English to English Dictionary

Owner-operator

A person who owns and operates their own business, particularly a commercial truck driver who owns and drives their own semi-truck.

Ownership

The act, state, or legal right of owning something.

Ox

A domesticated bovine animal, typically used for draft work or as livestock.

Oxalate

A salt or ester of oxalic acid, commonly found in many plants and capable of forming insoluble precipitates with calcium.

Oxford

A city in central southern England, home to the prestigious University of Oxford.

Oxygenation

The supply of oxygen to, or the enrichment of a substance or body with, oxygen.

Oxymoron

A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction.

Oyez

Hear ye; an archaic cry traditionally uttered three times by a public crier or court officer to command silence and attention in a court of law.

Oyster

A marine bivalve mollusk with a rough irregular shell, several kinds of which are farmed for food or valued for the pearls they sometimes produce.

Oyster diver

A person who dives underwater to collect oysters.

Oysteresis

The phenomenon in which the value of a physical property lags behind changes in the effect causing it.

Oz

A unit of weight equal to one-sixteenth of a pound, commonly used in the United States.