English words for '25 grams.'
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- 10 grams
- a flap along the edge of a garment; used in medieval clothing
- A misty shower; dew.
- (food) Ellipsis of dag sandwich.
- A hanging end or shred, in particular a long pointed strip of cloth at the edge of a piece of clothing, or one of a row of decorative strips of cloth that may ornament a tent, booth or fairground.
- (chiefly Ireland) Pronunciation spelling of dog.
- A skewer.
- A spit, a sharpened rod used for roasting food over a fire.
- (Australia slang, derogatory) One who dresses unfashionably or without apparent care about appearance; someone who is not cool; a dweeb or nerd.
- The unbranched antler of a young deer.
- A dangling lock of sheep’s wool matted with dung.
- (graph theory) A directed acyclic graph; an ordered pair (V,E) such that E is a subset of some partial ordering relation on V.
- 1/16 ounce or 1.771 grams
- a unit of apothecary weight equal to an eighth of an ounce or to 60 grains
- the basic unit of money in Armenia
- (historical, mining) A cart formerly used to haul coal in coal mines.
- (by extension) Any similarly minute quantity, (now particularly) a small amount of strong alcohol or poison.
- (now uncommon) Synonym of dirhem: a former Turkish unit of weight (variously 1.5–3.5 g).
- (numismatics) The currency of Armenia, divided into 100 luma.
- (pharmacy) Alternative form of drachm (“One eighth of an ounce apothecary (3.89 g; symbol: ℨ or ʒ)”).
- Alternative form of drachm (“One sixteenth of an ounce avoirdupois (1.77 g; symbol: ℨ or ʒ)”).
- 16 ounces avoirdupois
- Ellipsis of pound weight.
- a unit of apothecary weight equal to 12 ounces troy
- the basic unit of money in Egypt; equal to 100 piasters
- the basic unit of money in Syria; equal to 100 piasters
- a nontechnical unit of force equal to the mass of 1 pound with an acceleration of free fall equal to 32 feet/sec/sec
- a public enclosure for stray or unlicensed dogs
- a symbol for a unit of currency (especially for the pound sterling in Great Britain)
- the basic unit of money in the Sudan; equal to 100 piasters
- the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows)
- the basic unit of money in Cyprus; equal to 100 cents
- the basic unit of money in Lebanon; equal to 100 piasters
- formerly the basic unit of money in Ireland; equal to 100 pence
- the basic unit of money in Great Britain and Northern Ireland; equal to 100 pence
- Ellipsis of pound force.
- (UK) A place for the detention of automobiles that have been illegally parked, abandoned, etc.
- A hard blow.
- A section of a canal between two adjacent locks.
- Any of various units of currency formerly used in the United States.
- (informal) Various non-English units of currency not officially called pounds.
- Ellipsis of pound mass.
- A unit of mass equal to 16 avoirdupois ounces (= 453.592 g). Today this value is the most common meaning of "pound" as a unit of weight.
- A unit of weight in various measurement systems.
- A kind of fishing net, having a large enclosure with a narrow entrance into which fish are directed by wings spreading outward.
- A unit of mass equal to 12 troy ounces (≈ 373.242 g). Today, this is a common unit of mass when measuring precious metals, and is little used elsewhere.
- (metonymic) The people who work for the pound.
- A place for the detention of stray or wandering animals.
- (Newfoundland) A division inside a fishing stage where cod is cured in salt brine.
- Various non-English units of measure.
- Any of various units of currency used in Egypt, Lebanon, Sudan, and Syria, and formerly in the Republic of Ireland, Cyprus, Nigeria, Israel, and South Africa.
- The unit of currency used in the United Kingdom and its dependencies. It is divided into 100 pence.
- (US) The symbol #.
- (informal, non-scientific) Ellipsis of pound-force.
- move rhythmically
- break down and crush by beating, as with a pestle
- place or shut up in a pound
- hit hard with the hand, fist, or some heavy instrument
- shut up or confine in any enclosure or within any bounds or limits
- move heavily or clumsily
- strike or drive against with a heavy impact
- partition off into compartments
- (transitive, vulgar, slang) To penetrate sexually, with vigour.
- (engineering) To make a jarring noise, as when running.
- To advance heavily with measured steps.
- (transitive, slang) To eat or drink very quickly.
- (slang, UK regional, transitive) To wager a pound on.
- To confine in, or as in, a pound; to impound.
- (transitive) To strike hard, usually repeatedly.
- (intransitive, of a body part, generally heart, blood, or head) To beat strongly or throb.
- (transitive, baseball, slang) To pitch consistently to a certain location.
- (transitive) To crush to pieces; to pulverize.
- Holding 1.5 ounces.
- Needing only a single attempt to become effective.
- Performing all the necessary steps on every occurrence, rather than relying on previous setup.
- Unique; occurring only once.
- (research design) Measuring something at a single point in time, with no control group.
- Involving a single gunshot.
- (sports) Involving a single act of launching a ball.
- (electronics) A monostable multivibrator.
- A single appearance by a performer.
- (video games) A player that can be killed in a single hit.
- (television, film, comics) A television program, film, or comic book that is not part of a series.
- A gun that must be reloaded after firing a single shot.
- (fandom slang) A fanfic of only one chapter.
- A product that is sold on its own, rather than as part of a line of products.
- (film) A cinematographic shot of a person talking to camera; a talking head.
- (programming) A programmable interval timer.
- (music) A music sample that is played without immediate repetition.
- Something that occurs only once; a one-off.
- A small weight; one twentieth of a grain.
- (sometimes used adverbially) Anything very small; a minute object; a very little quantity or particle.
- Any of many minute arachnids which, along with the ticks, comprise subclass Acari (syn. Acarina).
- (colloquial, often as a term of endearment) A small or naughty person, or one people take pity on; rascal.
- A small coin formerly circulated in England, rated at about a third of a farthing.
- A lepton, a small coin used in Judea in the time of Christ.
- any of numerous very small to minute arachnids often infesting animals or plants or stored foods
- a slight but appreciable amount
- a quarter of a hundredweight (25 pounds)
- A fourth part of a pound; approximately 113 grams.
- a quarter of a hundredweight (28 pounds)
- piece of leather that comprises the part of a shoe or boot covering the heel and joining the vamp
- clemency or mercy shown to a defeated opponent
- an unspecified person
- one of four equal parts
- the rear part of a ship
- one of four periods into which the school year is divided
- a fourth part of a year; three months
- a United States or Canadian coin worth one fourth of a dollar
- (football, professional basketball) one of four divisions into which some games are divided
- a district of a city having some distinguishing character
- one of the four major division of the compass
- a unit of time equal to 15 minutes or a quarter of an hour
- One's residence or dwelling-place; (in plural) rooms, lodgings, especially as allocated to soldiers or domestic staff.
- (farriery) The part on either side of a horse's hoof between the toe and heel, the side of its coffin.
- (now chiefly historical) A measure of capacity used chiefly for grain or coal, varying greatly in quantity by time and location.
- (in general sense) Each of four equal parts into which something can be divided; a fourth part.
- Each of four parts into which the earth or sky is divided, corresponding to the four cardinal points of the compass.
- (historical) A measure of length; originally a fourth part of an ell, now chiefly a fourth part of a yard.
- (now chiefly historical) A fourth part of a hundredweight.
- A division or section of a town or city, especially having a particular character of its own, or associated with a particular group etc.
- (often plural) A section (of a population), especially one having a particular set of values or interests.
- (Chester, historical) A quarter of an acre or 40 roods.
- Accommodation given to a defeated opponent; mercy; exemption from being killed.
- (now chiefly finance) A fourth part of the year; 3 months; a term or season.
- (nautical) The aftmost part of a vessel's side, roughly from the last mast to the stern.
- A quarterfinal.
- The back and sides of the upper of a shoe, extending around the wearer's heel to meet the vamp.
- (now historical) A fourth part of the night; one of the watches or divisions of the night.
- (heraldry) A fourth part of a coat of arms, or the charge on it, larger than a canton and normally on the upper dexter side, formed by a perpendicular line from the top meeting a horizontal line from the side.
- A region or place.
- (sports) One of four equal periods into which a game is divided.
- (time) A fourth part of an hour; a period of fifteen minutes, especially with reference to the quarter before or after the hour.
- (Canada, US) A quarter-dollar, divided into 25 cents; the coin of that value minted in the United States or Canada.
- pull (a person) apart with four horses tied to their extremities, so as to execute them
- divide into quarters
- provide housing for (military personnel)
- divide by four; divide into quarters
- (intransitive) To lodge; to have a temporary residence.
- (heraldry) To display different coats of arms in the quarters of a shield.
- (transitive) To provide housing for military personnel or other equipment.
- (transitive, historical) To execute (someone) by tying each limb to a different animal (such as a horse) and driving them in different directions.
- (transitive) To divide into quarters; to divide by four.
- (transitive) To range to and fro over an area; to move from point to point.
- (transitive) To quartersaw.
- (cooking) A sandwich weighing approximately a quarter of a pound.
- (cooking) A burger patty of such uncooked weight.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see quarter, pounder: Anything weighing a quarter of a pound.
- (cooking) A burger with a patty of such uncooked weight, of an alternative to beef.
- (cooking) A beef hamburger whose patty weighed approximately a quarter of a pound before cooking.
- (cooking) A food item similar to a burger patty of such uncooked weight, such as a meatball.
- a unit of weight equal to one sixteenth of a pound or 16 drams or 28.349 grams
- An avoirdupois ounce, weighing ¹⁄₁₆ of an avoirdupois pound, or 28.349523125 grams.
- a unit of apothecary weight equal to 480 grains or one twelfth of a troy pound
- A troy ounce, weighing ¹⁄₁₂ of a troy pound, or 480 grains, or 31.1034768 grams.
- large feline of upland central Asia having long thick whitish fur
- (cryptozoology) Synonym of onza, a particularly aggressive cougar or jaguarundi in Mexican folklore.
- A British imperial fluid ounce, with a volume of ¹⁄₂₀ of an imperial pint, 1.733871 cubic inches or 28.4130625 millilitres.
- Synonym of snow leopard, Panthera uncia.
- A US fluid ounce, with a volume of ¹⁄₁₆ of a US pint, 1.804688 cubic inches or 29.5735295625 millilitres.
- (figurative) Any small amount, a little bit.
- a unit of apothecary weight equal to 20 grains
- (pharmacy) A weight of ¹⁄₂₈₈ of a pound, that is, twenty grains or one third of a dram, about 1.3 grams (symbol: ℈).
- uneasiness about the fitness of an action (particularly for reasons of ethics, morals or propriety)
- an ethical or moral principle that inhibits action
- A Hebrew unit of time equal to ¹⁄₁₀₈₀ hour.
- Hesitation to act from the difficulty of determining what is right or expedient; doubt, hesitation or unwillingness due to motives of conscience; moral qualm.
- a unit of apothecary weight equal to an eighth of an ounce or to 60 grains
- a unit of capacity or volume in the apothecary system equal to one eighth of a fluid ounce
- a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 60 minims or 3.5516 cubic centimeters
- (pharmacy) One eighth (1⁄8) of an ounce apothecary (3.89 g; symbol: ℨ or ʒ).
- One sixteenth (1⁄16) of an ounce avoirdupois (1.77 g; symbol: ℨ or ʒ).
- a unit of apothecary weight equal to an eighth of an ounce or to 60 grains
- A later Greek weight equal to a gram.
- An Ancient Greek weight of about 66.5 grains, or 4.3 grams.
- formerly the basic unit of money in Greece
- The currency of Greece in ancient times and again from 1832 until 2001, with the symbol ₯, since replaced by the euro.
- A coin worth one drachma.
- (cooking) A sandwich weighing approximately half a pound.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see half, pounder: Anything weighing half a pound.
- (cooking) A beef hamburger sandwich whose patty weighed approximately half a pound prior to being cooked.
- (cooking) A burger sandwich with a patty of such an uncooked weight, of an alternative to beef.
- (cooking) A burger patty of such an uncooked weight.
- (cooking) A food item similar to a patty of such an uncooked weight, such as a meatball.
- An old weight of 57.98 grains, approximately 3.8 grams.
- A ceremonial form of this weapon.
- A heavy fighting club.
- Tear gas or pepper spray, especially for personal use.
- A spice obtained from the outer layer of the kernel of the fruit of the nutmeg.
- An old money of account in China equal to one tenth of a tael.
- A knobbed mallet used by curriers to make leather supple when dressing it.
- A long baton used by some drum majors to keep time and lead a marching band. If this baton is referred to as a mace, by convention it has a ceremonial often decorative head, which, if of metal, usually is hollow and sometimes intricately worked.
- An officer who carries a mace as a token of authority.
- an official who carries a mace of office
- spice made from the dried fleshy covering of the nutmeg seed
- a ceremonial staff carried as a symbol of office or authority
- 1/7000 pound; equals a troy grain or 64.799 milligrams
- 1/60 dram; equals an avoirdupois grain or 64.799 milligrams
- The English grain of ¹⁄₅₇₆₀ troy pound or ¹⁄₇₀₀₀ pound avoirdupois, now exactly 64.79891 mg.
- the physical composition of something (especially with respect to the size and shape of the small constituents of a substance)
- the direction, texture, or pattern of fibers found in wood or leather or stone or in a woven fabric
- the smallest possible unit of anything
- a cereal grass
- foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses
- a weight unit used for pearls or diamonds: 50 mg or 1/4 carat
- the side of leather from which the hair has been removed
- dry seed-like fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e.g. wheat, barley, Indian corn
- a relatively small granular particle of a substance
- Temper; natural disposition; inclination.
- The metric, carat, or pearl grain of ¹⁄₄ carat used for measuring precious stones and pearls, now exactly 50 mg.
- An iron fish spear or harpoon, with a number of points half-barbed inwardly.
- (uncountable) A linear texture of a material or surface.
- (countable, uncountable) The crops from which grain is harvested.
- (photography, videography) Visual texture in processed photographic film due to the presence of small particles of a metallic silver, or dye clouds, developed from silver halide that have received enough photons.
- One of the branches of a valley or river.
- (botany) A rounded prominence on the back of a sepal, as in the common dock.
- (in the plural) The remains of grain, etc., after brewing or distillation; hence, any residuum.
- (historical) The French grain of ¹⁄₉₂₁₆ livre, equivalent to 53.11 mg at metricization and equal to exactly 54.25 mg from 1812–1839 as part of the mesures usuelles.
- (countable) A single particle of a substance.
- (dialectal, anatomy) The fangs of a tooth.
- (materials) A region within a material having a single crystal structure or direction.
- (countable) A single seed of grass food crops.
- (dialectal, anatomy) The groin; crotch.
- A branch of a tree; a stalk or stem of a plant; an offshoot.
- (countable, chiefly historical) Any of various small units of length originally notionally based on a grain's width, variously standardized at different places and times.
- (uncountable) The harvested seeds of various grass food crops eg: wheat, corn, barley.
- The hair side of a piece of leather, or the marking on that side.
- (dialectal) A fork in a river valley or ravine.
- A blade of a sword, knife, etc.
- (founding) A thin piece of metal, used in a mould to steady a core.
- (uncountable) Similar seeds from any food crop, e.g., buckwheat, amaranth, quinoa.
- (countable, historical) The carat grain of ¹⁄₄ carat as a measure of gold purity, creating a 96-point scale between 0% and 100% purity.
- An arm of a cross.
- A reddish dye made from the coccus insect, or kermes; hence, a red color of any tint or hue, as crimson, scarlet, etc.; sometimes used by the poets as equivalent to Tyrian purple.
- (dialectal) The branch of a family; clan.
- (astronautics) The solid piece of fuel in an individual solid-fuel rocket engine.
- (dialectal) A branch or arm of a stream, inlet, or sea.
- paint (a surface) to make it look like stone or wood
- thoroughly work in
- become granular
- form into grains
- (transitive) To make granular; to form into grains.
- (transitive) To feed grain to.
- To texture a surface in imitation of the grain of a substance such as wood.
- (tanning) To soften leather.
- To yield fruit.
- (tanning) To remove the hair or fat from a skin.
- (intransitive) To form grains, or to assume a granular form, as the result of crystallization; to granulate.
- A small Indian dry measure, averaging 240 grains in weight.
- (US, slang) A prison cell, or prison generally.
- (colloquial) A very muscular and physically imposing person; somebody who is built like a tank.
- (Australia, India) A reservoir or dam.
- (botany) A structure of tightly overlapping leaves used by some bromeliads to retain water.
- An open container or pool for storing water or other liquids.
- (rail transport) Ellipsis of tank engine or tank locomotive.
- (poker, slang) A metaphorical place where a player goes to contemplate a decision; see in the tank.
- The amount held by a container; a tankful.
- (clothing) Ellipsis of tank top.
- An armoured fighting vehicle, armed with a gun designed for direct fire, and moving on caterpillar tracks.
- A pond, pool, or small lake (either natural or artificial).
- The fuel reservoir of a vehicle.
- A closed container for liquids or gases.
- A Bombay weight of 72 grains, for pearls.
- (roleplaying games, board games, video games) A unit or character designed primarily around damage absorption and holding the attention of the enemy (as opposed to dealing damage, healing, or other tasks).
- a cell for violent prisoners
- a large (usually metallic) vessel for holding gases or liquids
- an enclosed armored military vehicle; has a cannon and moves on caterpillar treads
- a freight car that transports liquids or gases in bulk
- as much as a tank will hold
- (video games) To attract the attacks of an enemy target in cooperative team-based combat, so that one's teammates can defeat the enemy in question more efficiently.
- (fandom slang) To resist damage; to be attacked without being hurt.
- To fail or fall (often used in describing the economy or the stock market); to degenerate or decline rapidly; to plummet.
- (Singapore, colloquial) To willingly take on an undesirable task or burden.
- (Singapore, colloquial) To stand; to tolerate.
- (transitive) To put (fuel, etc.) into a tank.
- To deliberately lose a sports match with the intent of gaining a perceived future competitive advantage.
- (originally poker, slang) To contemplate a decision for a long time; to go in the tank.
- consume excessive amounts of alcohol
- store in a tank by causing (something) to flow into it
- treat in a tank
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see full, pounder: Anything weighing one pound.
- (cooking) A burger sandwich with a patty of such an uncooked weight, of an alternative to beef.
- (cooking) A beef hamburger sandwich whose patty weighed approximately one pound prior to being cooked.
- (cooking) A burger patty of such an uncooked weight.
- (cooking) A sandwich weighing approximately one pound.
- (cooking) A food item similar to a patty of such an uncooked weight, such as a meatball.
- the amount that can be contained
- the power to learn or retain knowledge; in law, the ability to understand the facts and significance of your behavior
- tolerance for alcohol
- (computer science) the amount of information (in bytes) that can be stored on a disk drive
- the maximum production possible
- capability to perform or produce
- an electrical phenomenon whereby an electric charge is stored
- a specified function
- the susceptibility of something to a particular treatment
- A measure of such ability; volume.
- Electrical capacitance.
- (operations) The maximum that can be produced on a machine or in a facility or group.
- The ability to hold, receive, or absorb.
- Mental ability; the power to learn;
- A role; the position in which one functions.
- Legal authority (to make an arrest for example).
- The potential for growth and development.
- The maximum that can be produced.
- Capability; the ability to perform some task.
- The maximum amount that can be held.
- the amount that can be contained
- (usually plural) everything that is included in a collection and that is held or included in something
- content communicating a message; what something is about
- something (a person or object or scene) selected by an artist or photographer for graphic representation
- the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned
- the proportion of a substance that is contained in a mixture or alloy etc.
- the state of being contented with your situation in life
- (algebra, ring theory, of a polynomial with coefficients in a GCD domain) The greatest common divisor of the coefficients; (of a polynomial with coefficients in an integral domain) the common factor of the coefficients which, when removed, leaves the adjusted coefficients with no common factor that is noninvertible.
- The amount of material contained.
- Satisfaction, contentment; pleasure.
- (uncountable) That which is contained.
- (UK, House of Lords) An expression of assent to a bill or motion; an affirmative vote.
- That which contents or satisfies; that which if attained would make one happy.
- (Internet, colloquial) The potential of creative work for a content creator.
- (UK, House of Lords, by metonymy) A member who votes in assent.
- Subject matter; semantic information (or a portion or body thereof); that which is contained in writing, speech, video, etc.
- (mathematics) The n-dimensional space contained by an n-dimensional polytope (called volume in the case of a polyhedron and area in the case of a polygon); length, area or volume, generalized to an arbitrary number of dimensions.
- (by extension, uncountable) One or more creative works.
- as much as a tablespoon will hold
- a spoon larger than a dessert spoon; used for serving
- (Australia, New Zealand, Northern UK) A spoon too large for eating, usually used for cooking or serving.
- (Canada, US) A large spoon, used for eating food from a bowl.
- (cooking) A unit of volume, the value of which varies regionally; in the US: three teaspoons or one half fluid ounce or roughly 15 ml; in Britain and Canada: exactly 15 ml; in Russia 18 ml; in Australia: four teaspoons or 20 ml.
- (historical) A half pound, a traditional unit of mass equivalent to 226.8 g.
- Importance, noteworthiness. (Generally in postmodifier “of mark”.)
- An omen; a symptomatic indicator of something.
- (cooking) A specified level on a scale denoting gas-powered oven temperatures.
- A particular design or make of an item (now usually with following numeral).
- (historical) Similar half-pound units in other measurement systems, chiefly used for gold and silver.
- (product design/engineering) The model number of a device; a device model.
- (sports) The line indicating an athlete's starting-point.
- (historical) A half pound, a former English and Scottish currency equivalent to 13 shillings and fourpence and notionally equivalent to a mark of sterling silver.
- Badge or sign of honour, rank, or official station.
- (informal) The target or intended victim of a swindle, fixed game or con game; a gullible person; a professional wrestling fan who believes matches are legitimate contests rather than scripted or predetermined
- (historical) A former currency of Germany and West Germany.
- A stamp or other indication of provenance, quality etc.
- A visible impression or sign; a blemish, scratch, or stain, whether accidental or intentional.
- (nautical) One of the bits of leather or coloured bunting placed upon a sounding line at intervals of from two to five fathoms. (The unmarked fathoms are called "deeps".)
- An official note that is added to a record kept about someone's behavior or performance.
- A stone or post used to indicate position and guide travellers.
- (Commonwealth) A score for finding the correct answer, or other academic achievement; the sum of such points gained as out of a possible total.
- (heading) Attention.
- An indication or sign used for reference or measurement.
- (historical) A common, or area of common land, especially among early Germanic peoples.
- (logic) A characteristic or essential attribute; a differential.
- A sign or brand on a person.
- A score for a sporting achievement.
- A written character or sign.
- Limit or standard of action or fact.
- A target for shooting at with a projectile.
- A characteristic feature.
- (Rugby football, Australian rules football) A catch of the ball directly from a kick of 10 metres or more without having been touched in transit, resulting in a free kick.
- (historical) Other similar currencies notionally equal to a mark of silver or gold.
- a reference point to shoot at
- a number or letter indicating quality (especially of a student's performance)
- a written or printed symbol (as for punctuation)
- a perceptible indication of something not immediately apparent (as a visible clue that something has happened)
- a visible indication made on a surface
- formerly the basic unit of money in Germany
- an indication of damage
- the impression created by doing something unusual or extraordinary that people notice and remember
- a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of
- a symbol of disgrace or infamy
- something that exactly succeeds in achieving its goal
- a marking that consists of lines that cross each other
- a distinguishing symbol
- (of people) To assign (someone) to a particular category or class.
- To hold (someone) in one's line of sight.
- (imperative, marching) Alternative form of march.
- To create an indication of (a location).
- To be a point in time or space at which something takes place; to accompany or be accompanied by (an event, action, etc.); to coincide with.
- To create (a mark) on a surface.
- (of people) To choose or intend (someone) for a particular end or purpose.
- (sports) To follow a player not in possession of the ball when defending, to prevent them receiving a pass easily.
- (figurative) To have a long-lasting negative impact on (someone or something).
- To indicate (something) in writing or by other symbols.
- (Australian rules football) To catch the ball directly from a kick of 15 metres or more without having been touched in transit, resulting in a free kick.
- (Canada, UK) To indicate the correctness of and give a score to (a school assignment, exam answers, etc.).
- (singing) To sing softly, sometimes an octave lower than usual, in order to protect one's voice during a rehearsal.
- To be typical or characteristic of (something).
- To leave a mark (often an undesirable or unwanted one) on (something).
- (golf) To put a marker in the place of one's ball.
- (dated except in the phrase "mark my words") To focus one's attention on (something or someone); to pay attention to, to take note of.
- To put a mark on (something); to make (something) recognizable by a mark; to label or write on (something).
- (transitive, intransitive) To keep account of; to enumerate and register; to keep score.
- To distinguish (one person or thing from another).
- To be an indication of (something); to show where (something) is located.
- (of things) To identify (someone as a particular type of person or as having a particular role).
- To record that (someone) has a particular status.
- To celebrate or acknowledge (an event) through an action of some kind.
- remove from a list
- notice or perceive
- insert punctuation marks into
- put a check mark on or near or next to
- assign a grade or rank to, according to one's evaluation
- make underscoring marks
- be a distinctive feature, attribute, or trait; sometimes in a very positive sense
- mark with a scar
- celebrate by some ceremony or observation
- attach a tag or label to
- to accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful
- make or leave a mark on
- establish as the highest level or best performance
- make small marks into the surface of
- designate as if by a mark
- (Canada, US) A unit of measurement containing 100 avoirdupois pounds (about 45.4 kg).
- (historical) Synonym of quintal, a unit of measurement containing various amounts depending on the objects weighed.
- (UK, chiefly historical) A unit of measurement containing 112 avoirdupois pounds (eight stone or about 50.8 kg).
- (historical) Various units of ancient measurement systems consisting of 100 units usually translated as "pounds".
- a British unit of weight equivalent to 112 pounds
- a United States unit of weight equivalent to 100 pounds
- a unit of weight equal to 100 kilograms in the metric system
- The short ton of 2000 pounds (about 907 kg), 20 hundredweights of 100 pounds avoirdupois each.
- a British unit of weight equivalent to 2240 pounds
- The metric ton of 1000 kilograms (about 2205 lb), 10 quintals of 100 kilograms each.
- A speed of 100 mph.
- Synonym of tunny, particularly the common tunny or horse mackerel.
- The long ton of 2240 pounds (about 1016 kg), 20 hundredweights of 112 pounds avoirdupois each.
- 100 pounds sterling.
- The measurement ton of (US) 40 or (UK) 42 cubic feet (about 1.1 or 1.2 m³).
- (HVAC) A unit of thermal power equal to 12,000 BTU/h (about 3.5 kW), approximating the idealized rate of cooling provided by uniform isothermal melting of 1 short ton of ice per day at 0°C.
- The register ton of 100 cubic feet (about 2.83 m³).
- (darts, snooker, etc.) 100 points.
- (figuratively) Any large, excessive, or overwhelming amount of anything.
- Fashionable society; those in style.
- (cricket) 100 runs.
- Fashion, the current style, the vogue.
- a United States unit of weight equivalent to 2000 pounds
- (UK, Commonwealth) 20 fluid ounces, approximately 568 millilitres (an imperial pint).
- (British, metonymic) A pint of milk.
- (Hungary) 1.696 liters.
- approximately 33.6 cubic inches [550.6 cubic centimeters] for dry goods (a US dry pint).
- 16 US fluid ounces [473 millilitres] for liquids (a US liquid pint) or
- (formerly medicine, now chiefly some US bars and ice cream sellers) 12 fluid ounces.
- (UK, metonymic) A glass of beer or cider, served by the pint.
- a United States dry unit equal to 0.5 quart or 33.6 cubic inches
- a United States liquid unit equal to 16 fluid ounces; two pints equal one quart
- a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 4 gills or 568.26 cubic centimeters
- A weight of twenty pounds.
- A subject.
- (music) The written form of a musical composition showing all instrumental and vocal parts.
- (UK, regional) In the Lowestoft area, a narrow pathway running down a cliff to the beach.
- (often in the plural) A great deal; many, several.
- A document which systematically lists differences among compiled manuscripts of a source text.
- A notch or incision; especially, one that is made as a tally mark; hence, a mark, or line, made for the purpose of account.
- An account or reckoning; account of dues; bill; debt.
- (music) The music of a movie or play.
- (gambling) An amount of money won in gambling; winnings.
- A bribe paid to a police officer.
- (British, slang) Twenty pounds sterling.
- A robbery.
- The number of points accrued by each of the participants in a game, expressed as a ratio or a series of numbers.
- The performance of an individual or group on an examination or test, expressed by a number, letter, or other symbol; a grade.
- (originally US, vulgar, slang) A sexual conquest.
- The total number of goals, points, runs, etc. earned by a participant in a game.
- A period of twenty years.
- An account; a reason; a motive; a sake; a behalf.
- A prostitute's client.
- A distance of twenty yards, in ancient archery and gunnery.
- Twenty (20).
- An illegal sale, especially of drugs.
- a resentment strong enough to justify retaliation
- the facts about an actual situation
- a number that expresses the accomplishment of a team or an individual in a game or contest
- a number or letter indicating quality (especially of a student's performance)
- the act of scoring in a game or sport
- a written form of a musical composition; parts for different instruments appear on separate staves on large pages
- grounds
- a set of twenty members
- a slight surface cut (especially a notch that is made to keep a tally)
- an amount due (as at a restaurant or bar)
- a seduction culminating in sexual intercourse
- (US, crime, slang, of a police officer) To extract a bribe.
- (intransitive) To record the tally of points for a game, a match, or an examination.
- (transitive, music, film) To provide (a film, etc.) with a musical score.
- (vulgar, slang) To obtain a sexual favor.
- (ambitransitive) To obtain something desired.
- (transitive) To cut a notch or a groove in a surface.
- To achieve academic credit on a test, quiz, homework, assignment, or course.
- (horse racing, ambitransitive) To return (a horse and rider) to the starting-point repeatedly, until a fair start is achieved.
- (gambling) To win money by gambling.
- To earn points in a game.
- (slang) To acquire or gain.
- (transitive) To rate; to evaluate the quality of.
- induce to have sex
- assign a grade or rank to, according to one's evaluation
- get a certain number or letter indicating quality or performance
- make underscoring marks
- write a musical score for
- gain points in a game
- make small marks into the surface of
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- 10 grams
- a flap along the edge of a garment; used in medieval clothing
- A misty shower; dew.
- (food) Ellipsis of dag sandwich.
- A hanging end or shred, in particular a long pointed strip of cloth at the edge of a piece of clothing, or one of a row of decorative strips of cloth that may ornament a tent, booth or fairground.
- (chiefly Ireland) Pronunciation spelling of dog.
- A skewer.
- A spit, a sharpened rod used for roasting food over a fire.
- (Australia slang, derogatory) One who dresses unfashionably or without apparent care about appearance; someone who is not cool; a dweeb or nerd.
- The unbranched antler of a young deer.
- A dangling lock of sheep’s wool matted with dung.
- (graph theory) A directed acyclic graph; an ordered pair (V,E) such that E is a subset of some partial ordering relation on V.
- 1/16 ounce or 1.771 grams
- a unit of apothecary weight equal to an eighth of an ounce or to 60 grains
- the basic unit of money in Armenia
- (historical, mining) A cart formerly used to haul coal in coal mines.
- (by extension) Any similarly minute quantity, (now particularly) a small amount of strong alcohol or poison.
- (now uncommon) Synonym of dirhem: a former Turkish unit of weight (variously 1.5–3.5 g).
- (numismatics) The currency of Armenia, divided into 100 luma.
- (pharmacy) Alternative form of drachm (“One eighth of an ounce apothecary (3.89 g; symbol: ℨ or ʒ)”).
- Alternative form of drachm (“One sixteenth of an ounce avoirdupois (1.77 g; symbol: ℨ or ʒ)”).
- 16 ounces avoirdupois
- Ellipsis of pound weight.
- a unit of apothecary weight equal to 12 ounces troy
- the basic unit of money in Egypt; equal to 100 piasters
- the basic unit of money in Syria; equal to 100 piasters
- a nontechnical unit of force equal to the mass of 1 pound with an acceleration of free fall equal to 32 feet/sec/sec
- a public enclosure for stray or unlicensed dogs
- a symbol for a unit of currency (especially for the pound sterling in Great Britain)
- the basic unit of money in the Sudan; equal to 100 piasters
- the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows)
- the basic unit of money in Cyprus; equal to 100 cents
- the basic unit of money in Lebanon; equal to 100 piasters
- formerly the basic unit of money in Ireland; equal to 100 pence
- the basic unit of money in Great Britain and Northern Ireland; equal to 100 pence
- Ellipsis of pound force.
- (UK) A place for the detention of automobiles that have been illegally parked, abandoned, etc.
- A hard blow.
- A section of a canal between two adjacent locks.
- Any of various units of currency formerly used in the United States.
- (informal) Various non-English units of currency not officially called pounds.
- Ellipsis of pound mass.
- A unit of mass equal to 16 avoirdupois ounces (= 453.592 g). Today this value is the most common meaning of "pound" as a unit of weight.
- A unit of weight in various measurement systems.
- A kind of fishing net, having a large enclosure with a narrow entrance into which fish are directed by wings spreading outward.
- A unit of mass equal to 12 troy ounces (≈ 373.242 g). Today, this is a common unit of mass when measuring precious metals, and is little used elsewhere.
- (metonymic) The people who work for the pound.
- A place for the detention of stray or wandering animals.
- (Newfoundland) A division inside a fishing stage where cod is cured in salt brine.
- Various non-English units of measure.
- Any of various units of currency used in Egypt, Lebanon, Sudan, and Syria, and formerly in the Republic of Ireland, Cyprus, Nigeria, Israel, and South Africa.
- The unit of currency used in the United Kingdom and its dependencies. It is divided into 100 pence.
- (US) The symbol #.
- (informal, non-scientific) Ellipsis of pound-force.
- move rhythmically
- break down and crush by beating, as with a pestle
- place or shut up in a pound
- hit hard with the hand, fist, or some heavy instrument
- shut up or confine in any enclosure or within any bounds or limits
- move heavily or clumsily
- strike or drive against with a heavy impact
- partition off into compartments
- (transitive, vulgar, slang) To penetrate sexually, with vigour.
- (engineering) To make a jarring noise, as when running.
- To advance heavily with measured steps.
- (transitive, slang) To eat or drink very quickly.
- (slang, UK regional, transitive) To wager a pound on.
- To confine in, or as in, a pound; to impound.
- (transitive) To strike hard, usually repeatedly.
- (intransitive, of a body part, generally heart, blood, or head) To beat strongly or throb.
- (transitive, baseball, slang) To pitch consistently to a certain location.
- (transitive) To crush to pieces; to pulverize.
- A small weight; one twentieth of a grain.
- (sometimes used adverbially) Anything very small; a minute object; a very little quantity or particle.
- Any of many minute arachnids which, along with the ticks, comprise subclass Acari (syn. Acarina).
- (colloquial, often as a term of endearment) A small or naughty person, or one people take pity on; rascal.
- A small coin formerly circulated in England, rated at about a third of a farthing.
- A lepton, a small coin used in Judea in the time of Christ.
- any of numerous very small to minute arachnids often infesting animals or plants or stored foods
- a slight but appreciable amount
- a quarter of a hundredweight (25 pounds)
- A fourth part of a pound; approximately 113 grams.
- a quarter of a hundredweight (28 pounds)
- piece of leather that comprises the part of a shoe or boot covering the heel and joining the vamp
- clemency or mercy shown to a defeated opponent
- an unspecified person
- one of four equal parts
- the rear part of a ship
- one of four periods into which the school year is divided
- a fourth part of a year; three months
- a United States or Canadian coin worth one fourth of a dollar
- (football, professional basketball) one of four divisions into which some games are divided
- a district of a city having some distinguishing character
- one of the four major division of the compass
- a unit of time equal to 15 minutes or a quarter of an hour
- One's residence or dwelling-place; (in plural) rooms, lodgings, especially as allocated to soldiers or domestic staff.
- (farriery) The part on either side of a horse's hoof between the toe and heel, the side of its coffin.
- (now chiefly historical) A measure of capacity used chiefly for grain or coal, varying greatly in quantity by time and location.
- (in general sense) Each of four equal parts into which something can be divided; a fourth part.
- Each of four parts into which the earth or sky is divided, corresponding to the four cardinal points of the compass.
- (historical) A measure of length; originally a fourth part of an ell, now chiefly a fourth part of a yard.
- (now chiefly historical) A fourth part of a hundredweight.
- A division or section of a town or city, especially having a particular character of its own, or associated with a particular group etc.
- (often plural) A section (of a population), especially one having a particular set of values or interests.
- (Chester, historical) A quarter of an acre or 40 roods.
- Accommodation given to a defeated opponent; mercy; exemption from being killed.
- (now chiefly finance) A fourth part of the year; 3 months; a term or season.
- (nautical) The aftmost part of a vessel's side, roughly from the last mast to the stern.
- A quarterfinal.
- The back and sides of the upper of a shoe, extending around the wearer's heel to meet the vamp.
- (now historical) A fourth part of the night; one of the watches or divisions of the night.
- (heraldry) A fourth part of a coat of arms, or the charge on it, larger than a canton and normally on the upper dexter side, formed by a perpendicular line from the top meeting a horizontal line from the side.
- A region or place.
- (sports) One of four equal periods into which a game is divided.
- (time) A fourth part of an hour; a period of fifteen minutes, especially with reference to the quarter before or after the hour.
- (Canada, US) A quarter-dollar, divided into 25 cents; the coin of that value minted in the United States or Canada.
- pull (a person) apart with four horses tied to their extremities, so as to execute them
- divide into quarters
- provide housing for (military personnel)
- divide by four; divide into quarters
- (intransitive) To lodge; to have a temporary residence.
- (heraldry) To display different coats of arms in the quarters of a shield.
- (transitive) To provide housing for military personnel or other equipment.
- (transitive, historical) To execute (someone) by tying each limb to a different animal (such as a horse) and driving them in different directions.
- (transitive) To divide into quarters; to divide by four.
- (transitive) To range to and fro over an area; to move from point to point.
- (transitive) To quartersaw.
- a unit of weight equal to one sixteenth of a pound or 16 drams or 28.349 grams
- An avoirdupois ounce, weighing ¹⁄₁₆ of an avoirdupois pound, or 28.349523125 grams.
- a unit of apothecary weight equal to 480 grains or one twelfth of a troy pound
- A troy ounce, weighing ¹⁄₁₂ of a troy pound, or 480 grains, or 31.1034768 grams.
- large feline of upland central Asia having long thick whitish fur
- (cryptozoology) Synonym of onza, a particularly aggressive cougar or jaguarundi in Mexican folklore.
- A British imperial fluid ounce, with a volume of ¹⁄₂₀ of an imperial pint, 1.733871 cubic inches or 28.4130625 millilitres.
- Synonym of snow leopard, Panthera uncia.
- A US fluid ounce, with a volume of ¹⁄₁₆ of a US pint, 1.804688 cubic inches or 29.5735295625 millilitres.
- (figurative) Any small amount, a little bit.
- a unit of apothecary weight equal to 20 grains
- (pharmacy) A weight of ¹⁄₂₈₈ of a pound, that is, twenty grains or one third of a dram, about 1.3 grams (symbol: ℈).
- uneasiness about the fitness of an action (particularly for reasons of ethics, morals or propriety)
- an ethical or moral principle that inhibits action
- A Hebrew unit of time equal to ¹⁄₁₀₈₀ hour.
- Hesitation to act from the difficulty of determining what is right or expedient; doubt, hesitation or unwillingness due to motives of conscience; moral qualm.
- a unit of apothecary weight equal to an eighth of an ounce or to 60 grains
- a unit of capacity or volume in the apothecary system equal to one eighth of a fluid ounce
- a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 60 minims or 3.5516 cubic centimeters
- (pharmacy) One eighth (1⁄8) of an ounce apothecary (3.89 g; symbol: ℨ or ʒ).
- One sixteenth (1⁄16) of an ounce avoirdupois (1.77 g; symbol: ℨ or ʒ).
- a unit of apothecary weight equal to an eighth of an ounce or to 60 grains
- A later Greek weight equal to a gram.
- An Ancient Greek weight of about 66.5 grains, or 4.3 grams.
- formerly the basic unit of money in Greece
- The currency of Greece in ancient times and again from 1832 until 2001, with the symbol ₯, since replaced by the euro.
- A coin worth one drachma.
- An old weight of 57.98 grains, approximately 3.8 grams.
- A ceremonial form of this weapon.
- A heavy fighting club.
- Tear gas or pepper spray, especially for personal use.
- A spice obtained from the outer layer of the kernel of the fruit of the nutmeg.
- An old money of account in China equal to one tenth of a tael.
- A knobbed mallet used by curriers to make leather supple when dressing it.
- A long baton used by some drum majors to keep time and lead a marching band. If this baton is referred to as a mace, by convention it has a ceremonial often decorative head, which, if of metal, usually is hollow and sometimes intricately worked.
- An officer who carries a mace as a token of authority.
- an official who carries a mace of office
- spice made from the dried fleshy covering of the nutmeg seed
- a ceremonial staff carried as a symbol of office or authority
- 1/7000 pound; equals a troy grain or 64.799 milligrams
- 1/60 dram; equals an avoirdupois grain or 64.799 milligrams
- The English grain of ¹⁄₅₇₆₀ troy pound or ¹⁄₇₀₀₀ pound avoirdupois, now exactly 64.79891 mg.
- the physical composition of something (especially with respect to the size and shape of the small constituents of a substance)
- the direction, texture, or pattern of fibers found in wood or leather or stone or in a woven fabric
- the smallest possible unit of anything
- a cereal grass
- foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses
- a weight unit used for pearls or diamonds: 50 mg or 1/4 carat
- the side of leather from which the hair has been removed
- dry seed-like fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e.g. wheat, barley, Indian corn
- a relatively small granular particle of a substance
- Temper; natural disposition; inclination.
- The metric, carat, or pearl grain of ¹⁄₄ carat used for measuring precious stones and pearls, now exactly 50 mg.
- An iron fish spear or harpoon, with a number of points half-barbed inwardly.
- (uncountable) A linear texture of a material or surface.
- (countable, uncountable) The crops from which grain is harvested.
- (photography, videography) Visual texture in processed photographic film due to the presence of small particles of a metallic silver, or dye clouds, developed from silver halide that have received enough photons.
- One of the branches of a valley or river.
- (botany) A rounded prominence on the back of a sepal, as in the common dock.
- (in the plural) The remains of grain, etc., after brewing or distillation; hence, any residuum.
- (historical) The French grain of ¹⁄₉₂₁₆ livre, equivalent to 53.11 mg at metricization and equal to exactly 54.25 mg from 1812–1839 as part of the mesures usuelles.
- (countable) A single particle of a substance.
- (dialectal, anatomy) The fangs of a tooth.
- (materials) A region within a material having a single crystal structure or direction.
- (countable) A single seed of grass food crops.
- (dialectal, anatomy) The groin; crotch.
- A branch of a tree; a stalk or stem of a plant; an offshoot.
- (countable, chiefly historical) Any of various small units of length originally notionally based on a grain's width, variously standardized at different places and times.
- (uncountable) The harvested seeds of various grass food crops eg: wheat, corn, barley.
- The hair side of a piece of leather, or the marking on that side.
- (dialectal) A fork in a river valley or ravine.
- A blade of a sword, knife, etc.
- (founding) A thin piece of metal, used in a mould to steady a core.
- (uncountable) Similar seeds from any food crop, e.g., buckwheat, amaranth, quinoa.
- (countable, historical) The carat grain of ¹⁄₄ carat as a measure of gold purity, creating a 96-point scale between 0% and 100% purity.
- An arm of a cross.
- A reddish dye made from the coccus insect, or kermes; hence, a red color of any tint or hue, as crimson, scarlet, etc.; sometimes used by the poets as equivalent to Tyrian purple.
- (dialectal) The branch of a family; clan.
- (astronautics) The solid piece of fuel in an individual solid-fuel rocket engine.
- (dialectal) A branch or arm of a stream, inlet, or sea.
- paint (a surface) to make it look like stone or wood
- thoroughly work in
- become granular
- form into grains
- (transitive) To make granular; to form into grains.
- (transitive) To feed grain to.
- To texture a surface in imitation of the grain of a substance such as wood.
- (tanning) To soften leather.
- To yield fruit.
- (tanning) To remove the hair or fat from a skin.
- (intransitive) To form grains, or to assume a granular form, as the result of crystallization; to granulate.
- A small Indian dry measure, averaging 240 grains in weight.
- (US, slang) A prison cell, or prison generally.
- (colloquial) A very muscular and physically imposing person; somebody who is built like a tank.
- (Australia, India) A reservoir or dam.
- (botany) A structure of tightly overlapping leaves used by some bromeliads to retain water.
- An open container or pool for storing water or other liquids.
- (rail transport) Ellipsis of tank engine or tank locomotive.
- (poker, slang) A metaphorical place where a player goes to contemplate a decision; see in the tank.
- The amount held by a container; a tankful.
- (clothing) Ellipsis of tank top.
- An armoured fighting vehicle, armed with a gun designed for direct fire, and moving on caterpillar tracks.
- A pond, pool, or small lake (either natural or artificial).
- The fuel reservoir of a vehicle.
- A closed container for liquids or gases.
- A Bombay weight of 72 grains, for pearls.
- (roleplaying games, board games, video games) A unit or character designed primarily around damage absorption and holding the attention of the enemy (as opposed to dealing damage, healing, or other tasks).
- a cell for violent prisoners
- a large (usually metallic) vessel for holding gases or liquids
- an enclosed armored military vehicle; has a cannon and moves on caterpillar treads
- a freight car that transports liquids or gases in bulk
- as much as a tank will hold
- (video games) To attract the attacks of an enemy target in cooperative team-based combat, so that one's teammates can defeat the enemy in question more efficiently.
- (fandom slang) To resist damage; to be attacked without being hurt.
- To fail or fall (often used in describing the economy or the stock market); to degenerate or decline rapidly; to plummet.
- (Singapore, colloquial) To willingly take on an undesirable task or burden.
- (Singapore, colloquial) To stand; to tolerate.
- (transitive) To put (fuel, etc.) into a tank.
- To deliberately lose a sports match with the intent of gaining a perceived future competitive advantage.
- (originally poker, slang) To contemplate a decision for a long time; to go in the tank.
- consume excessive amounts of alcohol
- store in a tank by causing (something) to flow into it
- treat in a tank
- the amount that can be contained
- the power to learn or retain knowledge; in law, the ability to understand the facts and significance of your behavior
- tolerance for alcohol
- (computer science) the amount of information (in bytes) that can be stored on a disk drive
- the maximum production possible
- capability to perform or produce
- an electrical phenomenon whereby an electric charge is stored
- a specified function
- the susceptibility of something to a particular treatment
- A measure of such ability; volume.
- Electrical capacitance.
- (operations) The maximum that can be produced on a machine or in a facility or group.
- The ability to hold, receive, or absorb.
- Mental ability; the power to learn;
- A role; the position in which one functions.
- Legal authority (to make an arrest for example).
- The potential for growth and development.
- The maximum that can be produced.
- Capability; the ability to perform some task.
- The maximum amount that can be held.
- the amount that can be contained
- (usually plural) everything that is included in a collection and that is held or included in something
- content communicating a message; what something is about
- something (a person or object or scene) selected by an artist or photographer for graphic representation
- the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned
- the proportion of a substance that is contained in a mixture or alloy etc.
- the state of being contented with your situation in life
- (algebra, ring theory, of a polynomial with coefficients in a GCD domain) The greatest common divisor of the coefficients; (of a polynomial with coefficients in an integral domain) the common factor of the coefficients which, when removed, leaves the adjusted coefficients with no common factor that is noninvertible.
- The amount of material contained.
- Satisfaction, contentment; pleasure.
- (uncountable) That which is contained.
- (UK, House of Lords) An expression of assent to a bill or motion; an affirmative vote.
- That which contents or satisfies; that which if attained would make one happy.
- (Internet, colloquial) The potential of creative work for a content creator.
- (UK, House of Lords, by metonymy) A member who votes in assent.
- Subject matter; semantic information (or a portion or body thereof); that which is contained in writing, speech, video, etc.
- (mathematics) The n-dimensional space contained by an n-dimensional polytope (called volume in the case of a polyhedron and area in the case of a polygon); length, area or volume, generalized to an arbitrary number of dimensions.
- (by extension, uncountable) One or more creative works.
- as much as a tablespoon will hold
- a spoon larger than a dessert spoon; used for serving
- (Australia, New Zealand, Northern UK) A spoon too large for eating, usually used for cooking or serving.
- (Canada, US) A large spoon, used for eating food from a bowl.
- (cooking) A unit of volume, the value of which varies regionally; in the US: three teaspoons or one half fluid ounce or roughly 15 ml; in Britain and Canada: exactly 15 ml; in Russia 18 ml; in Australia: four teaspoons or 20 ml.
- (historical) A half pound, a traditional unit of mass equivalent to 226.8 g.
- Importance, noteworthiness. (Generally in postmodifier “of mark”.)
- An omen; a symptomatic indicator of something.
- (cooking) A specified level on a scale denoting gas-powered oven temperatures.
- A particular design or make of an item (now usually with following numeral).
- (historical) Similar half-pound units in other measurement systems, chiefly used for gold and silver.
- (product design/engineering) The model number of a device; a device model.
- (sports) The line indicating an athlete's starting-point.
- (historical) A half pound, a former English and Scottish currency equivalent to 13 shillings and fourpence and notionally equivalent to a mark of sterling silver.
- Badge or sign of honour, rank, or official station.
- (informal) The target or intended victim of a swindle, fixed game or con game; a gullible person; a professional wrestling fan who believes matches are legitimate contests rather than scripted or predetermined
- (historical) A former currency of Germany and West Germany.
- A stamp or other indication of provenance, quality etc.
- A visible impression or sign; a blemish, scratch, or stain, whether accidental or intentional.
- (nautical) One of the bits of leather or coloured bunting placed upon a sounding line at intervals of from two to five fathoms. (The unmarked fathoms are called "deeps".)
- An official note that is added to a record kept about someone's behavior or performance.
- A stone or post used to indicate position and guide travellers.
- (Commonwealth) A score for finding the correct answer, or other academic achievement; the sum of such points gained as out of a possible total.
- (heading) Attention.
- An indication or sign used for reference or measurement.
- (historical) A common, or area of common land, especially among early Germanic peoples.
- (logic) A characteristic or essential attribute; a differential.
- A sign or brand on a person.
- A score for a sporting achievement.
- A written character or sign.
- Limit or standard of action or fact.
- A target for shooting at with a projectile.
- A characteristic feature.
- (Rugby football, Australian rules football) A catch of the ball directly from a kick of 10 metres or more without having been touched in transit, resulting in a free kick.
- (historical) Other similar currencies notionally equal to a mark of silver or gold.
- a reference point to shoot at
- a number or letter indicating quality (especially of a student's performance)
- a written or printed symbol (as for punctuation)
- a perceptible indication of something not immediately apparent (as a visible clue that something has happened)
- a visible indication made on a surface
- formerly the basic unit of money in Germany
- an indication of damage
- the impression created by doing something unusual or extraordinary that people notice and remember
- a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of
- a symbol of disgrace or infamy
- something that exactly succeeds in achieving its goal
- a marking that consists of lines that cross each other
- a distinguishing symbol
- (of people) To assign (someone) to a particular category or class.
- To hold (someone) in one's line of sight.
- (imperative, marching) Alternative form of march.
- To create an indication of (a location).
- To be a point in time or space at which something takes place; to accompany or be accompanied by (an event, action, etc.); to coincide with.
- To create (a mark) on a surface.
- (of people) To choose or intend (someone) for a particular end or purpose.
- (sports) To follow a player not in possession of the ball when defending, to prevent them receiving a pass easily.
- (figurative) To have a long-lasting negative impact on (someone or something).
- To indicate (something) in writing or by other symbols.
- (Australian rules football) To catch the ball directly from a kick of 15 metres or more without having been touched in transit, resulting in a free kick.
- (Canada, UK) To indicate the correctness of and give a score to (a school assignment, exam answers, etc.).
- (singing) To sing softly, sometimes an octave lower than usual, in order to protect one's voice during a rehearsal.
- To be typical or characteristic of (something).
- To leave a mark (often an undesirable or unwanted one) on (something).
- (golf) To put a marker in the place of one's ball.
- (dated except in the phrase "mark my words") To focus one's attention on (something or someone); to pay attention to, to take note of.
- To put a mark on (something); to make (something) recognizable by a mark; to label or write on (something).
- (transitive, intransitive) To keep account of; to enumerate and register; to keep score.
- To distinguish (one person or thing from another).
- To be an indication of (something); to show where (something) is located.
- (of things) To identify (someone as a particular type of person or as having a particular role).
- To record that (someone) has a particular status.
- To celebrate or acknowledge (an event) through an action of some kind.
- remove from a list
- notice or perceive
- insert punctuation marks into
- put a check mark on or near or next to
- assign a grade or rank to, according to one's evaluation
- make underscoring marks
- be a distinctive feature, attribute, or trait; sometimes in a very positive sense
- mark with a scar
- celebrate by some ceremony or observation
- attach a tag or label to
- to accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful
- make or leave a mark on
- establish as the highest level or best performance
- make small marks into the surface of
- designate as if by a mark
- (Canada, US) A unit of measurement containing 100 avoirdupois pounds (about 45.4 kg).
- (historical) Synonym of quintal, a unit of measurement containing various amounts depending on the objects weighed.
- (UK, chiefly historical) A unit of measurement containing 112 avoirdupois pounds (eight stone or about 50.8 kg).
- (historical) Various units of ancient measurement systems consisting of 100 units usually translated as "pounds".
- a British unit of weight equivalent to 112 pounds
- a United States unit of weight equivalent to 100 pounds
- a unit of weight equal to 100 kilograms in the metric system
- The short ton of 2000 pounds (about 907 kg), 20 hundredweights of 100 pounds avoirdupois each.
- a British unit of weight equivalent to 2240 pounds
- The metric ton of 1000 kilograms (about 2205 lb), 10 quintals of 100 kilograms each.
- A speed of 100 mph.
- Synonym of tunny, particularly the common tunny or horse mackerel.
- The long ton of 2240 pounds (about 1016 kg), 20 hundredweights of 112 pounds avoirdupois each.
- 100 pounds sterling.
- The measurement ton of (US) 40 or (UK) 42 cubic feet (about 1.1 or 1.2 m³).
- (HVAC) A unit of thermal power equal to 12,000 BTU/h (about 3.5 kW), approximating the idealized rate of cooling provided by uniform isothermal melting of 1 short ton of ice per day at 0°C.
- The register ton of 100 cubic feet (about 2.83 m³).
- (darts, snooker, etc.) 100 points.
- (figuratively) Any large, excessive, or overwhelming amount of anything.
- Fashionable society; those in style.
- (cricket) 100 runs.
- Fashion, the current style, the vogue.
- a United States unit of weight equivalent to 2000 pounds
- (UK, Commonwealth) 20 fluid ounces, approximately 568 millilitres (an imperial pint).
- (British, metonymic) A pint of milk.
- (Hungary) 1.696 liters.
- approximately 33.6 cubic inches [550.6 cubic centimeters] for dry goods (a US dry pint).
- 16 US fluid ounces [473 millilitres] for liquids (a US liquid pint) or
- (formerly medicine, now chiefly some US bars and ice cream sellers) 12 fluid ounces.
- (UK, metonymic) A glass of beer or cider, served by the pint.
- a United States dry unit equal to 0.5 quart or 33.6 cubic inches
- a United States liquid unit equal to 16 fluid ounces; two pints equal one quart
- a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 4 gills or 568.26 cubic centimeters
- A weight of twenty pounds.
- A subject.
- (music) The written form of a musical composition showing all instrumental and vocal parts.
- (UK, regional) In the Lowestoft area, a narrow pathway running down a cliff to the beach.
- (often in the plural) A great deal; many, several.
- A document which systematically lists differences among compiled manuscripts of a source text.
- A notch or incision; especially, one that is made as a tally mark; hence, a mark, or line, made for the purpose of account.
- An account or reckoning; account of dues; bill; debt.
- (music) The music of a movie or play.
- (gambling) An amount of money won in gambling; winnings.
- A bribe paid to a police officer.
- (British, slang) Twenty pounds sterling.
- A robbery.
- The number of points accrued by each of the participants in a game, expressed as a ratio or a series of numbers.
- The performance of an individual or group on an examination or test, expressed by a number, letter, or other symbol; a grade.
- (originally US, vulgar, slang) A sexual conquest.
- The total number of goals, points, runs, etc. earned by a participant in a game.
- A period of twenty years.
- An account; a reason; a motive; a sake; a behalf.
- A prostitute's client.
- A distance of twenty yards, in ancient archery and gunnery.
- Twenty (20).
- An illegal sale, especially of drugs.
- a resentment strong enough to justify retaliation
- the facts about an actual situation
- a number that expresses the accomplishment of a team or an individual in a game or contest
- a number or letter indicating quality (especially of a student's performance)
- the act of scoring in a game or sport
- a written form of a musical composition; parts for different instruments appear on separate staves on large pages
- grounds
- a set of twenty members
- a slight surface cut (especially a notch that is made to keep a tally)
- an amount due (as at a restaurant or bar)
- a seduction culminating in sexual intercourse
- (US, crime, slang, of a police officer) To extract a bribe.
- (intransitive) To record the tally of points for a game, a match, or an examination.
- (transitive, music, film) To provide (a film, etc.) with a musical score.
- (vulgar, slang) To obtain a sexual favor.
- (ambitransitive) To obtain something desired.
- (transitive) To cut a notch or a groove in a surface.
- To achieve academic credit on a test, quiz, homework, assignment, or course.
- (horse racing, ambitransitive) To return (a horse and rider) to the starting-point repeatedly, until a fair start is achieved.
- (gambling) To win money by gambling.
- To earn points in a game.
- (slang) To acquire or gain.
- (transitive) To rate; to evaluate the quality of.
- induce to have sex
- assign a grade or rank to, according to one's evaluation
- get a certain number or letter indicating quality or performance
- make underscoring marks
- write a musical score for
- gain points in a game
- make small marks into the surface of
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- Holding 1.5 ounces.
- Needing only a single attempt to become effective.
- Performing all the necessary steps on every occurrence, rather than relying on previous setup.
- Unique; occurring only once.
- (research design) Measuring something at a single point in time, with no control group.
- Involving a single gunshot.
- (sports) Involving a single act of launching a ball.
- (electronics) A monostable multivibrator.
- A single appearance by a performer.
- (video games) A player that can be killed in a single hit.
- (television, film, comics) A television program, film, or comic book that is not part of a series.
- A gun that must be reloaded after firing a single shot.
- (fandom slang) A fanfic of only one chapter.
- A product that is sold on its own, rather than as part of a line of products.
- (film) A cinematographic shot of a person talking to camera; a talking head.
- (programming) A programmable interval timer.
- (music) A music sample that is played without immediate repetition.
- Something that occurs only once; a one-off.
- (cooking) A sandwich weighing approximately a quarter of a pound.
- (cooking) A burger patty of such uncooked weight.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see quarter, pounder: Anything weighing a quarter of a pound.
- (cooking) A burger with a patty of such uncooked weight, of an alternative to beef.
- (cooking) A beef hamburger whose patty weighed approximately a quarter of a pound before cooking.
- (cooking) A food item similar to a burger patty of such uncooked weight, such as a meatball.
- (cooking) A sandwich weighing approximately half a pound.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see half, pounder: Anything weighing half a pound.
- (cooking) A beef hamburger sandwich whose patty weighed approximately half a pound prior to being cooked.
- (cooking) A burger sandwich with a patty of such an uncooked weight, of an alternative to beef.
- (cooking) A burger patty of such an uncooked weight.
- (cooking) A food item similar to a patty of such an uncooked weight, such as a meatball.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see full, pounder: Anything weighing one pound.
- (cooking) A burger sandwich with a patty of such an uncooked weight, of an alternative to beef.
- (cooking) A beef hamburger sandwich whose patty weighed approximately one pound prior to being cooked.
- (cooking) A burger patty of such an uncooked weight.
- (cooking) A sandwich weighing approximately one pound.
- (cooking) A food item similar to a patty of such an uncooked weight, such as a meatball.