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Drink
Drink (beverage): liquid for human consumption, from water and milk to beer, wine, tea, coffee, and soft drinks. Distinguished by the recent, post-agricultural appearance of all drinks except water and breast milk, and weak caloric compensation for sugary and alcoholic beverages.
Drink can
Drink can (beverage can): two-piece steel or aluminum container for soft drinks and beer. First canned beer 1935 (Krueger); aluminum from 1958; Alcoa pull tab 1962; Reynolds stay-on tab 1975; over 70% recycled.
Drink Masters
Drink Masters is a Netflix reality competition series (premiered October 28, 2022) in which twelve mixologists compete in cocktail challenges for $100,000 and the title Ultimate Drink Master, hosted by Tone Bell and judged by Julie Reiner and Frankie Solarik; LP Paylor O'Brien won season 1.
Drinking
Drinking, the consumption of liquids (MeSH D004326), is regulated by thirst, osmoreceptors, and vasopressin; reference intakes are 3.7 L/day (men) and 2.7 L/day (women), and safe drinking-water remains unavailable to 2.1 billion people.
Drinking Alone by Moonlight
"Drinking Alone by Moonlight" (月下獨酌) is a famous Tang dynasty poem by Li Bai, who invites the moon and his shadow to drink with him.
Drinking at the Great Wall Cave
Drinking at the Great Wall Cave (Yin ma changcheng ku xing, 饮马长城窟行) is a Han dynasty yuefu ballad in which a wife dreams of her absent husband and receives his letter.
Drinking bird
The drinking bird, also sold as the dippy bird, is a glass novelty toy that tips to dip its beak in water, powered by evaporation and patented in 1946.
Drinking Buddies
Drinking Buddies is a 2013 American comedy-drama written and directed by Joe Swanberg, starring Olivia Wilde, Jake Johnson, Anna Kendrick, and Ron Livingston as two brewery co-workers and their partners.
Drinking game
Drinking game: rule-governed social game, also called DG, requiring players to drink on cues, promoting rapid intoxication; ancient forms include Greek kottabos and Tang dynasty gong penalties; strongly linked to binge drinking among college students.
Drinking in public
Drinking in public means consuming alcohol in streets, parks, transport, and public events. WHO tracks public-place restrictions as an alcohol policy indicator within SAFER availability controls; rules vary by country and locality, with recent liberalizations in Greece and Massachusetts pilot districts.
Drinking on the Lake: First Sunshine Then Rain
Drinking on the Lake: First Sunshine Then Rain (飲湖上初晴後雨) is a pair of 1073 quatrains by Song poet Su Shi describing West Lake, compared to the beauty Xi Shi.
Drinking Solo (혼술남녀)
Drinking Solo (혼술남녀, Let's Drink) is a 2016 tvN Korean drama, 16 episodes, starring Ha Seok-jin and Park Ha-sun as Noryangjin hagwon instructors who drink alone; it rose from 2.9% to a 5.8% finale rating.
Drinking straw
Drinking straw: thin tube for sipping beverages, known since Sumerian times (3000 BC); modern paper straw patented by Marvin Stone 1888, bendy straw by Joseph Friedman 1937; polypropylene plastic dominated until environmental bans and alternatives.
Drinking the Kool-Aid
Drinking the Kool-Aid is an American idiom for accepting ideas unquestioningly. It alludes to the 1978 Jonestown massacre, where Peoples Temple followers died by cyanide-laced Flavor Aid, not Kool-Aid.
Drinking water
Drinking water, also called potable water, is water safe enough for human consumption, managed through treatment and regulation; globally, coverage rose from 68% to 74% between 2015 and 2024.
Drinking Water Directive
The Drinking Water Directive is the European Union's binding law on water for human consumption, replacing the 1998 directive and setting enforceable limits for contaminants including lead and PFAS.
Drinking Water Inspectorate
The Drinking Water Inspectorate (DWI) is the drinking water quality regulator for public water supplies in England and Wales, formed in 1990 and employing about 70 staff.
Drinking water quality in the United States
Drinking water quality in the United States is governed by the Safe Drinking Water Act, under which the EPA sets enforceable standards for about 147,000 public water systems.
Drinking water quality standards
Drinking water quality standards define how clean drinking water must be: legally enforceable contaminant limits, treatment rules, and monitoring set by national authorities, with WHO guidelines as the international reference.
Drinking water supply
Drinking water supply: systems of source, treatment, storage, and distribution delivering safe water. 74% of people used safely managed services in 2024; 2.1 billion still lack them, per WHO/UNICEF JMP.
Drinking water treatment
Drinking water treatment: processes (coagulation, filtration, disinfection, GAC, ion exchange, reverse osmosis) that make raw water safe to drink; US routine disinfection began in Jersey City, 1908, cutting typhoid from 100 to 0.1 cases per 100,000.
Drinking Wine (Twenty Poems)
Drinking Wine (飲酒二十首) is a cycle of twenty poems by the Eastern Jin poet Tao Yuanming, written in retirement and read as reflections on reclusion despite its title.
Drip (album)
Drip (DRIP) is Babymonster's first full-length album, released November 1, 2024 on YG Entertainment, nine tracks, double title tracks "CLIK CLAK" and "DRIP", the latter composed with G-Dragon; Japanese edition followed November 2, 2024 via Sony Music Japan.
Drip coffee maker
A drip coffee maker is an electric appliance that drips heated water over ground coffee in a filter, brewing into a carafe; it spread through American homes in the 1970s.
Drip irrigation
Drip irrigation, also called trickle irrigation, applies water slowly through emitters to the root zone, wetting far less soil than sprinklers and saving 30 to 60 percent of water.
Dripping Springs, Texas
Dripping Springs, Texas: a fast-growing Hays County city on US 290 about 25 miles west of Austin, founded in the 1850s, known as the Wedding Capital of Texas, a Dark Sky Community, and a Hill Country winery and tourism destination.
Drisapersen
Drisapersen (PRO051, GSK2402968, Kyndrisa) was a 2'-O-methyl phosphorothioate antisense oligonucleotide for exon 51 skipping in Duchenne muscular dystrophy; its phase 3 trial missed its endpoint and the FDA rejected it in 2016.
Drishya
Drishya (ದೃಶ್ಯ), also spelled Drushya, is a 2014 Kannada drama thriller directed by P. Vasu, starring Ravichandran and Navya Nair, a remake of the 2013 Malayalam film Drishyam, released 20 June 2014.
Drishyam
Drishyam (ദൃശ്യം), 2013 Malayalam crime thriller by Jeethu Joseph starring Mohanlal as cable operator Georgekutty; first Rs 50-crore Malayalam grosser, remade in Kannada, Telugu, Tamil, Hindi, Sinhala, and Chinese, with sequels Drishyam 2 (2021) and Drishyam 3 (2026).
Drishyam (दृश्यम) (2015 film)
Drishyam (दृश्यम्) is a 2015 Hindi crime thriller directed by Nishikant Kamat, a faithful remake of Jeethu Joseph's 2013 Malayalam film, starring Ajay Devgn, Tabu, and Shriya Saran, released 31 July 2015, set in Goa, and launching a Hindi franchise.