cocktail
NounOpen English WordNet
Noun (2)cocktails
- a short mixed drinkType of mixed drinkKinds martini, daiquiri, planter's punch, stinger, sidecar, Harvey Wallbanger, Sazerac, caipiblack, old fashioned, gin and it +11 more
- an appetizer served as a first course at a mealType of appetizer, appetiserKinds fruit cocktail, crab cocktail, shrimp cocktail
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Translations
Noun alcoholic beverage
- Spanish
- cóctel
- French
- cocktail
- German
- Cocktail
- Italian
- cocktail
- Portuguese
- coquetel
- Turkish
- kokteyl
- Russian
- кокте́йль koktɛ́jlʹ
- Arabic
- كُوكْتِيل kūktīl
- Chinese
- 鸡尾酒 jīwěijiǔ
- Japanese
- カクテル kakuteru
29 more languages
- Dutch
- cocktail
- Polish
- koktajl
- Swedish
- cocktail
- Greek
- κοκτέιλ koktéil
- Korean
- 칵테일 kakteil
- Indonesian
- koktail
- Vietnamese
- cốc-tai
- Hungarian
- koktél
- Portuguese (PT)
- cocktail
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 雞尾酒 jīwěijiǔ
- Albanian
- koktej
- Catalan
- còctel
- Czech
- koktejl
- Danish
- cocktail
- Esperanto
- koktelo
- Estonian
- kokteil
- Finnish
- cocktail
- Georgian
- კოქტეილი ḳokṭeili
- Hebrew
- קוקטייל koktél
- Icelandic
- hanastél
- Latvian
- kokteilis
- Lithuanian
- kokteilis
- Norwegian
- cocktail
- Romanian
- cocktail
- Serbo-Croatian
- koktel
- Slovak
- koktail
- Slovenian
- koktajl
- Welsh
- coctel
- Yiddish
- קאָקטייל kokteyl
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
1. A beverage made of brandy, whisky, or gin, iced, flavored, and sweetened. US
2. Stock Breeding A horse, not of pure breed, but having only one eighth or one sixteenth impure blood in his veins. Charles Robert Darwin
3. A mean, half-hearted fellow; a coward. Slang, Eng.
It was in the second affair that poor little Barney showed he was a cocktail.— William M. Thackeray
4. Zoology A species of rove beetle; — so called from its habit of elevating the tail.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
(Or Cocktail) A huge set of compiler building tools for MS-DOS, Unix and OS/2.
parser generator (LALR -> C, Modula-2), documentation, parser generator (LL(1) -> C, Modula-2), tests, scanner generator (-> C, Modula-2), tests translator (Extended BNF -> BNF), translator (Modula-2 -> C), translator (BNF (yacc) -> Extended BNF), examples abstract syntax tree generator, attribute-evaluator generator, code generator
The MS-DOS version requires DJ Delorie's DOS extender (go32) and the OS/2 version requires the emx programming environment.
(ftp://ftp.karlsruhe.gmd.de/pub/cocktail/dos). OS/2 FTP (ftp://ftp.eb.ele.tue.nl/pub/src/cocktail/dos-os2.zoo).
Mailing list: listserv@eb.ele.tue.nl (subscribe to Cocktail). E-mail: Josef Grosch <grosch@karlsruhe.gmd.de>, Willem Jan Withagen <wjw@eb.ele.tue.nl> (OS/2).
(1992-01-01)