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.
SIMILE
simile
(noun) a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with ‘like’ or ‘as’)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
simile (countable and uncountable, plural similes or similia)
A figure of speech in which one thing is compared to another, in the case of English generally using like or as.
Hypernyms
• figure of speech
Antonyms
• dissimile
Anagrams
• mislie, smilie
Source: Wiktionary
Simi"*le, n.; pl. Similes. Etym: [L., from similis. See Similar.] (Rhet.)
Definition: A word or phrase by which anything is likened, in one or more of its aspects, to something else; a similitude; a poetical or imaginative comparison. A good swift simile, but something currish. Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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THOUGHTFULLY
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