Plain brewed coffee contains almost no calories, while coffee with dairy products, sugar, and other flavorings is much higher in calories. An espresso has 20 calories. A nonfat latte has 72, while a flavored one has 134.
CAVEATING
Noun
caveating (uncountable)
(fencing) Shifting the sword from one side of an adversary's sword to the other.
Verb
caveating
present participle of caveat.
Anagrams
• evacating
Source: Wiktionary
Ca"ve*a`ting, n. (Fencing)
Definition: Shifting the sword from one side of an adversary's sword to the other.
CAVEAT
Ca"ve*at, n. Etym: [L. caved let him beware, pres. subj. of cavere to be on one's guard to, beware.]
1. (Law)
Definition: A notice given by an interested party to some officer not to do a certain act until the party is heard in opposition; as, a caveat entered in a probate court to stop the proving of a will or the taking out of letters of administration, etc. Bouvier.
2. (U. S. Patent Laws)
Definition: A description of some invention, designed to be patented, lodged in the patent office before the patent right is applied for, and operating as a bar to the issue of letters patent to any other person, respecting the same invention.
Note: A caveat is operative for one year only, but may be renewed.
3. Intimation of caution; warning; protest. We think it right to enter our caveat against a conclusion. Jeffrey. Caveat emptor Etym: [L.] (Law), let the purchaser beware, i. e., let him examine the article he is buying, and act on his own judgment.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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OBSERVE
(verb) conform one’s action or practice to; “keep appointments”; “she never keeps her promises”; “We kept to the original conditions of the contract”
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