brew n : drink made by steeping and boiling and fermenting rather than distilling [syn: brewage]

1 prepare by brewing; "people have been brewing beer for thousands of years"

2 sit or let sit in boiling water so as to extract the flavor; "the tea is brewing"

English

Etymology

brēowan.

Pronunciation

• , /bruː/, /bru:/

  Rhymes with: -uː

Verb

1. To prepare (usually a beverage) by steeping and mingling; to concoct.
   • William Shakespeare

   Go, brew me a pottle of sack finely.

2. To foment or prepare, as by brewing; to contrive; to plot; to hatch.
   • John Milton

   Hence with thy brewed enchantments, foul deceiver!

3. To attend to the business, or go through the processes, of brewing or making beer.
   • William Shakespeare

   I wash, wring, brew, bake, scour.

4. To be in a state of preparation; to be mixing, forming, or gathering.
   • William Shakespeare

   There is some ill a-brewing towards my rest.

5. In the context of "transitive|obsolete": To boil or seethe; to cook.

Translations

Noun

1. The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed; a brewage.
2. A beer.
3. A cup of tea.
4. The act of making a cup of tea.
5. A hill.

Translations

Derived terms

• brewage
• brewer
• brewhouse

Polish

Pronunciation

Noun

1. eyebrow

Declension

General== Brew may refer to:

• Brewing, the production of beverages and fuels through fermentation
• Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless, a development platform for mobile phones
• Brew (horse), a Melbourne Cup winner in 2000
• BREW, Inc., a non-profit beagle rescue group (Beagle, Rescue, Education, and Welfare) based in Virginia, USA.
• Brew program, a build system used within and internal to Red Hat to build their Linux distribution packages.
• Business Resource Efficiency and Waste programme, part of the UK government's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
• Brew, commonly used terminology to describe having a cup of tea or coffee
  • Drip brew, a method for brewing coffee
• The Brew House, an artistic collective on the south side of Pittsburgh
• A cup of tea, a slang term in Northern England.
• A slang term for Beer.

People

• Aled Brew, Welsh rugby union winger for Newport Gwent Dragons
• Bill Brew, Australian rugby league player in the NSW Rugby League (NSWRL) (1940-1941)
• Chartres Brew (1815–1870), Canadian gold commissioner and judge
• Derrick Brew (born 1977), 2004 U.S. Olympic Gold medalist in the Men's 4x400 meter relay*
• ((Luke Brew..)) Future England and Chelsea player (Ruislip London)

Entertainment

• Bitches Brew, album recorded by American jazz trumpeter Miles Davis, released in 1970
  • The Complete Bitches Brew Sessions, four-disc box set of music recordings by trumpeter Miles Davis
• Dragon's Brew, animated episode of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series, aired in October 2005.
• Mischief Brew, a band from Philadelphia which plays Acoustic folk and anarcho-punk music
• Sonic Brew, first album by the heavy metal band Black Label Society
• Strange Brew, 1983 film starring the popular SCTV characters Bob & Doug McKenzie
• Strange Brew: The Very Best of Cream, 1983 Cream compilation album
• Strange Old Brew, album by the Norwegian black metal band Carpathian Forest
• Vinman's Brew, the seventh song of Vinnie Moore's album "Out of nowhere"
• Wasted Youth Brew, compilation album by the hardcore punk band, Blood for Blood
• Witches Brew, disambiguation page
  • Witches' Brew (novel) (1995), 5th and last novel of the Magic Kingdom of Landover series, by Terry Brooks
  • Witches Brew (record label), underground European label, mainly selling music via online distribution
• Wizzard's Brew, the first album by glam rock group Wizzard, released in March 1973

Computer science

• BREW Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless, the application development platform for mobile devices (cell phones).

Places

• Mount Brew, several mountains in British Columbia, Canada

See also

• Witches Brew, disambiguation page

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