A Topical Dictionary: Search for dram

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Dram \Dram\ (dr[a^]m), n. [OF. drame, F. drachme, L. drachma,
drachm, drachma, fr. Gr. drachmh`, prop., a handful, fr.
dra`ssesqai to grasp. Cf. Drachm, Drachma.]
1. 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.
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2. A minute quantity; a mite.
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Were I the chooser, a dram of well-doing should be
preferred before many times as mush the forcible
hindrance of evildoing. --Milton.
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3. 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. --Shak.
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4. (Numis.) A Persian daric. --Ezra ii. 69.
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Fluid dram, or Fluid drachm. See under Fluid.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Dram \Dram\, v. i. & t.
To drink drams; to ply with drams. [Low] --Johnson.
--Thackeray.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English DRAM \DRAM\, D-RAM \D-RAM\n. (Computers)
same as dynamic RAM. [acron.]

Syn: dynamic RAM.
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WordNet dram
n 1: a unit of apothecary weight equal to an eighth of an ounce
or to 60 grains [syn: drachm, drachma]
2: 1/16 ounce or 1.771 grams
3: the basic unit of money in Armenia

Moby Dictionary
ace , atom , beverage , bit , bumper , carat , centigram , crumb , dab ,
dash , decagram , decigram , dole , dollop , dose , dot , draft ,
dram avoirdupois , drench , dribble , driblet , drink , drop , dwarf ,
dyne , farthing , finger , fleck , flyspeck , force , fragment , gargle ,
gobbet , grain , gram , granule , groat , gulp , guzzle , hair , handful ,
hoot , hundredweight , iota , jigger , jolt , jot , kilo , kilogram , lap ,
libation , little , little bit , lota , mass , megaton , milligram ,
minim , minimum , minutiae , mite , modicum , mole , molecule , mote , nip ,
nutshell , ounce , ounce avoirdupois , ounce troy , particle , pebble ,
peg , pennyweight , pinch , pittance , point , portion , potation ,
potion , pound , pound avoirdupois , pound troy , poundal , pull , quaff ,
quick one , round , round of drinks , scruple , shot , shred , sip , slug ,
slurp , smidgen , smitch , snack , snifter , snort , speck , splash ,
spoonful , spot , stone , suck , sup , swig , swill , thimbleful ,
tiny bit , tittle , ton , tot , trifling amount , trivia ,
units of weight , weight , wet , whit

DRAM Dynamic Random Access Memory (RAM, IC)

FOLDOC DRAM

dynamic random access memory

Dram The Authorized Version understood the word 'adarkonim (1 Chr. 29:7; Ezra 8:27), and the similar word darkomnim (Ezra 2:69; Neh. 7:70), as equivalent to the Greek silver coin the drachma. But the Revised Version rightly regards it as the Greek dareikos, a Persian gold coin (the daric) of the value of about 1 pound, 2s., which was first struck by Darius, the son of Hystaspes, and was current in Western Asia long after the fall of the Persian empire. (See {DARIC}.)