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.
FREEBOARD
Etymology 1
Noun
freeboard (plural freeboards)
(nautical) The vertical distance between the waterline and the uppermost watertight deck of a vessel.
The distance between a water level and the top of something that contains or restrains it (such as a dam).
The distance between the top of sea ice and the water level.
Etymology 2
From being a skateboard with an additional degree of freedom of movement (yaw) and some additional rocking (roll) movement.
Noun
freeboard (plural freeboards)
A type of skateboard which simulates the movement of a snowboard when used on a downhill coarse, allowing snowboarding techniques, which has an addition of two centerline casters that extend below the traditional skateboard wheels and bogies.
Hypernyms
• skateboard
Coordinate terms
• snowboard
• skateboard
Source: Wiktionary
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ENDLESSLY
(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”
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