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Pound   /paʊnd/   Listen
Pound

noun
1.
16 ounces avoirdupois.  Synonym: lb.
2.
The basic unit of money in Great Britain and Northern Ireland; equal to 100 pence.  Synonyms: British pound, British pound sterling, pound sterling, quid.
3.
A unit of apothecary weight equal to 12 ounces troy.
4.
The basic unit of money in Syria; equal to 100 piasters.  Synonym: Syrian pound.
5.
The basic unit of money in the Sudan; equal to 100 piasters.  Synonym: Sudanese pound.
6.
The basic unit of money in Lebanon; equal to 100 piasters.  Synonym: Lebanese pound.
7.
Formerly the basic unit of money in Ireland; equal to 100 pence.  Synonyms: Irish pound, Irish punt, punt.
8.
The basic unit of money in Egypt; equal to 100 piasters.  Synonym: Egyptian pound.
9.
The basic unit of money in Cyprus; equal to 100 cents.  Synonym: Cypriot pound.
10.
A nontechnical unit of force equal to the mass of 1 pound with an acceleration of free fall equal to 32 feet/sec/sec.  Synonym: lbf..
11.
United States writer who lived in Europe; strongly influenced the development of modern literature (1885-1972).  Synonyms: Ezra Loomis Pound, Ezra Pound.
12.
A symbol for a unit of currency (especially for the pound sterling in Great Britain).  Synonym: pound sign.
13.
A public enclosure for stray or unlicensed dogs.  Synonym: dog pound.
14.
The act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows).  Synonyms: hammer, hammering, pounding.  "The pounding of feet on the hallway"
verb
(past & past part. pounded; pres. part. pounding)
1.
Hit hard with the hand, fist, or some heavy instrument.  Synonyms: poke, thump.  "A bible-thumping Southern Baptist"
2.
Strike or drive against with a heavy impact.  Synonyms: ram, ram down.  "Pound on the door"
3.
Move heavily or clumsily.  Synonym: lumber.
4.
Move rhythmically.  Synonyms: beat, thump.
5.
Partition off into compartments.  Synonym: pound off.
6.
Shut up or confine in any enclosure or within any bounds or limits.  Synonym: pound up.
7.
Place or shut up in a pound.  Synonym: impound.
8.
Break down and crush by beating, as with a pestle.



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"Pound" Quotes from Famous Books



... most excellent Historie of the Merchant of Venice, with the extreme crueltie of Shylocke the Jew towards the sayd Merchant, in cutting a just pound of his flesh: and the obtayning of Portia by his choyce of three chests, as acted by the Lord Chamberlaine his servants, First Edit. inlaid oil large paper; 4to. at London, printed by John Roberts, 1600. 2 ...
— Bibliomania; or Book-Madness - A Bibliographical Romance • Thomas Frognall Dibdin
... it's lucky I happened to come along," said the stranger. "You an' Sampson'd ha' both been drownded. That Chow couldn't haul him up. Dead beat the Chow was when I came. I jis' come ridin' up, thinkin' to get a few pound of onions to take out to the camp, and I see the Chow a-haulin' and a-haulin' at that windlass like as if he was tryin' to pull the bottom out of the well. I rides up and sings out "What ho! Chaney, what yer got?" And he says, "Ketch hold," he says, and that ...
— An Outback Marriage • Andrew Barton Paterson
... because the edible substance, of which the Chinamen make soup, is covered by the birds' down and feathers, is very much lower in price than the white kind, being worth nearly two dollars a pound, or I believe it is generally roughly taken as being only about one-tenth part as valuable as ...
— Recollections of Manilla and the Philippines - During 1848, 1849 and 1850 • Robert Mac Micking
... sort of man I like," he remarked, "and I would sooner trust you than any one else I know. You ask how I contrive to earn money, seeing that all my pictures are still in my own possession. My dear fellow, whenever my pockets are empty, and I want a ten-pound note to put into them, I make ...
— A Rogue's Life • Wilkie Collins
... honor of the occasion. And the next morning the whole party went down to the wharf below London Bridge to see Ralph on board the packet for Cork. Before leaving the hotel Mr. Penfold slipped an envelope with ten crisp five pound notes ...
— One of the 28th • G. A. Henty


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