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.
TENSES
Noun
tenses
plural of tense
Verb
tenses
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of tense
Anagrams
• ensets, essent, steens
Source: Wiktionary
TENSE
Tense, n. Etym: [OF. tens, properly, time, F. temps time, tense. See Temporal of time, and cf. Thing.] (Gram.)
Definition: One of the forms which a verb takes by inflection or by adding auxiliary words, so as to indicate the time of the action or event signified; the modification which verbs undergo for the indication of time.
Note: The primary simple tenses are three: those which express time past, present, and future; but these admit of modifications, which differ in different languages.
Tense, a. Etym: [L. tensus, p.p. of tendere to stretch. See Tend to move, and cf. Toise.]
Definition: Stretched tightly; strained to stiffness; rigid; not lax; as, a tense fiber. The temples were sunk, her forehead was tense, and a fatal paleness was upon her. Goldsmith.
– Tense"ly, adv.
– Tense"ness, n.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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