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.
OVERSEE
oversee, supervise, superintend, manage
(verb) watch and direct; “Who is overseeing this project?”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
oversee (third-person singular simple present oversees, present participle overseeing, simple past oversaw, past participle overseen) (transitive)
(literally) To survey, look at something in a wide angle.
(figuratively) To supervise, guide, review or direct the actions of a person or group.
Synonym: superintend
To inspect, examine
(obsolete) To fail to see; to overlook, ignore.
To observe secretly or unintentionally.
Anagrams
• see over
Source: Wiktionary
O`ver*see", v. t. [imp. Oversaw; p. p. Overseen; p. pr. & vb. n. Overseeing.] Etym: [AS. oferséon to survey, to despise. See Over, and See.]
1. To superintend; to watch over; to direct; to look or see after; to overlook.
2. To omit or neglect seeing. Spenser.
O`ver*see", v. i.
Definition: To see too or too much; hence, to be deceived. [Obs.] The most expert gamesters may sometimes oversee. Fuller. Your partiality to me is much overseen, if you think me fit to correct your Latin. Walpole.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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PARSEC
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