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Alcoholic vs Foreshot - What's the difference?

alcoholic | foreshot |

As nouns the difference between alcoholic and foreshot

is that alcoholic is a person addicted to alcohol while foreshot is the spirits that first come over when an alcoholic liquid is distilled.

As an adjective alcoholic

is of or pertaining to alcohol.

alcoholic

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person addicted to alcohol.
  • * - Alcoholic
  • Don't you know you've got your daddy's eyes
    Daddy was an alcoholic
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-28, author=(Joris Luyendijk)
  • , volume=189, issue=3, page=21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Our banks are out of control , passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic who still resists the idea that something drastic needs to happen for him to turn his life around.}}
  • One who abuses alcohol.
  • Synonyms

    * dipsomaniac, drunkard

    Antonyms

    * teetotaler, on the wagon

    See also

    *

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to alcohol.
  • Having more than a trace amount of alcohol in its contents.
  • He ordered an alcoholic beverage.
    The oysters were sour, and excessively alcoholic .
  • Of, pertaining to, or affected by alcoholism
  • Antonyms

    * nonalcoholic

    Derived terms

    * Alcoholics Anonymous ----

    foreshot

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The spirits that first come over when an alcoholic liquid is distilled
  • (chiefly, sport)
  • Foreshots knock the ball forward.
  • (geology)
  • * 1997 , Proceedings of the Symposium on the Application of Geophysics to Engineering and Environmental Problems , volume 2:
  • Twelve foreshot and twelve backshot records at varying offsets were acquired for each geophone setup to achieve 24 fold duplicity.

    Coordinate terms

    * midshot, backshot

    References

    * OED 2nd edition (online)