DRAM

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Alternative form of drachm (“One sixteenth of an ounce avoirdupois (1.77 g; symbol: ℨ or ʒ)”).
2. isim Alternative form of drachm (“One eighth of an ounce apothecary (3.89 g; symbol: ℨ or ʒ)”).
3. isim Synonym of dirhem: a former Turkish unit of weight (variously 1.5–3.5 g).

   “Dram (49·5 grains), 100=chequi, 4=oka (2·8286 ℔); dram (49·5 grains), 180=rotl, 100=kintal or kantar (127·29 ℔).”

4. isim Synonym of drachma: a former Greek unit of weight (about 4.3 g).
5. isim Any similarly minute quantity, (now particularly) a small amount of strong alcohol or poison.

   “a dram of brandy”

6. isim A cart formerly used to haul coal in coal mines.

   “The rolling stock, consisting entirely of four-wheel open trucks, or drams, was broken up at Bonvilles Court Colliery.”

7. isim Synonym of drachma: a Greek silver coin weighing one drachma; other similar coins.

   “They gave after their ability unto the treasure of the work threescore and one thousand drams [i.e., the Persian daric] of gold, and five thousand pound of silver […]”

8. fiil To drink drams.

   “What I contend against is, this dramming, dramming, dramming, at all hours of the day. There are some men who take a glass at eleven o'clock in the forenoon, and at four in the afternoon.”

9. fiil To ply with drams of drink.

   “The parents[…]are getting ready their daughter for sale[…]praying her, and imploring her, and dramming her, and coaxing her.”

10. isim The currency of Armenia, divided into 100 luma.
11. isim Initialism of dynamic random access memory.