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.
SUCTIONS
Verb
suctions
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of suction
Source: Wiktionary
SUCTION
Suc"tion, n. Etym: [L. sugere, suctum, to suck; cf. OF. suction. See Suck, v. t.]
Definition: The act or process of sucking; the act of drawing, as fluids, by exhausting the air. Suction chamber, the chamber of a pump into which the suction pipe delivers.
– Suction pipe, Suction valve, the induction pipe, and induction valve, of a pump, respectively.
– Suction pump, the common pump, in which the water is raised into the barrel by atmospheric pressure. See Illust. of Pump.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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