alcoholic beverage vs ethyl alcohol

ethyl alcohol vs alcoholic beverage

alcoholic beverage and ethyl alcohol both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
alcoholic beverage	Yes	No	No	No
ethyl alcohol	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, ethyl alcohol is a hyponym of alcoholic beverage; that is, ethyl alcohol is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than alcoholic beverage:

alcoholic beverage: a liquor or brew containing alcohol as the active agent
ethyl alcohol: nonflavored alcohol of 95 percent or 190 proof used for blending with straight whiskies and in making gin and liqueurs

Other hyponyms of alcoholic beverage include proof spirit, home brew, homebrew, hooch, hootch, kava, kavakava, aperitif, brew, brewage, rice beer, sake, saki, nipa, vino, wine, booze, hard drink, hard liquor, John Barleycorn, liquor, spirits, strong drink, neutral spirits, pulque, cordial, liqueur, mixed drink, hard cider, perry, rotgut, slug, koumiss, kumis.

alcoholic beverage (noun)	ethyl alcohol (noun)
a liquor or brew containing alcohol as the active agent	nonflavored alcohol of 95 percent or 190 proof used for blending with straight whiskies and in making gin and liqueurs
	the intoxicating agent in fermented and distilled liquors; used pure or denatured as a solvent or in medicines and colognes and cleaning solutions and rocket fuel; proposed as a renewable clean-burning additive to gasoline

Difference between alcoholic beverage and ethyl alcohol

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