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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
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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