Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- abbr. ounce.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- An abbreviation of ounce. The second letter here, while identical in form with the letter z, is really the character used by early printers for the arbitrary mark of terminal contraction, ȝ which is common in medieval manuscripts. It occurs also in viz.
Wiktionary
- abbr. Ounce; any of various units of weight and volume.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a unit of weight equal to one sixteenth of a pound or 16 drams or 28.349 grams
Etymologies
- From Italian oz., abbreviation of onza. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Well, that's the temperature out in the middle parlour, where Dr. Muñoz is blasting, vainly trying to combat the heat.”
“Silver will hit $20 dollars and pressure to suck the COMEX warehouse stocks dry will continue, I would think bringing Comex silver inventories down to 115 million oz is a modest goal for the year and should be attainable.”
“The ability to weigh ingredients gives you a lot more precision than volume measures do, especially for dry ingredients like flour, where “1 cup” could be anywhere from 3.5 - 4.5 ounces depending on how hard you try to pack it into the cup (4-oz is a good standard for all purpose flour, incidentally).”
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“Most of the information about Muñoz is in Spanish, so I haven't found anything about her background that I could actually understand.”
“Kabat-Zinn has been for decades at the forefront of this mind/body movement and the revolution in medicine and health care it has spawned demystifying Eh, one oz is less emotional than some juicy adelaide.”
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“On May 9th 2009, busted her in oz wrote: the mirrors give it away that is really her in all the shots look at the oval style mirror u can see the same mirrors in the chris brown pic”
“Sorry Kay, but the wizard of oz is one of my favorite movies ..”
“If you actually believe that 3 oz is a magical high-danger threshold, please consider adding a delightful, hallucinatory element of science to your pseudoscience by putting an Archimedes tank at the checkpoint.”
“I guess the wizard of oz is next! carg0 no. f@&*ing.way. o_O the amazing null”
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“Most people understand the role of ambulance and the fire service and the hospitals, even though people take advantage of the ambulance service and hospitals, as illustrated by Random Reality blog for the uk and friends here in oz, the examples are repeated.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘oz’.
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Countries the United States has bombe...
Or has paid other countries to bomb/invade.
afghanistan, angola, bolivia, bosnia, burma, cambodia, colombia, dominican republic, east timor, egypt, el salvador, guatemala and 43 more...
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A Long, Strange Trip
You'll definitely need a map. Inspired by Son of Groucho's comment on Islets of Langerhans.
slough of despond, pit of despair, den of iniquity, islets of langerhans, hippocampus, boulevard of brok..., canals of hering, hesselbach's tria..., crypts of lieberkühn, angle of louis, circle of willis, traube's space and 102 more...
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states of mind: from absurdistan to zion
Countries, lands, cities that capture, or haunt, our dreams. Some of the places listed might be the names of actual localities, but here they are states of mind.
absurdistan, banana republic, utopia, mitteleuropa, new jerusalem, deseret, canaan, zion, ruritania, outer slobovia, lower slobovia, avalon and 126 more...
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akmed13's Words
time, spaceship, quantum mechanics, time traveller, bezonkers, strakh, path integrals, gorbfest, amphigory, amber, bicycle, amphisbaena and 358 more...
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Wonderful Wiz That Wuz
wizard, scarecrow, lion, tinman, dorothy, toto, yellow brick road, kansas, rainbow, somewhere, tornado, witch and 12 more...
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metaphorical places
canossa, waterloo, rubicon, eden, coventry, oz, gethsemane, calvary, serendip, the land of nod, between scylla an..., brigadoon and 77 more...
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Ozmopolitan Words
Words concerning anything Ozian...either from the original books or movie "The Wizard of Oz" or from the Broadway musical "Wicked."
galindafied, greenify, rejoicify, verdigris, swankified, emerald, liquification, ozian, oz, darlingest, momsie, popsical and 78 more...
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Fictional Places
The names of places that originate in an author's imagination are some of the sweetest.
narnia, middle earth, avonlea, shire, rivendell, newford, thornfield, wuthering heights, never-never land, pemberly, gotham city, wonderland and 6 more...
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Jetsam of dreams
A wordlist from 2003.
erms, aa, wtest, tvfig, cald, tavinkil, payedos, savo, oz, uban, sibzell, uo
Tweets
Looking for tweets for oz.
bilby I know a photographer in Italia called Roberto Settonce. His surname looks like it could be - of course it's not - a contraction of sette seven and once ounces. He watermarks all his photographs 7oz. Sep 22, 2011
ruzuzu Bilby, you can use the terminal contractions of your choice in the wonderful land of Oz--just be careful not to click your heels together three times (you might end up in Kansas). Sep 22, 2011
Dan337 “. . . If ever a vis there was, &c.”
— Harry Arȝ Sep 21, 2011
bilby I demand genuine arbitrariness in my arbitrary mark of terminal contraction, ru^! Sep 21, 2011
ruzuzu "1. An abbreviation of ounce. The second letter here, while identical in form with the letter z, is really the character used by early printers for the arbitrary mark of terminal contraction, ȝ which is common in medieval manuscripts. It occurs also in viz." --Cent. Dict.
Sep 21, 2011
sionnach let's not forget "TV series involving considerable amounts of full-frontal male nudity and a hefty dollop of homosexual rape scenes" Jul 16, 2008
dontcry We're off to see the Wizard, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
You'll find he is a whiz of a Wiz! If ever a Wiz! there was.
If ever oh ever a Wiz! there was The Wizard of Oz is one becoz,
Becoz, becoz, becoz, becoz, becoz.
Becoz of the wonderful things he does.
-Harold Arlen
Jul 16, 2008
johnmperry Australia/Australianunit of weightTroy (31.1034768 grams) named from the city of Troyes in the Champagne area of France,Avoirdupois (28.349523125 grams)OtherThe Snow Leopard (Uncia uncia) Jul 16, 2008
yarb Australia? May 21, 2008
bilby "Henry Littlefield does not offer any explanation of the name Oz in his analysis of the parallels between the Populist movement and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. In his 1971 book The Winning of the Midwest, Richard Jensen points out that oz. is the abbreviation of ounce, which is the standard unit of measure of silver and gold. At the time The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was published, the United States was on the gold standard. The Populists argued for 'bi-metallism,' a monetary standard using both gold and silver. L. Frank Baum used color in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, particularly the colors of money. The Emerald City was green (or was made to appear green, anyway), the yellow brick road was gold and in his original story Dorothy's shoes were silver rather than ruby. Perhaps the choice of the name Oz reinforces the notion that Baum intentionally wrote a political/monetary allegory.
When asked about the origin of the name Oz, Baum was quoted as saying, 'I have a little cabinet letter file on my desk that is just in front of me. I was thinking and wondering about a title for the story, and had settled on the Wizard as part of it. My gaze was caught by the gilt letters on the three drawers of the cabinet. The first was A-G; the next drawer was labeled H-N; and on the last were the letters O-Z. And 'Oz' it at once became.'"
- The Symbolism of Oz Characters and Images Apr 7, 2008
bilby Was s4pp6sed t6 0ean 64nce fr60 what *ve heard. Apr 7, 2008
frindley This may be apocryphal, but I read once that Mr Baum came up with "Oz" as he was improvising the stories for his children. He was trying to think of a name for this magical land when his eyes landed on a two-drawer filing cabinet: A–N and O–Z. Apr 6, 2008