日本語 Japanese Ask Questions Thread 6

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>>319
飲酒 is the consumption of alcohol (see 飲酒運転)
飲み物 is a drink of any kind
飲む is the verb to drink.

Rikaichan just uses EDICT. You can easily check the difference using that same database at jisho.org. There are also about a million other different dictionaries (I use alc.co.jp)

I feel like people aren't able to google effectively.