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.
EMBEDDED
embedded
(adjective) inserted as an integral part of a surrounding whole; “confused by the embedded Latin quotations”; “an embedded subordinate clause”
embedded
(adjective) enclosed firmly in a surrounding mass; “found pebbles embedded in the silt”; “stone containing many embedded fossils”; “peach and plum seeds embedded in a sweet edible pulp”
EMBED
embed
(verb) attach to, as a journalist to a military unit when reporting on a war; “The young reporter was embedded with the Third Division”
implant, engraft, embed, imbed, plant
(verb) fix or set securely or deeply; “He planted a knee in the back of his opponent”; “The dentist implanted a tooth in the gum”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
embedded
simple past tense and past participle of embed
Adjective
embedded (comparative more embedded, superlative most embedded)
Part of; firmly, or securely surrounded; lodged solidly into; deep-rooted.
Partially buried in concrete or planted in earth.
Source: Wiktionary
EMBED
Em*bed", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Embedded; p. pr. & vb. n. Embedding.] Etym: [Pref. em- + bed. Cf. Imbed.]
Definition: To lay as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed; as, to embed a thing in clay, mortar, or sand.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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TRANSPOSITION
(noun) (music) playing in a different key from the key intended; moving the pitch of a piece of music upwards or downwards
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