Word: drink Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *drinkaną Proto-Germanic *drunkiz Proto-West Germanic *drunki Old English drynċ Middle English drink English drink From Middle English drink, drinke (also as drinche, drunch), from Old English drynċ, from Proto-Germanic *drunkiz, *drankiz. Cognates Cognate with Saterland Frisian Dronk (“drink”), Cimbrian gatrànkh (“drink”), Dutch drank, dronk (“drink”), German Getränk, trank, Trunk (“drink”), German Low German Drank, Drunk (“drink”), Vilamovian gytrenḱ (“drink”), Danish drik (“drink, beverage”), Icelandic drykkur (“drink, beverage”), Norwegian Bokmål drikk (“drink”), Norwegian Nynorsk drikk, drykk (“drink, alcohol”), Swedish dryck (“drink”), Gothic 𐌳𐍂𐌰𐌲𐌲𐌺 (draggk), 𐌳𐍂𐌰𐌲𐌺 (dragk, “drink”). Pronunciation: /ˈdɹɪŋk/, [ˈd͡ɹ̝ʷɪŋk] ~ [ˈd̠͡ɹ̠˔ʷɪŋk], /ˈdɹiŋk/, [d͡ɹ̝ʷiŋk] ~ [ˈd̠͡ɹ̠˔ʷiŋk], [d͡ɹ̝ʷɪ̝ŋk] ~ [ˈd̠͡ɹ̠˔ʷɪ̝ŋk] 1. A beverage. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I’d like another drink please. 2. Drinks in general; something to drink. Labels: uncountable Example: For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink Example: These sources do not, however, state why the drink is called lambswool. The name comes from the way the apples are roasted until they split open, and their pulp froths over the skin; this is used to float on top of the bowl of drink. 3. A type of beverage (usually mixed). Labels: countable, uncountable Example: My favourite drink is the White Russian. 4. A (served) alcoholic beverage. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Can I buy you a drink? 5. The action of drinking, especially with the verbs take or have. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: He was about to take a drink from his root beer. 6. Alcoholic beverages in general. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: She mixed furniture with the same fatal profligacy as she mixed drinks, and this outrageous contact between things which were intended by Nature to be kept poles apart gave her an inexpressible thrill. Example: By the late twenties father has died of drink and his wife is left to raise their two sons. 7. A standard drink. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: A drink of wine is about 5 ounces Example: And when (SUBJECT) was 55, would you say (he/she) drank more than, less than, or about 2 to 3 drinks a day? 8. Any body of water. Labels: colloquial, countable, uncountable Example: If he doesn't pay off the mafia, he’ll wear cement shoes to the bottom of the drink! Example: When in mid-Channel the speed slowed and I was informed by A.C. Russell that another dinghy had been spotted. This turned out to contain a Canadian fighter pilot who had been in the drink for three days and was in rather a bad way. He said he had seen all the aircraft flying over in the two days before D-Day and since, but no one had sighted him. 9. A downpour; a cloudburst; a rainstorm; a deluge; a lot of rain. Labels: Australia, countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: Now this is going to bring some huge totals of rainfall with it—200 to 400 millimetres with it—and along with that, these winds—gusts to 275 kilometres an hour near the cyclone [Cyclone Ilsa] core—and that's a real concern. That's very destructive winds and it's going to carry this inertia and the rain with it well inland. And we're likely going to be talking about a cyclone all the way through Friday as it slowly weakens, eventually washing that moisture out into a front going through the south. It means the southeast is getting a drink but W.A.'s northwest really copping it, individual totals significantly higher than what you're seeing here [on the weather map]. 10. Amount. Labels: countable, informal, uncountable Example: He [a sea-serpent] was giant, massive. A huge drink of man-eater. But even now, you know, I could take him.