Drink vs Scull - What's the difference?
drink | scull |
(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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A single oar mounted at the stern of a boat and moved from side to side to propel the boat forward.
One of a pair of oars handled by a single rower.
A small rowing boat, for one person.
A light rowing boat used for racing by one, two, or four rowers, each operating two oars (sculls), one in each hand.
To row a boat using a scull or sculls.
* 1908 ,
To skate while keeping both feet in contact with the ground or ice.
A skull cap. A small bowl-shaped helmet, without visor or bever.
* 1786 , , A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons , page 11.
(Australia, New Zealand, slang) To drink the entire contents of (a drinking vessel) without pausing.
* 2005 , Jane Egginton, Working and Living Australia , The Sunday Times, Cadogan Guides, UK,
* 2005 , Stefan Laszczuk, The Goddamn Bus of Happiness ,
* 2006 , Marc Llewellyn, Lee Mylne, Frommer?s Australia from $60 a Day , 14th Edition,
* 2010 , Matt Warshaw, The History of Surfing ,
In obsolete terms the difference between drink and scull
is that drink is to smoke, as tobacco while scull is a shoal of fish.As verbs the difference between drink and scull
is that drink is to consume (a liquid) through the mouth while scull is to row a boat using a scull or sculls.As nouns the difference between drink and scull
is that drink is a beverage while scull is a single oar mounted at the stern of a boat and moved from side to side to propel the boat forward.drink
English
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 drinkscull
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (en)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* (racing boat) double scull, quad scull, single scullVerb
(en verb)- The afternoon sun was getting low as the Rat sculled gently homewards in a dreamy mood, murmuring poetry-things over to himself, and not paying much attention to Mole.
Derived terms
* scullerEtymology 2
See skull. The verb sense may derive from Scandinavian .Noun
(en noun)- The scull is a head piece, without visor or bever, resembling a bowl or bason, such as was worn by our cavalry, within twenty or thirty years.
Verb
(en verb)page 59,
- In 1954, Bob Hawke made the Guinness Book of Records for sculling 2.5 pints of beer in 11 seconds.
page 75,
- That way you get your opponent so gassed up from sculling beer that all he can think about is trying to burp without spewing.
page 133,
- For a livelier scene, head here on Friday or Saturday night, when mass beer-sculling (chugging) and yodeling are accompanied by a brass band and costumed waitresses ferrying foaming beer steins about the atmospheric, cellarlike space.
page 136,
- After a three-day Torquay-to-Sydney road trip with his hosts, Noll rejoined his American temmates, unshaven and stinking of alcohol, the Team USA badge ripped from his warm-up jacket and replaced by an Aussie-made patch of Disney character Gladstone Gander sculling a frothy mug of beer.