(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.
Soke
Definition:
(n.) See Soc.
(n.) One of the small territorial divisions into which Lincolnshire, England, is divided.
Example Sentences:
(1) A pilot experiment with heifer heat synchronization with chlorsuperlutin-soked intravaginal tampons was conducted with 254 heifers in six herds in the North Moravian region.
(2) When the Lord Mayor visits Portsoken this evening to talk about moral leadership in public life maybe she will recall that its name is an Anglo Saxon word that combines the meaning of "port" or town with that of "soke", a voting district.