In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
CROSSWALK
crossing, crosswalk, crossover
(noun) a path (often marked) where something (as a street or railroad) can be crossed to get from one side to the other
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
crosswalk (plural crosswalks)
(US) Place where pedestrians can cross a street.
(databases) A mapping between equivalent elements (fields) in different database schemas.
Synonyms
• crossing
• pedestrian crossing
Hyponyms
• pelican crossing, puffin crossing, toucan crossing
• zebra crossing
Verb
crosswalk (third-person singular simple present crosswalks, present participle crosswalking, simple past and past participle crosswalked)
(databases) To map equivalent elements (fields) in different database schemas.
Anagrams
• classwork
Source: Wiktionary
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DISPERSION
(noun) the act of dispersing or diffusing something; “the dispersion of the troops”; “the diffusion of knowledge”
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