drinkとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• enPR: drĭngk, IPA: /dɹɪŋk/, [d̠ɹ̠˔ʷɪŋk]
• 韻: -ɪŋk
• ハイフネーション: drink

語源 1

From 中期英語 drinken, from 古期英語 drincan (“to drink, swallow up, engulf”), from Proto-West Germanic *drinkan, from Proto-Germanic *drinkaną (“to drink”), of uncertain origin; possibly from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrenǵ- (“to draw into one's mouth, sip, gulp”), nasalised variant of *dʰreǵ- (“to draw, glide”).

動詞

drink (third-person singular simple present drinks, present participle drinking, simple past drank or (Southern US) drunk or (nonstandard) drinked, past participle drunk or (chiefly archaic) drunken or (dialectal) drank or (all, nonstandard, archaic or obsolete) drinked or drinken or dranken)

1. (ambitransitive) To consume (a liquid) through the mouth.

   Synonyms: gulp, imbibe, quaff, sip, see Thesaurus:drink

   He drank the water I gave him.

   You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink.

   • 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Nouember. Ægloga Vndecima.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], →OCLC, folio 47, recto:

     […] There liues ſhee with the bleſſed Gods in bliſſe: / There drinks the Nectar with Ambroſia mixt […]

   • 1857–1858, W[illiam] M[akepeace] Thackeray, The Virginians. A Tale of the Last Century, volume I, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1858, →OCLC, page 283:

     It was he who proposed the bowl of punch, which was brewed and drunk in Mrs. Betty’s room, and which Gumbo concocted with exquisite skill.

   • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter II, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

     That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired.

2. (transitive, metonymic) To consume the liquid contained within (a bottle, glass, etc.).

   Jack drank the whole bottle by himself.

3. (intransitive) To consume alcoholic beverages.

   Synonyms: drink alcohol, booze

   Near-synonyms: hit the bottle, hit the sauce

   You've been drinking, haven't you?

   No thanks, I don't drink.

   Everyone who is drinking is drinking, but not everyone who is drinking is drinking.

   • c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:

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

   • 1852, William Makepeace Thackeray, The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. […] , volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] Smith, Elder, & Company, […], →OCLC:

     Bolingbroke always spoke freely when he had drunk freely.

   • 1951 July 16, J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 168:

     The waiter came up, and I ordered a Coke for her—she didn't drink—and a Scotch and soda for myself, but the sonuvabitch wouldn't bring me one, so I had a Coke, too.

   • 2007, Matthew Weiner, “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes”, in Mad Men, season 1, episode 1, spoken by Roger Sterling:

     You don't know how to drink. Your whole generation, you drink for the wrong reasons. My generation, we drink because it's good, because it feels better than unbuttoning your collar, because we deserve it. We drink because it's what men do.

4. (transitive) To take in (a liquid), in any manner; to suck up; to absorb; to imbibe.
   • 1697, Virgil, “The Fourth Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

     Let the purple violets drink the stream.

5. (transitive) To take in; to receive within one, through the senses; to inhale; to hear; to see.
   • c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:

     My ears have not yet drunk a hundred words / Of that tongue's utterance.

   • 1717, Alexander Pope, “Eloisa to Abelard”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], published 1717, →OCLC:
   • 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “(please specify |part=Prologue or Rpilogue, or |canto=I to CXXIX)”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:

     to drink the cooler air

6. (transitive, archaic) To toast (someone or something) with a drink, honour; to wish well (see drink to), especially:
   • 1842, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “The Vision of Sin”, in The Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Poet Laureate, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., published 1884, →OCLC, part iv, page 131:

     Drink to lofty hopes that cool —
     Visions of a perfect State : Drink we, last, the public fool,
     Frantic love and frantic hate.

   1. To express one's desire for the accomplishment of a toast, sentiment or event, to wish, hope (for), forward (especially as 'to drink the health (of someone)').
      • 1710, Thomas Hearne, Remarks and Collections of Thomas Hearne:

        At the same time were great Acclamations & they drunk Damnation to D. Sacheverell, M Tilly, and all the D friends.

      • 1712 December 30 (Gregorian calendar), [Richard Steele], “FRIDAY, December 19, 1712”, in The Spectator, number 433; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume V, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:

        I ought not to have neglected a request of one of my correspondents so long as I have; but I dare say I have given him time to add practice to profession. He sent me some time ago a bottle or two of excellent wine to drink the health of a gentleman had by the penny post advertised him of an egregious error in his conduct. […]

        The spelling has been modernized.

   2. (obsolete, with carouse) [with to ‘someone or something’]
      • c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene viii], pages 360-361, columns 2-1:

        Had our great Pall ace the capacity
        To Campe this hoſt, we all would ſup together,
        And drinke Carowſes to the next dayes Fate
        Which promiſes Royall perill, Trumpetters
        With brazen dinne blaſt you the Cittics eare,
        Make mingle with our ratling Tabourines,
        That heauen and earth may ſtrike their ſounds together,
        Applauding our approach.

7. (transitive, obsolete) To smoke, as tobacco.
   • 1630, Taylor, John ("The Water Poet", 1578–1653), A Proclomation or approbation from the King of execration, to euery nation, for Tobaccoes propogration:

     And some men now live ninety yeeres and past,
     Who never dranke tobacco first nor last.

8. Used in phrasal verbs: drink down, drink in, drink off, drink out, drink to, drink up.

派生語

関連する語

• drunken, drunk, dranken

派生した語

• Belizean Creole: jrink
• Chinese Pidgin English: drinkee, dlinkee
• Sranan Tongo: dringi
  • Aukan: diingi
  • Saramaccan: diíngi
• Tok Pisin: dringim
• → Esperanto: drinki
• → Ido: drinkar

語源 2

From 中期英語 drink, drinke (also as drinche, drunch), from 古期英語 drynċ, from Proto-Germanic *drunkiz, *drankiz.

名詞

drink (countable and uncountable, plural drinks)

1. A beverage.

   I’d like another drink please.

2. (uncountable) Drinks in general; something to drink.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 25:35:

     For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink

3. A type of beverage (usually mixed).

   My favourite drink is the White Russian.

4. A (served) alcoholic beverage.

   Hypernym: beverage

   Can I buy you a drink?

5. The action of drinking, especially with the verbs take or have.

   He was about to take a drink from his root beer.

6. Alcoholic beverages in general.
   • 1935, George Goodchild, chapter 1, in Death on the Centre Court:

     She mixed furniture with the same fatal profligacy as she mixed drinks, and this outrageous contact between things which were intended by Nature to be kept poles apart gave her an inexpressible thrill.

   • 1979 February 10, Michael Bronski, “An American Dream”, in Gay Community News, volume 6, number 28, page 11:

     By the late twenties father has died of drink and his wife is left to raise their two sons.

   • 1995, “Daddy's on the Drink” (track 12), in Shame-Based Man‎, performed by Bruce McCulloch:

     The face of work is a drunk man in the same chair, chewing on the same bone for five thousand nights. The face of work is a, coffee cup in hand, frustrated: "You don't get it. They all don't get it. You don't understand, man." Daddy's on the drink again.

   • 2014 November 14, Blake Bailey, “'Tennessee Williams,' by John Lahr [print version: Theatrical victory of art over life, International New York Times, 18 November 2014, p. 13]”, in The New York Times‎:

     […] she was indeed Amanda in the flesh: a doughty chatterbox from Ohio who adopted the manner of a Southern belle and eschewed both drink and sex to the greatest extent possible.

7. A standard drink.

   A drink of wine is about 5 ounces

   • 1963, Vital and Health Statistics: Programs and collection procedures, page 125:

     And when (SUBJECT) was 55, would you say (he/she) drank more than, less than, or about 2 to 3 drinks a day?

8. (colloquial, with the) Any body of water.

   If he doesn't pay off the mafia, he’ll wear cement shoes to the bottom of the drink!

   • 1996, John French+, A Drop in the Ocean: Dramatic Accounts of Aircrew Saved From the Sea, Pen and Sword, →ISBN, page 99:

     When in mid-Channel the speed slowed and I was informed by A.C. Russell that another dinghy had been spotted. This turned out to contain a Canadian fighter pilot who had been in the drink for three days and was in rather a bad way. He said he had seen all the aircraft flying over in the two days before D-Day and since, but no one had sighted him.

   • 2011, Levi Johnston, Deer in the Headlights: My Life in Sarah Palin's Crosshairs, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 34:

     In seconds, we went from sitting in a boat to threading ice-cold water. I wasn't wearing a life jacket and am not the best paddler, but there I was, in the drink, splashing around.

   • 2012, Jack R. Myers, Shot at and Missed: Recollections of a World War II Bombardier, University of Oklahoma Press, →ISBN, page 31:

     If the planes couldn't make it, they would go in the drink, eject their rubber lifeboats, inflate them, climb in, and pray for the Navy to pick them up before the Germans did.

9. (Australia, figurative) A downpour; a cloudburst; a rainstorm; a deluge; a lot of rain.
   • 2023 April 13, 07:56 am (UTC+10/AEST), in News Breakfast, season 2023, episode 74, spoken by Nate Byrne, Melbourne, Australia: ABC News:

     Now this is going to bring some huge totals of rainfall with it—200 to 400 millimetres with it—and along with that, these winds—gusts to 275 kilometres an hour near the cyclone [Cyclone Ilsa] core—and that's a real concern. That's very destructive winds and it's going to carry this inertia and the rain with it well inland. And we're likely going to be talking about a cyclone all the way through Friday as it slowly weakens, eventually washing that moisture out into a front going through the south. It means the southeast is getting a drink but W.A.'s northwest really copping it, individual totals significantly higher than what you're seeing here [on the weather map].

10. (informal) This term needs a definition. Please help out and add a definition, then remove the text {{rfdef}}
    • 2004, Intelligent Systems, translated by Nintendo of America, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nintendo, GameCube:

      He [a sea-serpent] was giant, massive. A huge drink of man-eater. But even now, you know, I could take him.

使用する際の注意点

• A plainer term than more elevated term beverage. Beverage is of French origin, while drink is of Old English origin, and this stylistic difference by origin is common; see list of English words with dual French and Anglo-Saxon variations.
• In the sense of any body of water the term is often associated with (a threat of) drowning.

同意語

• (served beverage): beverage, see also Thesaurus:beverage
• (served alcoholic beverage): beverage, see also Thesaurus:alcoholic beverage
• (action of drinking): gulp, sip, swig
• (type of beverage): beverage
• (alcoholic beverages in general): alcohol

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