Lemonade vs. Soda: What’s the Difference?

• Lemonade

  Lemonade can be any variety of sweetened or unsweetened beverages found throughout the world, which are traditionally all characterized by a lemon flavor.Most lemonade varieties can be separated into two distinct types: cloudy and clear; each is known simply as “lemonade” (or a cognate) in countries where dominant. Cloudy lemonade, generally found in North America and South Asia, is traditionally a homemade drink using lemon juice, water, and a sweetener such as cane sugar, a simple syrup (white sugar and water) or honey. In the United Kingdom and Australia, clear lemonade, which is typically also carbonated, dominates.The suffix “-ade” may also be applied to other similar drinks made with different fruits, such as limeade, orangeade, or cherryade.

• Lemonade (noun)

  A flavoured beverage consisting of water, lemon, and sweetener, sometimes ice, served mainly as a refreshment.

• Lemonade (noun)

  A clear, usually carbonated, beverage made from lemon or artificial lemon flavouring, water, and sugar.

• Lemonade (noun)

  Recreational drugs of poor or weak quality, especially heroin.

• Soda (noun)

  Sodium bicarbonate (usually baking soda).

• Soda (noun)

  Sodium carbonate (usually washing soda).

• Soda (noun)

  Sodium in chemical combination.

• Soda (noun)

  Carbonated water (water impregnated with pressurised carbon dioxide, originally made with sodium bicarbonate).

• Soda (noun)

  Any carbonated (usually sweet) soft drink.

• Soda (noun)

  A glass, bottle or can of this drink.

• Soda (noun)

  The first card in the dealing box in the game of faro, which is discarded to leave 51 cards in play.

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