The expression “coffee break” was first attested in 1952 in glossy magazine advertisements by the Pan-American Coffee Bureau.
SECRETION
secretion
(noun) a functionally specialized substance (especially one that is not a waste) released from a gland or cell
secretion, secernment
(noun) the organic process of synthesizing and releasing some substance
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Noun
secretion (countable and uncountable, plural secretions)
(countable) any substance that is secreted by an organism
(uncountable) the act of secreting a substance, especially from a gland
Etymology 2
Noun
secretion (plural secretions)
the act of hiding something
Anagrams
• erections, isocenter, isocentre, necrotise, neoterics, resection, tricosene
Source: Wiktionary
Se*cre"tion, n. Etym: [L. secretio: cf. F. sécrétion.]
1. The act of secreting or concealing; as, the secretion of dutiable goods.
2. (Physiol.)
Definition: The act of secreting; the process by which material is separated from the blood through the agency of the cells of the various glands and elaborated by the cells into new substances so as to form the various secretions, as the saliva, bile, and other digestive fluids. The process varies in the different glands, and hence are formed the various secretions.
3. (Physiol.)
Definition: Any substance or fluid secreted, or elaborated and emitted, as the gastric juice.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
Recent Word Finds
Word of the Day
10 June 2025
COMMUNICATIONS
(noun) the discipline that studies the principles of transmiting information and the methods by which it is delivered (as print or radio or television etc.); “communications is his major field of study”
Coffee Trivia
