Liquor vs Nectar - What's the difference?
liquor | nectar |
(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.
To drink liquor, usually to excess.
To cause someone to drink liquor, usually to excess.
(obsolete) To grease.
* Shakespeare
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.4:
(by extension) Any delicious drink, now especially a type of sweetened fruit juice.
(botany) The sweet liquid secreted by flowers to attract pollinating insects and birds.
As nouns the difference between liquor and nectar
is that liquor is (obsolete) a liquid while nectar is nectar.As a verb liquor
is to drink liquor, usually to excess.liquor
English
Alternative forms
* liquour (obsolete)Noun
Synonyms
* (strong alcoholic drink) spirits (British and Australasian English) * (liquid obtained by cooking food) stock, pot liquor (American English), broth, bouillonDerived terms
* hold one's liquor * liquor lounge * liquor storeVerb
(en verb)- Liquor fishermen's boots.
- (Francis Bacon)
References
* * ----nectar
English
(wikipedia nectar)Noun
(en noun)- They pourd in soveraine balme and Nectar good, / Good both for erthly med'cine and for hevenly food.