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Refresher vs Cocktail - What's the difference?

refresher | cocktail |

As nouns the difference between refresher and cocktail

is that refresher is something that refreshes while cocktail is .

refresher

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Something that refreshes.
  • :The nap was a welcome refresher .
  • A review to refresh or renew knowledge.
  • :They recommend a refresher class every few years.
  • cocktail

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A mixed alcoholic beverage.
  • They visited a pub noted for the wide range of cocktails they serve.
  • * 1806 , 13 May 1806 edition of Balance and Columbian Repository , published by Hudson, New York, (first appearance in print):
  • Cocktail is a stimulating liquor composed of spirits of any kind, sugar, water, and bitters — it is vulgarly called a bittered sling and is supposed to be an excellent electioneering potion, inasmuch as it renders the heart stout and bold, at the same time that it fuddles the head.
  • A mixture of other substances.
  • Scientists found a cocktail of pollutants in the river downstream from the chemical factory.
    a cocktail of illegal drugs
  • A horse, not of pure breed, but having only one eighth or one sixteenth impure blood in its veins.
  • (Darwin)
  • (UK, slang, dated) A mean, half-hearted fellow; a coward.
  • * Thackeray
  • It was in the second affair that poor little Barney showed he was a cocktail .
  • A species of rove beetle, so called from its habit of elevating the tail.
  • Synonyms

    * mixed drink

    Derived terms

    * atomic cocktail * ckt * cocktail cabinet game * cocktail dress * cocktail frank * cocktail frankfurt * cocktail frankfurter * cocktail lounge * cocktail party * cocktail sauce * cocktail sav * cocktail savaloy * cocktail shaker * cocktail stick * cocktail table * Molotov cocktail

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Festive; lively.
  • *
  • now the orchestra is playing yellow cocktail music and the opera of voices pitches a key higher.

    See also

    * swizzle * See also

    References

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