(v. t.) Liquid for drinking; drink; -- usually applied to drink artificially prepared and of an agreeable flavor; as, an intoxicating beverage.
(v. t.) Specifically, a name applied to various kinds of drink.
(v. t.) A treat, or drink money.
Example Sentences:
(1) 4) Parents imagined that fruit drinks, carbonated beverages and beverages with lactic acid promoted tooth decay.
(2) Standards may be developed for the use of alcoholic beverages by healthy persons, based on these considerations.
(3) Similarly, ingestion of the unsweetened beverage had no significant effect on plasma phenylalanine concentration.
(4) 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.
(5) The results of this study indicate that the degree of impairment after alcohol ingestion in a socially relevant manner is not dependent on the type of beverage consumed, but only on the resulting blood alcohol concentration.
(6) This response may have been influenced by the consumption of beverages containing osmotically active solutes such as sodium and glucose.
(7) At gestational weeks 16 and 21 (second trimester) and 30 and 35 (third trimester) the women were interviewed at home; they provided oral responses concerning their food and beverage consumption during the previous 24 hours.
(8) The Office for National Statistics reported a drop in output across the manufacturing sector, from pharmaceutical firm to makers of computers, electronic & optical products; and food products, beverages & tobacco goods.
(9) More than 30 state and city legislatures, from Hawaii to New York, have discussed or proposed curbs on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) ranging from bans in schools to cuts in portion sizes and a sales tax.
(10) Also little amount of n-propanol were detected in blood, which could not be reduced to the alcoholic beverages.
(11) Supplementation of the soya-bean beverage either with phosphorus and Ca or with P, Ca and methionine, to concentrations identical to those in milk, restored growth and bone mineralization.
(12) A total of 192 women with a clinical and thermographic diagnosis of fibrocystic breast disease were randomly assigned to four groups on the basis of two-by-two factorial design: (1) abstention from MTX-containing beverages, (2) abstention from alcohol, (3) abstention from MTX and alcohol, and (4) no dietary advice.
(13) The labeling of alcoholic beverages as 'vitamin enriched' could result in changes in the community's beliefs about alcohol and in increased alcohol consumption.
(14) They wanted food, beverages and personal products to be sharia-compliant, but showed more flexibility in products and services such as finance, insurance and travel.
(15) The risk of exceeding the Acceptable Daily Intake concerns only regular consumers (40-75 years old) of alcoholic beverages, particularly wine, the main vector.
(16) In the other, each serving of beverage provided 600 mg APM, a dose equivalent to the amount provided by 36 oz of APM-sweetened diet beverage.
(17) Confirming the presence of biologically active phytoestrogens in beer and their possible presence in other beverages, suggests that there may be clinically significant effects related to sustained exposure to phytoestrogens contained in alcoholic beverages.
(18) Approximately half of all respondents surveyed in Ontario are satisfied with current pricing of alcoholic beverages, and approximately two-thirds of all drinkers surveyed would pay more if higher prices would help reduce the prevalence of alcoholism.
(19) This study shows that restricting consumption of confectionery and beverages may be effective in preventing dental caries; however, encouragement of toothbrushing may not be effective in limiting dental caries progression.
(20) Davis had earlier declined the privilege of specifying his final supper, so instead was given the institution's choice of grilled cheeseburgers, oven browned potatoes, baked beans, coleslaw, cookies and a grape beverage.
Drinkable
Definition:
(a.) Capable of being drunk; suitable for drink; potable. Macaulay. Also used substantively, esp. in the plural.
Example Sentences:
(1) But the cocktails take centre stage and are like drinkable pieces of art – try the margarita or the pisco sour.
(2) The term is used to refer to removing salt from both seawater and subterranean “brackish” water, as well as the treatment of waste water (aka sewerage) to make it drinkable.
(3) The recent Spanish legislation on drinkable waters for public use includes a paragraph establishing the requirements to be fulfilled by waters in relation with their radioactivity and the methods to be used to measure it.
(4) Practical tables with the amount of fluoride in Spanish drinkable water, in commonly available infant formulas and mineral bottled waters, are shown.
(5) There are excellent showers, drinkable tap water and road access, but bring a campstove – open fires are banned.
(6) I was heading to Lake Skadar, which straddles Montenegro's border with Albania, and whose water is so clean it's almost drinkable.
(7) The changes in liver metabolism during ethanol oxidation have been well confirmed in many experiments, they nevertheless do not seem to lead to hyperlipoproteinemia in many experimental designs in animals and after drinkable amounts of ethanol in healthy man when lipolysis of adipose tissue is blocked and no food is ingested.
(8) In this suburb there's not garbage dump, drainage and the drinkable water is very contaminated; the deficient hygiene worsen the soul contamination.
(9) It’s a working coffee finca, has Wi-Fi, a swimming pool and drinkable tap water.
(10) The city does not pipe in enough drinkable water, so Jakartans rely largely on wells which extract water from shallow aquifers.
(11) b. consider drinkable water supplies, wastewater disposal and hygienic conditions in houses.
(12) 2002 was an exceptional vintage, and although the champagne is drinkable young, it will be excellent if cellared and then drunk in 20 or even 30 years' time."
(13) The results demonstrated a substantial good hygienic situation of the farms but a bad state of drinkable and irrigation waters.
(14) We spend a little more now, to recoup in the next few decades in the form of breathable air, drinkable water and an atmosphere that doesn't cook us.
(15) A correct balance in the sensory, physical, chemical and bacteriological qualities of water make it drinkable.
(16) All of the union’s assets belong to the union and that includes buildings, other assets tangible and intangible, financial, drinkable and non-drinkable.” The official also suggested there may be a debate over whether the UK can immediately take out its shareholding in the European Investment Bank, given the country’s contractual obligation to keep the institution a going concern.
(17) For this reason, we have organized two measurement campaigns with the objective of characterizing the drinkable waters in an Spanish area, where the radioactive elements concentration in the ground is high.
(18) The chemical composition of 29 of the bottled mineral waters available in the Spanish market are analyzed, including composition of the tap water supplied by Canal de Isabel II, which provides drinkable water to Madrid with a population close to 5 million inhabitants.
(19) Since the tablets were bioequivalent to the drinkable solution, incomplete absorption seems not be a result of the dissolution characteristics of the commercial formulation but rather of a first-pass effect.
(20) In the coastal areas there are shallow wells, groundwater wells, and we should treat the water in those wells to make it drinkable and safe.