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Drachm

Definition: Drachm

Drachm

Noun

1. A unit of apothecary weight equal to an eighth of an ounce or to 60 grains.

2. A British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 60 minims or 3.5516 cubic centimeters.

3. A unit of capacity or volume in the apothecary system equal to one eighth of a fluid ounce.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "drachm" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

Note: Drachm \Drachm\, noun. [See Drachma.]. (Websters 1913)


Synonyms: Drachm

Synonyms: drachma (n), dram (n), fluid drachm (n), fluid dram (n), fluidram (n). (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: Drachm

DomainTitle

Books

  • Alexander's Drachm Mints 2: Lampasacus and Abydus (Numismatic Studies (Ansns),19) (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Expression: Drachm

Expression using "drachm": fluid drachm. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Drachm

Language Translations for "drachm"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

drem (dram), sasi e vogël (dole, dram, dribblet, handful, modicum, smack, smattering, sprinkle, trifle), grimë (bit, dash, doit, dram, drop, fleck, hint, hoot, jiff, jiffy, jot, lick, mite, rag, suspicion, tittle, touch, whit), gllënjkë (craving, draft, drain, dram, draught, drink, drop, gulp, longing, mouthful, nip, peg, pull, sip, smack, sup, swallow, swig, thirst, traction), çikë (atom, bit, doit, dram, dribblet, drop, hoot, jot, near, scrap, tithe, tittle, whit). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏الدرهم (dirham, dram). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

глътка (drag, drain, dram, draught, drink, drop, gulp, lap, mouthful, peg, pharynx, potion, pull, shot, sip, sup, swallow, taste), драхма (drachma). (various references)

   

Czech

  

řecké mince. (various references)

   

German

  

drachme (drachma). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

drachma (drachma). (various references)

   

Manx

  

dram (dram), draghmey. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

achmdray

   

Portuguese

  

dracma (drachma, dram). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

mãsurã de greutate comercialã (dram). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

небольшое количество (a little, dollop, thimbleful), драхма (drachma, dram). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

dracma (drachma, dram). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

drahmi (drachma), dirhem (drachma, dram), damla (bead, blob, dribblet, driblet, drop, drops, glob, minim, suspicion), dört gram (drachma, dram), yudum (dram, draught, gulp, nip, sip, suck, sup, swallow). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

драхма (drachma, dram). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Drachm

Derivations

Words beginning with "drachm": drachma, drachmae, drachmai, drachmas, drachms. (additional references)

Words ending with "drachm": tetradrachm. (additional references)

Words containing "drachm": tetradrachms. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Drachm

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-d-h-m-r"

-1 letter: chard, charm, march.

-2 letters: arch, card, chad, cham, char, cram, dram, hard, harm, mach, marc.

-3 letters: arc, arm, cad, cam, car, dah, dam, had, ham, mac, mad, mar, rad, rah, ram.

-4 letters: ad, ah, am, ar, ha, hm, ma.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-d-h-m-r"
 

+1 letter: charmed, dharmic, drachma, drachms, marched.

 

+2 letters: chadarim, chedarim, demarche, drachmae, drachmai, drachmas.

 

+3 letters: becharmed, chambered, chamfered, chromatid, demarches, dichromat, midrashic, pachyderm, rematched.

 

+4 letters: bedchamber, chairmaned, chromatids, diathermic, dichromate, dichromats, hydromancy, matchboard, merchanted, mischarged, outcharmed, outmarched, pachyderms.

 

+5 letters: archdukedom, bachelordom, bedchambers, bichromated, camphorated, chairmanned, chambermaid, checkmarked, comradeship, demographic, dichromates, dichromatic, dithyrambic, matchboards, merchandise, merchandize, overmatched, psychodrama, rhabdomancy, scrimshawed, tetradrachm, trichomonad.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Drachm


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 72 61 63 68 6D

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-..    .-.    .-    -.-.    ....    --

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01110010 01100001 01100011 01101000 01101101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#114 &#97 &#99 &#104 &#109

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0072 0061 0063 0068 006D

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

388467697479

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Expressions
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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