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.
LOWERCASE
lowercase
(adjective) relating to small (not capitalized) letters that were kept in the lower half of a compositor’s type case; “lowercase letters; a and b and c etc”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
lowercase (uncountable)
Alternative spelling of lower case
Adjective
lowercase (not comparable)
in lower case
Verb
lowercase (third-person singular simple present lowercases, present participle lowercasing, simple past and past participle lowercased)
(transitive) To convert (text) to lower case.
Source: Wiktionary
Low"er-case`, a. (Print.)
Definition: Pertaining to, or kept in, the lower case; -- used to denote the small letters, in distinction from capitals and small capitals. See the Note under 1st Case, n., 3.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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HABIT
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