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.
TOTAL
entire, full, total
(adjective) constituting the full quantity or extent; complete; “an entire town devastated by an earthquake”; “gave full attention”; “a total failure”
full, total
(adjective) complete in extent or degree and in every particular; “a full game”; “a total eclipse”; “a total disaster”
sum, total, totality, aggregate
(noun) the whole amount
sum, amount, total
(noun) a quantity obtained by the addition of a group of numbers
total
(verb) damage beyond the point of repair; “My son totaled our new car”; “the rock star totals his guitar at every concert”
total, tot, tot up, sum, sum up, summate, tote up, add, add together, tally, add up
(verb) determine the sum of; “Add all the people in this town to those of the neighboring town”
total, number, add up, come, amount
(verb) add up in number or quantity; “The bills amounted to $2,000”; “The bill came to $2,000”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
total (plural totals)
An amount obtained by the addition of smaller amounts.
(informal, mathematics) Sum.
Synonyms
• (sum): sum
Adjective
total (comparative more total, superlative most total)
Entire; relating to the whole of something.
(used as an intensifier) Complete; absolute.
Synonyms
• (entire): entire, full, whole; see also entire
• (complete): absolute, complete, utter; see also total
Verb
total (third-person singular simple present totals, present participle (US) totaling or (UK) totalling, simple past and past participle (US) totaled or (UK) totalled)
(transitive) To add up; to calculate the sum of.
To equal a total of; to amount to.
(transitive, US, slang) to demolish; to wreck completely. (from total loss)
(intransitive) To amount to; to add up to.
Synonyms
• (add up): add up, sum
• (demolish): demolish, trash, wreck
Anagrams
• lotta
Source: Wiktionary
To"tal, a. Etym: [F., fr. LL. totalis, fr. L. tolus all,whole. Cf. Factotum, Surtout, Teetotum.]
Definition: Whole; not divided; entire; full; complete; absolute; as, a total departure from the evidence; a total loss. " Total darkness." "To undergo myself the total crime." Milton. Total abstinence. See Abstinence, n., 1.
– Total depravity. (Theol.) See Original sin, under Original.
Syn: Whole; entire; complete. See Whole.
To"tal, n.
Definition: The whole; the whole sum or amount; as, these sums added make the grand total of five millions.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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HEEDLESS
(adjective) marked by or paying little heed or attention; “We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics”--Franklin D. Roosevelt; “heedless of danger”; “heedless of the child’s crying”
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