Tun vs. Wine — What's the Difference?

A large beer or wine cask.

Wine is an alcoholic drink typically made from fermented grapes. Yeast consumes the sugar in the grapes and converts it to ethanol, carbon dioxide and heat.

An imperial measure of capacity, equal to 4 hogsheads.

An alcoholic drink made from fermented grape juice

A large marine mollusc which has a rounded shell with broad spirals.

Entertain someone by offering them drinks and a meal

Store (wine or other alcoholic drinks) in a tun.

Dance with rhythmic gyratory movements of the pelvic region

A large cask for liquids, especially wine.

A beverage made of the fermented juice of any of various kinds of grapes, usually containing from 10 to 15 percent alcohol by volume.

A measure of liquid capacity, especially one equivalent to approximately 252 gallons (954 liters).

A beverage made of the fermented juice of any of various other fruits or plants.

A large cask; an oblong vessel bulging in the middle, like a pipe or puncheon, and girt with hoops; a wine cask. (See a diagram comparing cask sizes.)

Something that intoxicates or exhilarates.

(brewing) A fermenting vat.

The color of red wine.

(historical) A traditional unit of liquid measure equal to 252 wine gallons or 2 pipes.

To provide or entertain with wine.

Synonym of long ton: a unit of mass equal to 2240 pounds, 20 hundredweights of 112 pounds avoirdupois each.

To drink wine.

(figurative) ton: any extremely or excessively large amount.

An alcoholic beverage made by fermenting grape juice, with an ABV ranging from 5.5–16%.

Synonym of drunkard: a person who drinks excessively.

An alcoholic beverage made by fermenting other substances, producing a similar ABV.

Any shell belonging to Tonna and allied genera.

(countable) A serving of wine.

The cryptobiotic state of a tardigrade, when its metabolism is temporarily suspended.

(uncountable) The color of red wine, a deep reddish purple.

A part of the ancient Maya Long Count Calendar system which corresponds to 18 winal cycles or 360 days.

Wind.

(transitive) To put into tuns, or casks.

(transitive) To entertain with wine.

A large cask; an oblong vessel bulging in the middle, like a pipe or puncheon, and girt with hoops; a wine cask.

(intransitive) To drink wine.

A fermenting vat.

The expressed juice of grapes, esp. when fermented; a beverage or liquor prepared from grapes by squeezing out their juice, and (usually) allowing it to ferment.

A certain measure for liquids, as for wine, equal to two pipes, four hogsheads, or 252 gallons. In different countries, the tun differs in quantity.

A liquor or beverage prepared from the juice of any fruit or plant by a process similar to that for grape wine; as, currant wine; gooseberry wine; palm wine.

A weight of 2,240 pounds. See Ton.

The effect of drinking wine in excess; intoxication.

An indefinite large quantity.

Fermented juice (of grapes especially)

A drunkard; - so called humorously, or in contempt.

A red as dark as red wine

Any shell belonging to Dolium and allied genera; - called also tun-shell.

Drink wine

To put into tuns, or casks.

Treat to wine;

A large cask especially one holding a volume equivalent to 2 butts or 252 gals