coch. amp.

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abbreviation

(in prescriptions) a tablespoonful.

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Origin of coch. amp.

From Latin cochlear amplum “large spoon(ful)”

To amp up heart rate in the weight room, incorporate total-body movements with limited rest in between sets.
Five Smarter Ways to Train Your Heart|DailyBurn|December 9, 2013|DAILY BEAST
There is probably even pressure on the True Blood showrunners to amp up the nudity.
‘True Blood’ Premiere: Is Sex the Only Reason We’re Still Watching?|Kevin Fallon|June 14, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Austin, a skinny sixteen-year-old, dressed all in black, kneels on the floor plugging wires into a guitar amp.
Life With the Anarchists|Evan Wright|April 6, 2009|DAILY BEAST
The retail industry knows that to survive, it needs to amp up the experience and add entertainment.
Lousy Marketing—Not Lousy Cars—Killed Detroit|Adam Hanft|November 24, 2008|DAILY BEAST

AMP life was pleasant, aside from the perpetual drilling, marching and countermarching.
The Blue and The Gray|A. R. White
This fact is shown clearly by tests made to determine the time required to discharge a 100 Amp.
The Automobile Storage Battery|O. A. Witte
In the legend of Castell Coch, instead of a raven it is a pair of huge eagles which watch the treasure.
British Goblins|Wirt Sikes
This bird has a curious metallic call which may be syllabised coch-lee, coch-lee, or cogee, cogee.
Indian Birds|Douglas Dewar
The empresse was glad to faine hir selfe dead, and so to be conueied in a coch as a dead corps vnto Glocester.
Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (4 of 12)|Raphael Holinshed