(n.) A weight; in Apothecaries' weight, one eighth part of an ounce, or sixty grains; in Avoirdupois weight, one sixteenth part of an ounce, or 27.34375 grains.
(n.) A minute quantity; a mite.
(n.) As much spirituous liquor as is usually drunk at once; as, a dram of brandy; hence, a potation or potion; as, a dram of poison.
(n.) A Persian daric.
(v. i. & t.) To drink drams; to ply with drams.
Example Sentences:
(1) You’d think he’d just performed a one-man am-dram re-enactment of the Saving Private Ryan trailer.
(2) There were no significant differences between the groups in reduction in alcohol consumption, but patients in the DRAMS group showed a significantly greater reduction in a logarithmic measure of serum gamma-glutamyl-transpeptidase than patients in the group receiving advice only.
(3) Aspects of dram shop imposed by 27 states and the District of Columbia are described, with emphasis on recent developments in California.
(4) Just down the road is the Talisker Whisky Distillery, while if you fancy a dram and a tune, the inn in Carbost has regular live music.
(5) At these two wooden one-bedroom cottages on the shores of Loch Tay, you can listen to the gently lapping water as the sun goes down or snuggle up with a dram in front of the woodburning stove.
(6) The visiting manager duly looked almost as disappointed as Taylor after Afobe’s rather am-dram tumble in the area under Colback’s challenge but, despite slight contact, the referee failed to buy the resultant penalty appeals.
(7) Differences among states in observed intervention were not related to dram shop law, but did appear to be related to prior level of intervention, type of establishment and business volume.
(8) The assay was performed by adding 50 microliters of cell concentrate of an overnight culture of TA98 resuspended in the appropriate buffer; 50 microliters of the same buffer or S9 mix; and 2 microliters of mutagen or dimethyl sulfoxide to a 1-dram vial or 13 x 150-mm test tube.
(9) Fahey teamed up with Marcella Detroit to mix industrial techno with bright funk (think Zola Jesus), while styled like Siouxsie Sioux starring in an am-dram Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?
(10) The scheme was evaluated by randomly assigning 104 heavy or problem drinkers to three groups - a group participating in the DRAMS scheme (n = 34), a group given simple advice only (n = 32) and a non-intervention control group (n = 38).
(11) The procedure utilized virus-infected human fetal diploid cells or brain tissue smears in the bottom of 1-dram glass vials, antigen was detected through the use of intermediate HVH antisera produced in rabbits or hamsters and cross-absorbed with the HVH heterotype, and (125)I-labeled anti-species (rabbit or hamster) globulins produced in goats were used for detection of immune complexes.
(12) Monoclonal antibody, specific for the adenovirus group-reactive hexon antigen, was used for the detection of this agent by immunofluorescence 24 and 48 hours after inoculation of HEp-2 cell monolayers in 1-dram shell vials after low-speed centrifugation (700 X g, 30 minutes).
(13) He doesn't paint, draw or sculpt so people tend to call him a curator but what he does seems both more spirited and more human than that dusty word suggests (in the watery fantasy of Venice it is tempting to think of him as an inspired am-dram Prospero).
(14) Only 14 patients in the DRAMS group completed the full DRAMS procedure.
(15) Mating occurred readily in this strain, even when the adults were confined in 8-dram glass shell vials.
(16) Afterwards have a celebratory dram at Maxwell's erstwhile local, the Glenelg Inn ( glenelg-inn.com ).
(17) A monoclonal antibody was used to detect an early antigen of cytomegalovirus (CMV) by fluorescence 16 h after inoculation of MRC-5 monolayers in 1-dram (ca.
(18) Art, am-dram, film-making and comedy are catered for by societies.
(19) Recommendations include broadening the focus of dram shop liability to include the prevention of alcohol-related problems.
(20) Please don't make it one' Read more Demonstrators are furious over reports such as Transparency International Armenia’s, which claimed that the company spent 450 million-drams (about £600,000) on luxury cars.
Tram
Definition:
(n.) A four-wheeled truck running on rails, and used in a mine, as for carrying coal or ore.
(n.) The shaft of a cart.
(n.) One of the rails of a tramway.
(n.) A car on a horse railroad.
(n.) A silk thread formed of two or more threads twisted together, used especially for the weft, or cross threads, of the best quality of velvets and silk goods.
Example Sentences:
(1) We conclude that although the tissue expansion technique yields acceptable results, the TRAM flap yields superior aesthetic results in terms of both appearance and consistency.
(2) The most commonly used techniques, in our institution, are tissue expansion, use of the latissimus dorsi flap, and use of the transverse rectus abdominis musculocutaneous (TRAM) flap.
(3) Both the TraM* and TraM' proteins were found to bind specifically to a broad region preceding the traM gene.
(4) This is true not only for TRAM and latissimus dorsi flaps, but also for the mastectomy flap necrosis sometimes encountered in immediate reconstruction with simple implants or tissue expanders.
(5) The fertility control gene finP, the transfer gene traM, and the transfer origin, oriT, of plasmid R100 were isolated on a single 1.2-kilobase EcoRV fragment and were then subcloned as HaeIII fragments.
(6) Before leaving for Afghanistan, Dahmane was a regular at an Islamic Centre in Molenbeek and met Malika el-Aroud, who later became his wife, at a tram stop in the city.
(7) How to buy tickets for a train or a tram, why we shouldn’t eat in the street or talk loudly on our cell phones, how we must talk to women … I want to stay here; it’s important to understand.” Like nearly 5,000 fellow asylum seekers in Vienna, Wafa lives in a large emergency refugee shelter and is awaiting a move to longer-term accommodation either in Vienna or elsewhere in Austria.
(8) Among these findings, tram-tracking of the optic nerve sheath complex is rare.
(9) Most major cities sell travel cards valid for multiple journeys or a specific number of days that can be used across buses, trams and metros and result in small savings that really add up.
(10) Until now, application of a TRAM free flap, however, has only taken place in special circumstances.
(11) The complication rate was equal for both groups (24%) with infection being most common in the group of patients with tissue expansion and partial flap necrosis being most common in the group of patients with TRAM flaps.
(12) Two reconstructive techniques were used, that is, either tissue expansion with secondary prosthesis implantation (60%) or transverse rectus abdominis musculocutaneous (TRAM) flap (40%).
(13) The mayor said from September 2018, an electric tram-bus – nicknamed the “Olympic tramway” in honour of Paris’s bid for the 2024 Games – would run next to part of the upper highways along the Seine in both directions.
(14) In this population, being a bus or tram driver was an independent predictor of CHD of considerable magnitude.
(15) Of the 7 of 20 (35 percent) free TRAM flap patients who required post-operative chemotherapy, only 1 of 7 (14 percent) was delayed because of TRAM flap complications.
(16) By hybridizing the IncFVII haemolytic plasmid pSU233 with a probe containing the origin of transfer of the IncFII plasmid R1, we isolated a 1.9 kb BglII fragment containing at least the origin of transfer (oriT), and the genes traM and finP.
(17) The characteristic findings of diffuse panbronchiolitis are diffuse small nodular shadows, overinflation and tram-lines.
(18) With crime falling and public transport improving, especially with the new tram networks, people want to live in urban areas like never before.
(19) He demonstrates a case of bilateral reconstruction of the breasts by means of a TRAM flap.
(20) The possible roles of the traI and traM products in conjugation are discussed.