What's the difference between beer and swipe?

Beer


Definition:

  • (n.) A fermented liquor made from any malted grain, but commonly from barley malt, with hops or some other substance to impart a bitter flavor.
  • (n.) A fermented extract of the roots and other parts of various plants, as spruce, ginger, sassafras, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It’s a bright, simple space with wooden tables and high stalls and offers tastings and beer-making workshops.
  • (2) AB InBev has cut costs ruthlessly as it has bought up companies around the world, including Anheuser-Busch, the brewer of US beer Budweiser.
  • (3) These results suggest that smoking and beer consumption are independent risk factors for colonic adenomas.
  • (4) A total of 194 beers (148 US and 46 Canadian) were analysed for volatile N-nitrosamines.
  • (5) Beer had been brewed at the site continuously since the 16th century, in 1831 becoming the home of brewers Young & Co, which maintained the pub that gave the brewery its name.
  • (6) We continue to offer customers a great range of beer, lager and cider.” Heineken’s bid to raise prices for its products in supermarkets comes just a few months after it put 6p on a pint in pubs , a decision it blamed on the weak pound.
  • (7) The brewery kept winning trophies at the Australian International Beer Awards year in, year out, yet its head brewer refused to send beer east until he could guarantee refrigerated transport.
  • (8) Others, like eight-year-old Stan – who was playing football with his mates in a corner of the beer-soaked field, has only good memories of Wales.
  • (9) The main cause of oesophageal cancer in western countries is consumption of alcoholic beverages, the degree of risk being much greater for certain spirits than for wine or beer.
  • (10) Per adult (greater than or equal to 15 years) consumption of beer, wine, spirits and absolute alcohol for a 14-year period (1971--1984) was related to female breast cancer morbidity rates in Western Australia.
  • (11) In the UK, alcohol consumption has shifted substantially from moderate strength beer sold in pubs to strong lager, cider, wine and spirits sold by supermarkets for drinking at home.
  • (12) I’ve known them for over 10 years,” said Eugene Ward, 43, clutching a bag of water bottles and beer cans.
  • (13) Duty on beer, wine and spirits will increase as planned from midnight Sunday • Tobacco duty will rise immediately by 1% above inflation this year, then 2% • Increase in fuel duty to be staged.
  • (14) Turning water into beer With support from the government, Cerut gave out small grants of around €1,000 to more than 200 women to invest in businesses such as farming, soft drinks processing and cattle-rearing.
  • (15) A cooler full of beer is usually at hand, though swimming attire typically isn't.
  • (16) In between, I watch a parade of Berliner life: women chain-smoking in the pool’s trademark wicker chairs, fully clothed men sipping a morning beer in the 26C heat, kids jumping off the diving pier and screaming down the large waterslide.
  • (17) Camden Town is a creative business with a great range of brands that will complement our existing portfolio.” Mark Benner, managing director of the Society of Independent Brewers (Siba) said: “As craft beer continues to grow in popularity and steal market share we are likely to see more global brewers looking to take over craft breweries, something which makes membership to Siba even more important for breweries looking to differentiate themselves, as consumers look to seek out truly independent craft brewed beers.” • This article was amended on 21 December 2015 because Guinness is owned by Diageo, not SAB Miller as an earlier version said.
  • (18) "What I realised is that the most important thing is China," he says, cradling a beer and still wearing his trademark cowboy-style wide-rimmed hat.
  • (19) And failing that, drink a Diet Coke and a beer simultaneously just before you go in.
  • (20) Changes in the nature of the heme group have been monitored by visible absorption spectrophotometry and analysed quantitatively by a multiple wavelength method based on Beer's Law.

Swipe


Definition:

  • (n.) A swape or sweep. See Sweep.
  • (n.) A strong blow given with a sweeping motion, as with a bat or club.
  • (n.) Poor, weak beer; small beer.
  • (v. t.) To give a swipe to; to strike forcibly with a sweeping motion, as a ball.
  • (v. t.) To pluck; to snatch; to steal.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Why bother to put the investigators, prosecutors, judge, jury and me through this if one person can set justice aside, with the swipe of a pen.
  • (2) They released a song on (the now banned) YouTube, called Alu Anday (Potatoes and Eggs) taking a swipe at the military as well as sectarian killers.
  • (3) He has just performed a skit now about his bicycle scheme, which included a swipe at the French (because their scheme resulted in many more cycles being pinched, apparently.)
  • (4) Text is said to appear sharper, while a "control centre" on the phone allows users to adjust settings with just one swipe from the bottom of the screen.
  • (5) In a swipe at Corbyn, Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale, addressing the meeting, said: “Never forget, the best way to represent and deliver for working people will always be from the government benches.” After the meeting, the former Labour MP Lord Watts confronted Seumas Milne, Corbyn’s head of communications, and told him he was “a disgrace”.
  • (6) To check the Hub while in an app, you use your thumb to swipe the screen from left to right, and can "peek" at the Hub's inbox.
  • (7) Overlaying the image are a few brusque swipes across the canvas, a gauzy smear of thin white paint, as if something had passed between us and the painting.
  • (8) The slate was wiped clean “as far as I am concerned”, Corbyn added, before taking a swipe at the alleged purge of some of his supporters over comments made on Twitter.
  • (9) There are also problems with gestures such as swiping the screen because they're "inherently vague", and "lack discoverability": there's no way to tell what a gesture will do at any particular point.
  • (10) A furious Aitor Karanka tore into his Middlesbrough players and aimed a swipe at Boro supporters after squandering the opportunity to go top of the Championship table at Blackburn.
  • (11) The dour Zenawi could not resist a swipe at western pundits who had once written off Africa.
  • (12) The first real opening of the second half fell to Norwich, but Gary O’Neil swiped wildly at the ball.
  • (13) And oddly, ridiculously, he then swipes at the final ball, trying to take it from outside off round to leg, missing by plenty.
  • (14) She says he missed that "profit without purpose is a recipe for disaster" # MGEITF August 23, 2012 6.49pm BST Lisa O'Carroll has just tweeted: lisa o'carroll (@lisaocarroll) Lis Murdoch: News Copr s a company that s currently asking itself some very significant and difficult questions # mgeitf August 23, 2012 and lisa o'carroll (@lisaocarroll) A swipe at James?
  • (15) Swipe fully you are back in the Hub, but unfortunately the app you were in closes at that point.
  • (16) Although he took a swipe at Trump during a private fundraiser last week, Cruz has publicly showered him with praise and even voted against an amendment in the Senate judiciary committee that symbolically rejected Trump’s anti-Muslim proposal.
  • (17) There were 19m GP appointments last year, as well as 1m attendances at A&E, and 3m outpatient appointments “We’ve not robbed our social services departments to make it look like we have artificially inflated our health service budget”, he says, in a direct swipe at the Conservatives’ proud boast that they have successfully increased the NHS budget in England every year since 2010.
  • (18) Do you wish you could change the elements in the Control Center (which you reach by swiping up from the bottom) - so for example it would contain your favourite apps, not just the clock, torch, calculator and camera?
  • (19) Inside there's a chatty column about a dilemma that irritates all New Yorkers – how to swipe your Metro card at the turnstiles of the subway.
  • (20) A picture pops onto the screen, and you are immediately given the option to click yes or no, or even better you can swipe them to the left or right to get that heightened experience that you are whooshing unworthy candidates directly into the bin.