different between liquidizer vs liqueur

English

Alternative forms

• liquidiser

Etymology

liquidize +? -er

Pronunciation

Noun

liquidizer (plural liquidizers)

1. (Australia, India, Britain) A machine to chop or puree food; a blender.
   • 1976, Australian Journal of Plant Physiology, volume 3, issues 1-3, page 154:

     […] tissue was disrupted using a Moulinex liquidizer and 0-5% bovine serum albumin was added to the isolating and resuspending media.

   • 2013, Rosamunde Pilcher, Flowers In the Rain & Other Stories ?ISBN:

     She bought herself a second-hand Mini and in no time at all was busy as a bee, driving herself around London with pots and pans, cooking knives and liquidizers all piled up on the back seat.

   • 2013, Leah Leneman, The Tofu Cookbook: Over 150 quick and easy recipes ?ISBN

     Place a cupful of the soaked beans in a liquidizer, add a cupful of cold water and blend.

Usage notes

• In Australia and India, the term may be uncommon, technical or dated.
• The term is found in some technical and trade publications in the US; it may be dated.

Quotations

• 2000, Eric Morris, Corregidor: The American Alamo of World War II ?ISBN, page 145:

  By now Erickson, like so many of the pilots, was flying without oxygen. The liquidizers and compressor plant had been early casualties of war at Nichols Field. Instead they flew on a mixture of quinine and atropine.

Synonyms

• blender (US)
• vitamiser, vitamizer (Australia)

Related terms

• liquid
• liquidate
• liquidation
• liquidator
• liquidity
• liquor

Translations

See also

• food processor
• mixer

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French liqueur. Doublet of liquor.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /l??kj??/, /l??kj??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /l??k?/, /l??k??/

Noun

liqueur (countable and uncountable, plural liqueurs)

1. A flavoured alcoholic beverage that is usually very sweet and contains a high percentage of alcohol. Cordials are a type of liqueur manufactured using the infusion process as opposed to the essence and distillation processes.

Related terms

Translations

See also

• cordial
• ratafia

Further reading

• liqueur on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

liqueur (third-person singular simple present liqueurs, present participle liqueuring, simple past and past participle liqueured)

1. to flavor or treat (wine) with a liqueur
2. to top up bottles of sparkling wine with a sugar solution

   Every champagne has to be liqueured after its disgorgement, to replace the inevitable loss.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin liquor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /li.kœ?/

Noun

liqueur f (plural liqueurs)

1. alcoholic liqueur
2. (literary) drinkable liquid
3. (Canada) fizzy drink, pop
4. (obsolete) liquid
5. (Louisiana) liquor

Derived terms

• liqueur de dosage
• liqueur de tirage

Usage notes

• Liqueur and liquor are false friends: French liqueur never applies to alcoholic drinks in general.
• The Quebec use of the term is frequently targeted as an anglicism (from liquor), even though the meaning ("non-alcoholic drink") is older and has little connection to either English term.

Further reading

• “liqueur” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).