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.
CLOTURE
closure, cloture, gag rule, gag law
(noun) a rule for limiting or ending debate in a deliberative body
closure, cloture
(verb) terminate debate by calling for a vote; “debate was closured”; “cloture the discussion”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
cloture (countable and uncountable, plural clotures)
(law, politics, chiefly, US) In legislative assemblies that permit unlimited debate (that is, a filibuster): a motion, procedure or rule by which debate is ended so that a vote may be taken on the matter. For example, in the United States Senate, a three-fifths majority vote of the body is required to invoke cloture and terminate debate.
Synonyms
• closure
Verb
cloture (third-person singular simple present clotures, present participle cloturing, simple past and past participle clotured)
To end legislative debate by this means.
Anagrams
• Coulter, clouter, coulter, lectour
Source: Wiktionary
ClĂ´`ture", n. Etym: [F.] (Parliamentary Practice)
Definition: See Closure, 5.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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UNAMBIGUOUS
(adjective) having or exhibiting a single clearly defined meaning; “As a horror, apartheid...is absolutely unambiguous”- Mario Vargas Llosa
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