(n.) The "beans" or "berries" (pyrenes) obtained from the drupes of a small evergreen tree of the genus Coffea, growing in Abyssinia, Arabia, Persia, and other warm regions of Asia and Africa, and also in tropical America.
(n.) The coffee tree.
(n.) The beverage made from the roasted and ground berry.
Example Sentences:
(1) To become president of Afghanistan , Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai changed his wardrobe and modified his name, gave up coffee, embraced a man he once denounced as a “known killer” and even toyed with anger management classes to tame a notorious temper.
(2) The company abandoned plans to build a second savoury factory in the East Midlands, as well as its Greggs Moment coffee shops which it had been trialling since 2011.
(3) The lid is fiddly to fit on to the cup, and smells so strongly of silicone it almost entirely ruins the taste of the coffee if you don’t remove it.
(4) The prick tests, using both commercial allergens and specific extracts prepared from the most common types of coffee and their corresponding sacks, confirmed a sensitization in 21 workers (9.6%).
(5) Graphic analyses revealed that plasma concentrations of apolipoprotein B and LDL-cholesterol were unrelated to intake of up to 2 cups of coffee per day and positively associated with intake exceeding 2 to 3 cups.
(6) Fried, reports Variety, has now retired to Florida, but the director tracked her down and rewarded her with a dedication in the soon-to-be-published coffee table making-of book, as well as couple of cameos.
(7) Four cases of right lower quadrant abscess, each a clinical diagnostic dilemma, were recognized as abscesses surrounding a perforated viscus by application of the "coffee bean" sign on sonographic examination.
(8) It’s especially not appropriate for a citizen seeking election to this house or selection to the ministry canvassing for money and support to seek to damage individuals’ reputation by commencing court actions for what could only be an improper purpose.” Palmer said the former treasurer, Joe Hockey, had been staying at the resort at the time and “walked past the table” where they were sitting and “merely sat down to have a coffee”.
(9) Coffee extracts administered to immature female mice for 3 d in feeding studies displayed significant (p less than 0.05) uterotropic responses, which were similar to results obtained in mice treated with a standard 17 beta-estradiol dose.
(10) The Norwegian researchers looked at all the sources of caffeine ingested by the pregnant women, including coffee, tea and fizzy drinks, along with cakes and desserts containing cocoa (which has lots of caffeine).
(11) In conclusion, the results of this study, the major interest of which lies in the opportunity of drawing up an overall pattern of risk for various digestive neoplasms, offer further reassurance as regards the effects of coffee on digestive tract carcinogenesis.
(12) Coffee intake from 1 to 4 cups per day was not associated with any increase in coronary heart disease occurrence compared with 1 cup or less per day (odds ratio, 1.01; confidence interval [0.93, 1.11]).
(13) The project is off to a good start: this flying visit turned up lots of ideas and potential contacts – not to mention what could turn out to be a regular coffee spot.
(14) The rest is used in schools, hospitals, coffee shops and restaurants.
(15) There is a half-drunk glass of white wine abandoned on the coffee table at his Queensferry home - the Browns had friends around for dinner the previous night - and a stack of children's books and board games piled lopsidedly under a Christmas tree now shedding needles with abandon.
(16) Coffee bean shaped or crescent shaped yeast-like elements are characteristic of Trichosporon and useful in differentiating Trichosporon from Candida but such histological features are less efficient than the immunohistochemistry in identifying mixed fungal infection.
(17) A significant dose-dependent effect was observed between the consumption of boiled coffee both in men and in women.
(18) Analysis controlling for age, sex, race, body mass index, coffee use, total serum cholesterol, and education showed a positive association of alcohol use to both types of cancer, which was stronger for rectal cancer (trend test, p = 0.03) than for colon cancer (trend test, p = 0.11).
(19) Near the entrance was a sprawling camp kitchen, with mountains of supplies, indoor and outdoor facilities and open fires on which some of the cooking was done, and all of the gigantic vats of coffee seemed to be boiled.
(20) The overall population may be exposed to TCE through household cleaning fluids, decaffeinated coffee, and some spice extracts.
Militarism
Definition:
(n.) A military state or condition; reliance on military force in administering government; a military system.
(n.) The spirit and traditions of military life.
Example Sentences:
(1) I have equated nationalism with racism, xenophobia, inward-looking-ness and militarism.
(2) And in terms of genuine defence needs (as opposed to state militarism), what greater known threat is there to human security than the prospect of runaway climate change?
(3) Although China has so far refused to enable dialogue between our leaders, I sincerely hope that it will come forward, rather than keep invoking the ghost of militarism of seven decades ago, which no longer exists."
(4) On Thursday he also took umbrage at Vladimir Putin's New York Times op-ed criticising US militarism.
(5) On a macro level, a party that is already thoroughly militarized and corporatized – and largely indifferent to Main Street whenever it poses a conflict with Wall Street – offers little alternative to the other party that already celebrates that.
(6) Leave aside the noxious and pompous view that the views of non-national-security-professionals - whatever that means - should be ignored when it comes to militarism, US foreign policy and war crimes.
(7) For obvious reasons, the rhetoric that the west is not at war with the Islamic world grows increasingly hollow with each new expansion of this militarism.
(8) A retrospective review was performed of 43 clinical records of patients who underwent surgical treatment for low rectal cancer less than 12 cm from the anus in the General Surgical Service of the Hospital Militar "Dr. Carlos Arvelo" of Caracas, between 1969 and 1988.
(9) They were just defending their homeland and fighting what they saw as German militarism."
(10) Expect more policy hearings on militarization in Washington such as the one I held two weeks ago .
(11) Totally self-taught, he was able to visualise the need for unity across national borders in opposition to self-serving patriotism, and also to visualise the rights of then colonial subjects to their own destinies.” Making parallels with the Stop the War Campaign in 2003, of which Corbyn was chair, and the campaigning by Hardie against Britain’s involvement in the first world war, the latest Labour leader adds: “Perhaps the strongest message, a century on, is that a world of peace can only come by opposing militarism, but it also needs an economic system with socialist principles, not the worship of personal wealth.” Which events is it best to avoid?
(12) All here together, with their non-native relatives, standing strong in the face of outrageous, unnecessary and violent aggression, on the part of militarized local and state law enforcement agencies and national guard, who are seemingly acting to protect the interests of the Dakota Access pipeline profiteers, at a cost of hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars, above all other expressed concerns.
(13) What his comment misses is that many feminists and scholars of war and peace studies have highlighted how war, military, militarism and militarised masculinity have perpetuated intersectional gender and sexual violence and exploitation.
(14) In relation to their domestic affairs, Orwell believes that foreigners are wrong to write off the English hatred of "militarism" as merely a "decadent" form of hypocrisy.
(15) Abe and his allies belong to a conservative school of thought that seeks closer military ties to Washington, yet want to roll back reforms made during the US-led postwar occupation, which began with the then emperor, Hirohito, renouncing his divine status as a “living god” and marked the end of state Shinto’s role as the spiritual bedrock of Japanese militarism.
(16) Sanders did mention Freddie Gray (killed by police in Baltimore) and Eric Garner (killed by police in New York City) and demanded that needless deaths like theirs must stop, while calling for an end to the militarization of police, the establishment of community policing and an end to mandatory minimums.
(17) We believe that both the murder of another unarmed black youth and the building of a new jail which will primarily house black people are state violence, a term which encompasses both immediate acts of violence by the state (like stop and frisks, or police shootings) and “slower” forms of violence that the state sanctions, condones or enables (like poverty, segregation, surveillance, militarization and incarceration).
(18) As former victims of Japanese militarism in the first half of the 20th century, both countries had made clear that they expected Abe to repeat the key phrases of the Murayama statement, or issue a similarly unequivocal apology of his own.
(19) ‘I feel abandoned’ By fall, a highly militarized police force began making mass arrests , deploying rubber bullets, water cannons and pepper spray, locking indigenous people in cages and prompting a United Nations investigation .
(20) Adding to the tensions and underscoring how history haunts Tokyo's ties with Beijing and Seoul, two Japanese cabinet ministers defied Noda to pay homage at the Yasukuni shrine for war dead that many see as a symbol of Japan's past militarism.