Meaning of juice in English:

juice

Pronunciation /dʒuːs/

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noun

mass noun

1The liquid obtained from or present in fruit or vegetables.
‘add the juice of a lemon’
- ‘Once the cheese has melted, add lemon juice, salt and pepper to taste.’
- ‘Add mustard and all of the herbs and spices to the white sauce then add lemon juice.’
- ‘Combine oil, vinegar, lemon juice, salt, sugar, and herbs in a small saucepan.’
- ‘Pour and add the lemon juice, salt, honey, pepper and olive oil in a vessel.’
- ‘Add the lemon juice and cider vinegar to the pulp.’
- ‘Beat the eggs with the sugar add the lemon juice and stir.’
- ‘Sprinkle with the lemon juice, pepper and add the remaining parsley.’
- ‘Transfer the mixture to a bowl and stir in the vinegar, lemon juice and mustard, then slowly add the olive oil.’
- ‘For fruits low in acid, add lemon juice or other acid ingredients as directed.’
- ‘Meanwhile, in a large bowl, combine the vinegar, lemon juice, oil, salt and pepper.’
- ‘Place the lemon juice, mustard, salt, pepper and oil in a screw-top jar and shake well.’
- ‘Add the olive oil and lemon juice, salt and pepper and mulch in your hands.’
- ‘Serve with fresh fruit and maple syrup or lemon juice and sugar.’
- ‘Add lemon juice, pepper, and reserved meatballs and mushrooms.’
- ‘To the cold syrup add the extracted juice and mix by stirring.’
- ‘Drizzle olive oil over everything and add the juice of one lemon and one lime.’
- ‘The fact that you don't need an electrical appliance to extract juice from a watermelon also comes as a blessing for these vendors.’
- ‘Since I like doing things by hand I have always extracted juices the old fashioned way.’
- ‘We drink tall mojitos, juleps made with lime juice, rum, and crushed mint.’
- ‘For each mojito we use the juice from one whole lime - and a little of that green skin.’
liquid, fluid, sap
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1. 1.1A drink made from fruit or vegetable juice.
  ‘a carton of orange juice’
  ‘Since the surgery, the woman has eaten strawberries and chocolate and drunk coffee and fruit juice, her doctors said.’
  ‘Choose water, club soda, diet soda, fruit juice, tea and coffee first.’
  ‘I drink only orange juice, never tea or coffee, which would only increase my level of impatience.’
  ‘For the thirsty, there are stalls specializing in freshly squeezed fruit and vegetable juices, papaya milk shakes and cold teas.’
  ‘First of all pub visits would mean drinking cola or orange juice.’
  ‘Drink plenty of fruit juices, like orange juice and grape juice.’
  ‘Soft drinks, fruit juices, and mineral waters are widely available.’
  ‘Stick to bottled water and canned soft drinks, fruit juices, and alcoholic beverages.’
  ‘Replace fruit juice and soft drinks with ice water.’
  ‘A good way to break the habit of skipping breakfast is to make and drink fresh fruit or vegetable juices.’
  ‘She cursed to herself for drinking all that fruit juice.’
  ‘It is also used for other natural products, including fruit juices, beer, wine and honey.’
  ‘Watch out for acidic drinks, such as fizzy drinks and fruit juices, as they can cause tooth erosion.’
  ‘Fruit and vegetable juices are loaded with vitamins and minerals.’
  ‘Water is the most common beverage, but coconut water and fruit juices also are drunk.’
  ‘He griped because I had drunk all his orange juice.’
  ‘So take your mother's advice and drink some orange juice!’
  ‘Last time James had stomach problems after drinking too much orange juice.’
  ‘For palates that have grown up with an array of soft drinks and fruit juices, that flavor profile can be a little too intense.’
  ‘There is a selection of imported fruit juices and soft drinks.’
2juicesThe liquid that comes from meat or other food when cooked.
‘put with the salmon, reserving the cooking juices’
- ‘Cook meat thoroughly; juices should be brown, not pink or red.’
- ‘Pour on the marinade juices and cook for one hour in a medium oven.’
- ‘Pass the cooking juices through a food mill into a saucepan and stir in the lemon juice.’
- ‘They ate food cooked in their juices over fires fuelled from their husks, and used antiseptic squeezed from them on cuts.’
- ‘Allowing a roast or a whole fish to rest after being cooked so the juices can work themselves through the meat is slow cooking, too.’
- ‘Strain the cooking juices into a saucepan and boil to reduce by half.’
- ‘Add four tbsp of the juices to the shredded meat, taste for seasoning and adjust accordingly.’
- ‘Brush each piece of lamb with Dijon mustard, then roll in the breadcrumbs (this will stop the puff pastry from absorbing the juices when it is cooking).’
- ‘Pizzas are grilled, and kebabs threaded with bread between the chunks of meat, to soak up their juices as they cook.’
- ‘Baste with cooking juices throughout for golden crispy skin.’
- ‘The rotation slowly cooks the meat in its own juices and allows easy access for continuous basting.’
- ‘Cook all meats completely (the juices should be clear and there should be no pink areas).’
- ‘Pour the fig dressing into the pan, stirring to combine with the meat juices, then drizzle around the liver and serve.’
- ‘At this point the vegetables should be cooked but not colored, and there should be cooking juices at the bottom of the pan.’
- ‘Add the pickled sloes to the cooking juices and warm through.’
- ‘Leave a thin layer of fat on steaks, chops, and roasts during cooking to seal in juices.’
- ‘Add the garlic, parsley, thyme, salt and pepper and cook for 5 min or until the juices almost cook away.’
- ‘Strain in the juices and oil from cooking until you have a smooth paste.’
- ‘I just serve it with the cooking juices and lemon wedges to squeeze over it.’
- ‘Piercing the meat with a fork can release juices and fat that can cause flame flare-ups.’
liquid, liquor
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1. 2.1Fluid secreted by the body, especially in the stomach to help digest food.
  ‘the digestive juices’
  ‘Artichoke leaf extract stimulates digestive juices like saliva and bile to help you break down food.’
  ‘The pancreas makes and secretes digestive juices and enzymes, which help break down fats, carbohydrates and proteins.’
  ‘It usually starts in the inner lining of the tube that the digestive juices flow through.’
  ‘The acids and digestive juices in the stomach and intestines would break down and destroy insulin if it was swallowed, so it can't be taken in a pill.’
  ‘The stomach releases digestive juices and absorbs the resulting soup.’
  ‘Gall stones may lodge at the intersection, causing obstruction to the flow of pancreatic juices or bile.’
  ‘This gland secretes digestive juices that help in breaking down foods.’
  ‘Stomach juices must break them into small pieces before they can be absorbed through the stomach wall and enter the bloodstream, Phillips says.’
  ‘Does it need stomach juices to disintegrate or is my aspirin no good?’
  ‘Digestive problems may occur if the cancer blocks the release of pancreatic juices into the bowel.’
  ‘Hydrolysis also goes on in the strongly acid digestive juices of the stomach.’
  ‘Large meals put increased demands on digestion, since your body is only able to produce a certain volume of digestive juices.’
  ‘Further, if the digestive juices are slowed in their transit, constipation occurs.’
  ‘It stores digestive juices that are made by the liver.’
  ‘Like peppermint, it helps your body expel gas, but it also stimulates your digestive juices.’
  ‘Tastes abound, but smells, the scents that get the salivary juices running, are absent.’
  ‘Chewing food thoroughly makes smaller food particles that dissolve much more easily in the digestive juices in the gut.’
  ‘Just a bite or two to get the stomach juices churning.’
  ‘The essential oils found in the leaves even aid digestion by increasing the flow of digestive juices.’
  ‘People under stress may also bolt their food, creating extra work for their digestive juices.’
  secretions
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2. 2.2A person's vitality or creative faculties.
  ‘it saps the creative juices’
  ‘When we're excited about a project, our creative juices and mental faculties are in full gear.’
  ‘My creative juices boil at the prospect of national stardom.’
  ‘Flavors get lighter and fruitier in the spring and that sap-rising energy gets creative juices flowing, and pouring.’
  ‘With party think tanks, big and small, uncorking their creative juices, seminal works take centre stage and artistic expressions reach for the stars.’
  ‘But think how it could loosen up your creative juices.’
  ‘‘Too often, directors starve the creative juices of the actors,’ McDonald explains.’
  ‘In fact, we'll be using the furniture, posts, doors and other fixtures in ways guaranteed to get your creative juices flowing.’
  ‘But the creative juices have somewhat dried up - for now - and I think it's time I took a break from writing.’
  ‘That's what you need to stimulate the creative juices!’
  ‘There is still time to get the creative juices running and this could be a profitable exercise as the prize money on offer in the competition has increased this year.’
  ‘The creative juices were flowing in Hacketstown recently as the town's young people looked to their own town for inspiration.’
  ‘Let your creative juices flow, draw inspiration and give words.’
  ‘I'm frequently lacking any any creative juices, and feedback is good.’
  ‘Fantasies start to flow, and so do Sarah's creative juices.’
  ‘Parenthood, it seems, gets everyone's creative juices flowing.’
  ‘Stuck for ideas, they went to the pub to top up their creative juices.’
  ‘To help their creative juices flow, the students were divided into four groups of seven.’
  ‘Budding film writers are to be offered help to set their creative juices free with a new course in Lancaster.’
  ‘An architect by profession, Noel let his creative juices loose on the project.’
  ‘Eating outside usually got her creative juices flowing.’
3 informal Electrical energy.
- ‘the batteries have run out of juice’
- ‘Switches, outlets and fixtures are the gateways through which your electrical juice pours.’
- ‘There is no need to wait on the engine as there is plenty of electric juice to launch the vehicle.’
- ‘You need electric juice to mix up all those fruity summer drinks to be enjoyed poolside.’
- ‘Such electronics suck a lot of juice - power that the beefy hydrogen cells ably supply.’
- ‘Supplying the juice for all this electrical stuff is the next problem.’
energy, electrical power, nuclear power, solar power, steam power, water power
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1. 3.1Petrol.
  ‘he ran out of juice on the last lap’
  gasoline
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2. 3.2North American informal Influence or power, especially in a political or business context.
  ‘Lucchese was involved in the case and he had a certain amount of juice around the city’
  ‘You should have enough juice to get the Agency to cooperate with you.’
  ‘As the P.A.'s clerk, I was some sort of a big shot myself; in con jargon, I had a lot of ‘juice’.’
  ‘She is not yet ready to use her juice to alter Administration policy.’
  ‘Large contractors have more financial juice to make a case go away—to hire pricey legal talent, create compliance programs, or pay settlements.’
  ‘The sergeant's tone is meant to remind me that foreign journalists have no juice whatsoever in a place like this.’
  ‘If he has been less than popular on Capitol Hill, he has juice where it counts.’
  ‘Being a congressman just gives him a little more juice with the ward-heelers, union guys and pinstripe guys back home.’
  ‘He was conspiratorial, possessing mysterious juice with the ownership, able to operate completely outside the normal chain of command.’
  ‘The companies convinced us that they had some juice on Capitol Hill, that they could sell this settlement.’
3. 3.3North American informal Alcoholic drink.
  liquor, intoxicating liquor, alcoholic drink, strong drink, drink, intoxicants
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4. 3.4North American informal Anabolic steroids.
  ‘I know there are 82 players on the juice’
  ‘Experts say a mature athlete can add 30 pounds of lean muscle mass by getting on the juice.’
  ‘He said that maybe half of all major league players were on the juice.’
  ‘The Cuban-born player then had the audacity to claim in a tell-all book that most professional baseballs players are on the juice.’
  ‘So many guys who jump on the juice early end up looking like helium balloons before they deflate to normal size.’
  ‘Those wrestlers were either too fat or so pumped up on the juice they would blow up after 2 minutes.’
  ‘Virtually everyone in the sport suspected that he was on the juice.’
  ‘These guys are easy to spot when they are on the juice because if you get a good look at their eyes at the start line their pupils are as big as dinner plates!’
  ‘I still don't believe the juice use is as widespread as he would like us to think.’
  ‘Want evidence that the steroid crackdown is working and the players aren't using using juice as much?’
  ‘The third argument, of course, is that barring steroids is all about fairness; that it's iniquitous when some players are on the juice and others aren't.’
5. 3.5 informal A liquid containing nicotine and flavouring that is used in vaping devices.
  ‘passing through Chicago, I was looking for a vape shop to get some juice’

verb

1with object Extract the juice from (fruit or vegetables)
‘juice one orange at a time’
- ‘My mother had often sprinkled the multifaceted, ruby-like pomegranate seeds on fruit salads at Thanksgiving and Christmas, but I had never considered juicing the fruit.’
- ‘Eating the fruit or extracting the seeds and juicing them is time-consuming and messy (the juice stains).’
- ‘If people don't like eating vegetables, they suggest juicing them.’
- ‘Since fruits and vegetables are juiced raw, the enzymes are still viable when you drink the juice.’
- ‘I've started eating mince pies, and can't seem to stop, but I'm still juicing the veggies, so hopefully it will balance itself out.’
- ‘I watched him this morning juicing a grapefruit, guava, blood orange, mango, plums, and grapes and pouring the elixir into a giant glass pitcher.’
- ‘When an orange is juiced, fibre and other health-giving elements are left behind.’
- ‘The industrial-strength stainless steel cutting blade is designed to juice fruits and vegetables.’
- ‘Remember that the next time you let your toddler play in the garden, or the next time you juice a carrot without scrubbing it first.’
- ‘It can juice fruit and vegetables as well as other leafy greens with the greatest of ease.’
- ‘If this sounds too boring you can spice it up by juicing, eating raw, poaching or baking the food.’
- ‘In another bowl, zest and juice the lemons and limes, then fold through the cream.’
2North American informal no object Take anabolic steroids or other performance-enhancing drugs.
- ‘those who are convinced that he juiced can't seem to find any evidence’
- ‘they discovered he was juicing up before every game’

Phrases

get one's creative juices flowing

Start thinking in a creative and lively way.
‘the workshops allow staff to get away from their desks and get their creative juices flowing’
- ‘Here are a couple of suggestions to get your creative juices flowing.’
- ‘Here are a few themes to get your creative juices flowing.’
- ‘Government meetings, budgetary matters, legislation aren't the stuff that gets their creative juices flowing.’
- ‘Visit a museum or gallery - Just looking at other artwork is enough to get your creative juices flowing.’
- ‘Reading took on a spooky theme at Warminster Library on Wednesday when 13 youngsters got their creative juices flowing.’
- ‘The good and strange thing about depression is that is really gets my creative juices flowing.’
- ‘Its still a nice option to have though, particularly for those who like to get their creative juices flowing.’
- ‘He sold things such as paper towels and cleaning materials to companies but it hardly got his creative juices flowing.’
- ‘Here are a few ideas to get your creative juices flowing.’
- ‘If your idea of roughing it is reducing the minutes on your cell phone then this little bootstrapping primer should get your creative juices flowing.’

Phrasal Verbs

juice up

North American

informal

1juice something up, juice up somethingLiven something up.
- ‘a friend needed help juicing up a fashion show’
- ‘they juiced it up with some love interest’
- ‘In fact, it's almost as if the situation of a love letter juices them up and gives them some of their best prose that they can then put into their fiction.’
- ‘Anytime the pace seems to flag (it does so with clockwork precision) the music is juiced up and things explode and then our heroes are back where they started - negotiating even bigger plot-holes.’
- ‘Portfolios have sunk along with the technology stocks that juiced them up.’
- ‘They have juiced things up by turning Hyde into a sex fiend whose animal lusts culminate when he tears a prominent socialite to pieces.’
- ‘Although Liman tries to juice things up by using atypical camera angles, all this does is to lend an artistic flavor to a series of otherwise banal explosions, shoot-outs, and car chases.’
- ‘He's got to juice it up now; it's all or nothing this game.’
- ‘But we wanted to juice it up with color and modern appliances.’
- ‘So to juice it up, we made a short movie all about special effects.’
- ‘But that would be silly, like tacking some ill-conceived speculation onto the end of a story about boring financial statements to juice it up a little.’
- ‘The pressure to produce sensationalist news at whatever price that characterizes much of the media creates an environment conducive to cutting corners or juicing up a story with fabricated details.’
2juice something up, juice up somethingSupply a device with electricity.
- ‘the charger lets you juice up any USB-based gadget’