Decaffeinated coffee comes from a chemical process that takes out caffeine from the beans. Pharmaceutical and soda companies buy the extracted caffeine.
LOCALE
venue, locale, locus
(noun) the scene of any event or action (especially the place of a meeting)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
locale (plural locales)
The place where something happens.
(computing) The set of settings related to the language and region in which a computer program executes. Examples are language, currency and time formats, character encoding etc.
(mathematics) A partially ordered set with the following additional axiomatic properties: any finite subset of it has a meet, any arbitrary subset of it has a join, and distributivity, which states that a binary meet distributes with respect to an arbitrary join. (Note: locales are just like frames except that the category of locales is opposite to the category of frames.)
Hyponyms
• (mathematics): spatial locale
Source: Wiktionary
Lo`cale", n. Etym: [F. local.]
1. A place, spot, or location.
2. A principle, practice, form of speech, or other thing of local use, or limited to a locality.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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(noun) the crease at the junction of the inner part of the thigh with the trunk together with the adjacent region and often including the external genitals
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