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Alcohol vs Teetotaling - What's the difference?

alcohol | teetotaling |

As a noun alcohol

is .

As an adjective teetotaling is

abstaining from alcohol.

alcohol

English

(wikipedia alcohol)

Noun

  • (organic chemistry, countable) Any of a class of organic compounds (such as ethanol) containing a hydroxyl functional group (-OH).
  • (uncountable) An intoxicating beverage made by the fermentation of sugar or sugar-containing material.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=76, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Snakes and ladders , passage=Risk is everywhere. From tabloid headlines insisting that coffee causes cancer (yesterday, of course, it cured it) to stern government warnings about alcohol and driving, the world is teeming with goblins.}}
  • (obsolete) Any very fine powder.

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * -holic * -holism * -ol * alcohol abuse * alcoholic * alcoholism * low-alcohol * non-alcoholic * nonalcoholic

    References

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    teetotaling

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Abstaining from alcohol
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=August 15, author=The New York Times, title=Off the Menu, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=The name of this spacious restaurant and lounge is an ironic reference the teetotaling Andrew J. Volstead, the Minnesota congressman who sponsored the act enforcing Prohibition in 1919. }}