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lime juice

lime juice

15 1.0
A liquid from limes that adds sour taste to food or drinks
  • noun
  • /laɪm dʒuːs/
translation icon : jugo de lima
  • To make the cocktail, squeeze fresh lime juice and mix it with vodka and tonic water.
  • fresh lime juice
  • tablespoon lime juice
  • teaspoon lime juice

Ingesting some lemon juice or lime juice can help lower blood glucose somewhat.

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Examples

  • Mile High Minter XX vodka with soda, lime juice and mint leaves.

  • The standard formula is one part fish sauce, 1.5 parts lime juice, plus however many chilies you can cope with.

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  • The lime juice is wonderful.

  • The only thing is there was a tiny bit less lime juice than I wanted.

  • Putting lemon or lime juice in your green tea without sugar is perfect.

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  • So in here Drew, we have some a little bit of lime juice and then a little bit of Sriracha for the heat.

  • And finally, we're just going to add some lime juice to kind of moisten everything and then we'll just mix it all up.

  • Strain the mixture and add a teaspoon of lime juice to it.

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  • Take a little turmeric powder and add a few drops of lime juice.

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  • Ingesting some lemon juice or lime juice can help lower blood glucose somewhat.

Surface Forms

lime juice singular
lime juices plural

Morphology

lime + juice

The meaning 'the juice obtained from limes' is directly and compositionally derived from combining 'lime' (the citrus fruit) with 'juice' (liquid from a plant), following a regular noun–noun compound pattern. This construction is cross-linguistically common (e.g. Spanish 'jugo de lima', French 'jus de citron vert'), so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the meaning.

Etymology

The noun lime juice comes from squeezing a lime to get its juice. People use that sour liquid to add a bright taste to drinks and food or to make meat softer, so the phrase now means 'the juice obtained from limes'.