Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A metric unit of mass equal to one thousandth (10-3) of a kilogram. See Table at measurement.
- n. Any of several plants, such as the chickpea, bearing seeds widely used as food in tropical Asia.
- n. The seeds of such a plant.
- n. Informal A grandmother.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Angry; fierce.
- n. Anger; scorn; bitterness; repugnance.
- To vex; make angry or sorry.
- To grieve; be sorry.
- n. In the metric system, a unit of mass. It is defined as the thousandth part of the mass of a certain piece of platinum preserved at Paris and called the Kilogramme des Archives. The intention was that the mass of a cubic centimeter of water at its maximum density should be one gram, and this is very nearly true. A gram is equal to 15.432 + troy grains. Abbreviation (by an international convention) gr.
- In the East Indies, the chick-pea, Cicer arietinum, there used extensively as fodder for horses and cattle, and also in cakes, curries, etc.
- 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. Formerly and in programme still often written -gramme, after the French form. In the metric terms decagram, hectogram, etc., it is merely the word gram in composition.
- n. In kinematics, the curve described by a point of a link-motion.
Wiktionary
- n. A unit of mass equal to one-thousandth of a kilogram. Symbol: g
- n. A group of leguminous plants that are grown for their seeds.
- n. uncountable The seeds of these plants.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. obsolete Angry.
- n. (Bot.) The East Indian name of the chick-pea (Cicer arietinum) and its seeds; also, other similar seeds there used for food.
- n. 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.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a metric unit of weight equal to one thousandth of a kilogram
- n. Danish physician and bacteriologist who developed a method of staining bacteria to distinguish among them (1853-1938)
Etymologies
- From French gramme, from Ancient Greek γραμμάριον (grammárion, "weight of two obols"), from γραμμή (grammḗ, "line"). (Wiktionary)
- French gramme, from Late Latin gramma, a small weight, from Greek, something written, small weight; see gerbh- in Indo-European roots.Obsolete Portuguese, from Latin grānum, seed; see gr̥ə-no- in Indo-European roots.Shortening and alteration of gramma1 or grandmother. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“As little as 1 gram is toxic to dogs that weigh approximately 20 pounds.”
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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.
“Pakoda are vegetables covered in gram flour batter and then deep fried, known more commonly in the states as “pakora””
“The service returns a string, if successful, the URL where the gram is stored.”
“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.”
“Oh, TOO cool: A Stanford program is publishing Sherlock Holmes stories as they were originally serialized in The Strand magazine.”
“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
“A cube of water at 40 centigrade, and measuring on each edge 1/100 of a meter was taken and called a gram, which is about equal to 15 of our grains.”
“The word gram (_Cicer arietinum_) is misprinted 'grain' in the author's text, in this place and in many others.”
“Each dose contains 50 micrograms (a microgram is one-millionth of a gram and a gram is the weight of one-fifth of a teaspoon of water).”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘gram’.
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G[r]eek
A collection of words found in English that are either purely Greek or have Greek etymology.
Please add with caution and certainty. Will be regularly updated by me.etymology, philosophy, laconic, disharmony, patriarchic, archaic, phlogiston, aether, aeon, angel, arachnid, rhythm and 346 more...
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Roots
act, aer, ambul, ami, amo, anim, ann, enn, arch, rcha, rchae, archi and 139 more...
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how to cook
paneer, kaju, demarara, garam masala, asafoetida, green gram, gram flour, sago, mirin, phyllo, seitan, soya and 21 more...
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cutting words
sarcasm, sarx, sarcoptic, syssarcosis, shrew, shrewd, screed, scred, shroud, scroll, scrod, scrutiny and 326 more...
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Not Yet Colde in it's Grave
Some semblances strange & others nearer, dearer, yet more familiar... . .
ac, amber, ambyre, ancor-rap, and, anda, atol, bana, band, beadu, beadu-weorc, bealu and 446 more...
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Ladies' Night
girl, lady, madame, miss, missy, woman, dame, mother, daughter, sister, aunt, grandmother and 50 more...
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Characteristic Properties of Matter
volume, milliliter, mass, gram, density, cubic centimeter, float, sink, boiling point, freezing point, melting point
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Measurement Terms
(From any culture!)
pinch, dash, gallon, pint, quart, inch, foot, meter, yard, kilogram, decimeter, centimeter and 13 more...
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measurements
c, kelvin, celcius, fahrenheit, foot, inch, metre, ohm, volt, ampere, watt, gram and 14 more...
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Curry Zone
Culinary terms from Pakistan, Nepal, India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.
korma, brinjal, vindaloo, chole, dal, pickle, aloo, biryani, hing, jeera, gram, masala and 63 more...
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