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.
TILDE
tilde
(noun) a diacritical mark (~) placed over the letter n in Spanish to indicate a palatal nasal sound or over a vowel in Portuguese to indicate nasalization
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
tilde (plural tildes)
The grapheme of character ~.
A diacritical mark (Ëś) placed above a letter to modify its pronunciation, such as by palatalization in Spanish words or nasalization in Portuguese words.
A punctuation mark that indicates range (from a number to another number).
May be used to represent approximation (mathematics).
(logic) The character used to represent negation, usually ~ or ¬.
Usage notes
Commonly used for these letters: ã and õ (Portuguese), and ñ (Spanish); Vietnamese, Guaranà etc. use it for several other letters.
Synonyms
• squiggle, twiddle
Anagrams
• lited, tiled
Source: Wiktionary
Til"de, n. Etym: [Sp., fr. L. titulus a superscription, title, token, sign. See Title, n.]
Definition: The accentual mark placed over n, and sometimes over l, in Spanish words [thus, ñ, l], indicating that, in pronunciation, the sound of the following vowel is to be preceded by that of the initial, or consonantal, y.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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