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.
METATHESIS
metathesis
(noun) a linguistic process of transposition of sounds or syllables within a word or words within a sentence
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
metathesis (countable and uncountable, plural metatheses)
(phonetics, prosody) The transposition of letters, syllables or sounds within a word, such as in ask as /æks/.
Hyponym: hyperthesis
(inorganic chemistry) The double decomposition of inorganic salts.
(organic chemistry) The breaking and reforming of double bonds in olefins in which substituent groups are swapped.
Anagrams
• thematises
Source: Wiktionary
Me*tath"e*sis, n.; pl. Metatheses (. Etym: [L., fr. Gr. meta`thesis, fr. metatithe`nai to place differently, to transpose; meta` beyond, over + tithe`nai to place, set. See Thesis.]
1. (Gram.)
Definition: Transposition, as of the letters or syllables of a word; as, pistris for pristis; meagre for meager.
2. (Med.)
Definition: A mere change in place of a morbid substance, without removal from the body.
3. (Chem.)
Definition: The act, process, or result of exchange, substitution, or replacement of atoms and radicals; thus, by metathesis an acid gives up all or part of its hydrogen, takes on an equivalent amount of a metal or base, and forms a salt.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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RIGHT
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