(n.) A Turkish and Egyptian weight, equal to about 2/ pounds.
(n.) An Hungarian and Wallachian measure, equal to about 2/ pints.
Example Sentences:
(1) Origins stories are OKed everyday, from the Chronicles of Riddick to Keeping up Appearances.
(2) Opera recording: Ades: The Tempest, Thomas Ades, Simon Keenlyside, Isabel Leonard, Audrey Luna, Alan Oke, Jay David Saks.
(3) (Yemi Oke, of Cyclotron cycle club, by email) I have been living in Lagos for 9 months.
(4) Dioxamide derivatives of 1,3,4-thiadiazole, synthesized earlier by Oke (1986), were screened for hypoglycemic activity.
(5) The study shows that the dioxamide derivatives of 1,3,4-thiadiazole are more potent and of longer duration of action when compared with the oxamide derivatives of 1,3,4-thiadiazole, which were previously reported by Oke and Cherynk (1981).
(6) It was Judith Okely (Jude the Baptist), fresh from the Sorbonne, who argued the case for feminism and introduced some of us to the work of Simone de Beauvoir.
Oker
Definition:
(n.) See Ocher.
Example Sentences:
(1) On an average 1.7% of the coliphages present in raw sewage or 9.8.10.11 phages were discharged into the river Oker everyday, 0.64% remained in the sludge.
(2) Newborns from old lead mining and processing areas in the Harz mountains, in particular those coming from Oker-Harlingerode, had low lead concentrations in umbilical cord blood.
(3) The proteolytic cleavage site between the E1 and E2 proteins was localized based on the known amino-terminal sequence of the isolated E1 protein (Kalkkinen, N., Oker-Blom, C., and Pettersson, R. F. (1984) J. Gen. Virol.