different between ounce vs leopard

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?ns/
• Rhymes: -a?ns

Etymology 1

From Middle English ounce, unce, from Middle French once, from Latin uncia (“twelfth part”), from ?nus (“one”). Doublet of inch.

Noun

ounce (plural ounces) abbreviation oz. or ?

1. An avoirdupois ounce, weighing ¹?₁₆ of an avoirdupois pound, or 28.3495 grams.
2. A troy ounce, weighing ¹?₁₂ of a troy pound, or 480 grains, or 31.1035 grams.
3. A US fluid ounce, with a volume of ¹?₁₆ of a US pint, 1.8047 cubic inches or 29.5735 millilitres.
4. A British imperial fluid ounce, with a volume of ¹?₂₀ of an imperial pint, 1.7339 cubic inches or 28.4131 millilitres.
5. A little bit.

Synonyms

• (avoirdupois ounce): symbol: ? (pharmacy)
• (small amount): see also Thesaurus:modicum

Descendants

• ? Tokelauan: aunehe

Related terms

• inch

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle French once, from Old French lonce (“lynx”), by false division (the l was thought to be the article), from Italian lonza, ultimately from Ancient Greek ???? (lúnx, “lynx”). Doublet of onza.

Noun

ounce (plural ounces)

1. (now archaic) A large wild feline, such as a lynx or cougar. [from 14th c.]
   • 1634, William Wood, New Englands Prospect:

     The Ounce or the wilde Cat, is as big as a mungrell dog, this creature is by nature feirce, and more dangerous to bee met withall than any other creature, not fearing eyther dogge or man […].

   • 1801, Robert Southey, Thalaba the Destroyer:

     Halloa! another prey,
     The nimble Antelope!
     The ounce is freed; one spring,
     And his talons are sheath’d in her shoulders,
     And his teeth are red in her gore.

2. Now specifically, the snow leopard, Uncia uncia. [from 18th c.]

References

• snow leopard on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Uncia uncia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Uncia uncia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• Cuneo, cuneo-, on cue

Middle English

Alternative forms

• unce, ownce, ounse, nounce, nowns

Etymology

From Middle French once, from Old French once, unce, from Latin uncia. Doublet of ynche.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?u?ns(?)/, /?uns(?)/

Noun

ounce (plural ounces or ounce)

1. An ounce (unit with much variation, but generally equivalent to 1/12 or 1/16 of a pound)
2. (rare) A shekel (ancient measure of weight)
3. (rare) A minuscule or insignificant amount or quantity.

4. (rare) An eight-minute unit for measuring time.
5. (rare) A three-inch unit for measuring length.

Descendants

• English: ounce, unce
• Scots: ounce

References

• “?unce, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-02-25.

English

Alternative forms

• lybard (14th-16th centuries)
• libbard (14th-19th centuries)

Etymology

From Middle English leopard, leopart, lepard, leperd, from Old French leopard (“leopard”), from Late Latin leopardus (“leopon, lipard”) from late Ancient Greek ????????? (leópardos, “leopon, lipard”), from ???? (lé?n, “lion”) + ?????? (párdos, “pard, male leopard”), from earlier ???????? (párdalis, “leopard”), probably from an unattested Old Persian [Term?] term ancestral to Middle Persian palang, Khwarezmian plyk, Sogdian [script needed] (pwr?nk), Pashto ??????. Compare Persian ????? (palang) and Sanskrit ?????? (p?d?ku, “panther”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?l?p?d/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?l?p?d/

Noun

leopard (plural leopards)

1. Panthera pardus, a large wild cat with a spotted coat native to Africa and Asia, especially the male of the species (in contrast to leopardess).
   • 1990, Dorothy L. Cheney, How Monkeys See the World: Inside the Mind of Another Species, 1992, page 284,

     During all such cases when we were present they responded by giving repeated alarm calls, even when the leopard was already feeding on a carcass. We wanted to determine whether vervets knew enough about the behavior of leopards to recognize that, even in the absence of a leopard, a carcass in a tree signaled the same potential danger as did a leopard itself.

   • 1998, Oded Borowski, Every Living Thing: Daily Use of Animals in Ancient Israel, page 201,

     The leopard (Panthera pardus or Felis pardus cf tulliana) is a close relative of the lion, but biblical references mentioning it are very few, suggesting that it was not as common.

   • 2005, Richard Ellis, Tiger Bone & Rhino Horn: The Destruction of Wildlife for Traditional Chinese Medicine, page 197,

     Leopard skins have always been desirable commodities because of their spectacular spotted patterns.

2. (inexact) A similar-looking, large wild cat named after the leopard.
   • 2005, Eric Dinerstein, Tigerland and Other Unintended Destinations, p. 81:

     There are plenty of beautiful cats among the thirty-nine species in the Felidae family, but the three leopards—clouded, common, and snow—may be the most visually stunning. Cloaked in the most beautiful fur of any cat, the reclusive clouded leopard is the Greta Garbo of the lot; it lives a solitary life in the remote jungles of Asia, from Nepal to Borneo.

   1. The clouded leopard (Neofelis nebulosa), a large wild cat native to Asia.
   2. The snow leopard (Panthera uncia), a large wild cat native to Asia.
3. (heraldry) A lion passant guardant.
4. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Phalanta, having black markings on an orange base.

Synonyms

• (Panthera pardus): common leopard, pard, pardal
• (Neofelis nebulosa): See clouded leopard
• (Panthera uncia): See snow leopard

Hypernyms

• See cat and wild cat
• panther

Hyponyms

• (female): leopardess
• (young): cub, leopard cub

Derived terms

Related terms

• camelopard
• pard
• pardal

Translations

See also

• (hybrid formed by a leopard and a lioness): leopon
• (hybrid formed by a lion and a leopardess): lipard

References

Anagrams

• paroled, preload

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

From Latin leopardus (“leopard”).

Noun

leopard

1. leopard

Declension

References

• Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajins?ko-kryms?kotatars?kyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]?^[1], Simferopol: Dolya, ?ISBN

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?l?opart]

Noun

leopard m anim (feminine leopardice)

1. leopard

   Synonym: levhart

Derived terms

• leopardice

Further reading

• leopard in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• leopard in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Pronunciation

Noun

leopard c (singular definite leoparden, plural indefinite leoparder)

1. leopard

Declension

Further reading

• “leopard” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “leopard” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

leopard m (definite singular leoparden, indefinite plural leoparder, definite plural leopardene)

1. a leopard (big cat, Panthera pardus)

Derived terms

• snøleopard

See also

• panter

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

leopard m (definite singular leoparden, indefinite plural leopardar, definite plural leopardane)

1. a leopard (as above)

Derived terms

• snøleopard

See also

• panter

Romanian

Etymology

From French léopard, Latin leopardus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?le.o?pard/
• Hyphenation: le?o?pard

Noun

leopard m (plural leoparzi)

1. leopard

Declension

Further reading

• leopard in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lêopa?rd/
• Hyphenation: le?o?pard

Noun

l?op?rd m (Cyrillic spelling ?????????)

1. leopard

Declension

Swedish

Noun

leopard c

1. leopard

Declension

Descendants

• ? Finnish: leopardi

Anagrams

• polerad