dram
noun
[ dram ]
• a small drink of whisky or other spirits.
• "a wee dram to ward off the winter chill"
Similar:
drink,
nip,
tot,
sip,
thimbleful,
mouthful,
drop,
finger,
splash,
little,
spot,
taste,
small amount,
scoosh,
• another term for drachm.
Origin:
late Middle English (in dram1 (sense 2)): from Old French drame or medieval Latin drama, variants of dragme and dragma (see drachm).
dram
noun
• the basic monetary unit of Armenia, equal to 100 luma.
Origin:
Armenian, literally ‘coin, money’, from Greek drakhmē drachma.
DRAM
noun
• a memory chip that depends upon an applied voltage to keep the stored data.
Origin:
acronym from dynamic random-access memory .
