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.
FLASHLIGHT
flashlight, torch
(noun) a small portable battery-powered electric lamp
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
flashlight (plural flashlights)
(US, Canada) A battery-powered hand-held light source.
A flashgun (device used to create flashes of light for photography).
Synonyms
• (hand-held light source) torch (UK, Aus, NZ)
Hyponyms
• pocket light
Verb
flashlight (third-person singular simple present flashlights, present participle flashlighting, simple past and past participle flashlit)
(transitive) To illuminate with a flashlight.
Source: Wiktionary
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