(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.
Wine
Definition:
(n.) The expressed juice of grapes, esp. when fermented; a beverage or liquor prepared from grapes by squeezing out their juice, and (usually) allowing it to ferment.
(n.) A liquor or beverage prepared from the juice of any fruit or plant by a process similar to that for grape wine; as, currant wine; gooseberry wine; palm wine.
(n.) The effect of drinking wine in excess; intoxication.
Example Sentences:
(1) Gallic wine sales in the UK have been tumbling for the past 20 years, but the news that France, once the largest exporter to these shores, has slipped behind Australia, the United States, Italy and now South Africa will have producers gnawing their knuckles in frustration.
(2) I haven't had to face anyone like the man who threatened to call the police when he decided his card had been cloned after sharing three bottles of wine with his wife, or the drunk woman who became violent and announced that she was a solicitor who was going to get this fucking place shut down – two customers Andrew had to deal with on the same night.
(3) At the bottom is a tiny harbour where cafe Itxas Etxea – bare brick walls and wraparound glass windows – is serving txakoli, the local white wine.
(4) The four members of the committee are all masters of wine, and the chairman is a retired diplomat, Sir David Wright.
(5) I went for a walk, had a locally made sandwich and sat in the dark drinking a glass of wine.
(6) Mann-Whitney U-tests showed that during the 7 years of highest wine consumption the highest rates for breast cancer occurred for females aged 30--59 years, but for women over 60 years of age the result was insignificant.
(7) His latest thinking includes introducing concierge desks to welcome shoppers and tapas bars in its wine departments.
(8) How can the CHOGM leaders condemn the dictatorship of Musharraf but happily wine and dine with Museveni?
(9) And on those occasions where I'm in the mood to take the wine pairing very seriously it's the vegetable dishes that require the most creative thought.
(10) Add the onion, cook for three minutes, stirring, until softened, then add the wine, sage, lemon peel, lemon juice and 150ml water.
(11) Determination of changes in lightness by photoelectric colorimetry provides an objective, quantitative means to evaluate the effects of laser treatment of port wine stains.
(12) The most common inhalant stupefacients were "Butapren" glue, trichlorethylene and "Roxy" fluid; wine and vodka were the alcohols used.
(13) 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.
(14) 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.
(15) By abusing his power, he was engrossed in irregularities and corruption, had improper relations with several women and was wined and dined at back parlours of deluxe restaurants.
(16) If we managed to import a German royal family, why is it not possible for us to also import the German housing system – slowly, bit by bit, along with their Christmas trees and mulled wine?
(17) A solid-phase extraction method with a strong anion exchanger was used to determine these compounds in sweet wines and in grape musts.
(18) The college previously said mothers-to-be should not drink more than two units once or twice a week – a small glass of wine of 125ml is 1.5 units.
(19) 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.
(20) 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.