pound
IPA: pˈaʊnd
noun
- Various non-English units of measure
- A unit of mass equal to 16 avoirdupois ounces (= 453.592 g). Today this value is the most common meaning of "pound" as a unit of weight.
- A unit of mass equal to 12 troy ounces (≈ 373.242 g). Today, this is a common unit of mass when measuring precious metals, and is little used elsewhere.
- A unit of currency in various currency systems
- Various non-English units of currency
- The unit of currency used in the United Kingdom and its dependencies. It is divided into 100 pence. Symbol £.
- Any of various units of currency used in Egypt, Lebanon, Sudan and Syria, and formerly in the Republic of Ireland, Cyprus, Israel and South Africa.
- Any of various units of currency formerly used in the United States.
- (US) The symbol # (octothorpe, hash, number sign)
- A place for the detention of stray or wandering animals.
- (metonymically) The people who work for the pound.
- (UK) A place for the detention of automobiles that have been illegally parked, abandoned, etc.
- A section of a canal between two adjacent locks.
- A kind of fishing net, having a large enclosure with a narrow entrance into which fish are directed by wings spreading outward.
- (Newfoundland) A division inside a fishing stage where cod is cured in salt brine.
- A hard blow.
- A surname.
- A town in Wise County, Virginia, United States.
- A village and town in Marinette County, Wisconsin, United States, both named after Thaddeus C. Pound.
- A unit of weight in various measurement systems
- Ellipsis of pound weight.
- A unit of mass in various measurement systems
- Ellipsis of pound mass.
- A unit of force in various measurement systems
- Ellipsis of pound force.
- (informal, non-scientific) Short for pound-force. [A unit of force equal to the weight, on earth (subject to standard gravity), of a mass of one avoirdupois pound, equal to about 4.44822 newtons. Symbol lbf or lb_f.]
verb
- (slang, UK regional, transitive) To wager a pound on.
- To confine in, or as in, a pound; to impound.
- (transitive) To strike hard, usually repeatedly.
- (transitive) To crush to pieces; to pulverize.
- (transitive, slang) To eat or drink very quickly.
- (transitive, baseball, slang) To pitch consistently to a certain location.
- (intransitive, of a body part, generally heart, blood, or head) To beat strongly or throb.
- (transitive, vulgar, slang) To penetrate sexually, with vigour.
- To advance heavily with measured steps.
- (engineering) To make a jarring noise, as when running.
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Examples of "pound" in Sentences
- It's about $35 / pound, available in ½-pound and 1-pound packages. www. justcured.com
- Results have shown sustained weightloss comparable to dieting clubs but £pound for lb pound it's far cheaper.
- The very best kind of cake, in my experience, is the simplest; a richly flavored quatre quarts, what we call pound cake.
- Goldstein feels the same way about the word "pound," likening it to a jail, and saying it carries an implication of something being done on the cheap.
- The first of them was state assembly member Nathan Fletcher R-San Diego, who recently introduced legislation eliminating the term "pound" from the state's legal vocabulary in favor of "animal shelter."
- But fifty cents a pound is a thousand dollars a ton, and his fifteen hundred pounds had exhausted his emergency fund and left him stranded at the Tantalus point where each day he saw the fresh-whipsawed boats departing for Dawson.
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