#alcohol

• Abstinent — A person (male) who voluntarily and deliberately refrains from satisfying certain physical needs, pleasures, or impulses, particularly from consuming alcoholic beverages, psychoactive substances, or engaging in sexual relations; (as an adjective) denoting an attitude of conscious self-restraint, extreme temperance, or rigorous moderation in daily behavior.
• To get tipsy — To get tipsy or enter a state of mild to moderate intoxication by consuming alcoholic beverages; to cheer up over a drink. Sometimes used transitively to describe the action of getting someone drunk secretly or gradually. It represents a colorful term from Romanian slang, carrying a rather humorous or indulgent connotation rather than a severe or peiorative one.
• Tipsy — Being under the moderate influence of alcoholic beverages; slightly tipsy, cheerful, or buzzed, without having reached a state of advanced intoxication or physical impairment. It is a term specific to the urban colloquial register of the Romanian language, used to describe a harmless euphoric state acquired in relaxed social contexts.
• Alembic — An apparatus or traditional installation used for the distillation of liquids, structurally composed of a boiling vessel, a vapor collecting cap or still head, and a cooling tube shaped like a coil; a metallic device (often made of copper) historically used in alchemy and laboratories, and currently on an industrial and household scale for extracting essential oils, perfumes, and manufacturing distilled alcoholic beverages.
• Alcohol — An organic compound containing one or more hydroxyl (-OH) functional groups bound to a saturated carbon atom. In common parlance, the term refers to ethanol or ethyl alcohol, a volatile, flammable liquid obtained through the fermentation of sugars or chemical synthesis, acting as the active ingredient in intoxicating beverages and an essential solvent in industry and pharmacy.
• Alcoholic — As an adjective: relating to, containing, or induced by alcohol. As a noun: a person suffering from alcoholism, exhibiting a chronic physical and psychological dependence on alcohol consumption, characterized by a loss of control over drinking and severe withdrawal episodes.
• Alcoholic — The feminine form of the term alcoholic; containing alcohol, relating to alcohol, or induced by its effects. As a noun, it designates a woman suffering from a chronic physical and psychological dependence on alcoholic beverages, demonstrating increased tolerance and withdrawal syndrome upon cessation.
• Alcoholism — A pathological state and chronic disease caused by the repeated, abusive, and uncontrolled consumption of alcoholic beverages. It manifests through profound physical and psychological dependence, severe metabolic disruptions, progressive degradation of personality, cognitive impairment, and damage to vital organs, particularly the liver and central nervous system.
• Alcoholize — To subject an organism or a substance to the action of alcohol; to introduce alcohol into a chemical or pharmaceutical preparation to alter its properties or preserve it. In the reflexive form, it signifies the act of consuming alcoholic beverages abusively until reaching a state of intoxication.
• Alcoholization — The act of alcoholizing or state of being alcoholized; the process by which an organism is saturated with alcohol or the pathological condition resulting from massive ethanol consumption. In an industrial or laboratory sense, it represents the treatment or saturation of a compound, solution, or organic tissue with alcohol for preservation or chemical reactions.
• Alcoholized — Having undergone the process of alcoholization; impregnated, saturated, or preserved with the aid of alcohol. In a clinical or social context, it describes a person under the influence of alcoholic beverages, showing clear signs of intoxication, coordination issues, and altered states of consciousness.
• Alcohol — The standard and widely adapted Romanian spelling for alcohol. An organic compound characterized by the presence of one or more hydroxyl groups attached to a saturated alkyl radical. It represents the structural baseline of ethanol used as an antiseptic, general industrial solvent, or as the major psychoactive ingredient in a wide range of fermented or distilled beverages.
• Alcoholate — In chemistry, an organic compound obtained by replacing the hydrogen atom in the hydroxyl group of an alcohol with a metal atom (alkoxide). In pharmacy, the term designates a medicinal liquid preparation obtained by distilling alcohol over aromatic plant substances, used as an antiseptic or flavoring remedy.
• Blood alcohol content — The concentration of pure alcohol (ethanol) present in a person's blood, typically expressed in grams of alcohol per liter of blood (g/L) or milligrams. It represents a fundamental toxicological indicator used in forensic medicine and by law enforcement to assess intoxication levels and psychomotor capacity.
• Alcohols — An extensive class of organic compounds containing one or more hydroxyl (-OH) functional groups bound directly to sp3 hybridized carbon atoms. This category includes a broad range of substances with diverse properties, from simple volatile molecules like methanol and ethanol to complex polyhydroxyl structures, heavily utilized in chemical synthesis, pharmacy, and industry.
• Alcoholic — The standardized, adapted spelling pattern in Romanian for the word alcoholic. As an adjective, it describes a product containing ethanol or a clinical manifestation related to it. As a noun, it indicates a person affected by chronic alcoholism, characterized by compulsive dependency, progressive somatic damage, and altered social behavior.
• Alcoholic — The feminine form of the adjective or noun alcoolic; containing alcohol, relating to alcohol, or induced by its consumption. As a noun, it designates a female individual suffering from a chronic and compulsive dependence on ethanol, exhibiting increased tolerance and severe withdrawal symptoms upon cessation.
• Alcoholometry — A technical method and set of operations used to determine the concentration of ethyl alcohol in a hydroalcoholic mixture or a beverage. The process is based on measuring liquid density using an alcoholmeter or through precision refractometric and pycnometric methods, being essential in industrial quality control and custom duties.
• Alcoolism — The standard Romanian spelling for alcoholism; a pathological state and chronic disease caused by the repeated, abusive, and uncontrolled consumption of alcoholic beverages. This condition manifests through profound physical and psychological dependence on ethanol, leading to metabolic alterations, progressive degradation of personality, and damage to vital organs, particularly the liver and nervous system.
• Alcoholize — The standardized Romanian spelling for alcoholiza; to introduce alcohol into a substance, into a pharmaceutical preparation, or to subject an organism to the action of ethanol. In the reflexive form (a se alcooliza), it signifies the act of a person consuming alcoholic beverages in large quantities until reaching a state of intoxication.