drinking

ingesting water or other liquids into the body through the mouth
Thing activity Q876776
drinking
Pieter Coecke van Aelst · Public Domain · Wikimedia
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drinking

Summary

drinking is an activity[1]. drinking draws 805 Wikipedia views per month (activity category, ranking #98 of 272).[2]

Key Facts

  • drinking's instance of is recorded as activity[3].
  • drinking is a type of animal behavior[4].
  • drinking is a type of ingestion[5].
  • drinking is a type of action[6].
  • drinking is used for nutrition[7].
  • drinking's Commons category is recorded as Drinking[8].
  • drinking is the opposite of eating[9].
  • drinking is the opposite of terminal dehydration[10].
  • drinking's has cause is recorded as thirst[11].
  • drinking's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Drinking[12].
  • drinking's described by source is recorded as Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[13].
  • drinking's described by source is recorded as The Domestic Encyclopædia; Or, A Dictionary Of Facts, And Useful Knowledge[14].
  • drinking's has effect is recorded as not thirsty[15].
  • drinking's uses is recorded as mouth[16].
  • drinking's uses is recorded as liquid[17].
  • drinking's uses is recorded as cup[18].
  • drinking's uses is recorded as hand[19].
  • drinking's exact match is recorded as https://valpal.info/parameters/drink[20].
  • drinking's practiced by is recorded as drinker[21].
  • drinking's class of object is recorded as drink[22].

Body

Definition and Type

drinking's instance of is recorded as activity[3]. Recorded subclass of include animal behavior[4], ingestion[5], and action[6]. Recorded opposite of include eating[9] and terminal dehydration[10].

Use and Application

drinking is used for nutrition[7].

Why It Matters

drinking draws 805 Wikipedia views per month (activity category, ranking #98 of 272).[2] drinking has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23] drinking is known by 33 alternative names across languages and contexts.[24]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [23] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [24] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 14h ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Arabic ontology lexical concept id ['151087889', '151004294']
    Interlingual index id ['i39834', 'i27466']
    Wordnet 3.1 synset id 00844789-n, 00845236-n
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 28288, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
  2. 9d ago · Mahir256 · 2026-05-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Uses mouth, liquid, cup +1
    Topic's main category Category:Drinking
    Local thumb
    Instance of
    + 13 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ [[Property:P8814]]: 00845236-n"
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