Drink
- "Beverage" redirects here. For the rock band, see Beverage (band).
The word drink is primarily a verb, meaning to ingest liquids. 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). Drink is also slang for a body of water, such as an ocean or a water hazard on a golf course (e.g. "He hit that one into the drink."). To drink in is also used metaphorically, as in to drink in the scenery.
A beverage is a drink specifically prepared for human consumption. Beverages almost always largely consist of water. Water is essential for living, significantly more so than food. Death will usually occur after 1 week without any liquids but humans have been known to survive some months without food.
The most popular bevarage worldwide is water. Tea is the second most popular, and then coffee comes next.
Drinks often consumed include:
- Juice
- Fruit juices
- Nectars
- Vegetable juices
- Sap
- Sugar cane juice
- Maple sugar sap
- Cactus juice
- Soft drinks
- Carbonated beverages
- Carbonated water
- Fermented soft drinks (in their original form, many are now made from syrup and carbonated water).
- Other carbonated soft drinks
- Citrus soft drinks (7-up etc.)
- Cream soda
- Energy drink
- Irn Bru
- Kofola
- Carbonated beverages
- Sports drinks (Gatorade etc.)
- Dairy drinks
- Alcoholic beverages (which see for classification).
- Non-alcoholic variants
- Near beer
- Non-alcoholic wine
- Sparkling cider
- Non-alcoholic variants
- Hot beverages, including infusions. Sometimes drunk chilled.
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 like coffee can cause scalding when drunk before cooling, or spilled. See McDonald's coffee case.
See also
Categories
Beverages