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Dram vs. Weight — What's the Difference?

Dram vs. Weight — What's the Difference?

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Dram

A memory chip that depends upon an applied voltage to keep the stored data.

Weight

In science and engineering, the weight of an object is the force acting on the object due to gravity.Some standard textbooks define weight as a vector quantity, the gravitational force acting on the object. Others define weight as a scalar quantity, the magnitude of the gravitational force.

Dram

A unit of weight in the US Customary System equal to 1/16 of an ounce or 27.34 grains (1.77 grams).

Weight

A measure of the heaviness of an object
A contest to guess the weight of a pig.

Dram

A unit of apothecary weight equal to 1/8 of an ounce or 60 grains (3.89 grams).
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Weight

The force with which a body is attracted to Earth or another celestial body, equal to the product of the object's mass and the acceleration of gravity.

Dram

A small draft
Took a dram of brandy.

Weight

A unit measure of gravitational force
A table of weights and measures.

Dram

A small amount; a bit
Not a dram of compassion.

Weight

A system of such measures
Avoirdupois weight.
Troy weight.

Dram

See Table at currency.

Weight

A metallic solid used as a standard of comparison in weighing.

Dram

Dynamic RAM.

Weight

An object used to hold something else down.

Dram

(units of measurement) A small unit of weight, variously:

Weight

A counterbalance in a machine.

Dram

Alternative form of drachm.

Weight

(Sports) A heavy object, such as a dumbbell, lifted for exercise or in athletic competition.

Dram

(pharmacy) drachm.

Weight

Excessive fat; corpulence
Exercising in order to lose weight.

Dram

(now uncommon) dirhem: a former Turkish unit of weight (variously 1.5–3.5 g).

Weight

(Statistics) A factor assigned to a number in a computation, as in determining an average, to increase or decrease the number's effect on the computation, reflecting its importance.

Dram

(obsolete) drachma: a former Greek unit of weight (about 4.3 g).

Weight

Oppressiveness; pressure
The weight of responsibilities.

Dram

(by extension) Any similarly minute quantity, a small amount of strong alcohol or poison.
A dram of brandy

Weight

The greater part; preponderance
The weight of the evidence is against the defendant.

Dram

A cart formerly used to haul coal in coal mines.

Weight

Influence, importance, or authority
Her approval carried great weight.

Dram

(obsolete) drachma: a Greek silver coin weighing one drachma; other similar coins.

Weight

Ponderous quality
The weight of the speaker's words.

Dram

The currency of Armenia, divided into 100 luma.

Weight

(Sports) A classification according to comparative lightness or heaviness. Often used in combination
A heavyweight boxer.

Dram

To drink drams.

Weight

The heaviness or thickness of a fabric in relation to a particular season or use. Often used in combination
A summerweight jacket.

Dram

To ply with drams of drink.

Weight

A measure of the relative thickness of yarn.

Dram

A weight; in Apothecaries' weight, one eighth part of an ounce, or sixty grains; in Avoirdupois weight, one sixteenth part of an ounce, or 27.34375 grains.

Weight

To make heavy or heavier
Our backpacks were weighted down with food and other essentials.

Dram

A minute quantity; a mite.
Were I the chooser, a dram of well-doing should be preferred before many times as mush the forcible hindrance of evildoing.

Weight

To cause to feel concerned, sad, or preoccupied; burden or oppress
He was weighted with guilt.

Dram

As much spirituous liquor as is usually drunk at once; as, a dram of brandy; hence, a potation or potion; as, a dram of poison.

Weight

To increase the weight or body of (fabrics) by treating with chemicals.

Dram

A Persian daric.

Weight

(Statistics) To assign weights or a weight to.

Dram

Same as dynamic RAM.

Weight

To cause to have a slant or bias
Weighted the rules in favor of homeowners.

Dram

To drink drams; to ply with drams.

Weight

(Sports) To assign to (a horse) the weight it must carry as a handicap in a race.

Dram

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

Weight

The force on an object due to the gravitational attraction between it and the Earth (or whatever astronomical object it is primarily influenced by).

Dram

1/16 ounce or 1.771 grams

Weight

An object used to make something heavier.

Dram

The basic unit of money in Armenia

Weight

A standardized block of metal used in a balance to measure the mass of another object.

Weight

Importance or influence.

Weight

(weightlifting) An object, such as a weight plate or barbell, used for strength training.
He's working out with weights.

Weight

(lubricants) viscosity rating.

Weight

(physics) Mass (atomic weight, molecular weight, etc.) in restricted circumstances

Weight

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Weight

(measurement) Mass (net weight, troy weight, carat weight, etc.).

Weight

(statistics) A variable which multiplies a value for ease of statistical manipulation.

Weight

(topology) The smallest cardinality of a base.

Weight

(typography) The boldness of a font; the relative thickness of its strokes.

Weight

(visual art) The relative thickness of a drawn rule or painted brushstroke, line weight.

Weight

(visual art) The illusion of mass.

Weight

(visual art) The thickness and opacity of paint.

Weight

Pressure; burden.
The weight of care or business

Weight

The resistance against which a machine acts, as opposed to the power which moves it.

Weight

Shipments of (often illegal) drugs.
He was pushing weight.

Weight

One pound of drugs, especially cannabis.

Weight

Money.

Weight

Weight class

Weight

(transitive) To add weight to something; to make something heavier.

Weight

To load (fabrics) with barite, etc. to increase the weight.

Weight

(transitive) To load, burden or oppress someone.

Weight

To assign weights to individual statistics.

Weight

(transitive) To bias something; to slant.

Weight

To handicap a horse with a specified weight.

Weight

To give a certain amount of force to a throw, kick, hit, etc.

Weight

The quality of being heavy; that property of bodies by which they tend toward the center of the earth; the effect of gravitative force, especially when expressed in certain units or standards, as pounds, grams, etc.

Weight

The quantity of heaviness; comparative tendency to the center of the earth; the quantity of matter as estimated by the balance, or expressed numerically with reference to some standard unit; as, a mass of stone having the weight of five hundred pounds.
For sorrow, like a heavy-hanging bell,Once set on ringing, with his own weight goes.

Weight

Hence, pressure; burden; as, the weight of care or business.
For the public all this weight he bears.
[He] who singly bore the world's sad weight.

Weight

Importance; power; influence; efficacy; consequence; moment; impressiveness; as, a consideration of vast weight.
In such a point of weight, so near mine honor.

Weight

A scale, or graduated standard, of heaviness; a mode of estimating weight; as, avoirdupois weight; troy weight; apothecaries' weight.

Weight

A ponderous mass; something heavy; as, a clock weight; a paper weight.
A man leapeth better with weights in his hands.

Weight

A definite mass of iron, lead, brass, or other metal, to be used for ascertaining the weight of other bodies; as, an ounce weight.

Weight

The resistance against which a machine acts, as opposed to the power which moves it.

Weight

To load with a weight or weights; to load down; to make heavy; to attach weights to; as, to weight a horse or a jockey at a race; to weight a whip handle.
The arrows of satire, . . . weighted with sense.

Weight

To assign a weight to; to express by a number the probable accuracy of, as an observation. See Weight of observations, under Weight.

Weight

To load (fabrics) as with barite, to increase the weight, etc.

Weight

To assign a numerical value expressing relative importance to (a measurement), to be multiplied by the value of the measurement in determining averages or other aggregate quantities; as, they weighted part one of the test twice as heavily as part 2.

Weight

The vertical force exerted by a mass as a result of gravity

Weight

Sports equipment used in calisthenic exercises and weightlifting; a weight that is not attached to anything and is raised and lowered by use of the hands and arms

Weight

The relative importance granted to something;
His opinion carries great weight

Weight

An artifact that is heavy

Weight

An oppressive feeling of heavy force;
Bowed down by the weight of responsibility

Weight

A system of units used to express the weight of something

Weight

A unit used to measure weight;
He placed two weights in the scale pan

Weight

(statistics) a coefficient assigned to elements of a frequency distribution in order to represent their relative importance

Weight

Weight down with a load

Weight

Present with a bias;
He biased his presentation so as to please the share holders

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