Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several legumes, such as the chickpea, bearing seeds used as food.
- noun The seeds of such a plant.
- noun A grandmother.
- noun A metric unit of mass equal to one thousandth (10−3) of a kilogram.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Anger; scorn; bitterness; repugnance.
- Angry; fierce.
- In the East Indies, the chick-pea, Cicer arietinum, there used extensively as fodder for horses and cattle, and also in cakes, curries, etc.
- noun In the metric system, a unit of mass.
- To vex; make angry or sorry.
- To grieve; be sorry.
- An abbreviation of
grammar . - A terminal element in nouns of Greek origin, denoting ‘that which is written or marked,’ as in diagram, epigram, program, monogram, telegram, etc.
- noun In kinematics, the curve described by a point of a link-motion.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) The East Indian name of the chick-pea (
Cicer arietinum ) and its seeds; also, other similar seeds there used for food. - noun The unit of weight in the metric system. It was intended to be exactly, and is very nearly, equivalent to the weight in a vacuum of one cubic centimeter of pure water at its maximum density. It is equal to 15.432 grains. See
grain , n., 4. - noun (Physics) a unit of heat, being the amount of heat necessary to raise the temperature of one gram of pure water one degree centigrade.
- noun (Electrolysis) that quantity of the metal which will replace one gram of hydrogen.
- adjective obsolete Angry.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A group of
leguminous plants that are grown for their seeds. - noun uncountable The seeds of these plants.
- noun A unit of
mass equal to one-thousandth of akilogram . Symbol:g
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a metric unit of weight equal to one thousandth of a kilogram
- noun Danish physician and bacteriologist who developed a method of staining bacteria to distinguish among them (1853-1938)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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As little as 1 gram is toxic to dogs that weigh approximately 20 pounds.
Dr. Richard Palmquist: Pet Owners Beware: This Common Sweetener Can Poison Dogs Dr. Richard Palmquist 2010
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As little as 1 gram is toxic to dogs that weigh approximately 20 pounds.
Dr. Richard Palmquist: Pet Owners Beware: This Common Sweetener Can Poison Dogs Dr. Richard Palmquist 2010
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As little as 1 gram is toxic to dogs that weigh approximately 20 pounds.
Dr. Richard Palmquist: Pet Owners Beware: This Common Sweetener Can Poison Dogs Dr. Richard Palmquist 2010
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Toby essentially says everything that I've been thinking about the current fuss over yet another bile-o-gram from the editor of Helix, this one sent in a "professional" capacity.
If you don't want anybody to know you're a racist, maybe you shouldn't say racist things. matociquala 2008
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Pakoda are vegetables covered in gram flour batter and then deep fried, known more commonly in the states as “pakora”
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The service returns a string, if successful, the URL where the gram is stored.
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The only real difference between beach sand, worth $0, and a microchip, worth thousands of dollars a gram, is what the human mind has added.
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Oh, TOO cool: A Stanford program is publishing Sherlock Holmes stories as they were originally serialized in The Strand magazine.
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The only real difference between beach sand, worth $0, and a microchip, worth thousands of dollars a gram, is what the human mind has added.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Physics, Wealth Creation, and Zero Sum Economics 2005
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Each of these female flowers may be fertilized independently by a pollen gram from a male flower.
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1983 - Presentation Speech 1983
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