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UK
/pˈaʊnd/
]
[ 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.
- 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
- We then repeat this fractionation process on these 10 compounds, rescreen them and find the active one, and then identify what that compound is. Odette Yustman in GQ Magazine
- 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.
