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.
- 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.
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