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.
EXCERPT
excerpt, excerption, extract, selection
(noun) a passage selected from a larger work; “he presented excerpts from William James’ philosophical writings”
excerpt, extract, take out
(verb) take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
excerpt (plural excerpts)
A clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work such as a news article, a film, or a literary composition.
Verb
excerpt (third-person singular simple present excerpts, present participle excerpting, simple past and past participle excerpted)
(transitive) To select or copy sample material (excerpts) from a work.
Source: Wiktionary
Ex*cerpt", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Excerpted; p. pr. & vb. n. Excerpting.] Etym: [From L. excerptus, p. p. See Excerp.]
Definition: To select; to extract; to cite; to quote. Out of which we have excerpted the following particulars. Fuller.
Ex*cerp"t (277), n.
Definition: An extract; a passage selected or copied from a book or record.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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