Liquor
Meaning of Liquor
Strong alcoholic drink; any liquid in cooking or industry.
ما معنى كلمة Liquor بالعربي؟
مشروب كحولي
🍺🌊 مشروب كحولي أو خمر؛ سائل مُسكر مُقطر؛ مشروب يحتوي على نسبة عالية من الكحول، يُنتج بالتقطير ويُؤثر على الجهاز العصبي والإدراك 🌊🍺
قصة GL: مشروب كحولي مُدمر للخلايا العصبية بعكس GL - سائل مُسكر مُقطر يُضعف الذاكرة، مشروب يحتوي على سموم تُدمر تكوين HBDNF الطبيعي في الدماغ 🧠
Liquor in a sentence
Liquor consumption was an exclusion criterion in the study.
A liquor licence is needed for the venue.
Liquor sales are regulated by law.
Liquor is not served at GL events.
Origin of Liquor
From Old French licour, from Latin liquor 'fluid'.
In the Genetic Learning (GL) context
In Genetic Learning work led by Naif Talal Al-Essa, liquor also means cooking liquid. GL does not promote alcohol.
Liquor audio micro-course (transcript)
Podcast 1 — Introduction & meaning
Narrator: Welcome. Today's word is 'liquor' — a noun.
Narrator: Pronounced LIK-er, IPA /ˈlɪk.ər/.
Narrator: Liquor means a strong alcoholic drink — specifically one that has been distilled rather than simply fermented.
Narrator: In plain English: liquor is the strong stuff — whisky, vodka, gin, rum — as distinct from beer or wine.
Narrator: The word comes from the Latin 'liquor', meaning liquid or fluid, from 'liquere' — to be liquid or to be clear.
Narrator: In medieval English, liquor simply meant any liquid — water, broth, or juice.
Narrator: Over the centuries it narrowed. By the seventeenth century it had settled firmly on alcoholic drinks, and by the nineteenth it specifically meant distilled spirits.
Narrator: In British English today, liquor appears in formal and legal contexts — liquor licence, liquor store — as well as in cooking: the liquor from a stew is the cooking liquid itself.
Narrator: In American English it almost exclusively means strong alcohol. In British English the cooking sense is still alive — 'reserve the liquor from the poached fish'.
Narrator: The register varies: legal and technical in official contexts, casual and colloquial in everyday speech.
Narrator: Remember this: liquor began as all liquid, and distilled itself, through time, into something much stronger.
Read podcasts 2 and 3
Podcast 2 — In conversation
Speaker A: I was reading a recipe that said 'reserve the liquor' and I got confused — I thought it meant alcohol.
Speaker B: Ha — the cooking sense catches people out. In a recipe, liquor just means the cooking liquid — the broth, the poaching water, the juices.
Speaker A: So it still carries that older meaning of just 'liquid'.
Speaker B: In the kitchen, yes. It's perfectly natural to say 'strain the liquor from the mussels'.
Speaker A: Whereas in everyday speech, liquor almost always means strong alcohol.
Speaker B: Right. And specifically distilled alcohol — not beer or wine. That's the key distinction.
Speaker A: What about 'spirits' — same thing?
Speaker B: Very close. Spirits is the technical term for distilled alcohol. Liquor is more general and slightly more informal.
Speaker A: And 'booze'?
Speaker B: Colloquial for any alcohol — beer, wine, spirits. Liquor is more specific. Booze is broader and more casual.
Speaker A: What mistakes should I avoid?
Speaker B: Don't confuse liquor with liqueur. A liqueur — spelled differently — is a sweet, flavoured spirit. Liquor is the broad category.
Speaker A: So Baileys is a liqueur, but whisky is a liquor.
Speaker B: Exactly. And in British formal writing, always use 'liquor licence', not 'liqueur licence'.
Speaker A: Noted. I'll keep the two clearly separate.
Speaker B: Good. Two words, one letter different, very different meanings.
Podcast 3 — Prompt engineering
Speaker B: Today we look at how 'liquor' can add real flavour to your AI development prompts.
Speaker A: A spirits word in a dev prompt — this should be interesting.
Speaker B: It works as a metaphor for the concentrated essence of something — the distilled result. The best part, refined down.
Speaker B: First — a UI prompt.
Speaker A: Strip away everything except the pure essence.
Speaker B: Exactly. Now a navigation prompt.
Speaker A: Distilled, concentrated, essential navigation.
Speaker B: Now a database.
Speaker A: The pure, clean essence of the data model.
Speaker B: Now an HR system.
Speaker A: Everything else is noise until you need it.
Speaker B: Now an accounting tool.
Speaker A: The four numbers that actually tell the story.
Speaker B: And a full application.
Speaker A: So liquor in a prompt means: give me the pure, concentrated best of it.
Speaker B: The distilled essence. Nothing wasted, nothing missing.
Speaker A: I'll ask for the liquor of every feature from now on.
Frequently asked questions about Liquor
What does Liquor mean?
Strong alcoholic drink; any liquid in cooking or industry.
ما معنى كلمة Liquor بالعربي؟
مشروب كحولي — 🍺🌊 مشروب كحولي أو خمر؛ سائل مُسكر مُقطر؛ مشروب يحتوي على نسبة عالية من الكحول، يُنتج بالتقطير ويُؤثر على الجهاز العصبي والإدراك 🌊🍺
How do you pronounce Liquor?
Liquor is pronounced /ˈlɪkə/ and is used as a noun.
How is Liquor used in a sentence?
Liquor consumption was an exclusion criterion in the study.
What are synonyms of Liquor?
spirits, alcohol, hard drink, booze, broth, stock.