Plain brewed coffee contains almost no calories, while coffee with dairy products, sugar, and other flavorings is much higher in calories. An espresso has 20 calories. A nonfat latte has 72, while a flavored one has 134.
OOZE
seepage, ooze, oozing
(noun) the process of seeping
sludge, slime, goo, goop, gook, guck, gunk, muck, ooze
(noun) any thick, viscous matter
exude, exudate, transude, ooze out, ooze
(verb) release (a liquid) in drops or small quantities; “exude sweat through the pores”
seep, ooze
(verb) pass gradually or leak through or as if through small openings
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Noun
ooze (countable and uncountable, plural oozes)
Tanning liquor, an aqueous extract of vegetable matter (tanbark, sumac, etc.) in a tanning vat used to tan leather.
An oozing, gentle flowing, or seepage, as of water through sand or earth.
(obsolete) Secretion, humour.
(obsolete) Juice, sap.
Verb
ooze (third-person singular simple present oozes, present participle oozing, simple past and past participle oozed)
(intransitive) To be secreted or slowly leak.
(transitive, figuratively) To give off a strong sense of (something); to exude.
Etymology 2
Noun
ooze (plural oozes)
Soft mud, slime, or shells especially in the bed of a river or estuary.
(oceanography) A pelagic marine sediment containing a significant amount of the microscopic remains of either calcareous or siliceous planktonic debris organisms.
A piece of soft, wet, pliable ground.
Source: Wiktionary
Ooze, n. Etym: [OE. wose, AS. wase dirt, mire, mud, akin to w juice, ooze, Icel. vas wetness, OHG. waso turf, sod, G. wasen.]
1. Soft mud or slime; earth so wet as to flow gently, or easily yield to pressure. "My son i' the ooze is bedded." Shak.
2. Soft flow; spring. Prior.
3. The liquor of a tan vat.
Ooze, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Oozed; p.pr. & vb.n. Oozing.] Etym: [Prov. Eng. weeze, wooz. See Ooze, n.]
1. To flow gently; to percolate, as a liquid through the pores of a substance or through small openings. The latent rill, scare oozing through the grass. Thomson.
2. Fig.: To leak (out) or escape slowly; as, the secret oozed out; his courage oozed out.
Ooze, v. t.
Definition: To cause to ooze. Alex. Smith.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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