What's the difference between drinking and shebeen?

Drinking


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Drink
  • (n.) The act of one who drinks; the act of imbibing.
  • (n.) The practice of partaking to excess of intoxicating liquors.
  • (n.) An entertainment with liquors; a carousal.

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.

Shebeen


Definition:

  • (n.) A low public house; especially, a place where spirits and other excisable liquors are illegally and privately sold.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A well-known example is the Indorama Shebeen el-Kom spinning factory, which has witnessed 95 strikes since being privatised in 2006 after the new owners refused to pay up to 10m Egyptian liras in bonuses to staff.
  • (2) We had the young Nadine Gordimer jiving with black tsotsis in shebeens.
  • (3) So we had a month of: "Hi, I'm Ned Boulting, and I'm in a shebeen", and "That was a goal for all Africa", not to mention Rob and Dan Walker on the BBC's ridiculous bus with their "what we did on our holidays" tour.
  • (4) Now the legend of Willie and his riotous shebeen-cum-speakeasy has been resurrected in a community play, Tales from the Golden Slipper, with words by the playwright Alan Plater and music by Orkney's most celebrated resident composer, Peter Maxwell Davies .
  • (5) It saw Sampson drinking in the shebeens, recruiting extraordinary talent, and letting his African staff express themselves.
  • (6) Ngcolomba sat in a hut to which his aunts were invited, to present him with gifts and impart views such as "please do not spend all your time in the shebeen".
  • (7) And as Flett says: "Being up on stage, with everyone playing instruments and enjoying themselves, reminds me just how Willie's shebeen used to be in the old days.
  • (8) Eat local food and listen to local musicians in the shebeens.
  • (9) The latter was a celebration of a famous Orcadian character, Willie Farquhar, who kept a shebeen on the island from the war years through to the 1960s, when the authorities closed him down.
  • (10) MacInnes gives us a glimpse of a secret London of nightclubs and shebeens, petty criminals, prostitutes, corrupt cops, outsiders by race, sexuality or choice.
  • (11) He first met Nelson Mandela in a shebeen (drinking den).

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