oz

/aʊns/

name 6noun 4

Collocations

ADJ.

red, standard

VERB + OZ

add, contains, land, like, maintains, recognize, weighs

OZ + NOUN

cola, designation, flour, i've, kg, sugar

PREP.

from

ADV.

maybe

Definitions

noun

Abbreviation of ounce; any of various units of weight and volume.

Add 8 oz of flour.

name

Ellipsis of Land of Oz, the fictional setting created by L. Frank Baum for The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, and other works. The term has been extended from the original country of Oz to the entire fictional world of Oz. Subsequently used as a s

noun

An unreal, magical realm.

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Example Bank

Add 8 oz of flour.

Wiktionary

Selling reefer was a round-the-clock hustle that required more time and energy than I wanted to invest. Unloading a single O.Z. sometimes took up to an hour.

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Cool. I'll take a large 3 cheese, a 2-Liter of Coke, one ohzee of Purple Cush...

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The standard basketball weighs twenty-two oh-zees. But right now, it's weightless. It floats. Oh, what it is to be alive.

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This provision maintains the OZ designation process from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and adds that at least 33 percent of designated OZs must be comprised entirely of a rural area.

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One pound troy weighs 12 oz.

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Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, oz is marked as slang, colloquial, US. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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