grain alcohol vs alcohol

alcohol vs grain alcohol

grain alcohol and alcohol both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
grain alcohol	Yes	No	No	No
alcohol	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, alcohol is a hypernym of grain alcohol; that is, alcohol is a word with a broader meaning than grain alcohol:

grain alcohol: 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
alcohol: any of a series of volatile hydroxyl compounds that are made from hydrocarbons by distillation

Other hypernyms of grain alcohol include plant product.

grain alcohol (noun)	alcohol (noun)
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	a liquor or brew containing alcohol as the active agent
	any of a series of volatile hydroxyl compounds that are made from hydrocarbons by distillation

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