The troy pound, for weighing gold and silver bullion, and the apothecaries’ weight for drugs contained only 12 troy ounces. A multiple of the English pound was the stone, which added a fresh element of confusion to the system by equaling neither 12 nor 16 but 14 pounds, amo...
A unit of the archaic old English system of weight measurement symbolized by CWT. Where: One CWT (hundredweight) equals 112 pounds. One quarter hundredweight equals 28 pounds. One eighth hundredweight called a "stone" equals 14 pounds. A long tonne = 20 hundredweights Commonly used to make ...
When somebody tells you tocut to the chase, it means that you’ve been talking too long and you need to get to the point. Be careful how you use this idiom; it could be rude or disrespectful if used with someone like a boss or teacher. Hi, guys. We don’t have much time here,...
To measure sentence complexity, we calculated the mean length of utterance in each language in each picture book. Our prediction was that picture books, on average, would present greater lexical diversity and sentence complexity in English. We also examined the most frequent words used across our ...
[35], a substantial body of research studies in the literature has shown that these value components are highly correlated and can be combined into a single composite measure. Like expectations of success, task values are postulated as significant proximal predictors of course performance and ...
Related topics:Nutrition,Measuremento‧ver‧weight/ˌəʊvəˈweɪt◂$ˌoʊvər-/●●○adjective1someone who isoverweightis tooheavyandfat→underweight10 kilos/20 pounds etc overweightSally was 50 pounds overweight.He is slightly overweight.►seethesaurusatfat2something such as...
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(TO) GET SALT : to be thwarted, to encounter misfortune (6) GATES : home, yard (1) GENERAL : cool operator (1) GI : give (28) GIG : spinning top. (5) GILL : unit of measure like pint. (42) GINNAL : n. trickster, con-man, an Amnancy figure as in "Sunday ...
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 (Xinhua) -- Three suborbital rockets blasted off on Wednesday morning on secret missions for the U.S. military, U.S.Terrier-Orion is a two stage spin stabilized rocket system with a weight of about 2,900 pounds (1,315 kilograms), according to NASA. It can loft a...