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n. A colorless volatile flammable liquid, C2H5OH, synthesized or obtained by fermentation of sugars and starches and widely used, either pure or denatured, as a solvent and in drugs, cleaning solutions, explosives, and intoxicating beverages. Also called ethanol, ethyl alcohol, grain alcohol.

n. Intoxicating liquor containing alcohol.

n. Any of a series of hydroxyl compounds, the simplest of which are derived from saturated hydrocarbons, have the general formula CnH2n+1OH, and include ethanol and methanol.

n. Any of a class of organic compounds (such as ethanol) containing a hydroxyl functional group (-OH).

n. An intoxicating beverage made by the fermentation of sugar or sugar-containing material.

n. An impalpable powder.

n. The fluid essence or pure spirit obtained by distillation.

n. Pure spirit of wine; pure or highly rectified spirit (called also ethyl alcohol or ethanol, CH3.CH2.OH); the spirituous or intoxicating element of fermented or distilled liquors, or more loosely a liquid containing it in considerable quantity. It is extracted by simple distillation from various vegetable juices and infusions of a saccharine nature, which have undergone vinous fermentation.

n. A class of compounds analogous to vinic alcohol in constitution. Chemically speaking, they are hydroxides of certain organic radicals

n. A liquid, ethyl hydrate, C2H5OH, formed by the fermentation of aqueous sugar-solutions, or by the destructive distillation of organic bodies, as wood.

n. In popular usage, any liquor containing this spirit.

n. In organic chemistry, the general name of a series of compounds which may be regarded as derived from the normal hydrocarbons by replacing hydrogen with the group OH, or hydroxyl, and which correspond to the hydroxids of the metals.

n. An impalpable powder.

n. a liquor or brew containing alcohol as the active agent

n. any of a series of volatile hydroxyl compounds that are made from hydrocarbons by distillation

"Methyl alcohol is obtained entirely from this source, and on this account is commonly called _wood alcohol_."

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