What is the difference between shochu and sake?
shochu | sake |
A Japanese alcoholic beverage, most commonly distilled from barley, sweet potato or rice. Typically it is 25% alcohol by volume, making it weaker than whisky, but stronger than wine and sake.
Cause, interest or account.
* For the sake of argument
Purpose or end; reason.
* For old times' sake
The benefit or regard of someone or something.
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(obsolete except in phrases) Contention, strife; guilt, sin, accusation or charge.
* And unto Adam He said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake ; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life. — Genesis 3:17
(countable and uncountable) Rice wine, a Japanese alcoholic beverage made from rice.
Shochu is a see also of sake.
As nouns the difference between shochu and sake
is that shochu is a japanese alcoholic beverage, most commonly distilled from barley, sweet potato or rice typically it is 25% alcohol by volume, making it weaker than whisky, but stronger than wine and sake while sake is cause, interest or account or sake can be (countable and uncountable) rice wine, a japanese alcoholic beverage made from rice.shochu
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(-)See also
*sake *awamorisake
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) . More at soke, soken, seek.Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=When I gave a dinner there was generally a cover laid for him. I liked the man for his own sake , and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me.}}
- But it will be for your sake that we'll undertake to refute this thesis,