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.
FOUNDATIONS
Noun
foundations
plural of foundation
Source: Wiktionary
FOUNDATION
Foun*da"tion, n. Etym: [F. fondation, L. fundatio. See Found to establish.]
1. The act of founding, fixing, establishing, or beginning to erect.
2. That upon which anything is founded; that on which anything stands, and by which it is supported; the lowest and supporting layer of a superstructure; groundwork; basis. Behold, I lay in Zion, for a foundation, a stone . . . a precious corner stone, a sure foundation. Is. xxviii. 16. The foundation of a free common wealth. Motley.
3. (Arch.)
Definition: The lowest and supporting part or member of a wall, including the base course (see Base course (a), under Base, n.) and footing courses; in a frame house, the whole substructure of masonry.
4. A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution, and constituting a permanent fund; endowment. He was entered on the foundation of Westminster. Macaulay.
5. That which is founded, or established by endowment; an endowed institution or charity. Against the canon laws of our foundation. Milton. Foundation course. See Base course, under Base, n.
– Foundation muslin, an open-worked gummed fabric used for stiffening dresses, bonnets, etc.
– Foundation school, in England, an endowed school.
– To be on a foundation, to be entitled to a support from the proceeds of an endowment, as a scholar or a fellow of a college.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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3 February 2025
CRAZY
(adjective) possessed by inordinate excitement; “the crowd went crazy”; “was crazy to try his new bicycle”
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