Drink vs Cambro - What's the difference?
drink | cambro |
(ambitransitive) To consume (a liquid) through the mouth.
* Spenser
* Thackeray
*
, title=The Mirror and the Lamp
, chapter=2 To consume alcoholic beverages.
* Thackeray
* 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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, title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=1
, passage=She mixed furniture with the same fatal profligacy as she mixed drinks , and this outrageous contact between things which were intended by Nature to be kept poles apart gave her an inexpressible thrill.}}
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Any body of water.
(uncountable, archaic) Drinks in general; something to drink
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An insulated container for keeping food or drink hot.
* 2000 , Christopher Allen, Kimberly Allen, A Butler's Life: Scenes from the Other Side of the Silver Salver , page 192:
* 2003 , Sony Bode, Successful catering , page 64:
* 2006 , Lora Arduser, Douglas Robert Brown, The professional caterer's handbook , page 532:
* 2008 , Maura Knight, Feed , page 88:
As nouns the difference between drink and cambro
is that drink is drink (alcoholic) while cambro is an insulated container for keeping food or drink hot.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
Usage notes
* A plainer term than more elevated term (beverage). Beverage is of French origin, while drink is of Old English origin, and this stylistic difference by origin is common; see (list of English words with dual French and Anglo-Saxon variations).Synonyms
* (served beverage) beverage, see also * (served alcoholic beverage) beverage, see also * (action of drinking) gulp, sip, swig * (type of beverage) beverage * (alcoholic beverages in general) alcoholDerived terms
* the big drink * drink-driver * drink-driving * drive to drink * in the drink * straw that stirs the drink * take to drinkcambro
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Noun
(en noun)- At seven o'clock, on schedule, one of Chef James's staff arrived with the portable insulated containers known to caterers as Cambros .
- During transportation and set-up, a holding oven, or cambro , is usually required to keep food hot. These are used to keep dinner rolls, roasts, turkeys, chicken breasts and all other hot food at the right temperature
- You'll find a multitude of uses for these—cooking a chicken stew to baking cookies, transporting individual appetizers and using as shelves in cambros .
- Pickles rushed me into the manager's office, my hand still stuffed in a cambro of tomato goo.