An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
DOWNCOME
Etymology
Noun
downcome (plural downcomes)
A tumbling or falling down; a sudden or heavy fall; an overthrow; ruin; destruction.
In ironmaking, a pipe that leads combustible gases downward from the top of the blast furnace to the hot-blast stoves, boilers, etc, where they are burned.
A downpour of rain.
Verb
downcome (third-person singular simple present downcomes, present participle downcoming, simple past downcame, past participle downcome)
To come down; fall down; come or fall apart.
Anagrams
• come down, come-down, comedown
Source: Wiktionary
Down"come`, n.
1. Sudden fall; downfall; overthrow. Milton.
2. (Iron Manuf.)
Definition: A pipe for leading combustible gases downward from the top of the blast furnace to the hot-blast stoves, boilers, etc., where they are burned.
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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