Decaffeinated coffee comes from a chemical process that takes out caffeine from the beans. Pharmaceutical and soda companies buy the extracted caffeine.
ARCHIVE
archive
(noun) a depository containing historical records and documents
archive, file away
(verb) put into an archive
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
archive (plural archives)
A place for storing earlier, and often historical, material. An archive usually contains documents (letters, records, newspapers, etc.) or other types of media kept for historical interest.
The material so kept, considered as a whole (compare archives).
(ecology) Natural deposits of material, regarded as a record of environmental changes over time.
Verb
archive (third-person singular simple present archives, present participle archiving, simple past and past participle archived)
To put into an archive.
Anagrams
• Varchie
Source: Wiktionary
Ar"chive, n.; pl. Archives. Etym: [F. archives, pl., L. archivum, archium, fr. Gr. Archi-, pref.]
1. pl.
Definition: The place in which public records or historic documents are kept. Our words . . . . become records in God's court, and are laid up in his archives as witnesses. Gov. of Tongue.
2. pl.
Definition: Public records or documents preserved as evidence of facts; as, the archives of a country or family. [Rarely used in sing.] Some rotten archive, rummaged out of some seldom explored press. Lamb.
Syn.
– Registers; records; chronicles.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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