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.
DRAGNET
trawl, dragnet, trawl net
(noun) a conical fishnet dragged through the water at great depths
dragnet
(noun) a system of coordinated measures for apprehending (criminals or other individuals); “caught in the police dragnet”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
dragnet (plural dragnets)
(fishing) A net dragged across the bottom of a body of water.
(law enforcement) Heightened efforts by law-enforcement personnel to capture suspects.
Verb
dragnet (third-person singular simple present dragnets, present participle dragnetting, simple past and past participle dragnetted)
(fishing) To drag a net across the bottom of a body of water.
(law enforcement) To make heightened efforts to catch a suspect.
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Source: Wiktionary
Drag"net`, n. Etym: [Cf. AS. drægnet.]
Definition: A net to be drawn along the bottom of a body of water, as in fishing.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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