verb

• (ambitransitive) To consume (a liquid) through the mouth.
  "He drank the water I gave him."
• (transitive, metonymic) To consume the liquid contained within (a bottle, glass, etc.).
  "Jack drank the whole bottle by himself."
• (intransitive) To consume alcoholic beverages.
  "You've been drinking, haven't you?"
• (transitive) To take in (a liquid), in any manner; to suck up; to absorb; to imbibe.
  "Let the purple violets drink the stream."

noun

• (uncountable) Drinks in general; something to drink.
  "For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink"
• (colloquial, with the) Any body of water.
  "If he doesn't pay off the mafia, he’ll wear cement shoes to the bottom of the drink!"
• (Australia, figurative) A downpour; a cloudburst; a rainstorm; a deluge; a lot of rain.
  "Now this is going to bring some huge totals of rainfall with it—200 to 400 millimetres with it—and along with that, these winds—gusts to 275 kilometres an hour near the cyclone [Cyclone Ilsa] core—and that's a real concern. That's very destructive winds and it's going to carry this inertia and the rain with it well inland. And we're likely going to be talking about a cyclone all the way through Friday as it slowly weakens, eventually washing that moisture out into a front going through the south. It means the southeast is getting a drink but W.A.'s northwest really copping it, individual totals significantly higher than what you're seeing here [on the weather map]."