Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- abbreviation ounce
from The Century Dictionary.
- An abbreviation of ounce.
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- abbreviation
Ounce ; any of various units of weight and volume.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a unit of weight equal to one sixteenth of a pound or 16 drams or 28.349 grams
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Examples
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Sorry Kay, but the wizard of oz is one of my favorite movies ..
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Sorry Kay, but the wizard of oz is one of my favorite movies ..
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Most of the information about Muñoz is in Spanish, so I haven't found anything about her background that I could actually understand.
Nubia Munoz wins Canada Gairdner Global Health Award Peggy 2009
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Sorry Kay, but the wizard of oz is one of my favorite movies ..
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Kabat-Zinn has been for decades at the forefront of this mind/body movement and the revolution in medicine and health care it has spawned demystifying Eh, one oz is less emotional than some juicy adelaide.
Planet-x.com.au » Coming to our senses darwin tape basic sydney 2010
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The ability to weigh ingredients gives you a lot more precision than volume measures do, especially for dry ingredients like flour, where “1 cup” could be anywhere from 3.5 - 4.5 ounces depending on how hard you try to pack it into the cup (4-oz is a good standard for all purpose flour, incidentally).
EatSmart Precision Pro Digital Kitchen Scale, reviewed | Baking Bites 2009
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Silver will hit $20 dollars and pressure to suck the COMEX warehouse stocks dry will continue, I would think bringing Comex silver inventories down to 115 million oz is a modest goal for the year and should be attainable.
Archive 2009-01-18 Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigade 2009
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Well, that's the temperature out in the middle parlour, where Dr. Muñoz is blasting, vainly trying to combat the heat.
"The talk of your life, Standing so near..." greygirlbeast 2009
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Silver will hit $20 dollars and pressure to suck the COMEX warehouse stocks dry will continue, I would think bringing Comex silver inventories down to 115 million oz is a modest goal for the year and should be attainable.
Canadian Silver Bug 2009 Predictions Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigade 2009
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On May 9th 2009, busted her in oz wrote: the mirrors give it away that is really her in all the shots look at the oval style mirror u can see the same mirrors in the chris brown pic
frindley commented on the word oz
This may be apocryphal, but I read once that Mr Baum came up with "Oz" as he was improvising the stories for his children. He was trying to think of a name for this magical land when his eyes landed on a two-drawer filing cabinet: A–N and O–Z.
April 6, 2008
bilby commented on the word oz
Was s4pp6sed t6 0ean 64nce fr60 what *ve heard.
April 7, 2008
bilby commented on the word oz
"Henry Littlefield does not offer any explanation of the name Oz in his analysis of the parallels between the Populist movement and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. In his 1971 book The Winning of the Midwest, Richard Jensen points out that oz. is the abbreviation of ounce, which is the standard unit of measure of silver and gold. At the time The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was published, the United States was on the gold standard. The Populists argued for 'bi-metallism,' a monetary standard using both gold and silver. L. Frank Baum used color in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, particularly the colors of money. The Emerald City was green (or was made to appear green, anyway), the yellow brick road was gold and in his original story Dorothy's shoes were silver rather than ruby. Perhaps the choice of the name Oz reinforces the notion that Baum intentionally wrote a political/monetary allegory.
When asked about the origin of the name Oz, Baum was quoted as saying, 'I have a little cabinet letter file on my desk that is just in front of me. I was thinking and wondering about a title for the story, and had settled on the Wizard as part of it. My gaze was caught by the gilt letters on the three drawers of the cabinet. The first was A-G; the next drawer was labeled H-N; and on the last were the letters O-Z. And 'Oz' it at once became.'"
- The Symbolism of Oz Characters and Images
April 7, 2008
yarb commented on the word oz
Australia?
May 22, 2008
johnmperry commented on the word oz
July 16, 2008
dontcry commented on the word oz
We're off to see the Wizard, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
You'll find he is a whiz of a Wiz! If ever a Wiz! there was.
If ever oh ever a Wiz! there was The Wizard of Oz is one becoz,
Becoz, becoz, becoz, becoz, becoz.
Becoz of the wonderful things he does.
-Harold Arlen
July 16, 2008
sionnach commented on the word oz
let's not forget "TV series involving considerable amounts of full-frontal male nudity and a hefty dollop of homosexual rape scenes"
July 16, 2008
ruzuzu commented on the word oz
"1. An abbreviation of ounce. The second letter here, while identical in form with the letter z, is really the character used by early printers for the arbitrary mark of terminal contraction, ȝ which is common in medieval manuscripts. It occurs also in viz." --Cent. Dict.
September 21, 2011
bilby commented on the word oz
I demand genuine arbitrariness in my arbitrary mark of terminal contraction, ru^!
September 22, 2011
Dan337 commented on the word oz
“. . . If ever a vis there was, &c.”
— Harry Arȝ
September 22, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word oz
Bilby, you can use the terminal contractions of your choice in the wonderful land of Oz--just be careful not to click your heels together three times (you might end up in Kansas).
September 22, 2011
bilby commented on the word oz
I know a photographer in Italia called Roberto Settonce. His surname looks like it could be - of course it's not - a contraction of sette seven and once ounces. He watermarks all his photographs 7oz.
September 22, 2011