Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.
ELIMINATION
elimination, liquidation
(noun) the murder of a competitor
elimination, riddance
(noun) the act of removing or getting rid of something
elimination
(noun) the act of removing an unknown mathematical quantity by combining equations
elimination, reasoning by elimination
(noun) analysis of a problem into alternative possibilities followed by the systematic rejection of unacceptable alternatives
elimination, evacuation, excretion, excreting, voiding
(noun) the bodily process of discharging waste matter
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
elimination (countable and uncountable, plural eliminations)
The act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off.
The act of excluding a losing contestant from a match, tournament, or other competition.
(television) The act of voting off or throwing off a contestant in a reality television competition.
(biology) The act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories.
(mathematics) The act of causing a quantity to disappear from an equation; especially, in the operation of deducing from several equations containing several unknown quantities a less number of equations containing a less number of unknown quantities.
(logic) The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction.
(accounting) The act of recording amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.
Source: Wiktionary
E*lim`i*na"tion, n. Etym: [Cf. F. élimination.]
1. The act of expelling or throwing off; (Physiol.)
Definition: the act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories.
2. (Alg.)
Definition: Act of causing a quantity to disappear from an equation; especially, in the operation of deducing from several equations containing several unknown quantities a less number of equations containing a less number of unknown quantities.
3. The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction. [See Eliminate,
4.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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