What's the difference between alcoholic and drunk?

Alcoholic


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to alcohol, or partaking of its qualities; derived from, or caused by, alcohol; containing alcohol; as, alcoholic mixtures; alcoholic gastritis; alcoholic odor.
  • (n.) A person given to the use of alcoholic liquors.
  • (n.) Alcoholic liquors.

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.

Drunk


Definition:

  • () of Drink
  • (p. p.) of Drink
  • (a.) Intoxicated with, or as with, strong drink; inebriated; drunken; -- never used attributively, but always predicatively; as, the man is drunk (not, a drunk man).
  • (a.) Drenched or saturated with moisture or liquid.
  • (n.) A drunken condition; a spree.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I haven't had to face anyone like the man who threatened to call the police when he decided his card had been cloned after sharing three bottles of wine with his wife, or the drunk woman who became violent and announced that she was a solicitor who was going to get this fucking place shut down – two customers Andrew had to deal with on the same night.
  • (2) The major part of water was drunk during feeding time.
  • (3) The leadership of 212 chapters of an organization called Mothers Against Drunk Driving was surveyed to obtain data on chapter emphasis, satisfaction, future involvement and perception of most effective countermeasures.
  • (4) We hope that the court of appeal in reaching its judgment understands that consent cannot happen when a woman is too drunk to consent.
  • (5) Big Red football parties had a reputation for being wildly drunk.
  • (6) "I would stand there and watch him every night, unless I was too drunk that I couldn't stand.
  • (7) A DWI conviction may also stimulate the drunk driver to seek treatment for alcoholism.
  • (8) Alcohol campaigns largely target younger women, yet the risk of breast cancer – which peaks in the 60-64 age group – increases by about 7% for every unit drunk per day.
  • (9) Tory toffs repelling undesirable immigrants, providing better schools, using welfare reform as a pathway to work, clearing vandals, yobs and drunks from the streets and standing up to our masters in Brussels would be very popular, and the word would soon be forgotten.
  • (10) But living in modern Britain feels like being one of a family of anxious, squabbling children whose parents have abandoned us to get drunk at the casino.
  • (11) There is a half-drunk glass of white wine abandoned on the coffee table at his Queensferry home - the Browns had friends around for dinner the previous night - and a stack of children's books and board games piled lopsidedly under a Christmas tree now shedding needles with abandon.
  • (12) No one would deny that Thomas drank too much or that he could be a troublesome drunk.
  • (13) Thirty-one males (17%) and 18 females (9%) reported getting drunk at least twice a month and having five or more drinks on each drinking occasion.
  • (14) Student days and getting drunk, our worst dates, how close we are to our parents, sausages, setting up Lindy Hop dance classes for gay people.
  • (15) "But I've never been drunk in my life," she says, to clarify).
  • (16) But Micheline Mwendike, 29, likened the concert to getting drunk to escape problems.
  • (17) My mum thought it was a bad idea, because the chefs were nuts, always drunk.
  • (18) "When beer is cheaper than water, it's just too easy for people to get drunk on cheap alcohol at home before they even set foot in the pub," the PM wrote in the foreword.
  • (19) Only recall of wine, the least frequently drunk beverage, was more highly correlated with current than with original consumption.
  • (20) Blood glucose remained unchanged during and after exercise when E was drunk.