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# ounce

«ounce» in Mova's school dictionary: **a small unit of weight; there are 16 ounces in a pound…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (ounces)

### meaning for a pupil

1) An ounce is a small unit of weight; there are 16 ounces in a pound, and an ounce is about 28 grams. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/ounce/#m1)

2) An ounce can also be a small wild cat, the snow leopard, in some books. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/ounce/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in tales, an ounce of gold or silver is a tiny amount of a precious thing

### examples

- The cake needs four ounces of flour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/ounce/#x1)
- A single ounce of gold is worth a lot. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/ounce/#x2)
- The ounce weighed very little. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/ounce/#x3)

### note

an ounce is a unit of weight: 16 ounces make 1 pound, so count and convert with care; a small amount is not a count of things

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «ounce» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/ounce/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.