Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Each year Brazil exports more than 44 million bags of coffee. Vietnam follows at exporting over 27 million bags each year.
ADUMBRATION
adumbration
(noun) a sketchy or imperfect or faint representation
prefiguration, foreshadowing, adumbration
(noun) the act of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehand
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
adumbration (countable and uncountable, plural adumbrations)
(uncountable) The state of being in shadow or shade; (countable) a shadow.
Synonyms: shading, shadowing
(countable) A faint sketch; a brief representation, an outline.
(specifically, heraldry) The outline of a charge (“image displayed on an escutcheon”), sometimes filled in with a darker shade than the field.
(countable, uncountable, figuratively) A rough or symbolic representation; a vague indication of what is to come, a foreshadowing.
(countable, philosophy, specifically phenomenology) The form of an object as seen by an observer.
Usage notes
Sense 4 is particularly associated with the work of the German philosopher Edmund Husserl (1859–1938).
Source: Wiktionary
Ad`um*bra"tion, n. Etym: [L. adumbratio.]
1. The act of adumbrating, or shadowing forth.
2. A faint sketch; an outline; an imperfect portrayal or representation of a thing. Elegant adumbrations of sacred truth. Bp. Horsley.
3. (Her.)
Definition: The shadow or outlines of a figure.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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SOAK
(noun) the process of becoming softened and saturated as a consequence of being immersed in water (or other liquid); “a good soak put life back in the wagon”
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