating and drinking. |
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Health | Set a drinking goal for yourself. (references) | |
Filter water fleas from drinking water. (references) | ||
Anyone at any age can have a drinking problem. (references) | ||
Business | More females are drinking beer than ever before and they are choosing a premium product. (references) | |
Especially in France and Great Britain, for example, the lead concentration in drinking water is high. (references) | ||
Poland is particularly intent on reaching European Union standards for effluents and drinking water quality. (references) | ||
Children | Malawi | Only one-third of children have easy access to safe drinking water. (references) |
Guatemala | In June the Archbishop's Human Rights Office released an annual report, which noted that malnutrition affected some 46 percent of the country's children; infant mortality impacts 45 children per 1,000. In June and July, several children reportedly died of malnutrition and illnesses associated with contaminated drinking water in the poor rural area of Fraijanes. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Vietnam | Under threat of physical abuse or confiscation of property, ethnic minority Protestants allegedly are made to sign a formal, written renunciation or to undergo a symbolic ritual, which includes drinking rice whiskey mixed with animal blood. (references) |
Economic History | Gambia, The | Infant mortality rate--80/1,000. Access to safe drinking water--urban 97%, rural 50%. (references) |
Yemen | Water pumped from aquifers is depleting rapidly and generally is not suitable for drinking. (references) | |
Kenya | Visitors are advised to filter and boil (or distill) drinking water, or purchase bottled water. (references) | |
Human Rights | Bulgaria | The police officer, who had been drinking, was arrested and charged with manslaughter. (references) |
Egypt | Cells are poorly ventilated, food is inadequate in quantity and nutritional value, drinking water often is polluted, and medical services are insufficient. (references) | |
Burma | The ICRC emphasized to the Government the importance of providing for prisoners' basic needs, such as adequate access to drinking water and water for bathing. (references) | |
Political Economy | OMAN | Non-Muslim workers are expected to respect the Ramadan month of daytime fasting by not publicly drinking or eating. (references) |
INDIA | There are continuing concerns over inadequate infrastructure, especially with respect to roads, ports, power, and drinking water. (references) | |
Trade | Philippines | Category II includes: alcoholic beverages; food supplements; tea (herbal); bottled drinking water; foods for infant & children; foods for special dietary use; transgenic food products (use of genetic engineering/biotechnology) and; ethnic food products with indigenous ingredient(s) not common in the Philippines. (references) |
Travel | Lithuania | Boiling drinking water is recommended. (references) |
Cape Verde | All water supplies are unsafe for drinking. (references) | |
Indonesia | Drinking tap water anywhere in Indonesia is not advised. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Jordan | The law specifies a number of health and safety requirements for workers, including the presence of bathrooms, drinking water, and first aid equipment at work sites. (references) |
El Salvador | Workers in some maquilas expressed concerns about unhealthy drinking water, unsanitary bathrooms, and eating facilities, and inadequate ventilation (problems with dust and heat). (references) | |
Ukraine | In August an interagency commission released a report on the status of child labor in the country and the Government's steps to minimize it. The new Criminal Code prescribes up to 5 years in prison for involving children in criminal activities, drinking, begging, prostitution, gambling, or other exploitation. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | POTABLE, n. Suitable for drinking. Water is said to be potable; indeed, some declare it our natural beverage, although even they find it palatable only when suffering from the recurrent disorder known as thirst, for which it is a medicine. Upon nothing has so great and diligent ingenuity been brought to bear in all ages and in all countries, except the most uncivilized, as upon the invention of substitutes for water. To hold that this general aversion to that liquid has no basis in the preservative instinct of the race is to be unscientific -- and without science we are as the snakes and toads. |
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Don Rickles | Yeah, it was. I don't remember the script, because you're always at the bar drinking peach wine, you know, going, to Yugoslavia. Long live Yugoslavia. |
Lynda Carter | Not really binges. Started off just drinking like everybody else. I never really liked alcohol. And then I didn't do very well with it. |
Rich Cohen | We were together every day. We did ditched school, we went to the Cub's games, we experimented with drinking, with drugs, which is like a horrible thing for my parents to find out. |
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Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Our food and drinking water are safer. |
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| "Drinking" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 64.00% of the time. "Drinking" is used about 1,926 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 64% | 1,233 | 6,335 |
| Noun (singular) | 34.39% | 662 | 9,909 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.56% | 30 | 63,341 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 0.05% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,926 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "drinking": Alcohol Drinking ♦ automatic drinking bowl ♦ drinking age ♦ Drinking Behavior ♦ drinking bout ♦ drinking bowl ♦ drinking companion ♦ drinking cup ♦ drinking fountain ♦ drinking glass ♦ Drinking horn ♦ drinking house ♦ drinking milk ♦ drinking pal ♦ drinking party ♦ drinking place ♦ drinking session ♦ drinking song ♦ drinking straw ♦ drinking the hemlock ♦ drinking trough ♦ drinking vessel ♦ drinking water ♦ drinking water cooler ♦ eating and drinking ♦ excessive coffee drinking ♦ excessive drinking ♦ fresh drinking water ♦ heavy drinking ♦ love of drinking ♦ not for drinking ♦ stop drinking ♦ stop drinking wine ♦ wine drinking. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "drinking": drinking-buddy, drinking-chocolate, drinking-clubs, drinking-companion, drinking-cup, drinking-cups, drinking-feeder, drinking-fountains, drinking-glass, drinking-horn, drinking-horns, drinking-house, drinking-houses, drinking-mate, drinking-parties, drinking-place, drinking-songs, drinking-soundtrack, drinking-time, drinking-trough, drinking-up, drinking-vessel, drinking-water. | |
Ending with "drinking": beer-drinking, non-drinking, wine-drinking. | |
Containing "drinking": hot-chocolate-drinking-chocolate. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
drinking water | 2,405 | teen drinking | 85 |
drinking game | 1,436 | drinking song | 81 |
cum drinking | 779 | drinking straw | 69 |
drinking | 683 | poem drinking and driving | 66 |
drinking and driving | 575 | lowering the drinking age | 64 |
piss drinking | 426 | drinking water fountain | 59 |
drinking water system | 269 | drinking sperm | 58 |
pee drinking | 222 | drinking alcohol | 57 |
underage drinking | 209 | drinking too much water | 57 |
drinking fountain | 198 | drinking glass | 56 |
binge drinking | 192 | girl drinking piss | 54 |
drinking age | 188 | stop drinking | 54 |
drinking quote | 162 | drinking toast | 52 |
drinking water filter | 161 | safe drinking water act | 52 |
drinking glasses | 154 | drinking beer | 52 |
teenage drinking | 131 | irish drinking song | 50 |
benefit of drinking water | 125 | beer drinking game | 46 |
legal drinking age | 106 | drinking problem | 46 |
drinking card game | 94 | drinking driving picture | 46 |
urine drinking | 92 | college drinking | 45 |
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| Language | Translations for "drinking"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | ujë i pijshëm (drinking water), të pirët me tepri (heavy drinking), shatërvan (drinking fountain, fountain), e pirë (boose, booze, drink, drinking bout, potation), çezmë (drinking fountain). (various references) | |
Arabic | شراب مسكر (boose, booze, brandy, champagne, drink, inebriant, intoxicant, medicine, nappy, peg, pot, rum). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | за пиене, пиянствувам (bib, boose, booze, bouse, drink, soak, spree, tope), пиянство (alcoholism, crapulence, drink, fuddle, inebriation, inebriety, insobriety, intemperance, spree), пиянски (bacchanal, drunken, lickerish, liquorish, sottish, vinous), питеен (potatory), пиене (booze, drink, guzzle, potation, soak, something to drink, swill). (various references) | |
Chinese | 喝. (various references) | |
Czech | pití (drink, potation, tipple). (various references) | |
Danish | drikkevandsfontaene (drinking water cooler, fountain, water dispenser), dekontaminering af vand, som kan udnyttes til drikkevand (decontamination of potential sources of drinking water ( potable water )), drikkeautomat (automatic drinker, automatic drinking bowl, automatic fill bowl, automatic waterer, automatic watering-trough, drinking bowl, self-waterer), drikkeglas (drinking glass, glass), drikkekar (drinker, drinking bowl, drinking throug, trough, water trough, waterer), drikkeskål (automatic drinker, automatic drinking bowl, automatic fill bowl, automatic waterer, automatic watering-trough, drinking bowl, self-waterer), drikkevand (drinking water, drinking-water, potable water), drikkevandskoeler (drinking water cooler, fountain, water dispenser), drikkevaner (drinking habits), drikketrug (drinker, drinking bowl, drinking throug, trough, water trough, waterer), sugeroer (drinking straw), affald fra fremstilling af drikkevand eller vand til industrielt brug (wastes from the preparation of drinking water or water for industrial use), konsummælk (drinking milk, liquid milk), konsummaelk (drinking milk), opvarmet drikkekar (drinker with water heater, warmed drinking trough, warmed waterer), pinocytose (cell drinking, pinocytosis), selvvandingspumpe (cattle-operated bowl, flop operated drinker, pressure plate drinking bowl, stock fount, tongued bowl), automatisk vandtrug (automatic drinker, automatic drinking bowl, automatic fill bowl, automatic waterer, automatic watering-trough, drinking bowl, self-waterer), automatisk vandingstrug (automatic drinker, automatic drinking bowl, automatic fill bowl, automatic waterer, automatic watering-trough, drinking bowl, self-waterer). (various references) | |
Dutch | drinkwater (drinking-water). (various references) | |
Esperanto | trinkebla akvo (drinking-water), postsoifo (thirst after drinking to excess). (various references) | |
Finnish | juottolaite (drinker, drinking bowl, drinking throug, trough, water trough, waterer), juottoastia (drinker, drinking bowl, drinking throug, trough, water trough, waterer), juoppous (drunkenness, hard drinking, insobriety), juomingit (binge, booze, drinking-bout, spree), juomavesijäähdytin (drinking water cooler, fountain, water dispenser), juomavesi (drinking water, potable water), juomatavat (drinking habits), juomalasi (drinking-glass, glass, tumbler), juomakuppi (drinker, drinking bowl, drinking throug, trough, US:cup, water trough, waterer), juomakelvoton vesi (water unfit for drinking), juoma-astia (drinking vessel), automaattinen juottolaite (automatic drinker, automatic drinking bowl, automatic fill bowl, automatic waterer, automatic watering-trough, drinking bowl, self-waterer). (various references) | |
French | fait de boire, consommation d'alcool, consommation alcoolique, comestible, buvant, buvable. (various references) | |
German | trinkend, trinken (bib, drink, imbibe, quaff, sup, to drink, to drink (drank, water), saufen (booze, drink, drink to excess, guzzle, quaff, swig). (various references) | |
Greek | πόσιμο (potability). (various references) | |
Hebrew | משתה (banquet, board, drink, feast), משקה (beverage, drink, liquor, potion, reviver, wet), שתיה (drink, drunkenness, intoxication), שתינות (drink, drunkenness), שקוי (draught, drink, potion, refreshment), גמיעה (drink, gulping, quaffing, sipping), גמיאה (drink, gulping, sipping), סביאה (bibbling, boozing, drunkenness, quaffing, spree, tippling). (various references) | |
Hungarian | részegeskedés, ivás (boozing, bowl, drink, soak, wet), italozás. (various references) | |
Indonesian | minuman (beverage, drink, potion). (various references) | |
Italian | bere (drink, have, imbibe, sop up, swallow). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 飲用 , 豪飲 (carousing). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | いんよう (citation, cosmic dual forces, quotation, yin and yang), ごういん (carousing, coercive, forcible, high-handed, karma, overbearing, pushy). (various references) | |
Korean | 마심. (various references) | |
Manx | giu (supping). (various references) | |
Papago | kohba (drinking glass). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | inkingdray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | bebida (bender, beverage, drink, libation, lush, potation, quencher, refreshment, tap), bebedor (bibber, drinker, half-seas-over, tippler). (various references) | |
Romanian | bãuturã (beverage, bottle, drink, drinkable, liquor, lush, pot, potable, pottle), bãut (cup, disguised in liquor, mixed, potation), adãpat (watering). (various references) | |
Russian | пить питье питьевой. (various references) | |
Scottish | pòit (tippling), òl (drink, habit of drinking intoxicating liquors). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | pijenje, pijančenje (debauch, debauchery, potation, revel). (various references) | |
Spanish | potable (drinkable, potable), el beber, bebida (beverage, drink, drunk, imbibition, inebriation, laggard, lagger, potation). (various references) | |
Swedish | dryckes- (potatory), dricks-, drickande (potation), dricka (beer, drink, fuddle, gratuity, have, imbibe, lemonade, quaff, soft drink, take, tipple), supande. (various references) | |
Thai | เกี่ยวกับการดื่ม. (various references) | |
Turkish | kafayı çekme (boozing, swig), içmek (belt down, drink, eat, have a drink, imbibe, indulge, knock back, propose, pull, slosh, slosh down, swig), içme (potation, swig), içki içmek (booze, carouse, drink, get liquored up, go on the booze, have a wet, hit the booze, liquor, wet one's whistle), içki alışkanlığı (alcoholism, heavy drinking), içki (alcohol, alcoholic drink, booze, bottle, drink, hooch, juice, liquor, poison, potation, quencher, rum, stimulant, wet). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | пияцтво (alcoholism, bibbing, debauchery, drink, drunkenness, potations, suction), пиття. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | vòi nước uống công cộng (drinking fountain), sừng để uống (drinking-horn), nước uống (drinking-water), chầu say bí tỉ (drinking-bout), bài tửu ca (drinking-song). (various references) | |
Welsh | gwydryn (drinking glass). (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | potio, potione, potionem. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | Romans Chapter 13, Verse 13 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | WV en hmera euschmonwV peripathswmen mh kwmoiV kai meqaiV mh koitaiV kai aselgeiaiV mh eridi kai zhlw |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Sicut in die honeste ambulemus non in comesationibus et ebrietatibus non in cubilibus et inpudicitiis non in contentione et aemulatione |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | As in dai wandre we onestli, not in superflu feestis and drunkenessis, not in beddis and vnchastitees, not in strijf and in enuye; |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Let vs walke honestly as it were in the daye lyght: not in eatynge and drinkynge: nether in chamburynge and wantannes: nether in stryfe and envyinge: |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | With right behaviour as in the day; not in pleasure-making and drinking, not in bad company and unclean behaviour, not in fighting and envy. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Romans Chapter 13, Verse 13 |
| Cebuano | Maingon sa maadlaw, magkinabuhi kita nga maligdong, dili sa mga paghudyakabahakhak ug sa mga paghuboghubog, dili sa pakighilawas ug kalaw-ayan, dili sa pakig-away ug pagpangabubho. |
| Croatian | Kao po danu pristojno hodimo, ne u pijankama i pijanèevanjima, ne u priležništvima i razvratnostima, ne u svaði i ljubomoru, |
| Danish | lader os vandre sømmeligt som om Dagen, ikke i Svir og Drik, ikke i Løsagtighed og Uterlighed, ikke i Kiv og Avind; |
| Dutch | Laat ons, als in den dag, eerlijk wandelen; niet in brasserijen en dronkenschappen, niet in slaapkameren en ontuchtigheden, niet in twist en nijdigheid; |
| Finnish | Vaeltakaamme säädyllisesti, niin kuin päivällä, ei mässäyksissä ja juomingeissa, ei haureudessa ja irstaudessa, ei riidassa ja kateudessa, |
| French | Marchons honnêtement, comme en plein jour, loin des excès et de l`ivrognerie, de la luxure et de l`impudicité, des querelles et des jalousies. |
| German | Lasset uns ehrbar wandeln als am Tage, nicht in Fressen und Saufen, nicht in Kammern und Unzucht, nicht in Hader und Neid; |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Kita harus melakukan hal-hal terhormat seperti yang biasanya dilakukan orang pada siang hari; jangan berpesta pora melampaui batas, atau mabuk. Jangan cabul, atau berkelakuan tidak sopan. Jangan berkelahi, atau iri hati. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Hendaklah kita berjalan dengan kelakuan yang senonoh, seperti yang patut pada siang hari; jangan dengan lazat dan mabuk, dan jangan dengan persundalan dan percabulan, dan jangan dengan perkelahian dan cemburuan. |
| Italian | Comportiamoci onestamente, come in pieno giorno: non in mezzo a gozzoviglie e ubriachezze, non fra impurità e licenze, non in contese e gelosie. |
| Latvian | Dzîvosim godîgi kâ dienâ: ne plîtçdami un dzîrodami, ne izvirtîbâ un netiklîbâ, ne íildâs un skaudîbâ, |
| Maori | Kia pai ta tatou haere, kia rite ki to te awatea: kauaka i nga kakainga, i nga haurangitanga, kaua i te puremu, i nga hiahia taikaha, kaua i te ngangau, i te hae. |
| Norwegian | La oss vandre sømmelig, som om dagen, ikke i svir og drikk, ikke i løsaktighet og skamløshet, ikke i kiv og avind, |
| Portuguese | Andemos honestamente, como de dia: não em glutonarias e bebedeiras, não em impudicícias e dissoluções, não em contendas e inveja. |
| Rumanian | Sq trqim frumos, ca kn timpul zilei, nu kn chefuri wi kn beyii; nu kn curvii wi kn fapte de ruwine; nu kn certuri wi kn pizmq; |
| Shuar | Túratniua nujai métek wekasatai. Tsawai wekaakur kiritniunam uumkar Tunáa Túrutai Túrashtai. Nampetsuk, yajauch warartsuk, tsanirmatsuk, jianaitsuk, tura kajernaitsuk aya pénker Túratai. |
| Spanish | Andemos decentemente, como de día; no con glotonerías y borracheras, ni en pecados sexuales y desenfrenos, ni en peleas y envidia. |
| Swahili | Mwenendo wetu uwe wa adabu kama inavyostahili wakati wa mchana; tusiwe na ulafi na ulevi, uchafu na uasherati, ugomvi na wivu. |
| Swedish | Låtom oss föra en hövisk vandel, såsom om dagen, icke med vilt leverne och dryckenskap, icke i otukt och lösaktighet, icke i kiv och avund. |
| Uma | Babehi gau' to masipato' hi kabajaa-na. Neo' ntora mosusa' palangu-langu. Hi gau' tomane pai' tobine neo' mogau' sala' ba mpotuku' kahinaa nono-ta to dada'a. Neo' motuda' ba mohingi'. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words ending with "drinking": nondrinking, outdrinking, overdrinking. (additional references) | |
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"Drinking" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Dinkin, dinkying, Drimnin, drinken, drinkin, Drinkken, rinking. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "drinking" (pronounced dri"ngking) |
| 6 | -r i" ng k i ng | shrinking. |
| 5 | -i" ng k i ng | blinking, linking, plinking, rethinking, sinking, stinking, unthinking, winking. |
| 4 | -ng k i ng | banking, blanking, clanking, cranking, debunking, flanking, flunking, franking, honking, junking, nonbanking, planking, plunking, ranking, reinking, spanking, tanking, thanking, yanking. |
| 3 | -k i ng | antismoking, aching, asking, attacking, backing, backtracking, baking, balking, barking, basking, biking, bilking, blocking, bloodsucking, booking, bookmaking, braking, breaking, breathtaking, broking, Brooking, bucking, carjacking, caulking, chalking, checking, choking, chucking, clicking, cloaking, clucking, cocking, coking, cooking, corking, cornhusking, cracking, creaking, critiquing, croaking, decking, disliking, docking, dressmaking, ducking, duking, earmarking, earthshaking, eking, embarking, evoking, faking, filmmaking, flaking, flicking, flocking, forking, forsaking, freaking, frolicking, gawking, glassmaking, groundbreaking, hacking, handshaking, hardworking, harking, Hawking, heartbreaking, hijacking, hiking, hitchhiking, Hocking, homemaking, hooking, hulking, interlocking, invoking, jacking, jaywalking, jerking, joking, kayaking, kicking, knocking, lacking, lawbreaking, lawmaking, leaking, licking, liking, locking, looking, lovemaking, Lucking, lurking, making, marking, masking, matchmaking, meatpacking, metalworking, milking, mimicking, mistaking, mocking, moneymaking, moviemaking, mucking, muckraking, multitasking, networking, nitpicking, nonsmoking, overbooking, overlooking, overtaking, packing, painstaking, panicking, papermaking, parking, peacemaking, peaking, pecking, peeking, perking, picking, piggybacking, plucking, poking, politicking, provoking, quaking, quarterbacking, racking, raking, ransacking, rebuking, reeking, remaking, remarking, restocking, retaking, revoking, reworking, risking, rocking, rollicking, sacking, seeking, shaking, sharking, shirking, shocking, shrieking, shucking, sleepwalking, smacking, smirking, smoking, snaking, sneaking, soaking, socking, spacewalking, sparking, speaking, spiking, squawking, squeaking, stacking, staking, stalking, steelmaking, sticking, stockbroking, stocking, stoking, streaking, striking, stroking, sucking, sulking, tacking, taking, talking, tasking, ticking, tracking, trafficking, trekking, tricking, trucking, tucking, tweaking, undertaking, undocking, unlocking, unpacking, viking, waking, walking, whacking, wisecracking, woodworking, working, wracking, wreaking, wrecking. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-g-i-i-k-n-n-r" | |
-1 letter: dinking, dirking, kirning. | |
-2 letters: diking, dining, indign, inking, irking, niding, riding. | |
-3 letters: drink, grind, indri, iring, kinin, rigid. | |
-4 letters: ding, dink, dirk, gink, gird, girn, grid, grin, irid, kind, king, kirn, nidi, rind, ring, rink. | |
-5 letters: dig, din, gid, gin, ink, inn, irk, kid, kin, kir, rid, rig, rin. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-g-i-i-k-n-n-r" | |
+2 letters: rekindling. | |
+3 letters: nondrinking, outdrinking. | |
+4 letters: overdrinking. | |
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