ounce
noun
[ aʊns ]
• a unit of weight of one sixteenth of a pound avoirdupois (approximately 28 grams).
• "melt three ounces of butter in a large frying pan"
• a very small amount of something.
• "Robyn summoned up every ounce of strength"
Similar:
particle,
scrap,
bit,
speck,
iota,
whit,
jot,
trace,
atom,
shred,
crumb,
fragment,
grain,
drop,
spot,
mite,
tittle,
jot or tittle,
modicum,
stim,
smidgen,
smidge,
tad,
scantling,
scruple,
Origin:
Middle English: from Old French unce, from Latin uncia ‘twelfth part (of a pound or foot)’; compare with inch1.
ounce
noun
• another term for snow leopard.
Origin:
Middle English: from Old French once, earlier lonce (the l- being misinterpreted as the definite article), based on Latin lynx, lync- (see lynx).
