Juice Meaning
/d͡ʒuːs/Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA liquid made from plant, especially fruit.
nounA beverage made of juice.
Sentence Examples
"Yes, orange juice please," says Mike.
My mother bought two bottles of orange juice.
Add a squeeze of lemon juice.
CEFR Practice Quiz
Every morning, she drinks a tall glass of freshly squeezed orange ____ to start her day.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
She squeezed some fresh orange ____ for breakfast, and it was very refreshing and sweet today.
Word Origin & History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *yéwHs Latin iūs Old French jusbor. Middle English jus English juice From Middle English jus, juis, from Old French jus, jous, from Latin jūs (“broth, soup, sauce”), from Proto-Indo-European *yéwHs, from *yewH- (“to mix (of meal preparation)”). Doublet of jus and ukha. In this sense, mostly displaced native Middle English sew (“juice”), from Old English sēaw (“juice, sap”) (> English sew (“juice, broth, gravy”)). Sense of "soft drink" most likely an ellipsis of fizzy juice, another similarly common term in Scotland.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"1837 April, J. M. (London), in "Miscellaneous Intelligence: Art. V. Queries and Answers", The Gardener's Magazine, August edition, page 378.
You are aware, I presume, that immense quantities of sugar are annually made from the juice of the A`cer sacchárinum, in the west of Pennsylvania and New York, with which our forests abound (Professor Kid, in his Bridgwater Treatise, says they are “cultivated”!); and, as the peculiarities attending the flow of this juice have puzzled me to explain them, I have resolved to state them to you."
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"The plant juices of both bean and potato gave strong positive tests, showing that the juices of these plants can readily dissolve copper in some form from bordeaux-mixture residue and absorb it through a permeable membrane."
— 1940 November, Dwight M. DeLong, “Studies of Methods and Materials for the Control of the Leafhopper Empoasca fabae as a Bean Pest”, in Technical Bulletin, number 740, United States Department of Agriculture, page 26:
"The bottled juice must be heated to a temperature and for a time sufficient to attain a sterilizing temperature at the coolest point, usually the center of the bottle."
— 1938, C.B. Hutchison, S.B. Freeborn, Toward Better Agriculture: Report of the Agricultural Experiment Station of the University of California, page 44:
"2006, Katie Kitamura, Japanese for Travellers: A Journey, Hamish Hamilton (publ.), page 189.
My mom placed a glass of juice before her, then looked questioningly towards the son."
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"This chance manner of her laying herself fallow gives her an opportunity of recovering her juices, or strength, to enable her to breed a stronger foal."
— 1884 July, Alfales Young, “Letter from Salt Lake City”, in Wallace's Monthly, volume X, number 6, page 450:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
Every morning, she drinks a tall glass of freshly squeezed orange ____ to start her day.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
She squeezed some fresh orange ____ for breakfast, and it was very refreshing and sweet today.