In 1884, Angelo Moriondo of Turin, Italy, demonstrated the first working example of an espresso machine.
NATIONALISE
nationalize, nationalise
(verb) put under state control or ownership; “Mitterand nationalized the banks”
nationalize, nationalise
(verb) make national in character or scope; “His heroic deeds were nationalized by the press”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
nationalise (third-person singular simple present nationalises, present participle nationalising, simple past and past participle nationalised)
Non-Oxford British standard spelling of nationalize.
Anagrams
• alienations, alineations
Source: Wiktionary
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ENDLESSLY
(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”
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