coffee
(kɒfi , US kɔːfi )
Word forms: coffees
1. variable noun A1
Coffee is a hot drink made with water and ground or powdered coffee beans.
Would you like some coffee?
Newman poured more black coffee.
A coffee is a cup of coffee.
I made a coffee.
2. variable noun A1
Coffee is the roasted beans or powder from which the drink is made.
Brazil harvested 28m bags of coffee in 1991.
...superior quality coffee.
Image of coffee
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Quotations:
Look here, Steward, if this is coffee, I want tea; but if this is tea, then I wish for coffee Punch
The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduceOver the Teacups
Idioms:
wake up and smell the coffee
said when you are telling someone to be more realistic and more aware of what is happening around them
It would really serve you well to wake up and smell the coffee and quit acting like a teenager!
Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers
Collocations:
coffee consumption coffee counter coffee drinker coffee farmer coffee flavour coffee grinds coffee grower coffee roaster drink coffee fresh coffee grab a coffee ground coffee hot coffee iced coffee instant coffee order coffee pour coffee roast coffee serve coffee sip coffee spill the coffee strong coffee takeaway coffee
In fact, they found moderate coffee consumption appears to be mildly protective.
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By the company's forecasts, green tea sales will overtake coffee consumption in about seven years, hitting more than 5 billion annually.
Times, Sunday Times
This association continued until coffee consumption reached eight to 10 or more cups a day, at which point the risk increased.
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Now scientists have linked high levels of coffee consumption to higher mortality rates.
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I also have to time my coffee consumption.
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She nods at the stainless steel bin by the coffee counter.
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All around me there are obstacles, from the muffins at the coffee counter to the crisps at the corner shop.
Times, Sunday Times
A coffee counter queue can lead you to an action-packed romance.
The Sun
Movers, known as 'bedbuggers', are shunned by other truckers and will often be excluded from conversations around the truckstop coffee counter.
The Times Literary Supplement
The store would include a performance space and a coffee counter, and was initially scheduled to open in late 2012.
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If you are a serious coffee drinker already, the chances are you will need more than usual to get the effects before a gym session.
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But it's not hard to see why a mass-market operator would fail to satisfy this obsessive coffee drinker.
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It just might make a coffee drinker out of me yet.
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If, like me, you are a serious coffee drinker, you will know only too well the guilt that comes with drinking several cups a day.
Times, Sunday Times
Researchers found the coffee drinkers all reported the first ride to be easier.
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He used to be a coffee farmer in these same bottle-green hills.
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They may have believed that the 10p went to the struggling coffee farmer.
Times, Sunday Times
The system certifies small-scale, family-owned coffee farms, which includes only about 3 per cent of coffee farmers.
Times, Sunday Times
His first important decision was to bring control of the entire production process in-house, leading him to travel widely to develop contacts with coffee farmers.
Times, Sunday Times
She was one of ten siblings, born into a family of coffee farmers that relied on the local river for their harvest.
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The good-quality coffee flavours can contain 58mg of caffeine per serving.
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The technicians start the washing process immediately, since delay can cause fermentation of the sugary coating surrounding the bean and ruination of the coffee flavour.
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Like the ever-changing world of coffee flavours, car firms are constantly looking for something new to appeal to buyers.
The Sun
Instead of the artificial fruit flavour of other varieties, it has a coffee flavour.
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The design generically uses a lever, pumped by the operator, to pressurize hot water and send it through the coffee grinds.
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Items such as coffee grinds overwhelm the nose while blood or meat produce a gut reaction.
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Spent coffee grinds can be reused for hair care or skin care as well as in the garden.
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The addition of tea leaves, coffee grinds, or onion skins to the water dyes the shell purple and the white a light brown, giving the egg a smooth creamy texture.
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As for the world’s coffee growers, 70 percent of whom are small farmers, a few have found a new crop already.
Smithsonian Mag
About 95% of this important ecosystem has been ripped away over the past couple of hundred years by gold miners and coffee growers.
Times, Sunday Times
Even coffee growers sell their product more easily than drink it.
Times, Sunday Times
Yet most of the 25 million coffee growers receive less than 2p for every 2 cup of coffee sold.
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Coffee growers use the species to divert birds.
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Last night he took the coffee roaster out of his shattered building.
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It's a spare heater for the coffee roaster.
Christianity Today
Inspired, he designed and built a coffee roaster in a gas grill in his garage.
Christianity Today
Far from the traditional urban wasteland colonised first by graffiti artists, then by coffee roasters and cereal cafes, it's still the business hub.
Times, Sunday Times
Specially designed electric coffee roasters have been available since the 1970s.
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Iranians tend to sit outside, smoking shisha and drinking coffee.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Let's go inside and drink coffee while we wait - likely the lords will keep us waiting all day before they blather their way to a decision.
THE BROKEN GOD (2001)
He made the link after drinking coffee before competing in cycle races.
The Sun (2009)
Nurses who drink coffee are less likely to become depressed or commit suicide.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
We read, drank coffee and dozed in our sleeping bags.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
It is at its most satisfying on thick slabs of lightly toasted white bread, consumed with fresh coffee and a quality newspaper.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
A dishcloth over the sink and a pot of fresh coffee would have to do for the rest.
THE MANANA MAN (2002)
Onions and garlic taint other foods in a fridge - whereas fresh coffee will absorb smells.
The Sun (2016)
So go ahead, grab some coffee, and settle in for a good read.
Christianity Today
She said a more informal, deli-style area was added at the new campus, where students and delegates can grab a coffee and a muffin.
ST
Grab a coffee (and they know their coffee) from one of the street stalls and sit and watch the world go by.
The Sun
So grab a coffee, put your feet up and feel the heat.
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The kitchens are being refurbished, but you can grab a coffee and pastry until it reopens fully next year.
Times, Sunday Times
The tide still out, but dribbles of brown liquid trickling in like strong ground coffee through a cheesecloth filter.
BEHINDLINGS (2002)
There was a man offering hot coffee at a stall nearby.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
The furze of fine red-gold hairs on his arms and legs sparkled with water, too, and he smelled of damp towel and soap and hot coffee.
DOWNTOWN (1994)
Home-made gingerbread men and hot coffee warmed the interval as the wind howled round pillar and pergola.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Sipping hot coffee softened with a delicious nondairy powdered creamer.
THE SAVING GRACES (1999)
Like a sleepwalker, she prepared food and a thermos of hot coffee for them to take to the blind.
DANSVILLE
He went out into the alley, sat on an upturned shortening barrel, drank an iced coffee black as tar, and smoked a chico.
TROPIC OF NIGHT (2003)
Most iced coffee drinks contained more than 200 calories.
The Sun (2009)
Half received either caffeinated or decaffeinated instant coffee.
canada.com (2008)
The car keys to my Peugeot were on the side next to the instant coffee, which backed away from me.
INSTRUMENTS OF DARKNESS (2002)
Their only meal that day is instant coffee and powdered cream.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Biscuits, kettle and a few precious sachets of instant coffee.
The Sun (2013)
Today we live in a skinny latte world and instant coffee won't do.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
The early-evening showing of the film didn't start for forty minutes, so they ordered coffee before setting off to the cinema.
INSTANCES OF THE NUMBER 3 (2002)
They shed outer garments, ordered coffee and waited for it in a quiet corner of the now half-empty lounge.
TO HIS JUST DESSERTS
He ordered coffee and satisfied himself with a plate of tapas, which made a more than adequate meal.
DOUBLE DECEIT
There was a pause, then the ker-ching of the cash register, and the waiter wandered off, doubtless to pour coffee absent-mindedly into his next customer's lap, or his own.
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If you see one, spit on his shoes and pour coffee down the back of his neck.
The Sun
He put it on the counter and poured coffee.
Times, Sunday Times
We closed the door behind him, went into the kitchen, and poured coffee.
Christianity Today
They found that pouring coffee through a filter removed oily components called diterpenes, which can raise cholesterol and lead to health complications.
Times,Sunday Times
The shopping street edged nearer the river bridge and an aroma of roasting coffee mixed with diesel fumes from a tight lorry jam.
Indian Balm - Travels in the Southern Subcontinent (1994)
Specialist shops resolve the problem by actually roasting coffee in their shops or nearby.
The East India Company Book of Coffee (1994)
The degree to which the coffee is roasted makes a great difference to the flavour.
The East India Company Book of Coffee (1994)
Caffeine has been associated with increase of the glycaemia in roasted coffee consumers.
2009, 'EFFECTS OF GREEN COFFEE BEAN EXTRACT IN SOME BIOMARKERS OF ADULT BRAZILIAN SUBJECTS', Alimentos e Nutrição
His shops serve coffee but they do not charge.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Conrad felt curiously detached serving coffee to the headmen of the oldest Amagansett clans.
AMAGANSETT (2004)
At the first interval the Prince and his guests eat the first two courses, then pudding and coffee is served during the second.
AT HOME WITH THE QUEEN: The Inside Story of the Royal Household (2002)
He sipped coffee in the lounge and picked out the British and German agents loitering in and around the airport building.
THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS (2002)
Chapter Forty-two Broker and Janey sat on the deck sipping coffee and watching the clouds roll in.
VAPOR TRAIL (2003)
We sipped coffee and exchanged a slightly flirty glance, while his mother continued to beam away.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
They were entirely unashamed: the trick was to move away fast, or to spill their coffee.
Times, Sunday Times
The popular radio pundit accidentally spilt his coffee on his commentary notes before kick-off.
The Sun
I just spilt my coffee thanks to your clunky driving.
Times, Sunday Times
Be certain to have some strong coffee ready to help you remain awake and alert.
The Sun (2016)
So hold the champagne - and brew some strong coffee.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Finally, fold in the remaining espresso or strong coffee.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Fold in the ground almonds, followed by half the espresso or strong coffee.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
They drank strong coffee, brewed over Gareth's small climber's gas stove, and consumed cold iron and high-protein rations.
A DAYSTAR OF FEAR
An assistant comes in with a takeaway coffee.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
They bought takeaway coffees and drank them in the ruins of Reading Abbey.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Say goodbye to takeaway coffees, and make your lunch at home instead of buying it at work.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Translations:
Chinese: 咖啡
Japanese: コーヒー
- anaerobic capacity
- anaerobic digester
- anaerobic exercise
- anaerobic threshold
- anaesthesia
- anaesthetic
- anaesthetic gas
- anaesthetist
- anaesthetize
- anagram
- a nail in the coffin
- an airy feel
- anal
- analgesic
- analgesic effect
- analog
- analogous
- analogue
- analogue cable
- analogue equipment
- analogue instruments
- analogue radio
- analogue signal
- analogue sound
- analogue tape