What's the difference between drink and rink?

Drink


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To swallow anything liquid, for quenching thirst or other purpose; to imbibe; to receive or partake of, as if in satisfaction of thirst; as, to drink from a spring.
  • (v. i.) To quaff exhilarating or intoxicating liquors, in merriment or feasting; to carouse; to revel; hence, to lake alcoholic liquors to excess; to be intemperate in the /se of intoxicating or spirituous liquors; to tipple.
  • (v. t.) To swallow (a liquid); to receive, as a fluid, into the stomach; to imbibe; as, to drink milk or water.
  • (v. t.) To take in (a liquid), in any manner; to suck up; to absorb; to imbibe.
  • (v. t.) To take in; to receive within one, through the senses; to inhale; to hear; to see.
  • (v. t.) To smoke, as tobacco.
  • (n.) Liquid to be swallowed; any fluid to be taken into the stomach for quenching thirst or for other purposes, as water, coffee, or decoctions.
  • (n.) Specifically, intoxicating liquor; as, when drink is on, wit is out.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Intensity thresholds for eliciting eating and drinking were different, and both thresholds decreased with repeated testing.
  • (2) 4) Parents imagined that fruit drinks, carbonated beverages and beverages with lactic acid promoted tooth decay.
  • (3) Comprehensive regulations are being developed to limit human exposure to contamination in drinking water by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the authority of the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA).
  • (4) Injection of 0.001 Goldblatt u. renin into the angiotensin-sensitive region causes the water-replete rat to drink.
  • (5) Therefore, we examined the relationship between the usual number of drinks consumed per occasion and the incidence of fatal injuries in a cohort of US adults.
  • (6) Concurrent with this change in the level of enforcement of RBT was an extensive publicity campaign, which warned drinking drivers of their increased risk of detection by RBT units.
  • (7) However, self-efficacy (defined as confidence in being able to resist the urge to drink heavily) assessed at intake of treatment, was strongly associated with the level of consumption on drinking occasions at follow-up.
  • (8) In one of Pruitt’s first official acts, for example, he overruled the recommendation of his own agency’s scientists, based on years of meticulous research, to ban a pesticide shown to cause nerve damage, one that poses a clear risk to children, farmworkers and rural drinking water supplies.
  • (9) The mining activity does not seem to have contaminated drinking water significantly.
  • (10) A series of hierarchical multiple regressions revealed the effects of Surgency, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Emotional Stability, and Intellect on evoking upset in spouses through condescension (e.g., treating spouse as stupid or inferior), possessiveness (demanding too much time and attention), abuse (slapping spouse), unfaithfulness (having sex with others), inconsiderateness (leaving toilet seat up), moodiness (crying a lot), alcohol abuse (drinking too much alcohol), emotional constriction (hiding emotions to act tough), and self-centeredness (acting selfishly).
  • (11) It is concluded that some H2-receptor antagonists (cimetidine and nizatidine, in particular) can inhibit gastric ethanol oxidation and thus increase blood alcohol levels after drinking.
  • (12) Mean run time and total ST time were faster with CE (by 1.4 and 1.2 min) although not significantly different (P less than 0.06 and P less than 0.10) from P. Subjects reported no significant difference in nausea, fullness, or stomach upset with CE compared to P. General physiological responses were similar for each drink during 2 h of multi-modal exercise in the heat; however, blood glucose, carbohydrate utilization, and exercise intensity at the end of a ST may be increased with CE fluid replacement.
  • (13) Effects on pre-LDA teens, adolescents targeted by LDA, initiation at LDA, and post-LDA drinking experience were assessed.
  • (14) Patients with cancer of floor of the mouth and oral tongue had higher odds ratios for alcohol drinking than subjects with cancers of other sites.
  • (15) The three-year-old comes into the kitchen for a drink, and as Steve opens the fridge, I can see it contains nothing apart from a half-full bottle of milk.
  • (16) Although the level of ventilation is maintained constant during eating and drinking, the pattern of breathing becomes increasingly irregular.
  • (17) One elderly woman was left alone in the dark for hours unable to find food or drink.
  • (18) It will be a slow process to ensure everything is in place, such as ensuring there is consistent fresh drinking water and a sewerage system, but they lived there very happily before.
  • (19) Eight of the UK's biggest supermarkets have signed up to a set of principles following concerns that they were "failing to operate within the spirit of the law" over special offers and promotions for food and drink, the Office of Fair Trading has said.
  • (20) When I told my friend Rob that I was coming to visit him in Rio, I suggested we try something a bit different to going to the beach every day and drinking caipirinhas until three in the morning.

Rink


Definition:

  • (n.) The smooth and level extent of ice marked off for the game of curling.
  • (n.) An artificial sheet of ice, generally under cover, used for skating; also, a floor prepared for skating on with roller skates, or a building with such a floor.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Putin rink side and asked him about the firing of former.
  • (2) Regular rink days are Thursday to Sunday, until 10:30pm.
  • (3) Many complexes have dedicated around half their space to restaurants, cinemas, skating rinks, bowling alleys, spas, playgrounds and even language schools.
  • (4) Even one outdoor ice rink in cold-accustomed South Dakota is shutting down.
  • (5) Alexandra Palace Ice Rink , London N22 ( sadlerswells.com ) , 28-31 October.
  • (6) There was still no football at Halifax, but the local club opened its ground as a public ice rink and hundreds skated on it."
  • (7) And yet Sprague remained in awe of her former boss ( despite an acrimonious departure which resulted in her suing the company ), recalling the times his obsessive attention to detail uncovered the misalignment of terraces during the construction of Trump Tower, or drove the renovation of Central Park’s ice rink in 1981.
  • (8) He missed the place: the cold, the skating rinks, the desperate need for mittens in winter.
  • (9) A group of men outside were spraying the street with water from a fire hose in order to create a frozen ice rink that would be too slippery for riot police to attack from.
  • (10) At the other end of the rink, Jonathan Quick can be inhumanly mesmerizing when called upon by the Kings to save the day.
  • (11) UVM is turning its ice rink into Sno Cones Photograph: University of Vermont Hat tip: AKenyon 6.45pm BST Apartment Therapy said that the Museum of Modern Art is launching a pregnancy tracker app that compares the size of your baby to the size of works in its collection.
  • (12) A prospective survey has been made of the injuries to members of the public attending a well established ice rink in a major city.
  • (13) Better rink discipline, instruction classes and safety publicity should be helpful in minimising accidents.
  • (14) His speech began with a ramble through Manhattan geography, followed by a tutorial on ice skating rinks: “You want rubber hose, and you want water, and in the water you want salt so it doesn’t freeze.” Then he described his idea of New York values: policemen and firefighters; transit workers who “keep those trains and buses going and everything else”; families in Central Park, “some together, some not”.
  • (15) The opening of an ice rink resulted in 469 attendances at the local Accident and Emergency department over the first year.
  • (16) The range of injuries sustained at an ice-rink and presented to an Accident Service department is described.
  • (17) A., Berg, C., Hendrick, J. P., LaBranche-Chabot, H., Metspalu, A., Rinke, J., and Yario, T. (1988) J.
  • (18) Three ways of minimizing leakage are as follows: (1) Use a less leaky indicator, such as BCECF (Rink et al., 1982); (2) lower the incubation temperature; (3) continuously remove external indicator by perfusion technique (Boron, 1982).
  • (19) They also suggest, although they do not prove, that the translocation of these cations occurs through an agonist-operated channel as proposed by Hallam and Rink (FEBS Lett.
  • (20) Dustin Brown grabs, lifts and skates the Cup around the rink - he is the first American born captain to win it twice, both with the Kings, who now have two titles in three seasons.