What is the difference between beer and brew?

As nouns the difference between beer and brew

is that beer is an alcoholic drink fermented from starch material commonly barley malt, often with hops or some other substance to impart a bitter flavor while brew is the mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed; a brewage.

As verbs the difference between beer and brew

is that beer is {{cx|rare|transitive|lang=en}} To give beer to (someone while brew is to prepare (usually a beverage) by steeping and mingling; to concoct.

beer

English

(wikipedia beer)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) bere, from (etyl) .

Noun

(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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, chapter=1 citation , passage=“[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes like
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.

Synonyms

* See also

Derived 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)

To give beer to (someone)

* Sidney Daryl, His First Brief. A Comedietta'' in 1870 , Clement Scott, ''Drawing-room Plays and Parlour Pantomimes , Robson and Sons, pages 303–304:

No doubt he then can feed us, wine us, beer us, And cook us something that can warm and cheer us.

* 2010 , Steve Brezenhoff, The Absolute Value of -1 , Carolrhoda Lab, page 121:

“Beer me!” said Goody. “Also your weed is shit. Where’s the good stuff, dude?”

* 2013 , Janet E. Cameron, Cinnamon Toast and the End of the World , Hatchette Books Ireland, page 124:

I heard Patty Marsh yelling, ‘Beer him, Eleanor!’

* 2013 , R. D. Power, Forbidden , 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 .

Noun

(en noun)

One who is or exists.

Derived terms

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Anagrams

* * 1000 English basic words ----

brew

English

Verb

(en verb)

To prepare (usually a beverage) by steeping and mingling; to concoct.

Go, brew me a pottle of sack finely.

To foment or prepare, as by brewing; to contrive; to plot; to hatch.

Hence with thy brewed enchantments, foul deceiver!

To attend to the business, or go through the processes, of brewing or making beer.

I wash, wring, brew , bake, scour.

To be in a state of preparation; to be mixing, forming, or gathering.

There is some ill a-brewing towards my rest.

* {{quote-news, year=2011

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(obsolete) To boil or seethe; to cook.

Noun

(en noun)

The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed; a brewage.

(slang) A beer.

(British, NZ) A cup of tea.

(British, NZ) The act of making a cup of tea.

(British, informal) A hill.

Derived terms

* brewage * brewer * brewhouse ----