What's the difference between ale and draught?

Ale


Definition:

  • (n.) An intoxicating liquor made from an infusion of malt by fermentation and the addition of a bitter, usually hops.
  • (n.) A festival in English country places, so called from the liquor drunk.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He said: "A frothy pint of ale and a Snickers from the fridge."
  • (2) Having effectively achieved its goal to promote cask ale as “real” ale (more than 11,000 real ales are now brewed in the UK ), the 45-year-old organisation has been enduring an identity crisis, and is looking to its members for a solution .
  • (3) Nosheen Iqbal, writer Discovering the Acoustic Tent (and its real ale supplies) After nearly three decades of Glastonbury attendance, this year I finally made it up the hill to the Acoustic Tent.
  • (4) Repeated administration of ALE-36 significantly accelerated the healing of gastric ulcers induced by thermocautery.
  • (5) Normally I'm really interesting to talk to but I just can't right now," one employee, drinking an ale, smiled sheepishly.
  • (6) The relaxation of TV product placement rules raised the possibility that regulars at Coronation Street's Rovers Return would be swapping their fictional Newton and Ridley ale for a pint of Boddingtons.
  • (7) In a small number of areas, we found that after the merger the parties would operate pubs in close proximity without facing sufficient competition from rivals and we are concerned this could lead to a rise in the price of food or drink or a reduction in the quality of those pubs.” Greene King, which brews Old Speckled Hen and Abbott Ale and operates chains such as Hungry Horse and Loch Fyne, said it intended to offer concessions to meet CMA concerns.
  • (8) The local authority stepped in last week to throw a protective arm around the borough’s licensed premises, a move real-ale lobby group Camra has urged other councils to follow in order to slow the closure of pubs for redevelopment.
  • (9) A short stumble from Horfield common, it's the last best stop on the A38 out of Bristol, with its ever-changing ales, wood fires, good food and amusingly graffitied Jenga.
  • (10) Maltings' seven cask ales include permanent Black Sheep, regular staples such as York Brewery's Guzzler and beers from newer, smaller breweries, such as Coxhoe's Sonnet 43 and Morpeth's Anarchy.
  • (11) The three other finalists were The Drovers Rest in Carlisle, the Kelham Island Tavern in Sheffield and The Yard of Ale, a micropub in Broadstairs, Kent.
  • (12) Liam Byrne: Jeremy Corbyn is craft ale of Labour movement Read more Mandelson warned that he feared some moderates in that atmosphere would drift away from the party, leading to the party’s possible disintegration.
  • (13) Nigel Farage must have been smiling to himself as he supped his pint of real ale last night.
  • (14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Brewdog Camden staff react by taking Camden Hells lager off their craft beer menu Peroni and Grolsch owner SAB Miller snapped up Camden’s rival Meantime earlier this year, while Diageo used its Guinness brand as a launchpad for a series of ales and porters.
  • (15) The pub's renowned food includes home-made cheese and onion, steak and kidney and beef and ale pies.
  • (16) When low workloads with ALE and ACE were compared, no significant differences (p greater than 0.05) were demonstrated in any of the variables for men or women.
  • (17) Her husband, the internationally renowned human rights activist Ales Bialiatski, did just that, jailed in August 2011 for four-and-half years on tax avoidance charges that he, and human rights organisations, call spurious.
  • (18) That night we drank local ales in Dirty Sally’s bar with the manager, biker Bill, clad in black leather Harley jacket with long grey hair in a ponytail.
  • (19) Life stress was measured with the Social and Athletic Readjustment Rating Scale (SARRS) and the Athletic Life Experiences Survey (ALES).
  • (20) It's brewed in the town by Cuilán Loughnane, who was inspired to start his White Gypsy Brewery in 2009 after tasting his first pint of real ale in, of all places, Heathrow airport.

Draught


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of drawing or pulling
  • (n.) The act of moving loads by drawing, as by beasts of burden, and the like.
  • (n.) The drawing of a bowstring.
  • (n.) Act of drawing a net; a sweeping the water for fish.
  • (n.) The act of drawing liquor into the mouth and throat; the act of drinking.
  • (n.) A sudden attack or drawing upon an enemy.
  • (n.) The act of selecting or detaching soldiers; a draft (see Draft, n., 2)
  • (n.) The act of drawing up, marking out, or delineating; representation.
  • (n.) That which is drawn
  • (n.) That which is taken by sweeping with a net.
  • (n.) The force drawn; a detachment; -- in this sense usually written draft.
  • (n.) The quantity drawn in at once in drinking; a potion or potation.
  • (n.) A sketch, outline, or representation, whether written, designed, or drawn; a delineation.
  • (n.) An order for the payment of money; -- in this sense almost always written draft.
  • (n.) A current of air moving through an inclosed place, as through a room or up a chimney.
  • (n.) That which draws
  • (n.) A team of oxen or horses.
  • (n.) A sink or drain; a privy.
  • (n.) A mild vesicatory; a sinapism; as, to apply draughts to the feet.
  • (n.) Capacity of being drawn; force necessary to draw; traction.
  • (n.) The depth of water necessary to float a ship, or the depth a ship sinks in water, especially when laden; as, a ship of twelve feet draught.
  • (n.) An allowance on weighable goods. [Eng.] See Draft, 4.
  • (n.) A move, as at chess or checkers.
  • (n.) The bevel given to the pattern for a casting, in order that it may be drawn from the sand without injury to the mold.
  • (n.) See Draft, n., 7.
  • (a.) Used for drawing vehicles, loads, etc.; as, a draught beast; draught hooks.
  • (a.) Relating to, or characterized by, a draft, or current of air.
  • (a.) Used in making drawings; as, draught compasses.
  • (a.) Drawn directly from the barrel, or other receptacle, in distinction from bottled; on draught; -- said of ale, cider, and the like.
  • (v. t.) To draw out; to call forth. See Draft.
  • (v. t.) To diminish or exhaust by drawing.
  • (v. t.) To draw in outline; to make a draught, sketch, or plan of, as in architectural and mechanical drawing.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In order to investigate the effect of food intake on the amount of fluid ingested and the intervals between draughts and the effect of fluid intake on the amount of food ingested and the intervals between meals, the eating, drinking, and core temperature of 15 adult male rats were continuously monitored for 14 days.
  • (2) Lester Young often commented that “I feel a draught” when he sensed a racist atmosphere, and his personality became radically more insular after the abuse he suffered in the US army in 1945.
  • (3) There's a vintage woodburing stove, no TV, a seafood menu rich in local produce, including Glenbeigh oysters, and a top-notch brew on draught in Tom Crean's lager, the sole beer made by Dingle Brewing Company (dinglebrewingcompany.com).
  • (4) The brace has strong anti-bending strength and draught force.
  • (5) So they got rid of the car, installed low-energy bulbs , insulation and draught-proofing, and a year-and-a-half ago they bought a wood-burning stove .
  • (6) The results of a series of cold challenges to the hand, repeated on a normal subject in a temperature-controlled room and in other parts of a rheumatology ward, show very good reproducibility outside the temperature-controlled room, provided that the immediate environment is draught-free.
  • (7) In general, though, the apparent harmony between government policy and Ofsted's work may be traceable to a much simpler matter of mindset: its head, Michael Wilshaw, is the former head of the Mossbourne academy in Hackney, and prone to sound as if he has imbibed a huge draught of whatever the education secretary, Michael Gove, is drinking.
  • (8) But that may be the least of Ukip’s woes as it sups the bitter draught of victory.
  • (9) Relief from the complaints is improved by physiotherapy and by avoiding the detrimental influence of bad posture, nervous stress, air draughts, cold chills etc.
  • (10) Muscle fibre recruitment was investigated during draught loaded exercise by studying glycogen depletion patterns from histochemical stains of muscle biopsies from the gluteus and semitendinosus muscles.
  • (11) The increase in metabolic requirements during the three levels of draught exercise was associated with increases in arterial hemoglobin concentration and oxygen content of blood.
  • (12) Draught-free homes are comfortable at lower temperatures, so you'll be able to turn down your thermostat, which could save another £55 a year.
  • (13) In particular, connections between population and presence of some fish species draughted has been studied, considering ecological, reproductive and trophic habits of fishes, in order to value relations between the influence these populations exert on fishing and biological characteristics of the quantitatively more meaningful fish species.
  • (14) The same gift of the gab that a good hotel manager deploys to schmooze an irate guest complaining about draughts made the difference between life and death; he cajoled and coaxed, flattered and deceived, lied and bribed.
  • (15) It was concluded that high oxidative capacity is of importance both for fast trotting and for draught work.
  • (16) The major clinical conditions encountered were those which adversely affect the performance of draught animals and those causing infertility.
  • (17) The role of camels in transport and draught is discussed.
  • (18) A cart equipped with an odometer, for measuring distance, and a hydraulic dynamometer, for measuring draught force, was used.
  • (19) Cask beer aside, Fringe majors on continental and Belgian bottles, with the likes of Duvel, Leffe and Timmerman's on draught, as well as real perries and ciders.
  • (20) Draught whisky and whisky in cans – available in vending machines in Japan to consumers with an ID smartcard to prove their age – are still a long way off in the west.

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