DRANK

  

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DRANK

Definition: DRANK

DRANK

Imperative

1. Of Drink.

2. Of Drink

Noun

1. Wild oats, or darnel grass. See Drake a plant.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "DRANK" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)


Crosswords: DRANK

English words defined with "DRANK": abstemiouslyconcoction, cup, cupfuldisconcertingly, dismally, drearilyfetal alcohol syndrome, fewhard, heavilyincoherently, intemperately, intermixture, Iseultjar, jarfullacedmixtureregret, ruefulnesssorrow, spikedtemperately, thirstily, Tristan, Tristram. (references)
Specialty definitions using "DRANK": ApostlesBottled BeerCaligula's Horse, Castaly, Cat-lapDies Sanguinis, Draught of Thor, Drink Deep, Drinking Healths, Dying SayingsForfarHANS IN KELDER, Helmets, HORACE, House that Jack BuiltKool Aid, to drink theLupus in FabulaMimer's WellNectarPeg too LowSCANDAL PROOF, Six-hooped Pot, Stimulants of Great Men, STIRRUP CUP. (references)
Non-English Usage: "DRANK" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Dutch (alcohol, beverage, booze, drink, liquor, spirits, strong drink), Frisian (beverage, drink).

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Modern Usage: DRANK

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Oh yes, my father drank beer, in the mornings. (An Affair To Remember; writing credit: Delmer Daves, Leo McCarey)

I thought all writers drank to excess and beat their wifes. (The Philadelphia Story; writing credit: Donald Ogden Stewart. Based on the play by Philip Barry.)

We ate lobster and drank pina coladas. (Groundhog Day; writing credit: Guy Ritchie)

He drank, and he smoked cigarettes, but that was it. (S.L.C. Punk!; writing credit: James Merendino.)

Scott and Zelda and I shared a cab over to the Stork Club where we drank pink champagne out of Zelda's slipper. (Caroline in the City; writing credit: Angela Carneiro)

Lyrics

I drank your wine (Last Night; performing artist: Az Yet)

Boy drank all that Magnolia wine (Lady Marmalade; performing artist: Christina Aguilera)

And we drank it in her car. (Same Old Lang Syne; performing artist: Dan Fogelberg)

'cause I remember how we drank time together (Leaving Town; performing artist: Dexter Freebish)

Drank from the golden cup (What It's Like; performing artist: Everlast)

Movie/TV Titles

Sterker dan drank (1997)

The Boy Who Drank Too Much (1980)

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

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Commercial Usage: DRANK

DomainTitle

Books

  • Animal That Drank Up Sound (reference)

  • Drinken, drank en dronkenschap : vijf eeuwen drankbestrijding en alcoholhulpverlening in Nederland ; een historisch-sociologische studie (reference)

  • Friends, You Drank Some Darkness: Three Swedish Poets, Harry Martinson, Gunnar EkelOf, and Tomas TranstrOmer (reference)

  • I drank the water everywhere (reference)

  • The Angel Drank Diet Soda : Eleven Plays & Sketches for Performance & Praise (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

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

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Photo Album: DRANK

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & Credit

The gentleman: Yes, I've drank an' smoked an' did as I dang pleased for a hunderd years an' that's ... Credit: Library of Congress.

Spangler Spring, where boys in blue and gray drank together in pauses of the battle, Gettysburg. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Familiar Quotations: DRANK

AuthorQuotation

Emily Dickinson

He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.

George Farquhar

I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: DRANK

TitleAuthorQuote

Sylvie and Bruno Concluded

Carroll, Lewis

Sir, I was once a moderate drinker, and knew a man who drank to excess.

A Christmas Carol

Dickens, Charles

The children drank the toast after her.

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Boulatruelle drank enormously, but said little.

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

But he drank off the hot weak tea which the clumsy scullion, girt with a white apron, poured into his cup.

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

He sighed and drank and looked at the low level of the whisky and took another tiny drink.

Gulliver's Travels

Swift, Jonathan

She drank out of a golden cup, above a hogshead at a draught.

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

I told them that I drank at the pond, and pointed thither, offering to lend them a dipper.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: DRANK

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Persons who drank the same water after it was boiled did not get sick. Contaminated water was also implicated in the Galapagos Island outbreak. (references)

Some individuals have high cortisol levels, but do not develop the progressive effects of Cushing's syndrome, such as muscle weakness, fractures and thinning of the skin. These individuals may have Pseudo Cushing's syndrome, which was originally described in people who were depressed or drank excess alcohol, but is now known to be more common. (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

NECTAR, n. A drink served at banquets of the Olympian deities. The secret of its preparation is lost, but the modern Kentuckians believe that they come pretty near to a knowledge of its chief ingredient. Juno drank a cup of nectar, But the draught did not affect her. Juno drank a cup of rye -- Then she bad herself good-bye. J.G.

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

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Spoken Usage: DRANK

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Don Imus

Well, I can't explain it. I don't know what happened. I did a lot of drugs and drank vodka and got fat. Maybe I didn't weigh that much.

Glen Campbell

You got me. I never drank when I was a kid, because if you did, you know, daddy would wear the back side of your pants out.

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

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Usage Frequency: DRANK

"DRANK" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 99.24% of the time. "DRANK" is used about 1,441 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 (past tense)99.24%1,4305,628
Lexical Verb (past participle)0.76%11106,044
                    Total100.00%1,441N/A

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

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Expressions: DRANK

Expression using "DRANK": gegiste drank. Additional references.

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "DRANK": chain-drank, out-drank.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: DRANK

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

drank warme

3

ancient drank gate

3

the boy who drank too much

3

drank goose wine

3

drank

3

drank innocence toast we

2

beer drank first found i i its its jesus where where

2

drank en horecawet

2

drank girl

2

beer drank first i its where

2

drank happiness i

2

drank pee

2

drank drink drunk

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: DRANK

Language Translations for "DRANK"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

喝了. (various references)

   

Danish

  

rughejre (chess brome, common brome, drauk, rye-like brome). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

dreps (chess brome, common brome, drauk, rye-like brome). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

ruiskattara (chess brome, common brome, drauk, rye-like brome). (various references)

   

French

  

séglin (drauk), brome des seigles (drauk). (various references)

   

German

  

trank (beverage, bibbed, draught, drink, potion), getrunken (drunk). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

βρώμος ο βριζοειδής (chess brome, common brome, drauk, rye-like brome), αόρ. του drink (drunk). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

ivott. (various references)

   

Italian

  

forasacco segalino (chess brome, common brome, drauk, rye-like brome), bromo segalino (chess brome, common brome, drauk, rye-like brome). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

마셨다. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ankdray

   

Romanian

  

trecut de la drink. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

of drink 2., пить (bib, drink). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

proš. vreme od drink. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

pret de drink, pasto valcheta (chess brome, common brome, drauk, rye-like brome), bromo secalino (chess brome, common brome, drauk, rye-like brome), bromo del centeno (chess brome, common brome, drauk, rye-like brome). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

råglosta (chess brome, common brome, drauk, rye-like brome). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

ngụm (drink, sup, thimbleful, tiff), cốc (chalice, drink), đ" uống (beverage, drink). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: DRANK

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

Bromus secalinus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Bible Trace: DRANK

LanguageDateSourceGenesis Chapter 26, Verse 30
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintKai epoihsen autoiV dochn kai efagon kai epion
Latin405VulgateFecit ergo eis convivium et post cibum et potum
Middle English1395WyclifThanne he made hem a feest; and aftir meet and drynke arysynge eerli,
Renaissance English1526TyndaleAnd he made the a feast and they ate ad droke.
Jacobean English1611King JamesAnd he made them a feast, and they did eat and drink.
Victorian English1833WebsterAnd he made them a feast, and they ate and drank.
Basic English1964OgdenThen he made a feast for them, and they all had food and drink.

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

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Matched Bible Translations: DRANK

LanguageGenesis Chapter 26, Verse 30
CebuanoUg siya nagbuhat ug kombira alang kanila, ug nangaon sila ug nanginum;
Chinese以 '' 就 為 他 們 設 " 筵 席 、 他 們 便 喫 了 喝 了 。
CroatianOn im priredi gozbu te su jeli i pili.
DanishSå gjorde han et Gæstebud for dem, og de spiste og drak.
DutchToen maakte hij hun een maaltijd, en zij aten en dronken.
FinnishSilloin hän laittoi heille pidot, ja he söivät ja joivat.
FrenchIsaac leur fit un festin, et ils mangèrent et burent.
GermanDa machte er ihnen ein Mahl, und sie aßen und tranken.
Haitian CreoleIzarak fè gwo fèt pou yo. Yo manje, yo bwè.
HungarianAkkor vendégséget szerze nékik és evének és ivának.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hariKemudian Ishak menjamu mereka, dan mereka makan dan minum.
Indonesian-Terjemahan LamaMaka diperbuatlah oleh Ishak suatu perjamuan akan mereka itu, maka mereka itupun makan minumlah.
ItalianAllora imbandì loro un convito e mangiarono e bevvero.
MaoriNa ka tukua e ia he hakari ma ratou, a ka kai ratou, ka inu.
NorwegianSå gjorde han et gjestebud for dem, og de åt og drakk.
PortugueseEntão Isaque lhes deu um banquete, e comeram e beberam.   
RumanianIsaac le -a dat un ospqy, wi au mkncat wi au bqut.
RussianпО У"ЕМБМ ЙН ЙТЫЕУФЧП, Й ПОЙ ЕМЙ Й ЙМЙ.
SpanishEntonces él les hizo un banquete, y comieron y bebieron.
SwedishDå gjorde han ett gästabud för dem, och de åto och drucko.

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

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Derivations & Misspellings: DRANK

Derivations

Words ending with "DRANK": outdrank, overdrank. (additional references)


Misspellings

"DRANK" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Danik, danko, Dhanik, Dorank, draak, Drack, drak, draky, dran, drane, drang, dranke, dranks, drano, drant, dreenk, drek, dren, drend, drenk, Dreznik, Drini, droan, dronk, durano, dyrynk, krank, trank, wrank. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "DRANK"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "DRANK" (pronounced dra"ngk)
4-r a" ng kbrank, crank, franc, Frank, prank, rank, shrank.
3-a" ng kantitank, bank, blank, clank, dank, flank, Hank, interbank, lank, nonbank, plank, sank, shank, spank, stank, swank, tank, thank, yank.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: DRANK

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-k-n-r"

-1 letter: dank, dark, darn, karn, knar, nard, nark, rand, rank.

-2 letters: and, ark, dak, rad, ran.

-3 letters: ad, an, ar, ka, na.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-k-n-r"
 

+1 letter: danker, darken, narked, ranked.

 

+2 letters: cranked, darkens, darking, franked, knarred, kneader, nakeder, pranked, rankled, tankard, unraked.

 

+3 letters: bankcard, bedarken, blinkard, cankered, crankled, dakerhen, darkened, darkener, darkling, darkness, drunkard, grandkid, handwork, hankered, harkened, junkyard, kidnaper, kneaders, landmark, mandrake, markdown, outdrank, parkland, qindarka, redshank, stinkard, tankards, unbraked, unmarked, unranked.

 

+4 letters: bankcards, bedarkens, blinkards, breakdown, crackdown, dackering, daikering, dakerhens, darkeners, darkening, debarking, demarking, drawknife, drawnwork, drinkable, drunkards, grandkids, handiwork, handworks, hearkened, junkyards, kidnapers, kidnapper, knackered, landmarks, mandrakes, markdowns, outranked, overdrank, parklands, qindarkas, ransacked, redshanks, rewakened, snakebird, sneakered, spikenard, stinkards, uncracked, undertake, windbreak.

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

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Alternative Orthography: DRANK


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 52 41 4E 4B

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-..    .-.    .-    -.    -.-

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01010010 01000001 01001110 01001011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#82 &#65 &#78 &#75

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0052 0041 004E 004B

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3852354845

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Quotations: Familiar
7. Quotations: Fiction
8. Quotations: Non-fiction
9. Quotations: Spoken
10. Usage Frequency
11. Expressions
12. Expressions: Internet
13. Translations: Modern
14. Translations: Ancient
15. Bible Trace
16. Derivations
17. Rhymes
18. Anagrams
19. Orthography
20. Bibliography


  

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