Brew vs Drink - What's the difference?
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To prepare (usually a beverage) by steeping and mingling; to concoct.
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To foment or prepare, as by brewing; to contrive; to plot; to hatch.
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To attend to the business, or go through the processes, of brewing or making beer.
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To be in a state of preparation; to be mixing, forming, or gathering.
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(obsolete) To boil or seethe; to cook.
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.
(ambitransitive) To consume (a liquid) through the mouth.
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* Thackeray
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* Shakespeare
To take in (a liquid), in any manner; to suck up; to absorb; to imbibe.
* Dryden
To take in; to receive within one, through the senses; to inhale; to hear; to see.
* Tennyson
* Shakespeare
* Alexander Pope
(obsolete) To smoke, as tobacco.
* Taylor (1630)
A beverage.
A (served) alcoholic beverage.
The action of drinking, especially with the verbs take'' or ''have .
A type of beverage (usually mixed).
Alcoholic beverages in general.
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Any body of water.
(uncountable, archaic) Drinks in general; something to drink
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As nouns the difference between brew and drink
is that brew is the mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed; a brewage while drink is drink (alcoholic).As a verb brew
is to prepare (usually a beverage) by steeping and mingling; to concoct.brew
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Verb
(en verb)- Go, brew me a pottle of sack finely.
- Hence with thy brewed enchantments, foul deceiver!
- I wash, wring, brew , bake, scour.
- There is some ill a-brewing towards my rest.
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Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* brewage * brewer * brewhouse ----drink
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Alternative forms
* drinck (obsolete)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Verb
- There lies she with the blessed gods in bliss, / There drinks the nectar with ambrosia mixed.
- the bowl of punch which was brewed and drunk in Mrs. Betty's room
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- Bolingbroke always spoke freely when he had drunk freely.
- I drink to the general joy of the whole table, / And to our dear friend Banquo.
- Let the purple violets drink the stream.
- to drink the cooler air
- My ears have not yet drunk a hundred words / Of that tongue's utterance.
- Let me drink delicious poison from thy eye.
- And some men now live ninety years and past, / Who never drank tobacco first nor last.
Synonyms
* gulp, imbibe, quaff, sip, see also * (consume alcoholic beverages) drink alcoholDerived terms
* drinkable * drink and drive * drinker * drinking * drink like a fish * drink under the table * drink upEtymology 2
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) . Compare (etyl) (m).Noun
George Goodchild
- For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink
