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.
SLEEVING
Verb
sleeving
present participle of sleeve
Noun
sleeving (plural sleevings)
(UK) Hollow flexible tube used as insulation for wires and cables.
Source: Wiktionary
SLEEVE
Sleeve, n.
Definition: See Sleave, untwisted thread.
Sleeve, n. Etym: [OE. sleeve, sleve, AS. sl, sl; akin to sl to put on, to clothe; cf. OD. sloove the turning up of anything, sloven to turn up one's sleeves, sleve a sleeve, G. schlaube a husk, pod.]
1. The part of a garment which covers the arm; as, the sleeve of a coat or a gown. Chaucer.
2. A narrow channel of water. [R.] The Celtic Sea, called oftentimes the Sleeve. Drayton.
3. (Mach.) (a) A tubular part made to cover, sustain, or steady another part, or to form a connection between two parts. (b) A long bushing or thimble, as in the nave of a wheel. (c) A short piece of pipe used for covering a joint, or forming a joint between the ends of two other pipes. Sleeve button, a detachable button to fasten the wristband or cuff.
– Sleeve links, two bars or buttons linked together, and used to fasten a cuff or wristband.
– To laugh in the sleeve, to laugh privately or unperceived, especially while apparently preserving a grave or serious demeanor toward the person or persons laughed at; that is, perhaps, originally, by hiding the face in the wide sleeves of former times.
– To pin, or hang, on the sleeve of, to be, or make, dependent upon.
Sleeve, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sleeved; p. pr. & vb. n. Sleeving.]
Definition: To furnish with sleeves; to put sleeves into; as, to sleeve a coat.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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