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.
EXCURSION
digression, excursion
(noun) wandering from the main path of a journey
excursion, jaunt, outing, junket, pleasure trip, expedition, sashay
(noun) a journey taken for pleasure; “many summer excursions to the shore”; “it was merely a pleasure trip”; “after cautious sashays into the field”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
excursion (plural excursions)
A brief recreational trip; a journey out of the usual way.
A wandering from the main subject: a digression.
(phonetics) A deviation in pitch, for example in the syllables of enthusiastic speech.
Synonyms
• (recreational trip): journey, trip
• (wandering from the main subject): digression, excursus
Verb
excursion (third-person singular simple present excursions, present participle excursioning, simple past and past participle excursioned)
(intransitive) To go on a recreational trip or excursion.
Source: Wiktionary
Ex*cur"sion. Etym: [L. excursio: cf. F. excursion. See Excurrent.]
1. A running or going out or forth; an expedition; a sally. Far on excursion toward the gates of hell. Milton. They would make excursions and waste the country. Holland.
2. A journey chiefly for recreation; a pleasure trip; a brief tour; as, an excursion into the country.
3. A wandering from a subject; digression. I am not in a scribbling mood, and shall therefore make no excursions. Cowper.
4. (Mach.)
Definition: Length of stroke, as of a piston; stroke. [An awkward use of the word.]
Syn.
– Journey; tour; ramble; jaunt. See Journey.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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