alcohol
Noun
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A liquor or brew containing alcohol as the active agent (synset 107900542)
"alcohol (or drink) ruined him"is a type of:
- drug of abuse, street drug - a drug that is taken for nonmedicinal reasons (usually for mind-altering effects); drug abuse can lead to physical and mental damage and (with some substances) dependence and addiction
- beverage, drink, drinkable, potable - any liquid suitable for drinking
subtypes:- proof spirit - a mixture containing half alcohol by volume at 60 degrees Fahrenheit
- home brew, homebrew - an alcoholic beverage (especially beer) made at home
- hooch, hootch - an illicitly distilled (and usually inferior) alcoholic liquor
- kava, kavakava - an alcoholic drink made from the aromatic roots of the kava shrub
- aperitif - alcoholic beverage taken before a meal as an appetizer
- brew, brewage - drink made by steeping and boiling and fermenting rather than distilling
- rice beer, sake, saki - Japanese alcoholic beverage made from fermented rice; usually served hot
- nipa - made from sap of the Australasian nipa palm
- vino, wine - fermented juice (of grapes especially)
- booze, hard drink, hard liquor, john barleycorn, liquor, spirits, strong drink - an alcoholic beverage that is distilled rather than fermented
- ethyl alcohol, neutral spirits - nonflavored alcohol of 95 percent or 190 proof used for blending with straight whiskies and in making gin and liqueurs
- pulque - fermented Mexican drink from juice of various agave plants especially the maguey
- cordial, liqueur - strong highly flavored sweet liquor usually drunk after a meal
- mixed drink - made of two or more ingredients
- hard cider - alcoholic drink from fermented cider; `cider' and `cyder' are European (especially British) usages for the fermented beverage
- perry - a fermented and often effervescent beverage made from juice of pears; similar in taste to hard cider
- rotgut - any alcoholic beverage of inferior quality
- slug - an amount of an alcoholic drink (usually liquor) that is poured or gulped
- koumiss, kumis - an alcoholic beverage made from fermented mare's milk; made originally by nomads of central Asia
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Any of a series of volatile hydroxyl compounds that are made from hydrocarbons by distillation (synset 114732881)
is a type of: liquid - a substance that is liquid at room temperature and pressuresubtypes:
- methanol, methyl alcohol, wood alcohol, wood spirit - a light volatile flammable poisonous liquid alcohol; used as an antifreeze and solvent and fuel and as a denaturant for ethyl alcohol
- ethanol, ethyl alcohol, fermentation alcohol, grain alcohol - the intoxicating agent in fermented and distilled liquors; used pure or denatured as a solvent or in medicines and colognes and cleaning solutions and rocket fuel; proposed as a renewable clean-burning additive to gasoline
- isopropanol, isopropyl alcohol - alcohol used as antifreeze or a solvent
- allyl alcohol, propenyl alcohol - an unsaturated primary alcohol present in wood spirit; use to make resins and plasticizers and pharmaceuticals
- amyl alcohol - a mixture of 2 or more isomeric alcohols; used as a solvent and in organic synthesis
- butanol, butyl alcohol - a flammable alcohol derived from butanes and used for solvents
- cyclohexanol - a colorless oily alcohol that smells like camphor
- dihydric alcohol, diol, glycol - any of a class of alcohols having 2 hydroxyl groups in each molecule
- glycerin, glycerine, glycerol - a sweet syrupy trihydroxy alcohol obtained by saponification of fats and oils
- 1-dodecanol, lauryl alcohol - a colorless insoluble solid alcohol used to make detergents and pharmaceuticals
- propanol, propyl alcohol - a clear colorless volatile liquid (alcohol) used as a solvent and antiseptic
- steroid alcohol, sterol - any of a group of natural steroid alcohols derived from plants or animals; they are waxy insoluble substances
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