What's the difference between cocktail and gin?

Cocktail


Definition:

  • (n.) A beverage made of brandy, whisky, or gin, iced, flavored, and sweetened.
  • (n.) A horse, not of pure breed, but having only one eighth or one sixteenth impure blood in his veins.
  • (n.) A mean, half-hearted fellow; a coward.
  • (n.) A species of rove beetle; -- so called from its habit of elevating the tail.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Cocktails of two or more BsAbs, selected to bind to multiple epitopes on ribosome-inactivating proteins and perhaps also on unwanted cells, could provide an important new strategy in immunotherapy.
  • (2) The work reported was done as part of an intensive investigation on toxic and radioprotective properties of three substances, ATP, AET and serotonin, administered singly or in combination to mice, with a view to identifying optimal dose ratios for cocktails.
  • (3) Israel has complained in recent weeks of an increase in stone throwing and molotov cocktail attacks on West Bank roads and in areas adjoining mainly Palestinian areas of Jerusalem, where an elderly motorist died after crashing his car during an alleged stoning attack.
  • (4) These monoclonal antibody cocktails were drug conjugated and administered intravenously.
  • (5) The breakfast meetings, cocktails, roundtables and press conferences will all be without incident.
  • (6) The stains-cocktails are well preserved for 4-5 weeks and may be used repeatedly.
  • (7) The onset of tolerance to morphine analgesia was studied in 34 female Wistar rats immediately after they drank a dextrose-saccharin cocktail or tap water for 6 or 24 hours.
  • (8) A group calling itself Fight Xenophobia contacted AFP to claim the attack, which it said was carried out with “Molotov cocktails”.
  • (9) But the cocktails take centre stage and are like drinkable pieces of art – try the margarita or the pisco sour.
  • (10) Other designs included short ruffle cocktail dresses with velvet parkas slung over the shoulder; blazers made of stringed pearly pink; and gold beading and a lace catsuit.
  • (11) By utilizing the gamma-emitting isotope of selenium, Se-(8-azidoadenosyl)[75Se]selenomethionine eliminates the need for the impregnation of acrylamide gels with fluorographic enhancers and dilution of liquid samples into scintillation cocktails, as is required with the commonly used methyl-3H-labeled and 35S-labeled S-(8-azidoadenosyl)methionine.
  • (12) Keith Richards , after all, used to indulge in speedballs of cocaine and heroin with such regularity that he cheerily referred to the toxic cocktail as "the breakfast of champions".
  • (13) Sometimes she would take me out for cocktails and get diplomatic cars from embassies to take me home.
  • (14) He looks younger than even the freshest-faced incarnation: skin smooth and honeyed, sipping an almond milk cocktail in one of London's few raw-food vegan restaurants ("I plan to live into my hundreds").
  • (15) MAbs were screened in an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) against three different antigen cocktails: S-form LPS from three P. aeruginosa strains, R-form LPS from six P. aeruginosa strains and, as a negative control, R-form LPS from Salmonella typhimurium and Escherichia coli.
  • (16) Thirty-five normal-hearing listeners' speech discrimination scores were obtained for the California Consonant Test (CCT) in four noise competitors: (1) a four talker complex (FT), (2) a nine-talker complex developed at Bowling Green State University (BGMTN), (3) cocktail party noise (CPN), and (4) white noise (WN).
  • (17) There is no easy win against terrorists, Tunisia will be pursuing a cocktail of solutions,” said one London-based security expert.
  • (18) This study illustrates the approach that we have taken to individualize the cocktail of MoAbs for the development of patient-specific therapeutic immunoconjugates.
  • (19) Rhodes said Obama had not been briefed about the arrest of three activists alleged to have been planning to throw molotov cocktails at Obama's campaign headquarters in Chicago as well as the home of Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel.
  • (20) This station, with its quarter-mile, 300kph trains, a huge cocktail bar, a branch of Foyles stocked with 20,000 titles, a smart Searcy's restaurant and brasserie, independent coffee bars, floors covered in timber and stone rather than sticky British airport-style carpet, new gothic carvings, newly cast gothic door handles, and a nine-metre-high sculpture of lovers meeting under the station clock?

Gin


Definition:

  • (n.) Against; near by; towards; as, gin night.
  • (conj.) If.
  • (v. i.) To begin; -- often followed by an infinitive without to; as, gan tell. See Gan.
  • (n.) A strong alcoholic liquor, distilled from rye and barley, and flavored with juniper berries; -- also called Hollands and Holland gin, because originally, and still very extensively, manufactured in Holland. Common gin is usually flavored with turpentine.
  • (n.) Contrivance; artifice; a trap; a snare.
  • (n.) A machine for raising or moving heavy weights, consisting of a tripod formed of poles united at the top, with a windlass, pulleys, ropes, etc.
  • (n.) A hoisting drum, usually vertical; a whim.
  • (n.) A machine for separating the seeds from cotton; a cotton gin.
  • (v. t.) To catch in a trap.
  • (v. t.) To clear of seeds by a machine; as, to gin cotton.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Macassans traded iron, tobacco, cloth and gin for access to Yolngu waters.
  • (2) For now, he leans on the bar – a big man, XL T-shirt – and, in a soft Irish accent, orders himself a small gin and tonic and a bottle of mineral water.
  • (3) Gin was popularised in the UK via British troops who were given the spirit as “Dutch courage” during the 30 years’ war.
  • (4) The Gin DNA invertase of bacteriophage Mu carries out processive recombination in which multiple rounds of exchange follow synaptic complex formation.
  • (5) It's a small sample, consisting of the folk on the train to Kings Cross this lunchtime, but your MBM correspondent saw: several gentlemen swilling from cans of San Miguel and talking excitedly about the World Cup; two blonde women in frankly disorienting 1980s style football shorts waving flags; and a bloke sitting on his own necking a tin of pre-mixed gin and tonic.
  • (6) They don’t have to wait three or four years for what may or may not be the marginal difference they make to the whisky product.” Miller’s gin now sells more than all his whisky products put together, making up 80% of total sales.
  • (7) I still have a few pints of gin and tonic before I go onstage but nothing stupid."
  • (8) It is a lot like the craft beer where we’ve seen big brands say ‘it’s time we bought these brands before they become big competition’.” He said the buyout of the craft gin distiller Monkey 47 by Pernod Ricard in January marked the beginning of a trend that was likely to escalate, although there were few craft gin makers who have reached any serious scale.
  • (9) To prepare the data base of the occlusal surface of tooth crown, the data of tooth crown above the gingival line of 7 molar were also output by the "GIN-M" program.
  • (10) The very thought is enough to get older Tory MPs spluttering into their gin this weekend – but it's probably a factor and a very zeitgeisty one.
  • (11) In the presence of purified Gin FIS is the only additional protein required for efficient inversion.
  • (12) The intriguing finding that the DNA invertase Gin has the same catalytic center as the DNA resolvases that promote deletions without recombinational enhancer and host factor FIS is discussed.
  • (13) This was soon accompanied by other “medicinal” drinks such as the gimlet, to avoid scurvy on ship, and pink gin, which was said to help seasickness.
  • (14) Both of the alcohol-containing drinks caused mild-to-moderate inebriation, but gin and slimline tonic had no significant effect on either blood-glucose or plasma-insulin levels.
  • (15) Cameron took his jacket off and sipped from the half pint glasses of water – gin?
  • (16) By 1849 gin was respectable enough to be included in the Fortnum and Mason catalogue for the first time.
  • (17) Drinks that are mostly ethanol, such as gin and vodka, give fewer hangovers (but not none) than those full of congeners, such as red wine or whisky.
  • (18) While the opening tranche of "tales" derive from the work of forgotten contemporary humorists, the pieces of London reportage that he began to contribute to the Morning Chronicle in autumn 1834 ("Gin Shops", "Shabby-Genteel People", "The Pawnbroker's Shop") are like nothing else in pre-Victorian journalism: bantering and hard-headed by turns, hectic and profuse, falling over themselves to convey every last detail of the metropolitan front-line from which Dickens sent back his dispatches.
  • (19) Four types of cultured cell (Gin-1, Chang Liver, HEP-2 and L-929) were used in vitro to determine the cytotoxicity of 12 Chinese-Japanese Dental Casting Alloys from cell recovery ability.
  • (20) It is 19 years since Malton joined Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and had her last gin and tonic.

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