ounce是什么意思_ounce怎么读_中英文释义(含例句用法)

ounce: ounce: English has two separate words ounce. The ‘measure of weight’ [14] is etymologically the same word as inch. It comes from the same ultimate source, Latin uncia ‘twelfth part’, but whereas inch reached English via prehistoric Germanic, ounce’s route was through Old French unce. Its original use was in the Troy system of weights, where it still denotes ‘one twelfth of a pound’, but in the avoirdupois system it came to be applied to ‘one sixteenth of a pound’.

Its abbreviation, oz [16], comes from Italian onza. Ounce [13] ‘big cat’ comes from the same source as lynx (and indeed it originally meant ‘lynx’; ‘snow leopard’ is an 18th-century reapplication of the name). It represents an alteration of Old French lonce, based on the misapprehension that the initial l represented the definite article.

This in turn came via Vulgar Latin *luncia from Latin lynx, source of English lynx.
=> inch, one; light, lynx
ounce (n.1): unit of weight, early 14c., from Old French once, unce, a measure of weight or time (12c.), from Latin uncia "one-twelfth part" (of a pound, foot, etc.), from Latin unus "one" (see one). The Latin word had been adopted in Old English as ynce (see inch). It was one-twelfth of a pound in the Troy system of weights, but one-sixteenth in avoirdupois. Abbreviation oz. is from older Italian onza. Also used in Middle English as a measure of time (7.5 seconds) and length (about 3 inches).
ounce (n.2): "wildcat," c. 1300, from Old French once "lynx" (13c.), from lonce, with l- mistaken as definite article, from Vulgar Latin *luncea, from Latin lyncea "lynx-like," from lynx (see lynx). Originally the common lynx, later extended to other wildcats, now mainly used of the mountain-panther or snow leopard of Asia.

词态变化

复数 ounces;

权威造句

1. This little ball of gold weighs a quarter of an ounce.: 这个小金球重0.25盎司。

2. If only my father had possessed an ounce of business sense.: 要是我父亲有一点点经商的头脑就好了。

3. There"s not an ounce of truth in her story.: 她所说的一点都不真实。

4. He poured in every ounce of power but couldn"t make it.: 他竭尽了全力却无济于事.

5. He has used up the last ounce of oil.: 他已用完最后一滴油.

近反义词

fluid ounce 液盎司（一种液量单位...

troy ounce 金衡制盎司

ounce metal 高铜黄铜

avoirdupois ounce [医] 寻常英两...

prevention 阻止

相似短语

troy ounce 金衡盎司

fluid ounce n. 一种液量单位

an ounce of prevention (is worth a pound of cure)better to stop something bad from happening that to deal with the res

ounce apothecaries 药量盎司

ounce troy 金衡盎司

ounce strength 盎司强度(一种测定氨水浓度的单位, 即中和一加仑氨水所需要硫酸的英两数)

apothecaries" ounce phr. 药衡盎司（药剂用的衡制，英美重量制度，一药衡盎司等于1/12磅）

ounce metal 高铜黄铜，盎司铸造铜合金，铜币合金

avoirdupois ounce 【医】寻常英两

haggle over every ounce 搬斤播两

单词分析

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记忆方法

1. 音译“盎司”。

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