alcohol

Sinhala Dictionary definitions for alcohol

alcohol 🔊 /æˈlkʌhɑˌl/

alcohol : මද්‍යසාර

alcohol : මද්‍යසාරය

alcohol : මත්බීම

alcohol : ඇල්කොහොල්

alcohol : සුරා

alcohol : ඇල්කොහොලය

alcohol definition

Noun.

  1. An impalpable powder.
  2. The fluid essence or pure spirit obtained by distillation.
  3. Pure spirit of wine; pure or highly rectified spirit (called also ethyl alcohol); 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.
  4. A class of compounds analogous to vinic alcohol in constitutioNoun. Chemically speaking, they are hydroxides of certain organic radicals; as, the radical ethyl forms common or ethyl alcohol (C2H5.OH); methyl forms methyl alcohol (CH3.OH) or wood spirit; amyl forms amyl alcohol (C5H11.OH) or fusel oil, etc.