Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.
NORMALIZE
anneal, temper, normalize
(verb) bring to a desired consistency, texture, or hardness by a process of gradually heating and cooling; “temper glass”
normalize, normalise, renormalize, renormalise
(verb) make normal or cause to conform to a norm or standard; “normalize relations with China”; “normalize the temperature”; “normalize the spelling”
normalize, normalise
(verb) become normal or return to its normal state; “Let us hope that relations with this country will normalize soon”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
normalize (third-person singular simple present normalizes, present participle normalizing, simple past and past participle normalized)
(transitive) To make normal, to make standard.
(transitive) To format in a standardized manner, to make consistent.
(transitive, statistics) To reduce to variations by excluding irrelevant aspects.
(rail transport, transitive) To return a set of points (switches) to the normal position.
(rail transport, intransitive, of points) To return to the normal position from the reverse position.
(transitive, computing, database) To subject to normalization; to eliminate redundancy in (a model for storing data).
(transitive, mathematics) To divide a vector by its magnitude to produce a unit vector.
Antonyms
• (rail transport): reverse (transitive and intransitive)
Hyponyms
• (to subject to normalization): canonicalize
Source: Wiktionary
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STAND
(verb) hold one’s ground; maintain a position; be steadfast or upright; “I am standing my ground and won’t give in!”
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