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.
GAPS
Noun
gaps
plural of gap
Verb
gaps
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gap
Anagrams
• AGPs, GPAs, PASG, SPAG, gasp, spag
Source: Wiktionary
GAP
Gap, n. Etym: [OE. gap; cf. Icel. gap an empty space, Sw. gap mouth, breach, abyss, Dan. gab mouth, opening, AS. geap expanse; as adj., wide, spacious. See Gape.]
Definition: An opening in anything made by breaking or parting; as, a gap in a fence; an opening for a passage or entrance; an opening which implies a breach or defect; a vacant space or time; a hiatus; a mountain pass. Miseries ensued by the opening of that gap. Knolles. It would make a great gap in your own honor. Shak. Gap lathe (Mach.), a turning lathe with a deep notch in the bed to admit of turning a short object of large diameter.
– To stand in the gap, to expose one's self for the protection of something; to make defense against any assailing danger; to take the place of a fallen defender or supporter.
– To stop a gap, to secure a weak point; to repair a defect.
Gap, v. t.
1. To notch, as a sword or knife.
2. To make an opening in; to breach. Their masses are gapp'd with our grape. Tennyson.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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