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| has gloss | (noun) a unit of capacity for dry commodities (as fruit or grain) dry unit, dry measure |
| has gloss | eng: Dry measures are units of volume used to measure bulk commodities which are not liquid. They are typically used in agriculture, agronomy, and commodity markets to measure grain, dried beans, and dried and fresh fruit (e.g. a peck of apples is a retail unit); formerly also salt pork and fish. They are also used in fishing for clams, crabs, etc. and formerly for many other substances (e.g. coal, cement, lime) which were typically shipped and delivered in a standardized container such as a barrel. |
| lexicalization | eng: dry measure |
| lexicalization | eng: dry unit |
| subclass of | (noun) a unit of measurement of volume or capacity capacity unit, displacement unit, capacity measure, cubage unit, cubature unit, volume unit, cubic content unit, cubic measure |
| has subclass | (noun) a unit of measure for capacity officially adopted in the British Imperial System; British units are both dry and wet British capacity unit, Imperial capacity unit |
| has subclass | (noun) a unit of dry measure used in Egypt ardeb |
| has subclass | (noun) an ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel ephah, epha |
| has subclass | (noun) a unit of measurement of capacity for dry substances officially adopted in the United States Customary System United States dry unit |
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| German | |
| has gloss | deu: Als Trockenmaß bezeichnet man Hohlmaße, die zum Messen von trockenen Stoffen wie Getreide, Kalk etc. verwendet wurden, im Gegensatz zu Flüssigmaßen, also Hohlmaßen, mit denen das Volumen von Flüssigkeiten gemessen wurden. Heute wird in der Regel nicht mehr zwischen Trockenmaß und Flüssigkeitsmaß unterschieden. |
| lexicalization | deu: Trockenmaß |
| Hungarian | |
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| lexicalization | hun: száraz ûrmérték |
| Indonesian | |
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| lexicalization | ind: pengukur kadar air |
| Japanese | |
| has gloss | jpn: 乾量単位(かんりょうたんい)・液量単位(えきりょうたんい)とは、体積の単位の分類である。液量単位は液体の体積の計量に用いられ、乾量単位はそれ以外のものの計量に用いられる。 |
| lexicalization | jpn: 乾量単位・液量単位 |
| Korean | |
| lexicalization | kor: 건량 |
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| similar | e/Dry measure |
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