What's the difference between moonshine and whisky?

Moonshine


Definition:

  • (n.) A month.
  • (n.) The light of the moon.
  • (n.) Hence, show without substance or reality.
  • (n.) A preparation of eggs for food.
  • (a.) Moonlight.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Risk of ESRD was significantly related to phenacetin or acetaminophen consumption (odds ratio(OR) = 2.66), moonshine consumption (OR = 2.43), a family history of renal disease (OR = 9.30); and regular occupational exposures to solvents (OR = 1.51) or silica (OR = 1.67).
  • (2) At the bar, we sit next to Dylan Laurino, @juicymerchguy , who insists we try malort – a local moonshine made from grapefruit.
  • (3) Lead poisoning arising from "moonshine whiskey" drinking has been associated with a rise in plasma renin activity.
  • (4) He explored moonshine – as they all did, except for Tom."
  • (5) A patient with chronic renal failure, a strong history of moonshine abuse, and excessive urinary lead excretion had clinical and laboratory measurements compatible with combined hyperkalemic distal renal tubular acidosis and the syndrome of selective aldosterone deficiency.
  • (6) He has his first drink of moonshine, his first kiss.
  • (7) Renin activity and aldosterone were evaluated relative to potassium levels and lead intoxication in 33 patients with a history of "moonshine" ingestion.
  • (8) But Bernard Jenkin, the former shadow defence secretary, sided with Lawson, saying it was "moonshine" for No 10 to assume Cameron could reform the EU.
  • (9) Miners long used moonshine, marijuana and prescription pills to cope with the stresses and pain of work underground.
  • (10) He has made important contributions to many branches of pure maths, such as group theory, number theory and geometry and, with collaborators, has also come up with wonderful-sounding concepts like surreal numbers, the grand antiprism and monstrous moonshine.
  • (11) The use of automobile radiators containing lead-soldered parts in the illicit distillation of alcohol (i.e., "moonshine") is an important source of lead poisoning among persons in some rural Alabama counties.
  • (12) They were more likely to be black and have gout than those denying moonshine use.
  • (13) And Jebediah means you’re just a complete cracker running a moonshine still in Dalton, Georgia.” Even before Jeb Bush , the name comes freighted with assumptions, like that you’re a hillbilly, or from a super religious family.
  • (14) They run a modestly successful bootlegging racket and are respected and feared in their community but, with Prohibition-era America thirsty for as much moonshine as their makeshift stills can churn out, they could be achieving so much more.
  • (15) The day began with an architectural boat tour, and finished with Bone Thugs-N-Harmony and grapefruit moonshine that tastes like garbage.
  • (16) He said: forget for now the moonshine of themes; you’re only just beginning to learn how to read a book.
  • (17) This was the iconography.” By the time Johnson arrived a different image had taken hold – that of the anti-modern, moonshine swilling, gun toting, backwards “hillbilly”.
  • (18) Nearly two thirds of 200 male hypertensive veterans surveyed in Philadelphia admitted to past ingestion of illicit alcoholic beverages (moonshine), many drinking it recently, and in the North.
  • (19) None of these patients had known histories of occupational or other potential sources of lead exposure, but all reported recent histories of moonshine ingestion.
  • (20) The clinical and pathological findiing in an adult with lead encephalopathy due to moonshine consumption are presented.

Whisky


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Whiskey
  • (n.) A light carriage built for rapid motion; -- called also tim-whiskey.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Given its timing, he wrote, the book "can't help being about the war", but then whisky had always been "up to its pretty bottle neck" in politics.
  • (2) Johnson no doubt also sampled the local whisky – he described the place much more favourably than most others they stayed at during their Hebridean tour.
  • (3) 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.
  • (4) Between 2008 and 2013, the average annual growth in sales of whisky by UK manufacturers was 6% but there was a drop of 1.6% in 2014.
  • (5) 3.22pm BST Mr Burnham’s suggestion is a worthy addition to all the rest – the mobile phone charges, the annexation of Faslane, embassies refusing to hold whisky receptions!
  • (6) However, City sources said that SABMiller is likely to launch a fierce defence against a deal and could instead look to combine with Diageo , the British owner of Guinness and Johnnie Walker whisky.
  • (7) Absurdly, the shops lack local staples – sugar, milk, flour – but are well stocked with subsidised imports such as single-malt whisky and Italian panettone.
  • (8) The future James I resorted to them on several occasions in Scotland: in 1600, for instance, he had two alleged assassins pickled in whisky, vinegar and allspice, put on trial, and then mutilated.
  • (9) Its infamous clubs – The Viper Room, Whisky A Go Go – are the backdrops for a thousand rock memoirs; its vertiginous hills contain more celebrity homes per square mile than anywhere else in the world.
  • (10) Hitting the slopes here isn’t so much an outing as it is a full-on expedition, albeit one fuelled by hot chocolate and whisky toddies at the bottom of every run.
  • (11) The mutagenicity of black tea but not that of whisky was suppressed by catalase.
  • (12) 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.
  • (13) Using the whole body counter technique, they show that iron absorption is lowered significantly by addition to the test dose of either normal or dealcoholized whisky, but that there is no difference between these two latter groups.
  • (14) Readers may recall the Burl Ives record about a poor, cold, tired hobo who sings about the fantastical land with "the birds and the bees and the cigarette trees, where the lemonade springs and the bluebird sings …" Yup, that's where we're living now, although the chancellor might have ruled out "the lake of stew and of whiskey too", since whisky is up 36p a bottle, while stew tax remains unchanged.
  • (15) One unit is 10ml of pure alcohol, equivalent to a measure of whisky, just over a third of a pint of beer or half a glass of wine.
  • (16) His film, The Angels' Share, a larky whisky heist, was screened with English as well as French subtitles at the festival, lest the Glaswegian accents prove a barrier for non-Scots.
  • (17) After all, it was Neuberger who chose not to follow his fellow law lords into the supreme court when it was created three years ago, telling me in a much-quoted BBC interview that the court had been created "as a result of what appears to have been a last-minute decision over a glass of whisky".
  • (18) Just down the road is the Talisker Whisky Distillery, while if you fancy a dram and a tune, the inn in Carbost has regular live music.
  • (19) According to the drinks and retail industry-funded website, drinkaware.co.uk , one unit of alcohol equates to approximately one shot of whisky, a third of a pint of beer or half of a standard 175ml glass of wine.
  • (20) said the dustman, scooping up discarded election posters, wine and whisky bottles, beer cans and other rubbish.