14 definitions by Avoura
by Avoura November 25, 2005
A small unit of length, based on the metre, there being 100 centimetres in 1 metre. Abbreviated to cm. The width of an average man's finger nail on his little finger is usually 1 cm.
The doctor measured the boy and he was 147 cm tall. The boy was pleased as he was 1 centimetre taller than he was last year.
by Avoura November 25, 2005
by Avoura December 02, 2005
A fast food place that wants to dominate the world's eating habits, found in virtually every inhabited country and without doubt the worst food provider ever. MacDonald's food makes you puke and is quite disgusting in general. Big Mac is the main product, lots of burgers too with plastic cheese on them (the cheese is partly taken from cowgut). Eat it at your own risk. Morgan Spurlock made a film called Supersize Me, in which he ate nothing but MacDonald's food for 1 month and at the end of it was in a very poor state of health, it took him several months to recover.
by Avoura December 02, 2005
Ancient unit of length, originally invented by the Romans who defined it as 1000 paces of a Roman Legion. The word mile is Latin for 1000. Now mostly replaced in usaged around the world by the kilometre. The Roman mile was approx 1.48 km in length, the modern mile is 1.609344 km in length. Still used on British roads and most US roads for distances and for speed limits in miles per hour. Most countries have long since abandoned this archaic measurement. Still used in vernacular speech for exaggeration.
by Avoura November 25, 2005
Antiquated measurement unit, redefined in the 20th century to be exactly 25.4 millimetres in size. Not of much use in the modern age is it lacks precision, quality and beauty. Much better to use millimetres or centimetres instead.
by Avoura December 02, 2005

