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Rye vs Coke - What's the difference?

rye | coke |

As nouns the difference between rye and coke

is that rye is a grain used extensively in europe for making bread, beer, and (now generally) for animal fodder while coke is (uncountable|informal) cola-based soft drink.

rye

English

(wikipedia rye)

Noun

  • A grain used extensively in Europe for making bread, beer, and (now generally) for animal fodder.
  • The grass Secale cereale from which the grain is obtained.
  • Rye bread.
  • (US, Canada) Rye whiskey.
  • * 1939 , (Raymond Chandler), The Big Sleep , Penguin 2011, p. 159:
  • I bought a pint of rye at the liquor counter and carried it over to the stools and set it down on the cracked marble counter.
  • Caraway
  • Ryegrass, any of the species of Lolium .
  • A disease of hawks.
  • (Ainsworth)

    Derived terms

    * ryegrass

    coke

    English

    Etymology 1

    Perhaps from (etyl) colke .

    Noun

    (-)
  • (uncountable) Solid residue from roasting coal in a coke oven; used principally as a fuel and in the production of steel and formerly as a domestic fuel.
  • * The plant should produce approximately 550,000 tons of screened blast furnace coke per year.
  • Derived terms
    *biocoke

    Verb

  • To produce coke from coal.
  • To turn into coke.
  • Etymology 2

    Originated circa 1908 in American English as a shortening of cocaine .

    Noun

    (-)
  • (informal, slang, uncountable) Cocaine.
  • See also
    * coca

    Etymology 3

    1909, from the name of the American company Coca-Cola'' and the beverage it produced; the drink was named for two of its original ingredients, ''coca'' leaves and ''cola nut.

    Noun

    (en noun)
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  • Synonyms

    * (soft drink) see the list at (m)

    References

    * http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=coke ----