dram

(drăm)
n.

1. (Abbr. dr.)
   1. A unit of weight in the U.S. Customary System equal to ¹/₁₆ of an ounce or 27.34 grains (1.77 grams).
   2. A unit of apothecary weight equal to ¹/₈ of an ounce or 60 grains (3.89 grams).
2. 1. A small draft: took a dram of brandy.
   2. A small amount; a bit: not a dram of compassion.

[Middle English dragme, a drachma, a unit of weight, from Old French, from Late Latin dragma, from Latin drachma. See drachma.]

dram² (dräm)
n., pl., dram.
A basic unit of currency in Armenia.

[Armenian, ultimately from Greek drakhmē. See drachma.]

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mass. Symbol dr. Distinctively the dram or drachm avoirdupois: = ¹/₁₆ oz av = 27 ¹¹/₃₂ gr = 1.771 8~ g. See pound (= 256 dr) for more precise values; see ounce for scale. The dram was removed from official UK measures in 1985.The UK Weights and Measures Act 1985 explicitly excluded from use for trade the bushell, cental, chain, drachm, dram, fluid drachm, furlong, grain, hundredweight, ounce apoth., peck, pennyweight, quarter, quintal, rood, scruple, stone, ton, the square mile, cubic inch, cubic foot, cubic yard, and the term ‘metric ton’. However, the legal status of the bushell, fluid drachm, and peck had been repealed, along with all apothecaries' units and troy units other than ounce, by Order in 1970. Besides the remaining BI units and the simple SI units, the Act included the kilometre, decimetre, centimetre and millimetre, the square metre, square decimetre, square centimetre and square millimetre, the hectare and decare along with the are, the cubic metre, cubic decimetre and cubic centimetre, the hectolitre decilitre, centilitre and millilitre, the tonne (or ‘metric tonne’), kilogram, hectogram, milligram and carat (metric). All had been included in the similar Act of 1963, but with some variation of name: -gram was -gramme, decare was dekare, the tonne appeared only as metric ton.

See apothecaries' scale for the distinct dram used for medications.

weight, force See gravitational system.

See fluid dram.

noun

1. A small amount of liquor: drop, jigger, shot, sip, tot¹. Informal nip², slug¹. Slang snort. See big/small/amount, ingestion.
2. A tiny amount: bit¹, crumb, dab¹, dash, dot, drop, fragment, grain, iota, jot, minim, mite, modicum, molecule, ort, ounce, particle, scrap¹, scruple, shred, smidgen, speck, tittle, trifle, whit. Chiefly British spot. See big/small/amount.

To convert from drams to:

grains, multiply by 27.3437.
grams, multiply by 1.7718.
ounces, multiply by .0625.

Convert:  Into:  grains grams ounces

Result:

Related measurements:
drams (apoth. or troy)
drams (US fluid or apoth.)

n
drachm

A unit of weight that equals the eighth part of the apothecaries’ ounce. Symbol 3.

For a list of words related to dram, see:

• U.S. System - dram: unit of apothecaries’ weight equal to 60 minims or 18 fluid ounce (3.89 g); unit of avoirdupois weight equal to 116 ounce (1.77 g)
• World Currencies - dram: currency of Armenia
• Drinking Terms - dram: small drink of liquor

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Common misspelling(s) of dram

• deram

Dansk (Danish)
n. - dynamisk RAM, D-RAM, dram, drakme

Nederlands (Dutch)
glaasje, (medicinale) drachme

Français (French)
n. - (abrév = dynamic random access memory), (Comput) mémoire RAM dynamique

Deutsch (German)
n. - Drachme (Gewicht), Schnaps, Gläschen

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - δράμι, στάλα, λίγο, μονάδα βάρους (0, 0625 ουγκιές)
abbr. - (Η/Υ) δυναμική RAM

Italiano (Italian)
bicchierino

Português (Portuguese)
n. - dracma (m), trago (m) de bebida

Русский (Russian)
глоток спиртного

Español (Spanish)
n. - trago, RAM dinámica

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - sup, smula
abbr. - (Dynamic Random Access Memory) dynamiskt direktminne

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
打兰, 微量, 一杯

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 打蘭, 微量, 一杯

한국어 (Korean)
n. - (컴퓨터) 기억보지 (동작이 필요한 수시 읽기 기록 기억 장치)

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - ドラム, 微量

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) كميه صغيرة من المشروبات الروحيه (اختصار) مختصر جمله Dynamic RAM , ذاكرات الوصول العشوائي المتحركه ( في الحاسوب)‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮יחידת-משקל - 9.3 גרם, לגימה‬

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