(n.) The fluid essence or pure spirit obtained by distillation.
(n.) Pure spirit of wine; pure or highly rectified spirit (called also ethyl alcohol); the spirituous or intoxicating element of fermented or distilled liquors, or more loosely a liquid containing it in considerable quantity. It is extracted by simple distillation from various vegetable juices and infusions of a saccharine nature, which have undergone vinous fermentation.
(n.) A class of compounds analogous to vinic alcohol in constitution. Chemically speaking, they are hydroxides of certain organic radicals; as, the radical ethyl forms common or ethyl alcohol (C2H5.OH); methyl forms methyl alcohol (CH3.OH) or wood spirit; amyl forms amyl alcohol (C5H11.OH) or fusel oil, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) These variants may serve as useful gene markers in alcohol research involving animal model studies with inbred strains in mice.
(2) PMS is more prevalent among women working outside the home, alcoholics, women of high parity, and women with toxemic tendency; it probably runs in families.
(3) The 14C-aminopyrine breath test was used to measure liver function in 14 normal subjects, 16 patients with alcoholic cirrhosis, 14 alcoholics without cirrhosis, and 29 patients taking a variety of drugs.
(4) The pancreatic changes are unlikely to be an artefact, but rather a direct toxic effect of the alcohol as confirmed by the biochemical changes.
(5) Evidence of fetal alcohol effects may be found for each outcome category.
(6) The difference in HDL and HDL2 cholesterol concentrations between the MI+ and MI- groups or between the MI+ and CHD- groups persisted after adjustment by analysis of covariance for the effect of physical activity, alcohol intake, obesity, duration of diabetes, and glycemic control.
(7) Veterans admitted to a 90-day alcoholism treatment program were administered the MMPI, and those who completed the program were retested before discharge.
(8) 1 The effects of chronic ethanol intake on the elimination kinetics of antipyrine were determined in nineteen male alcoholic subjects with comparison made to fourteen male volunteers.
(9) This study examines the costs of screening patients for alcohol problems.
(10) Alcohol abuse remains the predominant cause of chronic liver disease in the Western world.
(11) The acute effect of alcohol manifested itself by decreasing mitochondrial respiration, compensated by increased glycolytic activity of the myocardium so that myocardial energy phosphate concentration remained unchanged.
(12) The transmission of alcoholism and its effects are thereby lessened for future generations of children of alcoholics.
(13) More chronic use of alcohol resulted in a suppression of LH.
(14) Because of increasing alcoholism the importance of alcoholic organ lesions is also increasing.
(15) Allergic photocontact dermatitis developed in a patient to a commercial sunscreen preparation containing para-aminobenzoic acid (PABA) in an alcohol base.
(16) The patients had a high AP, consumed more alcohol, were more well-fed, older and consumed more refined carbohydrates per 1 kg bw and less cholesterol and vegetable protein.
(17) We found that whereas idarubicin was 2-5 times more potent than the other three anthracycline analogs against these tumor cell lines, idarubicinol was 16-122 times more active than the other alcohol metabolites against the same three cell lines.
(18) The phenomenon can be ascribed to the decrease in charge density due to the incorporation of dodecyl alcohol into SDS micelles.
(19) Most of the progressive cases were alcoholic, and some showed progression to advanced pancreatitis within 4 years.
(20) These data indicate that the development of HCC in HBV-negative alcoholics with cirrhosis occurs in relation to the development of macronodules and loss of liver weight, most likely along with the prolongation of the life span.
Befuddle
Definition:
(v. t.) To becloud and confuse, as with liquor.
Example Sentences:
(1) Most are befuddled tourists who have no idea what is going on!
(2) 1) Brilliance of Barcelona shows up the Premier League When performing as they did in the first half Barcelona are dazzling – their control, passing and movement befuddled Manchester City .
(3) Donald Trump is technology's befuddled (but dangerous) grandfather Read more “So it could be somebody else.
(4) "I like your watch," he says while I gibber into his big, beautiful, travel-befuddled face.
(5) Lastly, after an affectedly befuddled defense of NSA metadata mining as “hugely important” and victim of a “debate [that] has gotten off track”, Jeb boldly reiterated the Reagan line of “peace through strength”.
(6) The pilots of his plane were befuddled by thick fog as they attempted to land, and crashed into a forest adjoining Smolensk’s airfield.
(7) The housing benefit system is so complicated, and people get so befuddled by what’s happening to them, and then they end up in court,” Smith says.
(8) He didn't really do anything but his presence befuddled Sakho, who just stood there and allowed the ball to bounce off his thigh and back to Oscar.
(9) The following Sunday, I was still befuddled with the Saturday drink – and in danger of dodging mass again.
(10) Who knew that the Rolling Stones, perhaps still befuddled by the recent events at Altamont, booked him to play at their 1969 Christmas party?
(11) Privately, [pollsters] are terrified and befuddled,” said one senior industry figure.
(12) As people will, they were quick to point to the weakness in the Genius system: if you start with a Beatles track, then the Genius is befuddled.
(13) Labour politicians talked about being “stunned” and “befuddled”, and of “a cold bitter morning”.
(14) But if Snoke was to announce himself – Benedict Cumberbatch style – as Darth Plagueis in Episode VIII, the supposed big reveal would be met with choruses of befuddlement in cinemas across the globe.
(15) June 6, 2014 3.54am BST Heat 67-69 Spurs, 3:53 remaining, third quarter Hahaha, alright Ginobili just took advantage of a massive Heat defensive lapse, hitting a layout in front of some befuddled Heat defenders.
(16) Like all self-respecting pagan gods, Gaiman's deities enjoy the human befuddlement that they cause.
(17) 11.02pm BST Sam Stein (@samsteinhp) What's befuddling is that there wasn't a single event or moment that flipped the momentum of gun policy reform.
(18) The Kings won again, this time 3-0 in regulation to take a similarly daunting 3-0 lead in the series, but it was the way in which they did it that could leave one still befuddled.
(19) With all due respect to the Baltimore Ravens , this Super Bowl's legacy will be the moment when the year's most expensive television program was caught looking as unprepared and befuddled as the most low budgeted local broadcast.
(20) The worst someone can say is that I am some befuddled old guy who doesn’t have a clue.” The Guardian view on giving ministers a free vote on Europe | Editorial Read more Rose headed Marks & Spencer, the biggest clothing retailer on the high street, between 2004 and 2010.