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# drink

«drink» in Mova's school dictionary: **to take water, milk, juice or another liquid into your…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (drink, drinks, drank, drunk, drinking); noun (a drink, drinks)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To drink is to take water, milk, juice or another liquid into your mouth and swallow it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drink/#m1)

2) A drink is something you drink, or an amount of it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drink/#m2)

3) For grown-ups, «to drink» can mean to drink alcohol. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drink/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

maths: liquids used up (subtract) or drinks bought and sold; a rate per day multiplies over days; liters and milliliters; science: the body needs water, plants drink through their roots; everyday life and safety: drink water when you play sport, never drink from bottles you do not know

### examples

- She drinks 2 glasses of milk a day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drink/#x1)
- He drank 300 ml of juice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drink/#x2)
- Each drink costs $2. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drink/#x3)
- How much water is left after he drinks 1 liter? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drink/#x4)
- Drink water after running. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drink/#x5)
- Can I have a drink, please? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drink/#x6)
- Never drink anything from an unknown bottle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drink/#x7)
- Plants drink water through their roots. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drink/#x8)
- Quick, give me something to drink. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drink/#x9)

### note

Drinking takes away from the amount; a rate per day multiplies over days. Trap: watch liters and milliliters (1 liter = 1000 ml). Forms: drink, drank (yesterday), have drunk.

### In the corpora

- [When a grown-up drinks too much, it is never the child's fault and never the child's job to fix.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/27-coffee-tea-wine-and-the-pub/4/)
- [Coffee contains caffeine, which makes the brain feel more awake; people who drink it every morning feel slow and grumpy without it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/27-coffee-tea-wine-and-the-pub/5/)
- [Drinking and driving is against the law and dangerous.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/27-coffee-tea-wine-and-the-pub/11/)
- [A hangover is how the body feels the day after drinking too much alcohol: headache, tiredness, thirst and feeling sick.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/27-coffee-tea-wine-and-the-pub/14/)
- [Drink, they'll be saying." Mum gently: "His family haven't said why, Mam.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/48-famous-people-are-people/5/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «drink» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drink/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.