What's the difference between absinthe and liquor?

Absinthe


Definition:

  • (n.) The plant absinthium or common wormwood.
  • (n.) A strong spirituous liqueur made from wormwood and brandy or alcohol.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Absinthe was distilled from an alcoholic steep of herbs.
  • (2) Hallucinations induced by absinthe, the popular liqueur of the period, may explain particular canvases but not the majority of 'high yellow' paintings.
  • (3) Through an absinthe haze, he insists that he is not part of the massacre, not party to the hate.
  • (4) There are also implications for the illness of Vincent van Gogh and the once popular, but now banned liqueur, called absinthe.
  • (5) James Joyce liked whiskey and Oscar Wilde quaffed absinthe, neither of which I would serve to myself in the bath unless I were reading Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar (and we all know how that ends).
  • (6) But the artist admitted to episodes of heavy drinking that were amply confirmed by colleagues and there is good evidence to indicate that addiction to absinthe exacerbated his illness.
  • (7) And we'll live on ice cream and blueberry truffles and pancakes dripping with molasses, washed down with tequila slammers and absinthe.
  • (8) (Midlake band members also own the Paschall speakeasy on the square and sometimes wield spoons and sugarcubes themselves for the absinthe preparation.)
  • (9) Just as the British Romantic artist and poet William Blake saw spirits and portrayed them, the late 19th-century symbolist Munch, abetted by loneliness, absinthe, magical experiments and by the spiritualist Christianity of his childhood, could slip into hallucinations.
  • (10) And all forms of alcohol, including absinthe, and vodka bongs.
  • (11) Camphor, alpha-pinene (the major component of turpentine), and thujone (a constituent in the liqueur called absinthe) produced an increase in porphyrin production in primary cultures of chick embryo liver cells.
  • (12) Yet upstairs at Andy’s is Paschall , a speakeasy whose absinthe glasses, antiques and bookcases are more Left Bank than Texas.
  • (13) His first painting submitted to the Paris Salon – and rejected – was of an absinthe drinker."
  • (14) If anything, Ronson's brand of creative collaboration recalls the absinthe-soaked salons of 1920s Paris – a cultural meeting point where artists can come and share ideas, "but," says Ronson in his dry mid-Atlantic drawl, "with less alcoholism".
  • (15) Modigliani's Reclining Nude fetches second-highest ever art auction price Read more Amedeo Modigliani was high on hashish, wrecked by absinthe, and desperately poor when he painted this hymn to lust in 1917-18.
  • (16) You expect, at a party hosted by the Erotic Review at which there is nothing to drink but absinthe, to end up redefining, with disturbing new nuances, the words 'guilt' and 'hangover'.
  • (17) Eight weeks later, on 23 December, the partnership came to a violent end when the pair quarrelled violently over, it is believed, Van Gogh spending the meagre household budget on prostitutes, and his refusal to stop drinking absinthe.
  • (18) The new streets came with trees and broad pavements along which café terraces sprang up, soon to be filled with artists and artisans enjoying “absinthe hour”.
  • (19) Bowl food is considered crass, though very much encouraged if you have an absinthe bar, or sooner or later all dignity will be gone.
  • (20) As well as 100 classic cocktails, listed alphabetically from an absinthe frappe to a zombie (all for under $14), it serves craft punches by the bowl for parties of four to six and small plates to soak up the alcohol.

Liquor


Definition:

  • (n.) Any liquid substance, as water, milk, blood, sap, juice, or the like.
  • (n.) Specifically, alcoholic or spirituous fluid, either distilled or fermented, as brandy, wine, whisky, beer, etc.
  • (n.) A solution of a medicinal substance in water; -- distinguished from tincture and aqua.
  • (v. t.) To supply with liquor.
  • (v. t.) To grease.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The fall of the cell number in the liquor cerebrospinalis was more rapidly in the GAGPS treatment.
  • (2) VP levels were measured by radioimmunoassay in liquor withdrawn from the cisterna magna.
  • (3) There were 16% where liquor was not obtained at the first attempt, and a further 7% where cell growth or biochemical testing was unsatisfactory.
  • (4) A rowdy fringe took to raiding liquor stores, spraying graffiti and flaunting marijuana.
  • (5) The reported method is an alternative procedure when the usual type of liquor drainage is impossible.
  • (6) 'If you meet, you drink …' Thus introduced to intoxicating liquors under auspices both secular and sacred, the offering of alms for oblivion I took to be the custom of the country in which I had been born.
  • (7) The number of molecules per unit cell is four and was deduced from the density of the crystals (1.10 g cm-3) and the mother liquor (1.01 g cm-3) and the specific volume of the protein calculated from molecular dimensions obtained from electron microscopy studies.
  • (8) These included changes in total protein content, slight increases in cell counts and the occurrence of monocytic forms of stimulus, but rarely changes in the pattern produced by electrophoresis of the liquor.
  • (9) Three morphologically distinct types of GABA-immunoreactive (GABA-ir) cell bodies were observed, multipolar neurons in the lateral grey cell column, apparently bipolar cells in the ventral aspect of the dorsal horn, and small liquor-contacting cells surrounding the central canal.
  • (10) As a consequence, artificial pulmonary ventilation (APV) at the hyperventilation regime was administered to a part of the patients to correct acidosis of the liquor.
  • (11) Chronic pachymeningitis of the hind brain, resulting from the administration of kaolin leads to the disorders of liquor circulation on the level of outlet of the fourth ventricle this being a start mechanism for the cavity formation in the spinal cord.
  • (12) Strain Aureobasidium pullulans capable of utilizing hemicelluloses and xylan was cultivated on processed waste dialysis liquor from the production of viscose fibres, containing about 1.5% hemocelluloses.
  • (13) It was shown spectrophotometrically that a single administration of SB increased its concentration in the liquor and brain tissues by 366.7 and 500 per cent respectively as compared to the control values.
  • (14) One strain produced 25 mug of chlorflavonin per ml per 4 to 5 days in a pilot scale fermentor with stirring, using a medium containing corn steep liquor and glucose.
  • (15) The large liquor-contacting area in the pineal recess region, as well as the peculiar organization of its surface, suggest a complex interrelationship between the liquor and the pineal gland of the opossum.
  • (16) Smoking western cigarettes and drinking strong liquors were not significantly related for either sex.
  • (17) The death occurred suddenly from the disturbances of liquor and blood circulation in the presence of an asymptomatic course of disease.
  • (18) The simple sum of these 11 risk factors was significantly associated with prevalence of use for cigarettes, beer and wine, hard liquor, marijuana, and other drugs.
  • (19) Liquor examination showed albumino-cytological dissociation with an increase in liquor IgG; encephalic CT and encephalo-medullary NMR were normal; a neurophysiological study (EMG, PEV, BAER) was indicative of the PNS problems.
  • (20) A total of 99 patients with pre-eclampsia and proteinuria were managed conservatively between 30 and 37 weeks of gestation, based on serial urinary estriol, liquor amnii, and renal function studies.