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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
drinking
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a drinking companion (=someone you go out with to drink alcohol)
▪ George was out again with his drinking companions.
binge drinking
▪ Binge drinking is an increasing problem among young people.
drinking chocolate
drinking fountain
drinking water (=water that you can drink safely)
▪ There is no source of drinking water on the island.
drinking water
eating/drinking habits (=the kinds of things you eat or drink regularly)
▪ You need to change your eating habits.
excessive drinking (=drinking too much alcohol)
▪ Your excessive drinking has to stop.
Heavy drinking
▪ Heavy drinking during pregnancy can damage your baby.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
eating
▪ Even such mundane tasks as eating or drinking have found a place in some ballets.
▪ Forget not good enough, she was still eating and drinking and her flat was usually warm.
▪ Angels also attended their eating and their drinking.
▪ There was a lot of singing and dancing, and eating and drinking.
excessive
▪ There are also the dangers of cutting down on food to pay for drink or drifting into excessive drinking due to loneliness.
▪ Abusive or excessive drinking is harmful not only to society but to the long-term interests of the industry as well.
heavy
▪ Around 1 in every 1,000 births are handicapped due to heavy drinking during pregnancy, although the handicap is usually mild rather than severe.
▪ David, from Torrington, Devon, joined three pals for the evening, despite being told it might involve heavy drinking.
▪ Do not cover up aspects of your lifestyle, such as heavy drinking, which you think may make you look less respectable.
▪ Many people seem simply to grow out of heavy drug use, rather as many young drinkers mature out of heavy drinking.
▪ With prolonged heavy drinking, the effects of alcohol on health can be drastic.
▪ Many people have succumbed to torpor after a week's heavy drinking.
▪ December 8, 1924: I am at the moment just recovering from a heavy bout of drinking.
▪ Whether they are or not, they can suffer severe medical, social and other consequences from their consistent heavy drinking.
sensible
▪ Despite medical advice about sensible drinking, many people still over-indulge, particularly in the run-up to Christmas and the New Year.
▪ Yet many of us do not really know how much we drink or the medically recommended sensible drinking levels.
smoking
▪ Patients with adenocarcinoma had smoking and drinking histories similar to those patients with severe oesophagitis.
▪ Patients of both groups were comparable in their ages and in their smoking and drinking habits.
■ NOUN
alcohol
▪ Almost all damage is, in the early stages, reversible provided people stop drinking alcohol.
▪ He should also avoid drinking alcohol.
▪ Avoid drinking alcohol or fruit juices. 6.
▪ Also useful is regular exercise, taking adequate daily calcium and not smoking or drinking alcohol to excess.
▪ Similarly, do not have a hot bath after a heavy meal or after drinking alcohol - the same thing could happen.
▪ And anyone found guilty of drinking alcohol may be subjected to 80 lashes of a cane.
beer
▪ You would catch them corners drinking beer.
▪ Soon, she thought, he would take to wearing shapeless brown coats, and drinking beer for breakfast instead of coffee.
▪ Our first stop was the Forge, where a bunch of Old-Timers sat drinking beer on the wooden porch.
▪ Three other late-night drivers were eating sandwiches and drinking beer.
▪ No one was really surprised when he checked out a week later after an argument about drinking beer in his room.
▪ Mending his clocks and drinking beer.
▪ That was the place where the men of the village spent their evenings, drinking beer and talking by the fire.
▪ Everyone was merry and laughing, drinking beer.
champagne
▪ He spotted Amaranth Wilikins drinking champagne with Charles Harvey and a second man whose name he did not know.
▪ With precious little to celebrate, and even less money with which to do it, many have stopped drinking champagne altogether.
coffee
▪ Quinn was in the sitting-room drinking coffee.
▪ In the newsroom, reporters hung around drinking coffee as they read or talked.
▪ They sat for several minutes, drinking coffee and talking companionably of this and that.
▪ So if, for example, you always smoke a cigarette when you have a cup of coffee, avoid drinking coffee.
▪ Vargas sat in the corner drinking coffee and reading a newspaper.
▪ Whether drinking coffee with his production people, chatting to his secretary or strolling along the corridor, his approach is professional.
▪ He spent half an hour in the restaurant, drinking coffee.
▪ We are sitting around drinking coffee in his flat, but you would think we were drinking champagne.
companion
▪ Irony is, after all, the modern mode, a drinking companion for resonance and wit.
▪ Sergei Ivanov will be sorely missed as a drinking companion by many.
habit
▪ They don't rate freedom especially highly and their drinking habits are the most modest in our sample.
▪ Voice over Whilst drinking habits and drinking houses have changed, the beer making process hasn't.
▪ Patients of both groups were comparable in their ages and in their smoking and drinking habits.
tea
▪ He spent the interval in full view of the enemy, drinking tea.
▪ They sat inside, drinking tea from enormous enamel mugs.
▪ Adam sat in his parents' house, drinking tea.
▪ The audience sat in a warm honey glow, drinking tea and eating richly iced cake.
▪ He asked not to be photographed drinking tea.
▪ McLeish looked past the boy to see Catherine Crane, colour returned, seated on an upright chair, drinking tea.
▪ Jack Firebrace and Arthur Shaw sat on the firestep smoking cigarettes and drinking tea.
▪ Chosen her as she sat drinking tea and eating chocolate biscuits and enjoying her small triumph.
water
▪ Nor has he provided any evidence to support his belief that cholera is spread in drinking water.
▪ And if our drinking water looked cloudy, we just let the tap run longer.
▪ Often it can take a little while to melt down the pieces of ice to make drinking water.
▪ Food and drinking water, Maggie thought.
▪ Geoffrey Smith Fluoride is now added to drinking water to protect teeth.
▪ This has also been found in drinking water, but is not seen as liable to be banned in the near future.
▪ Some are added to the drinking water, others are given in the feed.
▪ Even a horse's need for drinking water can become distorted.
wine
▪ House-buying is rather like drinking wine.
▪ We sat drinking wine and nibbling olives.
▪ There was something slightly shocking about an old woman drinking wine alone in a bed-sitting room.
▪ I don't start drinking wine until after I have had something to eat in case the alcohol affects my willpower!
▪ Inside the castle sat the great Daybog and his noble guests, drinking wine from golden cups.
▪ Pritchard, 37, admitted drinking wine at the school concert.
■ VERB
eat
▪ He was very sociable, and enjoyed eating, drinking and smoking.
▪ Which did not cease to be full of visitors coming and going, eating and drinking.
▪ They sat in silence, eating, drinking, two amiable and contented men.
▪ All that idleness; eating too much; drinking too much; going to bed in the early hours of the morning.
▪ We even hear of gods washing, walking, eating, drinking, being wounded and making love.
▪ Boots said there was a message on the product about children cleaning their teeth after eating or drinking.
▪ We spent the afternoon being entertained, eating, drinking and representing Chelmsford.
▪ I am trying to get a sighting of them eating cornflakes and drinking twelve - fourteen - sixteen nineteen bottles of wine.
sit
▪ They sat inside, drinking tea from enormous enamel mugs.
▪ Vargas sat in the corner drinking coffee and reading a newspaper.
▪ We rode into the Place St Michel and sat in a café drinking hot chocolate.
▪ We sat drinking wine and nibbling olives.
▪ Too flourishing, indeed, for the vicar, who objected to the time his bell-ringers sat drinking ale.
▪ Our first stop was the Forge, where a bunch of Old-Timers sat drinking beer on the wooden porch.
▪ Chosen her as she sat drinking tea and eating chocolate biscuits and enjoying her small triumph.
▪ We sat drinking and talking together for a while.
smoke
▪ Also useful is regular exercise, taking adequate daily calcium and not smoking or drinking alcohol to excess.
▪ Jack Firebrace and Arthur Shaw sat on the firestep smoking cigarettes and drinking tea.
start
▪ He started drinking 18 years ago.
▪ He learnt from Izz that, of the other dairymaids, Retty had become ill, and Marian had started drinking.
▪ Until they started drinking, I didn't have much of an impression of the Paisley students.
▪ She wondered whether he'd started drinking again.
▪ As a distraction he started gambling and drinking, spending so much on luxuries that he got into serious debt.
▪ I don't start drinking wine until after I have had something to eat in case the alcohol affects my willpower!
▪ Chemical seepage is starting to affect drinking water, 70 percent of which comes from underground sources.
stop
▪ Almost all damage is, in the early stages, reversible provided people stop drinking alcohol.
▪ Not much we can do, unless she stops drinking.
▪ His decision to stop drinking, made two days ago, now seemed futile, a pathetic old man's gesture.
▪ He had been told by the doctors that he would be dead within a year if he didn't stop drinking.
▪ Already there may be an awareness that, once started, it is difficult to stop drinking.
▪ Disputes about who's going to stop drinking and drive home don't help us go with the flow.
▪ The significant point here is that, even when they stopped drinking, the impairment of memory remained.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
What are you drinking?
drinking horn/powder horn etc
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Anyone can help by making a clear list of what he or she sees as the consequences of the sufferer's drinking.
▪ He was very sociable, and enjoyed eating, drinking and smoking.
▪ Is drinking affecting your reputation? 5.
▪ The theatre played in the evenings, the nights were for drinking.
Related phrases:
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Drinking

Drinking \Drink"ing\, n.

  1. The act of one who drinks; the act of imbibing.

  2. The practice of partaking to excess of intoxicating liquors.

  3. An entertainment with liquors; a carousal.

    Note: Drinking is used adjectively, or as the first part of a compound; as, a drinking song, drinking cup, drinking glass, drinking house, etc.

    Drinking horn, a drinking vessel made of a horn.

Drinking

Drink \Drink\ (dr[i^][ng]k), v. i. [imp. Drank (dr[a^][ng]k), formerly Drunk (dr[u^][ng]k); & p. p. Drunk, Drunken (-'n); p. pr. & vb. n. Drinking. Drunken is now rarely used, except as a verbal adj. in sense of habitually intoxicated; the form drank, not infrequently used as a p. p., is not so analogical.] [AS. drincan; akin to OS. drinkan, D. drinken, G. trinken, Icel. drekka, Sw. dricka, Dan. drikke, Goth. drigkan. Cf. Drench, Drunken, Drown.]

  1. To swallow anything liquid, for quenching thirst or other purpose; to imbibe; to receive or partake of, as if in satisfaction of thirst; as, to drink from a spring.

    Gird thyself, and serve me, till have eaten and drunken; and afterward thou shalt eat and drink.
    --Luke xvii. 8.

    He shall drink of the wrath the Almighty.
    --Job xxi. 20.

    Drink of the cup that can not cloy.
    --Keble.

  2. To quaff exhilarating or intoxicating liquors, in merriment or feasting; to carouse; to revel; hence, to lake alcoholic liquors to excess; to be intemperate in the ?se of intoxicating or spirituous liquors; to tipple.
    --Pope.

    And they drank, and were merry with him.
    --Gem. xliii. 34.

    Bolingbroke always spoke freely when he had drunk freely.
    --Thackeray.

    To drink to, to salute in drinking; to wish well to, in the act of taking the cup; to pledge in drinking.

    I drink to the general joy of the whole table, And to our dear friend Banquo.
    --Shak.

Related phrases:
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
drinking

c.1200, drinkinge, verbal noun from drink (v.). Drinking problem "alcoholism" is from 1957; earlier was drinking habit (1899).

Wiktionary
drinking

n. An act or session by which drink is consumed, especially alcoholic beverages. vb. (present participle of drink English)

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WordNet
drinking

  1. n. the act of consuming liquids [syn: imbibing, imbibition]

  2. the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess; "drink was his downfall" [syn: drink, boozing, drunkenness, crapulence]

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Wikipedia
Drinking

Drinking is the act of ingesting water or other liquids into the body through the mouth. Water is required for many of life’s physiological processes. Both excessive and inadequate water intake are associated with health problems.

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Usage examples of "drinking".

I tasted blood as though I were already drinking it, and I felt the abysmal and desperate emptiness that I always feel before I feast.

As for drinking, I am something of a chemist and I have yet to find a liquor that is free from traces of a number of poisons, some of them deadly, such as fusel oil, acetic acid, ethylacetate, acetaldehyde and furfurol.

A bomb aimer was sick in the bar after drinking whisky mixed with rum.

She turned over and buried her face in the sheets, and imagined that there was nothing in the world but this dark room, no one else but Alan, drinking beer and watching the Red Sox game.

The Report has no scientific basis whatever and has been riddled with criticism by expert students of every kind, including not merely students of alcoholism but also Professor Alfred Marshall of Cambridge, the greatest English-speaking economist of the time, who has shown that there are no grounds for the assumptions made by Professor Pearson in that part of his argument which is based upon the economic efficiency of drinking and non-drinking parents.

Empire, two men were drinking raw alk and knocking the shots back with homebrew in a portabar not far from a construction site.

She or he would be drinking in heroic fashion, perhaps yards of real Earth ale, shooting them back with raw alk boiling in dry ice.

But pure quill alk, as he had grown used to drinking as a field soldier.

Graciela watched the visitors as they sat at the pavement cafes drinking aperitives or shopping at the pescaderia - the fish market, or thefarmacia.

As they played after supper, and Lord Lincoln followed the noble English custom of drinking till he did not know his right hand from his left, he was quite astonished on waking the next morning to find that luck had been as kind to him as love.

Attached to the belt by a loop was an ivory-handled flint knife in a rawhide sheath, and suspended from another loop, the lower section of a hollow black aurochs horn, a drinking cup that was a talisman of the Aurochs Hearth.

The paper had one other general reporter, Baggy Suggs, a pickled old goat who spent his hours hanging around the courthouse across the street sniffing for gossip and drinking bourbon with a small club of washed-up lawyers too old and too drunk to practice anymore.

We were sitting under a baobab tree, a weird, muscled sculpture with branches like roots sprouting white, starlike flowers, drinking the rum and talking about the locals.

An elderly mouselike man who was drinking at the bar beside him coughed apologetically and edged bashfully nearer.

One of them, sitting alone, was Ike Batchelor, a lush who had once been an advertising copy writer and who now got his drinking money peddling numbers tickets.