wine, wine-colored, wine-coloured
(noun) a red as dark as red wine
wine, vino
(noun) fermented juice (of grapes especially)
wine
(verb) treat to wine; “Our relatives in Italy wined and dined us for a week”
wine
(verb) drink wine
Source: WordNet® 3.1
wine (countable and uncountable, plural wines)
An alcoholic beverage made by fermenting the juice of grapes.
An alcoholic beverage made by fermenting the juice of fruits or vegetables other than grapes, usually preceded by the type of the fruit or vegetable; for example, "dandelion wine".
(countable) A serving of wine.
(uncountable) A dark purplish red colour; the colour of red wine.
(Hyponyms of wine (noun)):
• Adam's wine
• barley wine
• blush wine
• dessert wine
• fortified wine
• ginger wine
• house wine
• ice wine
• jug wine
• May wine
• palm wine
• pop wine
• red wine
• rosĂ© wine
• sparkling wine
• straw wine
• table wine
• white wine
• yellow wine
• See also wine
wine (third-person singular simple present wines, present participle wining, simple past and past participle wined)
(transitive) To entertain with wine.
(intransitive) To drink wine.
wine (uncountable)
(British dialect) Wind.
Wine (plural Wines)
A surname.
(software) A free and open-source compatibility layer that aims to allow computer programs developed for Microsoft Windows to run on Unix-like operating systems.
(dated) Acronym of Windows Emulator.
Acronym of Wine is not an emulator.
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Wine is the 7674th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 4327 individuals. Wine is most common among White (88.12%) individuals.
WINE
(software) Alternative form of Wine
Source: Wiktionary
Wine, n. Etym: [OE. win, AS. win, fr. L. vinum (cf. Icel. vin; all from the Latin); akin to Gr. o'i^nos, , and E. withy. Cf. Vine, Vineyard, Vinous, Withy.]
1. The expressed juice of grapes, esp. when fermented; a beverage or liquor prepared from grapes by squeezing out their juice, and (usually) allowing it to ferment. "Red wine of Gascoigne." Piers Plowman. Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging, and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise. Prov. xx. 1. Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape Crushed the sweet poison of misused wine. Milton.
Note: Wine is essentially a dilute solution of ethyl alcohol, containing also certain small quantities of ethers and ethereal salts which give character and bouquet. According to their color, strength, taste, etc., wines are called red, white, spirituous, dry, light, still, etc.
2. A liquor or beverage prepared from the juice of any fruit or plant by a process similar to that for grape wine; as, currant wine; gooseberry wine; palm wine.
3. The effect of drinking wine in excess; intoxication. Noah awoke from his wine. Gen. ix. 24. Birch wine, Cape wine, etc. See under Birch, Cape, etc.
– Spirit of wine. See under Spirit.
– To have drunk wine of ape or wine ape, to be so drunk as to be foolish. [Obs.] Chaucer.
– Wine acid. (Chem.) See Tartaric acid, under Tartaric. [Colloq.] - - Wine apple (Bot.), a large red apple, with firm flesh and a rich, vinous flavor.
– Wine bag, a wine skin.
– Wine biscuit, a kind of sweet biscuit served with wine.
– Wine cask, a cask for holding wine, or which holds, or has held, wine.
– Wine cellar, a cellar adapted or used for storing wine.
– Wine cooler, a vessel of porous earthenware used to cool wine by the evaporation of water; also, a stand for wine bottles, containing ice.a drink composed of approximately equal parts of wine and some carbonated beverage (soda). Also called California cooler.
– Wine fly (Zoöl.), small two-winged fly of the genus Piophila, whose larva lives in wine, cider, and other fermented liquors.
– Wine grower, one who cultivates a vineyard and makes wine.
– Wine measure, the measure by which wines and other spirits are sold, smaller than beer measure.
– Wine merchant, a merchant who deals in wines.
– Wine of opium (Pharm.), a solution of opium in aromatized sherry wine, having the same strength as ordinary laudanum; -- also Sydenham's laudanum.
– Wine press, a machine or apparatus in which grapes are pressed to extract their juice.
– Wine skin, a bottle or bag of skin, used, in various countries, for carrying wine.
– Wine stone, a kind of crust deposited in wine casks. See 1st Tartar, 1.
– Wine vault. (a) A vault where wine is stored. (b) A place where wine is served at the bar, or at tables; a dramshop. Dickens.
– Wine vinegar, vinegar made from wine.
– Wine whey, whey made from milk coagulated by the use of wine.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 December 2024
(adverb) in an intuitive manner; “inventors seem to have chosen intuitively a combination of explosive and aggressive sounds as warning signals to be used on automobiles”
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.