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COCKTAIL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An appetizer served as a first course at a meal
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("cocktail" is a kind of...):
appetiser; appetizer; starter (food or drink to stimulate the appetite (usually served before a meal or as the first course))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cocktail"):
fruit cocktail (a mixture of sliced or diced fruits)
crab cocktail (a cocktail of cold cooked crabmeat and a sauce)
shrimp cocktail (a cocktail of cold cooked shrimp and a sauce)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A short mixed drink
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("cocktail" is a kind of...):
mixed drink (made of two or more ingredients)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cocktail"):
White Russian (a cocktail made with vodka, coffee liqueur, and milk or cream)
planter's punch (a cocktail made of rum and lime or lemon juice with sugar and sometimes bitters)
stinger (a cocktail made of made of creme de menthe and brandy)
sour (a cocktail made of a liquor (especially whiskey or gin) mixed with lemon or lime juice and sugar)
sidecar (a cocktail made of orange liqueur with lemon juice and brandy)
screwdriver (a cocktail made with vodka and orange juice)
Sazerac (a cocktail made with bourbon with bitters and Pernod and sugar served with lemon peel)
pink lady (a cocktail made of gin and brandy with lemon juice and grenadine shaken with an egg white and ice)
old fashioned (a cocktail made of whiskey and bitters and sugar with fruit slices)
gin and it (a cocktail made of gin and sweet vermouth)
martini (a cocktail made of gin (or vodka) with dry vermouth)
margarita (a cocktail made of tequila and triple sec with lime and lemon juice)
manhattan (a cocktail made with whiskey and sweet vermouth with a dash of bitters)
Harvey Wallbanger (a cocktail made of vodka or gin and orange juice and Galliano)
grasshopper (a cocktail made of creme de menthe and cream (sometimes with creme de cacao))
gimlet (a cocktail made of gin or vodka and lime juice)
daiquiri; rum cocktail (a cocktail made with rum and lime or lemon juice)
bullshot (a cocktail made with vodka and beef bouillon or consomme)
Bloody Mary (a cocktail made with vodka and spicy tomato juice)
Context examples:
Internet, Wi-Fi, wireless telephony, it's not only GSM, we are submitted to a cocktail of electromagnetic waves.
(Health threats caused by mobile phone radiation, EUROPARL TV)
Scientists have developed spray gun that uses a process called electrospinning to 'paint' on bandages with drug cocktails tailored to treat patients' wounds.
(Scientists Develop Spray Gun to Paint Bandages onto Wounds, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Invite friends for cocktails or Sunday brunch.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
MRSA has become a serious problem in hospital- and community-acquired infections, forcing doctors to turn to alternative antibiotics, or a cocktail of different drugs which are often less effective, and raises concerns that even these drugs will in time become ineffective.
(Widely-available antibiotics could be used in the treatment of ‘superbug’ MRSA, University of Cambridge)
They used three mouse models of liver cancer, and found that when they depleted gut bacteria using an antibiotic cocktail, the mice that had the antibiotics developed fewer and smaller liver tumors and had reduced metastasis to the liver.
(Study finds gut microbiome can control antitumor immune function in liver, National Institutes of Health)
Located in Titan's stratosphere, the cloud is made of a compound of carbon and nitrogen known as dicyanoacetylene (C4N2), an ingredient in the chemical cocktail that colors the giant moon's hazy, brownish-orange atmosphere.
(Scientists Find 'Impossible' Cloud on Titan, NASA)
Likewise they decree the things that are not shop and which may be talked about, and those things are the latest operas, latest novels, cards, billiards, cocktails, automobiles, horse shows, trout fishing, tuna-fishing, big-game shooting, yacht sailing, and so forth—and mark you, these are the things the idlers know.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
The team also studied conventionally raised mice given a potent antibiotic cocktail in their drinking water beginning 3 weeks prior to the experiments.
(Gut microbes may affect cancer treatment, NIH)
Because monoclonal antibodies are generally safe, they believe that this antibody cocktail might be appropriate for uninfected pregnant women; because the antibodies will likely cross the placenta, the researchers hope that administration during pregnancy may protect both the pregnant woman and the fetus from Zika virus.
(Monoclonal antibodies against Zika show promise in monkey study, National Institutes of Health)
The study shows that patients given a cocktail of the same kind of painkillers found in such well-known, over-the-counter brands as Tylenol and Advil get the same kind of short-term pain relief as they get from the stronger medications.
(Study: Common Painkillers as Effective as Opioids in Hospital Emergency Room, VOA)
