Beer vs Blood - What's the difference?
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(uncountable) An alcoholic drink fermented from starch material commonly barley malt, often with hops or some other substance to impart a bitter flavor.
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Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer . […]”}} (uncountable) A fermented extract of the roots and other parts of various plants, as spruce, ginger, sassafras, etc.
(uncountable) A solution produced by steeping plant materials in water or another fluid.
(countable) A glass, bottle, or can of any of the above beverages.
(countable) A variety of the above beverages.
To give beer to (someone)
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* 2013 , Janet E. Cameron, Cinnamon Toast and the End of the World , Hatchette Books Ireland,
* 2013 , R. D. Power, Forbidden ,
A vital liquid flowing in the bodies of many types of animals that usually conveys nutrients and oxygen. In vertebrates, it is colored red by hemoglobin, is conveyed by arteries and veins, is pumped by the heart and is usually generated in bone marrow.
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A family relationship due to birth, such as that between siblings; contrasted with relationships due to marriage or adoption. (See blood relative, blood relation, by blood.)
* (Edmund Waller) (1606-1687)
* Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
A blood test or blood sample.
The sap or juice which flows in or from plants.
* 1841 , Benjamin Parsons,
* 1901 , Levi Leslie Lamborn, American Carnation Culture , fourth edition, page 57:
* 1916 , John Gordon Dorrance, The Story of the Forest , page 44:
(label) The juice of anything, especially if red.
* Bible, (w) xiix. 11
(label) Temper of mind; disposition; state of the passions.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
(label) A lively, showy man; a rake.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
* (William Makepeace Thackeray) (1811-1863)
(member of a certain gang).
To cause something to be covered with blood; to bloody.
To let blood (from); to bleed.
* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, page 121:
To initiate into warfare or a blood sport.
As nouns the difference between beer and blood
is that beer is while blood is .beer
English
(wikipedia beer)Etymology 1
From (etyl) bere, from (etyl) .Noun
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Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer . […]”}}
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* beer and skittles * beer belly * beer-bust * beer can * beered-up * beer garden * beer goggles * beer gut * beer hall * beerily * beerish * beerless * beer mat * beer muscles * beer parlour * beery * bock beer * champagne taste on a beer budget * craft beer * cry in one's beer * ginger beer * keg beer * ice beer * near beer * root beer * small beer * spruce beer (beer)Descendants
* Indonesian: (l) * Malay: (l)Verb
(en verb)pages 303–304:
- No doubt he then can feed us, wine us, beer us, And cook us something that can warm and cheer us.
page 121:
- “Beer me!” said Goody. “Also your weed is shit. Where’s the good stuff, dude?”
page 124:
- I heard Patty Marsh yelling, ‘Beer him, Eleanor!’
page 39:
- “Beer me!” To his astonishment she obeyed his command, appearing a minute later with a glass of beer and a wry smile.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) beere, equivalent to .Derived terms
* *Anagrams
* * 1000 English basic words ----blood
English
(wikipedia blood)Alternative forms
* bloud (obsolete)Noun
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citation, passage=An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.}}
- a friend of our own blood
- to share the blood of Saxon royalty
Anti-Bacchus, page 95:
- It is no tautology to call the blood of the grape red or purple, because the juice of that fruit was sometimes white and sometimes black or dark. The arterial blood of our bodies is red, but the venous is called "black blood."
- Disbudding is merely a species of pruning, and should be done as soon as the lateral buds begin to develop on the cane. It diverts the flow of the plant's blood from many buds into one or a few, thus increasing the size of the flower, [...]
- Look at a leaf. On it are many little raised lines which reach out to all parts of the leaf and back to the stem and twig. These are "veins," full of the tree's blood . It is white and looks very much like water; [...]
- He washedhis clothes in the blood of grapes.
- when you perceive his blood inclined to mirth
- Seest thou nothow giddily 'a turns about all the hot bloods between fourteen and five and thirty?
- It was the morning costume of a dandy or blood .