different between octa vs ocra

English

Alternative forms

• okta

Etymology

See octa-.

Noun

octa (plural octas)

1. (meteorology) The proportion of the sky that is obscured by clouds, in eighths (one octa means that one eighth of the sky is obscured, two octas that one quarter is obscured, and so on).
   • 1935, Indian Science News Association, Science and Culture, Indian Science News Association, Page 93

     It has been shown that most of the flood-rainy days are associatied with 6-8 'octa ScFb, CuSc in the morning and CuSc, ScFb with or without Cb in the afternoon of the previous day.

   • 1994, Commission of the European Communities / R. Dogniaux (Ed.), Prediction of Solar Radiation in Areas With a Specific Microclimate, Kluwer Academic Publishers, ?ISBN, Page 23

     This method does not give any information on the distribution of clouds in the sky dome. But it presents the advantage of an objective method by eliminating the source of error due to personal appreciation of the fraction of the sky covered by clouds, as is the case in the classical climatorlogical observation of the cloudiness expressed in octa (N = 0 corresponding to cloudless sky and N = 8, to overcast sky in this scale).

   • 1998, Ralf Koppmann and Jochen Rudolph, Atmospheric Measurements During Popcorn: Characterisation of the Photochemistry Over a Rural Area, Springer, Page 169

     In Figure 4 we compare the photolysis frequencies of different processes in scatter plots, including all measurements from the field campaign over a variety of meteorological conditions (? = 40-90°, 296-380 DU total ozone, 0-8 octa cloud cover, 9-35 °C ambient temperature).

Anagrams

• ATOC, CATO, Cato, Cota, TACO, coat, taco

Catalan

Noun

octa f (plural octes)

1. (meteorology) octa

English

Noun

ocra (countable and uncountable, plural ocras)

1. (obsolete) Alternative spelling of okra.
   • 1679, Thomas Trapham, A Discourse of the State of Health in the Island of Jamaica..., pp. 59–60:

     ...as a food easy of digestion may well be admitted likewise the young Ocra an agreeable Food as well for the species as individual, dressed variously according to pleasure...

   • 1707, Hans Sloane, A Voyage to the Islands Madera, Barbados..., Vol. I, p. 222:

     Ocra, this has a round green stem, which rises straight up to ten or twelve foot high.

References

• “okra, n.”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2004

Anagrams

• AOCR, Arco, Caro, Cora, RAOC, Roca, acro, acro-, arco, orca

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: ocras, ocrât

Verb

ocra

1. third-person singular past historic of ocrer

Italian

Etymology

From Latin ?chra, from Ancient Greek ???? (?khra, “pale yellow”).

Adjective

ocra (invariable)

1. tawny

Noun

ocra f (plural ocre)

1. ochre

Anagrams

• acro
• arco
• caro
• orca
• roca

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• ocre
• oca (dated, colloquial)

Noun

ocra f (plural ocras)

1. ochre (earth pigment containing silica, aluminium and ferric oxide)

Spanish

Etymology

From a West African language.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ok?a/, [?o.k?a]

Noun

ocra m (plural ocras)

1. (El Salvador) okra, Abelmoschus esculentus

   Synonym: quingombó

Further reading

• “ocra” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.