Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
MORPH
morph
(verb) change shape as via computer animation; “In the video, Michael Jackson morphed into a panther”
morph
(verb) cause to change shape in a computer animation; “The computer programmer morphed the image”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Noun
morph (plural morphs)
(grammar, linguistics) A physical form representing some morpheme in language. It is a recurrent distinctive sound or sequence of sounds.
(linguistics) An allomorph: one of a set of realizations that a morpheme can have in different contexts.
Etymology 2
Noun
morph (plural morphs)
(biology) Local variety of a species, distinguishable from other populations of the species by morphology or behaviour.
Etymology 3
Verb
morph (third-person singular simple present morphs, present participle morphing, simple past and past participle morphed)
(colloquial, ambitransitive) To change shape, from one form to another, through computer animation.
(of fantastic beings in science fiction or fantasy) To shapeshift.
To undergo dramatic change in a seamless and barely noticeable fashion.
Noun
morph (plural morphs)
A computer-generated gradual change from one image to another.
Source: Wiktionary
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