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Liquidizer vs Liquor - What's the difference?

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Liquor is a related term of liquidizer.

Liquidizer is a related term of liquor.


As nouns the difference between liquidizer and liquor

is that liquidizer is (british) a machine to chop or puree food while liquor is (obsolete) a liquid.

As a verb liquor is

to drink liquor, usually to excess.

liquidizer

English

Alternative forms

* liquidiser

Noun

(en noun)
  • (Australia, India, UK) A machine to chop or puree food; a blender.
  • * 1976 , Australian Journal of Plant Physiology , volume 3, issues 1-3, page 154:
    • tissue was disrupted using a Moulinex liquidizer and 0-5% bovine serum albumin was added to the isolating and resuspending media.
  • * 2013 , Rosamunde Pilcher, Flowers In the Rain & Other Stories (ISBN 1250032229):
    • She bought herself a second-hand Mini and in no time at all was busy as a bee, driving herself around London with pots and pans, cooking knives and liquidizers all piled up on the back seat.
  • * 2013 , Leah Leneman, The Tofu Cookbook: Over 150 quick and easy recipes (ISBN 0007524463)
    • Place a cupful of the soaked beans in a liquidizer , add a cupful of cold water and blend.

    Usage notes

    * In Australia and India, the term may be uncommon, technical or dated. * The term is found in some technical and trade publications in the US; it may be dated.

    Quotations

    * 2000 , Eric Morris, Corregidor: The American Alamo of World War II (ISBN 0815410859), page 145: *: By now Erickson, like so many of the pilots, was flying without oxygen. The liquidizers and compressor plant had been early casualties of war at Nichols Field. Instead they flew on a mixture of quinine and atropine.

    Synonyms

    * blender (US) * vitamiser, vitamizer (Australia)

    Related terms

    * liquid * liquidate * liquidation * liquidator * liquidity * liquor

    See also

    * food processor * mixer

    liquor

    English

    Alternative forms

    * liquour (obsolete)

    Noun

  • (obsolete) A liquid.
  • (obsolete) A drinkable liquid.
  • A liquid obtained by cooking meat or vegetables (or both).
  • (chiefly, US) Strong alcoholic drink derived from fermentation and distillation.
  • In process industry, a liquid in which a desired reaction takes place, e.g. pulping liquor is a mixture of chemicals and water which breaks wood into its components, thus facilitating the extraction of cellulose.

    • Synonyms

    * (strong alcoholic drink) spirits (British and Australasian English) * (liquid obtained by cooking food) stock, pot liquor (American English), broth, bouillon

    Derived terms

    * hold one's liquor * liquor lounge * liquor store

    Related terms

    * liqueur * liquid * liquidate * liquidation * liquidator * liquidity * liquidizer

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To drink liquor, usually to excess.
  • To cause someone to drink liquor, usually to excess.
  • (obsolete) To grease.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Liquor fishermen's boots.
    (Francis Bacon)
    (Webster 1913)

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