What's the difference between inebriated and sober?

Inebriated


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Inebriate

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It begins with the origins of treatment in the self-help temperance movement of the 1830s and 1840s and the founding of the first inebriate homes, tracing in the United States the transformation of these small, private, spiritually inclined programs into the medically dominated, quasipublic inebriate asylums of the late 19th century.
  • (2) 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.
  • (3) A very inebriated Emin mumbled incoherently that "no real people" would be watching and that she wanted to go be with her mum and friends.
  • (4) Inebriate asylums took inspiration from insane asylums and were large, public, coercive and isolated in rural areas.
  • (5) Between September 1986 and July 1988 the cases and their controls were interviewed by one and the same investigator using a questionnaire on drinking habits: quantity and type of beverage consumed, time of onset and frequency of use and whether they had manifested symptoms of inebriation or of alcohol dependence previously.
  • (6) Prohibition destroyed what public inebriate institutions existed.
  • (7) Frequency of beer, wine, and spirits drinking and inebriation by alcohol were associated with serum lipids and blood pressure in 14,667 free-living men and women aged 20 to 54 years.
  • (8) These patients cannot be identified upon presentation, however, and these data cannot support routine use of gastric emptying in the detoxification of inebriated patients.
  • (9) In multiple wound fatalities, alcohol inebriation was less common both among victims and perpetrators.
  • (10) The success of the orange revolution has promoted a kind of democratic inebriation, in which random demonstrations around the world are each sold as a new dawn of freedom in the Ukrainian tradition.
  • (11) It is noted that early research portrayed alcoholics as occupationally unstable but was based on biased samples of alcoholic psychotics and arrested public inebriates.
  • (12) We also conclude that drugs, particularly the benzodiazepines or cannabinoids, may be commonly encountered in drunken drivers, suspected of being inebriated by ethanol but no other toxicants.
  • (13) In 1971 there was a change in legislation permitting police to take public inebriates to detoxication centers.
  • (14) Because it causes immediate pain when taken into the mouth, strong mineral acid is less often swallowed than corrosive alkali, but psychotic, inebriated or determined individuals may consume lethal amounts.
  • (15) Neutrophils isolated from blood samples of healthy abstaining donors, which had been exposed to ethanol or to plasma from inebriated patients for 16 to 20 h, showed no loss of elastase activity or superoxide production.
  • (16) Most will be aware of the grotty details of the case by now, with Evans emerging as a “big night out!” type of sexual predator, who viewed inebriated young women as fair game.
  • (17) France's Europe-1 radio aired an interview with the passenger, identified only by her first name Daniele, in which she said that Depardieu appeared inebriated and announced: "I need to piss, I need to piss."
  • (18) This paper analyses two contemporaneous types of 19th-century North American inebriate institutions and attempts by their promoters to develop a public treatment system.
  • (19) This chapter recounts what is known about the international development of treatment institutions for inebriates in the century before 1940.
  • (20) The observation that those animals that drank their daily fluid in 10 min demonstrated higher peak blood-alcohol levels than the distributed animals supports the conclusion that a centrally mediated aversive state of inebriation must be present to produce a conditioned aversion.

Sober


Definition:

  • (superl.) Temperate in the use of spirituous liquors; habitually temperate; as, a sober man.
  • (superl.) Not intoxicated or excited by spirituous liquors; as, the sot may at times be sober.
  • (superl.) Not mad or insane; not wild, visionary, or heated with passion; exercising cool, dispassionate reason; self-controlled; self-possessed.
  • (superl.) Not proceeding from, or attended with, passion; calm; as, sober judgment; a man in his sober senses.
  • (superl.) Serious or subdued in demeanor, habit, appearance, or color; solemn; grave; sedate.
  • (v. t.) To make sober.
  • (v. i.) To become sober; -- often with down.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It's typically sober and elegant, and Cotillard excels in a nervy, vulnerable role.
  • (2) Read Rachel’s full story Facebook Twitter Pinterest Chris Owen: ‘I’ve been sober for six years now, and I don’t miss alcohol.’ Photograph: Graeme Robertson for the Guardian I spent my 20s playing Russian roulette with alcohol The NHS has been there time and time again for Chris Owen, who battled alcoholism throughout his 20s.
  • (3) Anthony Wells, director of YouGov’s political and social research team, said: “While there will be speculation about whether this movement is connected to the tragic death of Jo Cox, we do not think that it is... We are now in the final week of the referendum campaign and the swing back towards the status quo appears to be in full force.” EU referendum voters unconvinced by scare tactics: ‘I just want to do what’s right’ Read more Today, both sides will resume their battle to capture the votes of the undecided and to persuade people to switch sides, though both the Leave and Remain camps say that the manner of their campaigning will be more sober and less combative.
  • (4) Previous research has found a relationship between increased quantity of alcohol usually consumed per drinking occasion and decreased sober cognitive performance.
  • (5) "Yet the sobering fact remains that a transition to a low-carbon, inclusive green economy is happening far too slowly and the opportunity for meeting the 44 gigatonne target is narrowing annually," Steiner said.
  • (6) The haemostatic imbalance normalizes within two or three weeks of soberness while the immune system requires about two months to recover.
  • (7) Chambers claims she became extremely intoxicated while her ex-boyfriend remained much more sober, and says she has no memory of him having sex with her that night.
  • (8) Therefore, the presence of pulmonary emboli in association with sagittal sinus thrombosis mandates a sober assessment of the need of anticoagulation therapy in the absence of obvious contraindication.
  • (9) Mutual intoxication was a feature in 44% of the cases and in 34% both participants were sober.
  • (10) Impulsive and bonhomous, Saakashvili, meanwhile, is clearly the temperamental opposite of Putin, the sober and clinical former KGB colonel.
  • (11) Barton rubs Old Firm up the wrong way Joey Barton apologises ‘unreservedly’ after being sent home by Rangers Read more The phrase “Joey Barton Twitter storm” is pretty much a tautology, so it was no surprise that his decision to sign for Rangers in May had social media in a kerfuffle when his 2012 tweet – “I am a Celtic fan” – was dredged up so that it might be subject to calm and sober scrutiny from all concerned.
  • (12) And yet here I am today, a sober, emancipated, successful and happy woman.
  • (13) After all, on any sober calculation of relative sins, HSBC's dealings with Mexican drug bandits were surely several leagues more serious than other banks' Libor-rigging scandals.
  • (14) In the swinging 1960s, Peck's sober style seemed a little out of place, though he appeared in a couple of flashy Hitchcockian thrillers, Mirage (1965) and Arabesque (1966), and adapted to the new Hollywood as best he could, looking rather bothered as the father of a demon in The Omen (1976).
  • (15) Alcoholics reported more anger and aggression when drinking than when sober and this effect was greatest among individuals with a history of childhood aggression.
  • (16) She observed soberly that "the moment human beings lacked their own government and had to fall back upon their minimum rights, no authority was left to protect them and no institution was willing to guarantee them … Loss of national rights was identical with loss of human rights … The rights of man, supposedly inalienable, proved to be unenforceable … whenever people appeared who were no longer citizens of any sovereign state."
  • (17) It's not the most groundbreaking piece of research, but I did find it both instructive and sobering.
  • (18) In a year that will be punctuated by sober reflection and a series of commemorative occasions, it is tempting to assume a certain inevitability to events, especially when looking at them through the prism of hindsight.
  • (19) Even in alcoholics who have been sober for a long time, increased cardiac output is very common and these changes are similar to those seen in some patients with labile hypertension.
  • (20) He was a vegan, sober, nonsexual God-botherer partying in the blood-soaked Meatpacking District with the sex-and-druggers.