(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.
Boozy
Definition:
(a.) A little intoxicated; fuddled; stupid with liquor; bousy.
Example Sentences:
(1) But how and when would the boozy, workshy, adorable slob who had spent 30 years twice a week in millions of British living rooms go?
(2) The assumption goes that it's a boozy, thrilling free-for-all, where brilliant ideas pour continuously out of the mouths of equally brilliant people.
(3) For a light lunch or boozy dinner there is the Agni Taverna, the outdoor restaurant where "pure poison" dripped when Mandelson, Osborne and Rothschild dined together.
(4) But to quote Hamlet, "the play's the thing" in Michael Grandage's cracking production, which makes an entertainingly boozy brew of humor both sweet and savage, melancholy sentimentality, lacerating sorrow and wicked cruelty."
(5) The promise of post-feminism after all was some Manolo Blahniks, a Mr Big or Darcy, some cracking sex toys, boozy nights out with the girls.
(6) First aired in the 1960s with Dean Martin as host, television roasts (Frank Sinatra and Ed Sullivan were among those roasted) were neutered versions of their boozy progenitors, but they were still barbed and borderline offensive – the "homage" to Sammy Davis Jr came very close to the bone on his race and chosen faith.
(7) I disagree: Baldwin is taking sides and backing Luke – the boozy, jazzy, truthful husband.
(8) The action ranges from set-piece speeches to packed fringe meetings and boozy parties.
(9) I enjoy listening to live music in the evenings or meeting with friends at our (rather boozy!)
(10) He outlined alleged purchases of more than $2,000 for interior furnishings, a boozy group dinner at the Press Club restaurant in Melbourne totalling about $2,200, videos and PlayStation games.
(11) It overran by hours and it was boozy and hilarious and it was the first time since I moved to New York that I had seen stand-ups trying stuff so obviously bespoke.
(12) A secret telegram sent by the US embassy in Azerbaijan revealed how Russia's defence minister, Anatoly Serdyukov, gave his own views after a boozy evening in February 2009 with his Azerbaijani counterpart, Safar Abiyev.
(13) What an irony if Nigel Farage MEP, a boozy metal trader from the under-regulated City of London, proved to be Britain's last, toxic contribution to the project.
(14) They followed this by a boozy session of rollerskating and organ music before we next saw Peggy swaggering into McCann looking like a rock star with her Wayfarers, Burt’s picture (see culture watch) and a cigarette dangling at a perfectly Richardsian angle.
(15) There was this awful voice.” John Gorton According to veteran journalist Laurie Oakes, former prime minister John Gorton once boarded a VIP jet in Melbourne after a boozy official dinner, and: He fell asleep, was woken a while later by the noise of the engines, and vomited.
(16) He learned to write plays by performing in taverns and inn yards; his speeches had to silence boozy peasants and heckling gentry.
(17) With hits like Stay With Me, I'd Rather Go Blind and Had Me a Real Good Time they were one of the most successful bands of the early 1970s and particularly successful live where, with their brand of boozy, good-time camaraderie, they bonded with the predominantly male audiences.
(18) The boozy lunches that were a hallmark of City life before deregulation in the 1980s are long gone.
(19) "), but even his friends have talked of a self-destructive streak, and by all accounts the 80s were a pretty boozy, promiscuous time.
(20) Shang, who has also played the leader in television dramas, is hired not for boozy weddings but staid official events.