Decaffeinated coffee comes from a chemical process that takes out caffeine from the beans. Pharmaceutical and soda companies buy the extracted caffeine.
ABBREVIATES
Verb
abbreviates
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of abbreviate
Source: Wiktionary
ABBREVIATE
Ab*bre"vi*ate, v.t. [imp. & p.p. Abbreviated; p.pr. & vb.n. Abbreviating.] Etym: [L. abbreviatus, p.p. of abbreviare; ad + breviare to shorten, fr. brevis short. See Abridge.]
1. To make briefer; to shorten; to abridge; to reduce by contraction or omission, especially of words written or spoken. It is one thing to abbreviate by contracting, another by cutting off. Bacon.
2. (Math.)
Definition: To reduce to lower terms, as a fraction.
Ab*bre"vi*ate, a. Etym: [L. abbreviatus, p.p.]
1. Abbreviated; abridged; shortened. [R.] "The abbreviate form." Earle.
2. (Biol.)
Definition: Having one part relatively shorter than another or than the ordinary type.
Ab*bre"vi*ate, n.
Definition: An abridgment. [Obs.] Elyot.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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