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ounce
1[ ouns ]
noun
- a unit of weight equal to 437.5 grains or 1/16 pound (28.35 grams) avoirdupois.
- a unit of 480 grains, 1/12 pound (31.1 grams) troy or apothecaries' weight.
- a fluid ounce.
- a small quantity or portion.
ounce
2[ ouns ]
noun
ounce
1/ aʊns /
noun
- a unit of weight equal to one sixteenth of a pound (avoirdupois); 1 ounce is equal to 437.5 grains or 28.349 grams oz
- a unit of weight equal to one twelfth of a Troy or Apothecaries' pound; 1 ounce is equal to 480 grains or 31.103 grams
- short for fluid ounce
- a small portion or amount
ounce
2/ aʊns /
noun
- another name for snow leopard
ounce
/ ouns /
- A unit of weight in the US Customary System equal to 1 16 of a pound or 437.5 grains (28.35 grams).
- See Table at measurement
- See fluid ounce
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of ounce1
Origin of ounce2
Idioms and Phrases
In addition to the idiom beginning with ounce , also see more bang for the buck (bounce for the ounce) .Example Sentences
Regardless of the species used, once the sap is reduced to syrup, it has about 100 calories per ounce.
It wasn’t a promising start to a working relationship, but I continue to carry the “miracle ounce,” not only because it can keep my heart beating through a cold night but because nothing else in my pack can be put to so many practical uses.
These stemless plastic wine glasses are constructed from BPA free, virtually seamless plastic, plus they look like glass and can hold up to 16 ounces of liquid.
So while fill power definitely shaves ounces for those looking to slim down their kit, the weight difference in many jackets is minor, and real weight savings are likely to come down to everything around the down.
The first, which Hassabis calls “strike mode,” involves pushing the team as hard as possible to wring every ounce of performance out of an existing system.
Bunker, along with his brothers Herbert and Lamar, started buying silver in 1970, when it was $1.94 an ounce.
In 1988 he was jailed for seven months when police in Jersey found half an ounce of cocaine on board his chopper.
I paid $60 for two grams, which translates to $840 an ounce.
And yet, for all his outspoken defense of the Russian government, Rohrabacher has not received an ounce of gratitude from Moscow.
The Sun On Sunday accused Tulisa of subsequently brokering a deal to supply reporters with half an ounce of cocaine.
It is only disposed to require a pretty strong solution of silver, say thirty grains to the ounce of water.
It should not exceed the ounce of tincture: about two drachms may be added after using it for paper.
It was the merest baby—half-an-ounce, perhaps—and it fell from the hook into the herbage some yards from the stream.
One of them gave out fully a quarter of an ounce of purple fluid from the lower part of the fish.
It was a hair-raising problem, too, and called for every ounce of nerve and every particle of skill the boy possessed.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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