(~s, wining, ~d)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
Wine is an alcoholic drink which is made from grapes. You can also refer to alcoholic drinks made from other fruits or vegetables as ~.
...a bottle of white ~...
This is a nice ~.
N-MASS
2.
Wine is used to describe things that are very dark red in colour.
She wore her ~-coloured gaberdine raincoat.
COLOUR
3.
If you ~ and dine, or if someone ~s and dines you, you go out, for example to expensive restaurants, and spend a lot of money.
Colleagues were furious at doing her work while she ~d and dined...
A lot of money went on wining and dining prospective clients.
PHRASE: Vs inflect