The expression “coffee break” was first attested in 1952 in glossy magazine advertisements by the Pan-American Coffee Bureau.
GRAPHEME
character, graph, grapheme, graphic symbol
(noun) a written symbol that is used to represent speech; “the Greek alphabet has 24 characters”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
grapheme (plural graphemes)
A fundamental unit of a writing system, corresponding to (for example) letters in the English alphabet or jamo in Korean Hangeul.
In alphabetic writing, the shortest group of letters composing a phoneme.
Source: Wiktionary
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18 May 2025
OBLIQUE
(adjective) slanting or inclined in direction or course or position--neither parallel nor perpendicular nor right-angled; “the oblique rays of the winter sun”; “acute and obtuse angles are oblique angles”; “the axis of an oblique cone is not perpendicular to its base”
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