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.
FILTRATE
filtrate
(noun) the product of filtration; a gas or liquid that has been passed through a filter
filter, filtrate, strain, separate out, filter out
(verb) remove by passing through a filter; “filter out the impurities”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
filtrate (plural filtrates)
The liquid or solution that has passed through a filter, and which has been separated from the filtride.
Verb
filtrate (third-person singular simple present filtrates, present participle filtrating, simple past and past participle filtrated)
To filter.
Anagrams
• flat tire, triflate
Source: Wiktionary
Fil"trate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Filtrated; p. pr. & vb. n. Filtrating. (] Etym: [Cf. LL. filtrare. See Filter.]
Definition: To filter; to defecate; as liquid, by straining or percolation. Arbuthnot.
Fil"trate, n.
Definition: That which has been filtered; the liquid which has passed through the filter in the process of filtration.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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