wine

plural wines

1. countableuncountableAn alcoholic beverage made by fermenting grape juice, with an ABV ranging from 5.5–16%.

   Wine is usually stronger than beer.

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   "Wine improves with age but I improve with wine," she slurred as she slid gracefully beneath the table.

   And David's Lips are lock't; but in divine High piping Péhlevi, with "Wine! Wine! Wine! Red Wine!" — the Nightingale cries to the Rose That yellow Cheek of her's to'incarnadine.

   1859, Edward Fitzgerald, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: The Astronomer-Poet of Persia, page 2

   In Europe then [1925] we thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also as a great giver of happiness and well being and delight. Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary, and I would not have thought of eating a meal without drinking either wine or cider or beer.

   1964, Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 156

   Admirers of Israel’s kosher and nonkosher wines need the 2007 edition of “Rogov’s Guide to Israeli Wines” (Toby Press, $19.95).

   2007 January 14, Howard G. Goldberg, “A Tour of Israel, Bottle by Bottle”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 30 Jun 2013

   The ancient Greek physician Hippocrates promoted wine for various purposes, including reducing fevers and dressing wounds.

   2022 January 22, Jonathan Reiner, “If you think that glass of wine is good for you, it’s time to reconsider”, in CNN

2. countableuncountableAn alcoholic beverage made by fermenting other substances, producing a similar ABV.

   ...dandelion wine, rice wine, plum wine...

3. countableA serving of wine.

   I'd like three beers and two wines, please. My friend will have the same.

4. uncountableThe color of red wine, a deep reddish purple.

present singular third person wines · participle present wining · participle past wined · past wined

1. transitiveTo entertain (someone) with wine.

   Neither Major Wadhams nor I is accustomed to being wined and dined by perfect strangers who do not even present themselves, but leave servants to do the honors, consequently to both of us our present situation smacks of romance and adventure;

   1919, Lee Meriwether, The War Diary of a Diplomat, Dodd, Mead and Company, page 159

2. intransitiveTo drink wine.

   I rushed into my cabin, coffeed, wined, and went to bed sobbing.

   1839, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, The Clockmaker

1. UKdialectaluncountableWind.

   Vor voices rawze upon tha wine

   1850, James Orchard Halliwell, A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs, and Ancient Customs, from the Fourteenth Century

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   Aw how sholl I tell o’m—vor âll pirty maidens / When I pass’d ’em look’d back—ther smill rawze on tha wine.

   1869, James Jennings, The Dialect of the West of England, particularly Somersetshire

present singular third person wines · participle present wining · participle past wined · past wined

1. intransitivedanceTo perform a Jamaican dance, such as the Dutty Wine.

   Carolina come wine 'pon me / Oh watch how di gyal groove

   1993, Shaggy, “Oh Carolina”

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   Even when there are positive comments, as in the responses to “white boy wines to dancehall,” the origin of the white boy's ability to dance is attributed to skills derived from others: […].

   2010, Andoni Alonso, Pedro Oiarzabal, editors, Diasporas in the New Media Age: Identity, Politics, and Community, University of Nevada Press, →ISBN

plural Wines · alternative WINE

1. A surname.
2. A free and open-source compatibility layer that aims to allow computer programs developed for Microsoft Windows to run on Unix-like operating systems.
   1. abbreviationacronymdatedcomputingAcronym of Windows Emulator.
   2. abbreviationacronymcomputingAcronym of Wine is not an emulator.

1. alternativecomputingAlternative form of Wine.