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Drinking

Definition: Drinking

Drinking

Noun

1. 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)

 

Specialty Definition: Drinking

DomainDefinition

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 ....

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Alcoholism

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

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).


King Alcohol and his Prime Minister
engraving (detail) circa 1820

Alcoholism 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:

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Drinking

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

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."

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Synonyms: Drinking

Synonyms: boozing (n), crapulence (n), drink (n), drunkenness (n), imbibing (n), imbibition (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Drinking

ContextSynonyms 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.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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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 DrinkingDrinking at Freeman's Quay, Drinking Healths, drinking water cooler, Drinking Water State Revolving Fund. (references)
Etymologies containing "drinking": Whiskin. (references)

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Modern Usage: Drinking

DomainUsage

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Drinking

DomainTitle

References

  • Drinking Water Equipment in Mexico: A Strategic Entry Report, 1998 (reference)

  • The 2001 Report on Eating and Drinking Places: World Market Segmentation by City (reference)

  • The 2001 Long-Run Global Growth Prospects for Eating and Drinking Places: A Physioeconomic Perspective (reference)

  • The 2000-2005 Outlook for Eating and Drinking Places in Asia (reference)

  • The 2003-2008 World Outlook for Eating and Drinking Places (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • 101 Drinking Games (reference)

  • Drink As Much As You Want and Live Longer: The Intelligent Person's Guide to Healthy Drinking (reference)

  • Drinking the Sea at Gaza: Days and Nights in a Land Under Siege (reference)

  • Eating and Drinking in Paris: French Menu Reader and Restaurant Guide (The What Kind of Food Am I? series) (reference)

  • The Drinking Gourd: A Story of the Underground Railroad (An I Can Read Book) (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

  

Consumer Goods

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Drinking

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Photo Album: Drinking

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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..

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: Drinking
 

"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."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Sounds Captioned with "Drinking".

PlayCaption
Slurping water out of a drinking fountain.
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Familiar Quotations: Drinking

AuthorQuotation

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: Drinking

AuthorDateQuotation

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Drinking

TitleAuthorQuote

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Drinking

SubjectTopicQuote

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Drinking

SpeakerPhrase(s)

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Speeches: Drinking

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Bill Clinton

1993-2001Our food and drinking water are safer.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Drinking

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)64%1,2336,335
Noun (singular)34.39%6629,909
Noun (proper)1.56%3063,341
Adjective (general or positive)0.05%1339,140
                    Total100.00%1,926N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Drinking

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Drinking

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
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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Modern Translation: Drinking

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 

  

. (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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Ancestral Language Translations: Drinking

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

potio, potione, potionem. (various references)

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Bible Trace: Drinking

LanguageDateSourceRomans Chapter 13, Verse 13
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintWV en hmera euschmonwV peripathswmen mh kwmoiV kai meqaiV mh koitaiV kai aselgeiaiV mh eridi kai zhlw
Latin405VulgateSicut in die honeste ambulemus non in comesationibus et ebrietatibus non in cubilibus et inpudicitiis non in contentione et aemulatione
Middle English1395WyclifAs in dai wandre we onestli, not in superflu feestis and drunkenessis, not in beddis and vnchastitees, not in strijf and in enuye;
Renaissance English1526TyndaleLet 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 English1611King JamesLet us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.
Victorian English1833WebsterLet us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.
Basic English1964OgdenWith right behaviour as in the day; not in pleasure-making and drinking, not in bad company and unclean behaviour, not in fighting and envy.

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Matched Bible Translations: Drinking

LanguageRomans Chapter 13, Verse 13
CebuanoMaingon 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.
CroatianKao po danu pristojno hodimo, ne u pijankama i pijanèevanjima, ne u priležništvima i razvratnostima, ne u svaði i ljubomoru,
Danishlader os vandre sømmeligt som om Dagen, ikke i Svir og Drik, ikke i Løsagtighed og Uterlighed, ikke i Kiv og Avind;
DutchLaat ons, als in den dag, eerlijk wandelen; niet in brasserijen en dronkenschappen, niet in slaapkameren en ontuchtigheden, niet in twist en nijdigheid;
FinnishVaeltakaamme säädyllisesti, niin kuin päivällä, ei mässäyksissä ja juomingeissa, ei haureudessa ja irstaudessa, ei riidassa ja kateudessa,
FrenchMarchons honnêtement, comme en plein jour, loin des excès et de l`ivrognerie, de la luxure et de l`impudicité, des querelles et des jalousies.
GermanLasset uns ehrbar wandeln als am Tage, nicht in Fressen und Saufen, nicht in Kammern und Unzucht, nicht in Hader und Neid;
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hariKita 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 LamaHendaklah 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.
ItalianComportiamoci onestamente, come in pieno giorno: non in mezzo a gozzoviglie e ubriachezze, non fra impurità e licenze, non in contese e gelosie.
LatvianDzîvosim godîgi kâ dienâ: ne plîtçdami un dzîrodami, ne izvirtîbâ un netiklîbâ, ne íildâs un skaudîbâ,
MaoriKia 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.
NorwegianLa oss vandre sømmelig, som om dagen, ikke i svir og drikk, ikke i løsaktighet og skamløshet, ikke i kiv og avind,
PortugueseAndemos honestamente, como de dia: não em glutonarias e bebedeiras, não em impudicícias e dissoluções, não em contendas e inveja.   
RumanianSq 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;
ShuarTúratniua nujai métek wekasatai. Tsawai wekaakur kiritniunam uumkar Tunáa Túrutai Túrashtai. Nampetsuk, yajauch warartsuk, tsanirmatsuk, jianaitsuk, tura kajernaitsuk aya pénker Túratai.
SpanishAndemos decentemente, como de día; no con glotonerías y borracheras, ni en pecados sexuales y desenfrenos, ni en peleas y envidia.
SwahiliMwenendo wetu uwe wa adabu kama inavyostahili wakati wa mchana; tusiwe na ulafi na ulevi, uchafu na uasherati, ugomvi na wivu.
SwedishLåtom oss föra en hövisk vandel, såsom om dagen, icke med vilt leverne och dryckenskap, icke i otukt och lösaktighet, icke i kiv och avund.
UmaBabehi 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'.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Drinking

Derivations

Words ending with "drinking": nondrinking, outdrinking, overdrinking. (additional references)


Misspellings

"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).

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Rhyming with "Drinking"

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