Ounce vs Dram - What's the difference?
ounce | dram |
(en noun) abbreviation oz.
An avoirdupois ounce, weighing 1/16 of an avoirdupois pound, or 28.3495 grams.
A troy ounce, weighing 1/12 of a troy pound, or 480 grains, or 31.1035 grams.
A US fluid ounce, with a volume of 1/16 of a US pint, 1.804 687 cubic inches or 29.573 531 milliliters.
A British imperial fluid ounce, with a volume of 1/20 of an imperial pint, 1.733871 cubic inches or 28.413063 millilitres.
A little bit.
A unit of weight avoirdupois,
# (UK & US) 1/16 ounce avoirdupois.
# (UK & US) 1.77 gram
A minute quantity; a mite.
* Milton
A small quantity of a drink, especially an alcoholic drink.
A cart formerly used to haul coal in coal mines.
A Persian daric.
(dated) To drink drams.
(dated) To ply with drams of drink.
As nouns the difference between ounce and dram
is that ounce is an avoirdupois ounce, weighing 1/16 of an avoirdupois pound, or 283495 grams or ounce can be the snow leopard, uncia uncia while dram is a unit of weight avoirdupois, or dram can be (currency) the currency of armenia, divided into 100 luma.As a verb dram is
(dated) to drink drams.ounce
English
(wikipedia ounce)Etymology 1
From (etyl) once, from (etyl) . Compare inch.Noun
- He didn't feel even an ounce of regret for his actions.
Synonyms
* (small amount) see also .Etymology 2
From (etyl) once, from . Interestingly, the taxon of the snow leopard is a Latinisation using the root of ounce (1).External links
* (Uncia uncia)Anagrams
*dram
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) dragme, from .Alternative forms
* drachm,Noun
(en noun)- Were I the chooser, a dram of well-doing should be preferred before many times as much the forcible hindrance of evildoing.
- a dram of brandy
- a dram of poison
Synonyms
* nip * slug * snifter * totDerived terms
* angel's dramVerb
(dramm)- (Johnson)
- (Thackeray)