DRAM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dram mean? 

• DRAM (noun)
  The noun DRAM has 3 senses:

1. a unit of apothecary weight equal to an eighth of an ounce or to 60 grains

2. 1/16 ounce or 1.771 grams

3. the basic unit of money in Armenia

  Familiarity information: DRAM used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DRAM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A unit of apothecary weight equal to an eighth of an ounce or to 60 grains

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

drachm; drachma; dram

Hypernyms ("dram" is a kind of...):

apothecaries' unit; apothecaries' weight (any weight unit used in pharmacy; an ounce is equal to 480 grains and a pound is equal to 12 ounces)

Meronyms (parts of "dram"):

scruple (a unit of apothecary weight equal to 20 grains)

Holonyms ("dram" is a part of...):

apothecaries' ounce; ounce; troy ounce (a unit of apothecary weight equal to 480 grains or one twelfth of a troy pound)

Sense 2

Meaning:

1/16 ounce or 1.771 grams

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Hypernyms ("dram" is a kind of...):

avoirdupois unit (any of the units of the avoirdupois system of weights)

Meronyms (parts of "dram"):

grain (1/7000 pound; equals a troy grain or 64.799 milligrams)

Holonyms ("dram" is a part of...):

ounce; oz. (a unit of weight equal to one sixteenth of a pound or 16 drams or 28.349 grams)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The basic unit of money in Armenia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Hypernyms ("dram" is a kind of...):

Armenian monetary unit (monetary unit in Armenia)

 Context examples 

“Will you taste, messmate?” he asked; and when I had refused: “Well, I'll take a dram myself, Jim,” said he.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

A unit of volume in British Imperial system equal to 1/60 fluid dram, 1/20 of a scruple or 0.059194 milliliter.

(Minim British, NCI Thesaurus)

A unit of volume in British Imperial system equal to 1/36 fluid dram or approximately 99 microliters.

(Drop British, NCI Thesaurus)

One dram equals approximately 1.7718451953125 grams.

(Dram Mass Unit, NCI Thesaurus)

The mistress sent her maid for a small dram cup, which held about two gallons, and filled it with drink; I took up the vessel with much difficulty in both hands, and in a most respectful manner drank to her ladyship’s health, expressing the words as loud as I could in English, which made the company laugh so heartily, that I was almost deafened with the noise.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

If I don't have a dram o' rum, Jim, I'll have the horrors; I seen some on 'em already. I seen old Flint in the corner there, behind you; as plain as print, I seen him; and if I get the horrors, I'm a man that has lived rough, and I'll raise Cain.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)