beverage

[ bev-er-ij, bev-rij ]

/ ˈbɛv ər ɪdʒ, ˈbɛv rɪdʒ /

any potable liquid, especially one other than water, as tea, coffee, beer, or milk: The price of the meal includes a beverage.

Origin of beverage

1250–1300; Middle English < Anglo-French beverage, bevarage, equivalent to be(i)vre to drink + -age -age

And, with Coca-Cola announcing the launch of a new milk product, the beverage could be back in our hands before we know it.

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PG has been used in more than 4,000 food, beverage, pharmaceutical and cosmetic products for more than 50 years.

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Even food and beverage companies are utilizing 3D printing to help engineer new products.

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It can spread through a sneeze, cough, sharing a beverage or speaking up close with someone who has the disease.

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A Saudi Arabian television ad for Viagra shows a man struggling to push a straw through the lid of his beverage.

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Then he noticed with a light heart that only a few of the lads, and the older ones at that, were taking the beverage.

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Though not precisely students, they yet consume the midnight oil—chiefly as a beverage.

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In view of all these facts, it certainly seems wisest if a beverage is considered essential, to make use of one less harmful.

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In them he carries the milk mixed with water which is his daily beverage.

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This, however, was no unusual thing, as that beverage was generally seen at every entertainment in those good old days.

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beverage

/ (ˈbɛvərɪdʒ, ˈbɛvrɪdʒ) /

any drink, usually other than water

C13: from Old French bevrage, from beivre to drink, from Latin bibere