Catalan Meaning of alcohol

alcohol

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Definitions and Meaning of alcohol in English

Wordnet

alcohol (n)

a liquor or brew containing alcohol as the active agent

any of a series of volatile hydroxyl compounds that are made from hydrocarbons by distillation

Webster

alcohol (n.)

An impalpable powder.

The fluid essence or pure spirit obtained by distillation.

Pure spirit of wine; pure or highly rectified spirit (called also ethyl alcohol); the spirituous or intoxicating element of fermented or distilled liquors, or more loosely a liquid containing it in considerable quantity. It is extracted by simple distillation from various vegetable juices and infusions of a saccharine nature, which have undergone vinous fermentation.

A class of compounds analogous to vinic alcohol in constitution. Chemically speaking, they are hydroxides of certain organic radicals; as, the radical ethyl forms common or ethyl alcohol (C2H5.OH); methyl forms methyl alcohol (CH3.OH) or wood spirit; amyl forms amyl alcohol (C5H11.OH) or fusel oil, etc.

FAQs About the word alcohol

alcohol

a liquor or brew containing alcohol as the active agent, any of a series of volatile hydroxyl compounds that are made from hydrocarbons by distillationAn impalp

Beguda alcohòlica,beguda,licor,rom,cervesa,aiguavida,licors,cervesa,ampolla,Brandy

no intoxicant

alcohate => alcohòlic, alcoate => alcoat, alco => Alco, alcides => Alcido, alcidae => alcídids,