Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
RETRIEVAL
recovery, retrieval
(noun) the act of regaining or saving something lost (or in danger of becoming lost)
retrieval
(noun) the cognitive operation of accessing information in memory; “my retrieval of people’s names is very poor”
retrieval
(noun) (computer science) the operation of accessing information from the computer’s memory
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
retrieval (countable and uncountable, plural retrievals)
the act of retrieving or something retrieved
(computing) the operation of accessing data, either from memory or from a storage device
the cognitive process of bringing stored information into consciousness
Source: Wiktionary
Re*triev"al, n.
Definition: The act retrieving.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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DETENTION
(noun) a state of being confined (usually for a short time); “his detention was politically motivated”; “the prisoner is on hold”; “he is in the custody of police”
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