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drink | draught |

As nouns the difference between drink and draught

is that drink is drink (alcoholic) while draught is the action or an act of pulling something along, especially a beast of burden, vehicle or tractor.

As a verb draught is

to draw out; to call forth see draft.

drink

English

Alternative forms

* drinck (obsolete)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .

Verb

  • (ambitransitive) To consume (a liquid) through the mouth.
  • * Spenser
    • There lies she with the blessed gods in bliss, / There drinks the nectar with ambrosia mixed.
  • * Thackeray
    • the bowl of punch which was brewed and drunk in Mrs. Betty's room
  • *
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  • To consume alcoholic beverages.
  • * Thackeray
    • Bolingbroke always spoke freely when he had drunk freely.
  • * Shakespeare
    • I drink to the general joy of the whole table, / And to our dear friend Banquo.
  • To take in (a liquid), in any manner; to suck up; to absorb; to imbibe.
  • * Dryden
    • Let the purple violets drink the stream.
  • To take in; to receive within one, through the senses; to inhale; to hear; to see.
  • * Tennyson
    • to drink the cooler air
  • * Shakespeare
    • My ears have not yet drunk a hundred words / Of that tongue's utterance.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • Let me drink delicious poison from thy eye.
  • (obsolete) To smoke, as tobacco.
  • * Taylor (1630)
    • 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 alcohol
    Derived terms
    * drinkable * drink and drive * drinker * drinking * drink like a fish * drink under the table * drink up
    Related terms
    * drunken, drunk

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) . Compare (etyl) (m).

    Noun

  • 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.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1935, author= George Goodchild
    • , 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
  • * , (w) 25:35:
    • 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) alcohol
    Derived terms
    * the big drink * drink-driver * drink-driving * drive to drink * in the drink * straw that stirs the drink * take to drink

    draught

    English

    Alternative forms

    * draft (US)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The action or an act of pulling something along, especially a beast of burden, vehicle or tractor.
  • * Sir W. Temple
    • A general custom of using oxen for all sort of draught would be, perhaps, the greatest improvement.
  • The act of drawing, or pulling back.
  • * Spenser
    • She sent an arrow forth with mighty draught .
  • That which is drawn.
  • * L'Estrange
    • He laid down his pipe, and cast his net, which brought him a very great draught .
  • That which draws, such as a team of oxen or horses.
  • Capacity of being drawn; force necessary to draw; traction.
  • * Mortimer
    • The Hertfordshire wheel plough is of the easiest draught .
  • The act of drawing up, marking out, or delineating; representation.
    • (Dryden)
  • A sketch, outline, or representation, whether written, designed, or drawn; a delineation; a draft.
  • * Macaulay
    • A draught of a Toleration Act was offered to the Parliament by a private member.
  • * South
    • No picture or draught of these things from the report of the eye.
  • A current of air (usually coming into a room or vehicle).
  • * Charles Dickens
    • He preferred to go and sit upon the stairs, in a strong draught of air, until he was again sent for.
  • (maritime) The depth below the water line to the bottom of a vessel's hull.
  • An amount of liquid that is drunk in one swallow.
    • She took a deep draught from the bottle of water.
  • * 1851 ,
  • *:“Drink and pass!” he cried, handing the heavy charged flagon to the nearest seaman. “The crew alone now drink. Round with it, round! Short draughts —long swallows, men; ’tis hot as Satan’s hoof.
  • The act of drawing in a net for fish.
  • * 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Luke V:
    • he sayde vnto Simon: Cary vs into the depe, and lett slippe thy nett to make a draught .
  • * Sir M. Hale
    • Upon the draught of a pond, not one fish was left.
  • (British) A game piece used in the game of draughts.
  • (Australia) A type of beer, brewed using a top-fermenting yeast; ale.
  • (UK, Ireland) Beer drawn from a cask or keg rather than a bottle or can.
  • (dated) A dose of medicine in liquid form.
  • * 1919 ,
    • Finally I gave him a draught , and he sank into uneasy slumber.
  • (medicine, obsolete) A mild vesicatory.
    • to apply draughts to the feet
  • The bevel given to the pattern for a casting, so that it can be drawn from the sand without damaging the mould.
  • (obsolete) A privy.
  • * 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Matthew XV:
    • Then sayde Jesus: are ye yett withoute understondinge? perceave ye not, that whatsoever goeth in at the mouth, descendeth doune into the bely, and ys cast out into the draught ?
  • * 1623 , William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens :
    • Rid me these Villaines from your companies; / Hang them, or stab them, drowne them in a draught , / Confound them by some course, and come to me, / Ile giue you Gold enough.
  • (obsolete) A drawing or picture.
  • * 1646 , Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica , V.22:
    • And therefore, for the whole process, and full representation, there must be more than one draught ; the one representing him in station, the other in session, another in genuflexion.
  • (obsolete) A sudden attack or drawing upon an enemy.
  • * Spenser
    • drawing sudden draughts upon the enemy when he looketh not for you
  • (military) The act of selecting or detaching soldiers; a draft.
  • (military) The force drawn; a detachment; a draft.

    • Synonyms

    * (game) checkers * (mouthful of liquid) swig

    Related terms

    * draft * draughts * draughtboard * draughtsman * draught horse * draughty * draw

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To draw out; to call forth. See draft.
    • (Addison)
  • To diminish or exhaust by drawing.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • The Parliament so often draughted and drained.
  • To draw in outline; to make a draught, sketch, or plan of, as in architectural and mechanical drawing.
    • (Webster 1913)