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avoirdupois

[ av-er-duh-poiz ]

noun

  1. Informal. body weight:

    He carries around a lot of excess avoirdupois.



avoirdupois

/ 藢忙vw蓱藧dju藧藞pw蓱藧; 藢忙v蓹d蓹藞p蓴瑟z /

noun

  1. a system of weights used in many English-speaking countries. It is based on the pound, which contains 16 ounces or 7000 grains. 100 pounds (US) or 112 pounds (Brit) is equal to 1 hundredweight and 20 hundredweights equals 1 ton Abbreviationavdpavoir
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of avoirdupois1

First recorded in 1250鈥1300; Middle English avoir de pois literally, 鈥済oods of weight, property of weight,鈥 from Old French aver 鈥済oods, property,鈥 equivalent to avoir (earlier aveir, from Latin 丑补产脓谤别 鈥渢o have鈥) + de 鈥渙f鈥 (from Latin 诲脓 ) + pois (earlier peis, from Latin 辫脓苍蝉耻尘 鈥渟omething weighed, weight,鈥 from pendere 鈥渢o weigh, weigh out鈥)
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of avoirdupois1

C14: from Old French aver de peis goods of weight
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Significantly, the zoo indicated that his increases in avoirdupois do not stem from any sedentary life of lolling about the den, sampling sweet potato, bamboo and biscuits.

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By contrast, their descendants today fret about advancing avoirdupois, a real estate bubble and the high cost of space-age diagnostic scans.

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Insofar as the notion of the American avoirdupois pound has any official meaning, it is by relation to the kilogram, of which, by law, it is 0.45359237.

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McCormick was a member of the Jolly Fat Men鈥檚 Club, a fraternal group that celebrated avoirdupois.

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In recent decades a number of institutions have taken up the challenge of bringing before the public works whose sheer avoirdupois makes them unsuitable even for museums and galleries.

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