Decaffeinated coffee comes from a chemical process that takes out caffeine from the beans. Pharmaceutical and soda companies buy the extracted caffeine.
HOISTING
Noun
hoisting (plural hoistings)
The act by which something is hoisted.
(programming) The behaviour of Javascript syntax which allows variables to be used before they are declared.
Verb
hoisting
present participle of hoist
Source: Wiktionary
HOIST
Hoist, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hoisted; p. pr. & vb. n. Hoisting.] Etym: [OE. hoise, hyse, OD. hyssen, D. hijshen; akin to LG. hissen, Dan. hisse, Sw. hissa.]
Definition: To raise; to lift; to elevate; esp., to raise or lift to a desired elevation, by means of tackle, as a sail, a flag, a heavy package or weight. They land my goods, and hoist my flying sails. Pope. Hoisting him into his father's throne. South. Hoisting engine, a steam engine for operating a hoist.
Hoist, n.
1. That by which anything is hoisted; the apparatus for lifting goods.
2. The act of hoisting; a lift. [Collog.]
3. (fly, or horizontal length when flying from a staff. (b) The height of a fore-and-aft sail next the mast or stay. Totten. Hoist bridge, a drawbridge that is lifted instead of being swung or drawn aside.
Hoist, p. p.
Definition: Hoisted. [Obs.] 'Tis the sport to have the enginer Hoist with his own petar. Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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