KILOGRAMS Antonyms

• a unit of weight for precious stones = 200 mg

• the unit of measurement for the proportion of gold in an alloy; 18-karat gold is 75% gold; 24-karat gold is pure gold

• a unit of apothecary weight equal to an eighth of an ounce or to 60 grains

• 1/16 ounce or 1.771 grams

• the basic unit of money in Armenia

• a relatively small granular particle of a substance

• foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses

• the side of leather from which the hair has been removed

• a weight unit used for pearls or diamonds: 50 mg or 1/4 carat

• 1/60 dram; equals an avoirdupois grain or 64.799 milligrams

• 1/7000 pound; equals a troy grain or 64.799 milligrams

• dry seed-like fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e.g. wheat, barley, Indian corn

• a cereal grass

• the smallest possible unit of anything

• the direction, texture, or pattern of fibers found in wood or leather or stone or in a woven fabric

• the physical composition of something (especially with respect to the size and shape of the small constituents of a substance)

• thoroughly work in

• paint (a surface) to make it look like stone or wood

• form into grains

• become granular

• Danish physician and bacteriologist who developed a method of staining bacteria to distinguish among them (1853-1938)

• a metric unit of weight equal to one thousandth of a kilogram

• one thousandth (1/1,000) gram

• a unit of apothecary weight equal to 480 grains or one twelfth of a troy pound

• a unit of weight equal to one sixteenth of a pound or 16 drams or 28.349 grams

• large feline of upland central Asia having long thick whitish fur

• a unit of apothecary weight equal to 24 grains

• United States writer who lived in Europe; strongly influenced the development of modern literature (1885-1972)

• 16 ounces avoirdupois

• the basic unit of money in Great Britain and Northern Ireland; equal to 100 pence

• a unit of apothecary weight equal to 12 ounces troy

• the basic unit of money in Syria; equal to 100 piasters

• the basic unit of money in the Sudan; equal to 100 piasters

• the basic unit of money in Lebanon; equal to 100 piasters

• formerly the basic unit of money in Ireland; equal to 100 pence

• the basic unit of money in Egypt; equal to 100 piasters

• the basic unit of money in Cyprus; equal to 100 cents

• a nontechnical unit of force equal to the mass of 1 pound with an acceleration of free fall equal to 32 feet/sec/sec

• a symbol for a unit of currency (especially for the pound sterling in Great Britain)

• a public enclosure for stray or unlicensed dogs

• the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows)

• hit hard with the hand, fist, or some heavy instrument

• strike or drive against with a heavy impact

• move heavily or clumsily

• move rhythmically

• partition off into compartments

• shut up or confine in any enclosure or within any bounds or limits

• place or shut up in a pound

• break down and crush by beating, as with a pestle

• a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter

• United States architect (1902-1978)

• building material consisting of a piece of rock hewn in a definite shape for a special purpose

• United States jurist who was named chief justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1941 by Franklin D. Roosevelt (1872-1946)

• United States filmmaker (born in 1946)

• material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust

• United States feminist and suffragist (1818-1893)

• a crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry

• United States journalist who advocated liberal causes (1907-1989)

• an avoirdupois unit used to measure the weight of a human body; equal to 14 pounds

• the hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed

• a lack of feeling or expression or movement

• of any of various dull tannish or grey colors

• kill by throwing stones at

• remove the pits from