lb
IPA: pˈaʊnd
noun
- A pound (unit of weight).
- (cricket) leg bye
- (soccer) Initialism of left back. [(soccer) A defender who normally plays on the left side of the field.]
- (American football) Initialism of linebacker. [(American football) The defensive players who are in position behind the defensive linemen and in front of the safeties and cornerbacks and whose principal responsibilities are to tackle runners and to defend against shorter passes.]
- (military) Initialism of local board. [An administrative board operating in a local government; specifically:]
- (pathology) Initialism of Lewy body. [(medicine) An abnormal aggregate of protein that develops inside nerve cells.]
- Alternative form of lb: Abbreviation of pound (“unit of weight”). [A pound (unit of weight).]
- Initialism of ladyboy. [(colloquial, chiefly Thailand) A trans woman or transfeminine person in or from Asia.]
- (attributive) Initialism of Langmuir–Blodgett.
- (UK) Initialism of London Borough.
- Initialism of Linear B. [(archaeology, linguistics) A syllabary used to write Mycenaean Greek in the second millennium BC, before the invention of the Greek alphabet.]
- (Canada, dated) Abbreviation of Labrador. [The mainland portion of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, in Eastern Canada.]
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Examples of "lb" in Sentences
- The bomb was estimated to be 50 lb.
- Thanks for the review of the LB page.
- There is no 450 lb reticulated python.
- Stackhouse supposedly fouled the 320 lb.
- LB was the latest princess of the kingdom.
- LB was not recorded as such for many years.
- The accepted forms are either ft lb or lb ft.
- The MT LB is the armoured variant of the vehicle.
- Any gun producing more than about 18 ft lb is uncomfortable to shoot.
- The killer whale's voracious appetite leads it to consume up to 500 lb.
- I have not heard of a 500 lb reticulated python or 500 lb Burmese python.
- Also, it weighs 11.4 lb, which is eight lb less (or 41%) than the stamped steel bumper it is replacing.
- For example, when speaking of burning human poop he says “On a wet basis, it can have less than 1000 Btu/lb, which is too little to sustain its own combustion.”
- Mountain Rose Herbs has organic cocoa butter for $12/lb, which is a pretty negligible difference, but their shipping price via "UPS/Fed Ex Gound" is $8.77 for that order.
- However, the analysts suggested that the nickel market is expected to be relatively tight in the years to come, with a long-term price forecast of $9 / lb, which is closer to the marginal cost of production.
- It can vary between fresh wood which has only 2000 Btu/pound of energy and the "high heat value" of 8660 Btu/lb, which is obtained only with perfectly dry wood 0% moisture content and only in an atmosphere of pure oxygen.
- Glory Bee Foods has organic deodorized cocoa butter for $19.70/lb, which is quite a bit more, but shipping is also significantly less, running from $6.50-$9.25 depending on how far you live from their Oregon headquarters.
- Europe's top copper miner, KGHM, sees the world copper cathode price stabilizing soon and averaging $1.36/lb, which is even lower than the $1.56 consensus average of 70 analysts and economists polled by Reuters and Purchasing. com.
- Gordon e-mails Purchasing. com from London that inventories of copper cathode are increasing in response to weak demand in the U.S. and reduced imports by China-and that has driven the London Metal Exchange (LME) cash quote this week to $2.45/lb, which is approximately 38% below the May 12, 2006 peak of $3.99.