What is the difference between juice and smoothie?
juice | smoothie |
(uncountable) A liquid from a plant, especially fruit.
(countable) A beverage made of juice.
(uncountable) Any liquid resembling juice.
(Scotland) A soft drink.
(uncountable, slang) Electricity.
(uncountable, slang) Liquor.
(uncountable, slang) Political power.
(uncountable, slang) Petrol; gasoline.
(uncountable, slang) The amount charged by a bookmaker for betting services.
(uncountable, slang) Steroids.
(uncountable, slang) Semen.
(uncountable, slang) The vaginal lubrication that a woman naturally produces when sexually aroused.
(uncountable, slang) Musical agreement between instrumentalists.
To remove the juice from something.
To energize or stimulate something.
A smooth-talking person.
* 2003 , Michael Lydon, Flashbacks: Eyewitness Accounts of the Rock Revolution, 1964-1974 (page 7)
A drink made from whole fruit, thus thicker than fruit juice.
A member of the mod subculture who is relatively non-violent and wears expensive clothing.
* 1987 , John Irwin (quoting Piri Thomas), The Felon
* 1999 , Nick Johnstone, Abel Ferrara: The King of New York (page viii)
* 2011 , Gerard DeGroot (quoting Brown), Seventies Unplugged
As nouns the difference between juice and smoothie
is that juice is (uncountable) a liquid from a plant, especially fruit while smoothie is a smooth-talking person.As a verb juice
is to remove the juice from something.juice
English
Noun
(wikipedia juice) (en-noun)- Squeeze the orange and some juice will come out .
- I’d like two orange juices please .
Synonyms
* (charge by bookmaker) cut, take, vig, vigorishDerived terms
* elbow juiceVerb
Derived terms
* dejuice * juice up * unjuicesmoothie
English
(wikipedia smoothie)Alternative forms
* (l)Noun
(en noun)- True to their reputations, Paul was a smoothie who put a public relations gloss on everything he said, and John was abrasive and sarcastic, speaking his mind and letting the chips fall where they may.
- The decision to cool myself made the next two years the hardest I had done because it meant being a smoothie and staying out of trouble, which in prison is difficult,
- Film Comment's David Chute described him as: "small, stringy and intense, but he's better dressed and groomed (than Ferrara), less of a punk and more of a smoothie ."