Drinking vs Potable - What's the difference?
drinking | potable |
An act or session by which drink is consumed, especially alcoholic beverages.
* 1853 , Susan Bogert Warner, The wide, wide world (page 372)
As nouns the difference between drinking and potable
is that drinking is an act or session by which drink is consumed, especially alcoholic beverages while potable is any drinkable liquid; a beverage.As a verb drinking
is .As an adjective potable is
good for drinking without fear of poisoning or disease.drinking
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- At home there were other studies and much reading; many tea drinkings on the lawn, and even breakfastings, which she thought pleasanter still.