The word drink is primarily a verb, meaning to ingest liquids, see Drinking.
As a noun, it refers to the liquid thus ingested.
It is often used in a narrower sense to refer to alcoholic beverages (as both a verb and a noun).
It can also be used metaphorically, as in to drink in the scenery.
A beverage is a drink specifically prepared for human consumption.
Almost always it largely consists of water. These include:
- Water, from the tap or from a bottle
- Juice, for example fruit juices, vegetable juices, which may be fresh or made from a concentrate.
- Soft drinks
- Aguas frescas
- Lemonade
- Orange drink
- Carbonated drinks (generally called sodas in the Eastern U.S., pop in the Midwestern U.S., and cokes in the Southern U.S.), including just carbonated water
- Cola
- Ginger ale
- Root beerRoot beer is a beverage made from some combination of vanilla, cherry tree bark, licorice root, sarsaparilla root, sassafras root bark, nutmeg, anise, and molasses among other things. Each root beer has a unique recipe. Root beer constitutes about 3% of t, SarsaparillaSarsaparilla is a vine that bears roots with many useful properties. The main uses include the flavouring of beverages, and homeopathic medicine. Certain species of smilax yield sarsaparilla extract. These vines have long prickly stems and shiny leaves, a
- Cream sodaCream soda is a sweet carbonated beverage drunk in North America. In the American market it is usually clear or coloured brown and vanilla-flavoured. Canadian cream soda is almost always pink and has a unique taste somewhat reminiscent of grenadine. Soft
- SquashSquash is a concentrated fruit syrup to which water is added. It is common in the United Kingdom., a fruit-flavoured syrup diluted with water.
- Sports drinkA sports drink is a beverage which is supposed to rehydrate athletes, as well as restoring electrolytes, sugar, and other nutrients. Sports drinks are usually isotonic, meaning they contain the same proportions of nutrients as found in the human body.s
- InfusionAn infusion is a beverage made by steeping a flavoring substance in hot or boiling water. Infusions include coffee, tea and tisane. In medicine an infusion is a treatment in which a patient is attached to a device (a drip) that constantly delivers a liquis
- CoffeeThis article discusses the coffee plant; for information on the beverage see coffee (drink). Coffea arabica Arabian Coffee Coffea benghalensis Bengal Coffee Coffea canephora Robusta Coffee Coffea congensis Congo Coffee Coffea liberica Liberian Coffee Coff
- TeaThis article is about the beverage. For alternative meanings, see tea (disambiguation). Tang Dynasty ( 618- 907). Tea is a caffeinated beverage, an infusion made by steeping the dried leaves or buds of the shrub Camellia sinensis in hot water. In addition
- Dairy drinks, for example milk, yogurt drink, chocolate milk, milkshake
- Alcoholic beverages
- Cocktails - mixed drinks
- Hot beverage s, for example coffee, tea, hot chocolate, hot cider , cappuccino
- Pearl milk tea, aka Boba Milk Tea, is a tea drink popular in China and among overseas Chinese.
Some substances may either be called food or drink, and accordingly be eaten with a spoon or drunk, depending on solid ingredients in it and on how thick it is, and on preference:
Hot beverages and hot food can cause burns when drunk or eaten too hot and/or too fast, and when spilled. See also McDonald's coffee case.
See also:
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