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.
STEREOTYPED
stereotyped, stereotypic, stereotypical, unimaginative
(adjective) lacking spontaneity or originality or individuality; “stereotyped phrases of condolence”; “even his profanity was unimaginative”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
stereotyped
simple past tense and past participle of stereotype
Adjective
stereotyped
Having a certain stereotype.
Printed from stereotype plates.
Unoriginal; stereotypical.
Source: Wiktionary
Ste"re*o*typed, a.
1. Formed into, or printed from, stereotype plates.
2. Fig.: Formed in a fixed, unchangeable manner; as, stereotyped opinions. Our civilization, with its stereotyped ways and smooth conventionalities. J. C. Shairp.
STEREOTYPE
Ste"re*o*type, n. Etym: [Stereo- + -type: cf. F. stéréotype.]
1. A plate forming an exact faximile of a page of type or of an engraving, used in printing books, etc.; specifically, a plate with type-metal face, used for printing.
Note: A stereotype, or stereotypr plate, is made by setting movable type as for ordinary printing; from these a cast is taken in plaster of Paris, paper pulp, or the like, and upon this cast melted type metal is poured, which, when hardened, makes a solid page or column, from which the impression is taken as from type.
2. The art or process of making such plates, or of executing work by means of them. Stereotype block, a block, usually of wood, to which a stereotype plate is attached while being used in printing.
Ste"re*o*type, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stereotyped; p. pr. & vb. n. Stereotyping.] Etym: [Cf. F. stéréotyper.]
1. To prepare for printing in stereotype; to make the stereotype plates of; as, to stereotype the Bible.
2. Fig.: To make firm or permanent; to fix. Powerful causes tending to stereotype and aggravate the poverty of old conditions. Duke of Argyll (1887).
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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