Drink
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).
The word drink is also slang for a body of water, such as an ocean or a water hazard on a golf course (i.e. "He hit that one into the drink.").
It can also be 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. These include:
- Water, from the tap or from a bottle
- Juice (e.g. fruit juices and 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 United States, pop in the Midwestern U.S., and cokes in the Southern U.S.), including just carbonated water
- Squash, a fruit-flavoured syrup diluted with water.
- Sports drinks
- Infusions
- Dairy drinks, for example milk, yogurt drink, chocolate milk, milkshake, egg nog
- Alcoholic beverages
- Cocktails - mixed drinks
- Hot beverages, for example coffee, tea, hot chocolate, hot cider, cappuccino
- Pearl milk tea, a.k.a. Bubble Tea, is a Chinese tea drink popular in many parts of the world.
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 scalding when drunk or eaten too quickly, and when spilled. See also McDonald's coffee case.