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.
NOONED
Verb
nooned
simple past tense and past participle of noon
Source: Wiktionary
NOON
Noon, a.
Definition: No. See the Note under No. [Obs.]
Noon, n. Etym: [AS. n, orig., the ninth hour, fr. L.nona (sc. hora) the ninth hour, then applied to the church services (called nones) at that hour, the time of which was afterwards changed to noon. See Nine, and cf. Nones, Nunchion.]
1. The middle of the day; midday; the time when the sun is in the meridian; twelve o'clock in the daytime.
2. Hence, the highest point; culmination. In the very noon of that brilliant life which was destined to be so soon, and so fatally, overshadowed. Motley. High noon, the exact meridian; midday.
– Noon of night, midnight. [Poetic] Dryden.
Noon, a.
Definition: Belonging to midday; occurring at midday; meridional. Young.
Noon, v. i.
Definition: To take rest and refreshment at noon.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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