What is the meaning of TONIC. Phrases containing TONIC
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Noun. Nonsense, rubbish. Verb. To take orally, to imbibe. E.g."She boshed 7 pills, a handful of mushrooms and 8 vodka and tonics in the first hour, and then not surprisingly she threw up." [London use]
Tonic. How about a nice Vera and super (Gin & Tonic)
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Colonic is British slang for a drink of coca−cola and tonic.
V.A.T. is British slang for vodka and tonic.
Philharmonic is London Cockney rhyming slang for tonic water.
Noun. 1. A man. E.g."This chap came up to me and told me to shut my mouth." {Informal} 2. A form of address. Usually associated with the speech of the upper classes. E.g."I say old chap, fancy joining us for a gin and tonic?" {Informal}
Gin. I'll have a small needle and tonic.
Philharmonic. I'll have a Vera and Phil (gin and tonic).
n beer with high-alcohol content: Give me a gin and tonic and a pint of wife beater. Brits do not use the American definition of the term (a ribbed, sleeveless undershirt).
Orange juice
Phrs. Drunk, very intoxicated. E.g."She was three sheets to the wind and still downing gin and tonics quicker than they could pour them."
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The key tone, or first tone of any scale.
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Tonicity, or tone; as, muscular tonus.
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Increasing strength, or the tone of the animal system; obviating the effects of debility, and restoring healthy functions.
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Tonic.
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A medicine that increases the strength, and gives vigor of action to the system.
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A vocal sound; specifically, a purely vocal element of speech, unmodified except by resonance; a vowel or a diphthong; a tonic element; a tonic; -- distinguished from a subvocal, and a nonvocal.
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A tonic element or letter; a vowel or a diphthong.
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A composite plant (Artemisia Absinthium), having a bitter and slightly aromatic taste, formerly used as a tonic and a vermifuge, and to protect woolen garments from moths. It gives the peculiar flavor to the cordial called absinthe. The volatile oil is a narcotic poison. The term is often extended to other species of the same genus.
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The seventh tone of the scale, or that immediately below the tonic; -- called also subsemitone.
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A glucoside extracted from the root of a South African plant of the genus Vernonia, as a deliquescent powder, and used as a mild heart tonic.
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Producing, or tending to produce, tetanus, or tonic contraction of the muscles; as, a tetanic remedy. See Tetanic, n.
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A genus of shrubby ranunculaceous plants of North America, including only the species Xanthorhiza apiifolia, which has roots of a deep yellow color; yellowroot. The bark is intensely bitter, and is sometimes used as a tonic.
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Of or pertaining to tension; increasing tension; hence, increasing strength; as, tonic power.
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Of or relating to tones or sounds; specifically (Phon.), applied to, or distingshing, a speech sound made with tone unmixed and undimmed by obstruction, such sounds, namely, the vowels and diphthongs, being so called by Dr. James Rush (1833) " from their forming the purest and most plastic material of intonation."
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The state of healthy tension or partial contraction of muscle fibers while at rest; tone; tonus.
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The principle of key in music; the character which a composition has by virtue of the key in which it is written, or through the family relationship of all its tones and chords to the keynote, or tonic, of the whole.
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A strengthening medicine; a tonic.
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A European yellow-flowered, gentianaceous (Chlora perfoliata). The whole plant is intensely bitter, and is sometimes used as a tonic, and also in dyeing yellow.
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Tonicity; as, arterial tone.
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