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UK
/pˈaʊnd/
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[ US /ˈpaʊnd/ ]
[ US /ˈpaʊnd/ ]
VERB
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move rhythmically
Her heart was beating fast -
hit hard with the hand, fist, or some heavy instrument
the salesman pounded the door knocker
a bible-thumping Southern Baptist -
move heavily or clumsily
The heavy man lumbered across the room -
place or shut up in a pound
pound the cows so they don't stray -
partition off into compartments
The locks pound the water of the canal -
shut up or confine in any enclosure or within any bounds or limits
The prisoners are safely pounded -
break down and crush by beating, as with a pestle
pound the roots with a heavy flat stone -
strike or drive against with a heavy impact
ram the gate with a sledgehammer
pound on the door
NOUN
- the basic unit of money in the Sudan; equal to 100 piasters
- a symbol for a unit of currency (especially for the pound sterling in Great Britain)
- the basic unit of money in Cyprus; equal to 100 cents
- the basic unit of money in Syria; equal to 100 piasters
- the basic unit of money in Egypt; equal to 100 piasters
- a unit of apothecary weight equal to 12 ounces troy
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16 ounces avoirdupois
he got a hernia when he tried to lift 100 pounds - the basic unit of money in Lebanon; equal to 100 piasters
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the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows)
the pounding of feet on the hallway
the sudden hammer of fists caught him off guard -
a public enclosure for stray or unlicensed dogs
unlicensed dogs will be taken to the pound - formerly the basic unit of money in Ireland; equal to 100 pence
- the basic unit of money in Great Britain and Northern Ireland; equal to 100 pence
- a nontechnical unit of force equal to the mass of 1 pound with an acceleration of free fall equal to 32 feet/sec/sec
How To Use pound In A Sentence
- Assuming that 15 pound breaking strain line is used, an angler using monofilament might have to use a six or eight ounce sinker and use a 20 lb class rod to carry that sinker weight.
- It is just as well that this doubly weighty volume, which offers a lot of poems for the pound, tends to reward the effort it demands. The Times Literary Supplement
- So I cringe when a local newsperson shoves a microphone in the face of some young 95-pound twink (Straight Translation: a twink is a skinny homosexual with a lot of moxie). Max Mutchnick: Where Is My Martin Luther Queen?
- It felt like chewing string dipped in weed killer, but within a couple of minutes the trembling in his limbs gave way to a kind of enervated thrumming and the pounding in his head subsided to a manageable level. Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
- But a couple of months ago, in a Times Square studio, congas were pounding out Afro-Cuban rhythms, dancers in high heels were twirling to fast-paced mambos, and just about everyone in sight was a shade of brown.
- It appears well evident that the above mentioned compound is rapidly absorbed by the nasal mucosa into the systemic hematic circulation without first-pass metabolism.
- Police believe a gang of up to five men were responsible for a raid on a Melksham store in which hundreds of pounds were stolen from an unlocked office.
- And approaching that very machine, his last pound coin clutched in his fist, was Felix Henderson McMurdo.
- Spanish-American War of 1898 Edison suggested to the Navy Department the adoption of a compound of calcium carbide and calcium phosphite, which when placed in a shell and fired from a gun would explode as soon as it struck water and ignite, producing a blaze that would continue several minutes and make the ships of the enemy visible for four or five miles at sea. Edison, His Life and Inventions
- I can find no legitimate references to the use of metallic, inorganic, or organic silver compounds as a sanitizer, disinfectant, or sterilizing agent. quaternary ammonium chloride compounds - Mixtures of compounds such as alkyl dimethyl benzyl ammonium chloride, didecyl dimethyl ammonium chloride, dioctyl dimethyl ammonium chloride, and octyl decyl dimethyl ammonium chloride are very commonly used as surface sanitizer; if you look at your household cleaners that claim disinfecting properties, there's a high percentage chance that you'll find a "quat". Question ;Microdyne