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OUNCE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Large feline of upland central Asia having long thick whitish fur
Synonyms:
ounce; Panthera uncia; snow leopard
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("ounce" is a kind of...):
big cat; cat (any of several large cats typically able to roar and living in the wild)
Holonyms ("ounce" is a member of...):
genus Panthera; Panthera (lions; leopards; snow leopards; jaguars; tigers; cheetahs; saber-toothed tigers)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A unit of weight equal to one sixteenth of a pound or 16 drams or 28.349 grams
Synonyms:
ounce; oz.
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("ounce" is a kind of...):
avoirdupois unit (any of the units of the avoirdupois system of weights)
Meronyms (parts of "ounce"):
dram (1/16 ounce or 1.771 grams)
Holonyms ("ounce" is a part of...):
lb; pound (16 ounces avoirdupois)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A unit of apothecary weight equal to 480 grains or one twelfth of a troy pound
Synonyms:
apothecaries' ounce; ounce; troy ounce
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("ounce" is a kind of...):
troy unit (any of the unit of the troy system of weights)
apothecaries' unit; apothecaries' weight (any weight unit used in pharmacy; an ounce is equal to 480 grains and a pound is equal to 12 ounces)
Meronyms (parts of "ounce"):
pennyweight (a unit of apothecary weight equal to 24 grains)
drachm; drachma; dram (a unit of apothecary weight equal to an eighth of an ounce or to 60 grains)
Holonyms ("ounce" is a part of...):
apothecaries' pound; troy pound (an apothecary weight equal to 12 ounces or 373.242 grams)
Context examples:
One gram equals approximately 15.432 grains or 0.035 273 966 ounce.
(Gram, NCI Thesaurus)
He’s as quick and as long in the reach as you are, and he’ll train himself to the last half-ounce of tallow.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
From his mother he had inherited the heavier proportions of the dog, so that he weighed, without any fat and without an ounce of superfluous flesh, over ninety pounds.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
One milligram equals approximately 0.015432 grain or 35.274 x 10E-6 ounce.
(Milligram, NCI Thesaurus)
A non-SI unit of volume equal to 8 fluid ounces or 0.2365 liter.
(Half Pint, NCI Thesaurus)
The non-SI unit of mass equal to 60 grains, 3 scruples, 1/8 troy ounce, or approximately 3.8879 grams.
(Apothecaries Dram Mass Unit, NCI Thesaurus)
A metric unit of areal density equal to approximately 2.94935E-8 ounce per square yard.
(Microgram per Square Meter, NCI Thesaurus)
This is the amount in four ounces of meat plus a cup of cottage cheese.
(Dietary Proteins, NIH)
When on the red meat diet, the participants consumed roughly the equivalent of about 8 ounces of steak daily, or two quarter-pound beef patties.
(Study links frequent red meat consumption to high levels of chemical associated with heart disease, National Institutes of Health)
A metric unit of areal density equal to approximately 2.94935E-5 ounce per square yard.
(Milligram per Square Meter, NCI Thesaurus)
