Decaffeinated coffee comes from a chemical process that takes out caffeine from the beans. Pharmaceutical and soda companies buy the extracted caffeine.
CONSUMPTION
consumption, using up, expenditure
(noun) the act of consuming something
consumption, ingestion, intake, uptake
(noun) the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating)
consumption, economic consumption, usance, use, use of goods and services
(noun) (economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing; “the consumption of energy has increased steadily”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
consumption (usually uncountable, plural consumptions)
The act of eating, drinking or using.
The amount consumed.
The act of consuming or destroying.
(pathology) The wasting away of the human body through disease.
(pathology, dated) Pulmonary tuberculosis and other diseases that cause wasting away, lung infection, etc.
Source: Wiktionary
Con*sump"tion, n.. Etym: [L. consumptio: cf. F. consomption.]
1. The act or process of consuming by use, waste, etc.; decay; destruction. Every new advance of the price to the consumer is a new incentive to him to retrench the quality of his consumption. Burke.
2. The state or process of being consumed, wasted, or diminished; waste; diminution; loss; decay.
3. (Med.)
Definition: A progressive wasting away of the body; esp., that form of wasting, attendant upon pulmonary phthisis and associated with cough, spitting of blood, hectic fever, etc.; pulmonary phthisis; -- called also pulmonary consumption. Consumption of the bowels (Med.), inflammation and ulceration of the intestines from tubercular disease.
Syn.
– Decline; waste; decay. See Decline.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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