The expression “coffee break” was first attested in 1952 in glossy magazine advertisements by the Pan-American Coffee Bureau.
FRUCTIFY
fructify, set
(verb) bear fruit; “the apple trees fructify”
fructify
(verb) make productive or fruitful; “The earth that he fructified”
fructify
(verb) become productive or fruitful; “The seeds fructified”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
fructify (third-person singular simple present fructifies, present participle fructifying, simple past and past participle fructified)
(intransitive) To bear fruit; to generate useful products or ideas.
(transitive) To make productive or fruitful.
(transitive) To be satisfied sexually.
Source: Wiktionary
Fruc"ti*fy, v. i. Etym: [F. fructifier, L. fructificare; fructus fruit + ficare (only in comp.), akin to L. facere to make. See Fruit, and Fact.]
Definition: To bear fruit. "Causeth the earth to fructify." Beveridge.
Fruc"ti*fy, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fructified; p. pr. & vb. n. Fructifying.]
Definition: To make fruitful; to render productive; to fertilize; as, to fructify the earth.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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CATCH
(verb) grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of; “did you catch that allusion?”; “We caught something of his theory in the lecture”; “don’t catch your meaning”; “did you get it?”; “She didn’t get the joke”; “I just don’t get him”
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