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.
PLATTING
PLAT
plat, plot
(verb) make a plat of; “Plat the town”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
platting
present participle of plat
Noun
platting (plural plattings)
(archaic) plaited strips of bark, cane, straw, etc, used for making hats or the like.
Source: Wiktionary
Plat"ting, n.
Definition: Plaited strips or bark, cane, straw, etc., used for making hats or the like.
PLAT
Plat, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Platted; p. pr. & vb. n. Platting.] Etym: [See Plait.]
Definition: To form by interlaying interweaving; to braid; to plait. "They had platted a crown of thorns." Matt. xxvii. 29.
Plat, n.
Definition: Work done by platting or braiding; a plait. Her hair, nor loose, nor tied in formal plat. Shak.
Plat, n. Etym: [Cf. Plat flat, which perh. caused this spelling, and Plot a piece of ground.]
Definition: A small piece or plot of ground laid out with some design, or for a special use; usually, a portion of flat, even ground. This flowery plat, the sweet recess of Eve. Milton. I keep smooth plat of fruitful ground. Tennyson.
Plat, v. t.
Definition: To lay out in plats or plots, as ground.
Plat, a. Etym: [F. plat. See Plate, n.]
Definition: Plain; flat; level. [Obs.] Gower.
Plat, adv.
1. Plainly; flatly; downright. [Obs.] But, sir, ye lie, I tell you plat. Rom. of R.
2. Flatly; smoothly; evenly. [Obs.] Drant.
Plat, n.
1. The flat or broad side of a sword. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Chaucer.
2. A plot; a plan; a design; a diagram; a map; a chart. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] "To note all the islands, and to set them down in plat." Hakluyt.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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