Pound

[paʊnd]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) a public enclosure for stray or unlicensed dogs; 'unlicensed dogs will be taken to the pound'.

(noun.) a symbol for a unit of currency (especially for the pound sterling in Great Britain).

(noun.) United States writer who lived in Europe; strongly influenced the development of modern literature (1885-1972).

(noun.) a nontechnical unit of force equal to the mass of 1 pound with an acceleration of free fall equal to 32 feet/sec/sec.

(noun.) 16 ounces avoirdupois; 'he got a hernia when he tried to lift 100 pounds'.

(verb.) break down and crush by beating, as with a pestle; 'pound the roots with a heavy flat stone'.

(verb.) shut up or confine in any enclosure or within any bounds or limits; 'The prisoners are safely pounded'.

(verb.) partition off into compartments; 'The locks pound the water of the canal'.

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解釋/意思:

(v. t.) To strike repeatedly with some heavy instrument; to beat.

(v. t.) To comminute and pulverize by beating; to bruise or break into fine particles with a pestle or other heavy instrument; as, to pound spice or salt.

(v. i.) To strike heavy blows; to beat.

(v. i.) To make a jarring noise, as in running; as, the engine pounds.

(n.) An inclosure, maintained by public authority, in which cattle or other animals are confined when taken in trespassing, or when going at large in violation of law; a pinfold.

(n.) A level stretch in a canal between locks.

(n.) A kind of net, having a large inclosure with a narrow entrance into which fish are directed by wings spreading outward.

(v. t.) To confine in, or as in, a pound; to impound.

(pl. ) of Pound

(n.) A certain specified weight; especially, a legal standard consisting of an established number of ounces.

(n.) A British denomination of money of account, equivalent to twenty shillings sterling, and equal in value to about $4.86. There is no coin known by this name, but the gold sovereign is of the same value.

黛布拉整理

同義詞及近義詞：

v. a. [1]. Beat, strike.[2]. Bray, bruise, crush, pulverize, triturate, comminute, levigate.

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同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:Beat, bruise, pulverize, triturate

ANT:Soothe, stroke, amalgamate, compound

SYN:Imprison, cage, coop

ANT:Discharge, liberate, release

整理:韦尔登

解釋/意思:

v.t. to shut up or confine as strayed animals.—n. an enclosure in which strayed animals are confined: a level part of a canal between two locks: a pound-net.—ns. Pound′age a charge made for pounding stray cattle; Pound′-keep′er; Pound′-net a kind of weir in fishing forming a trap by an arrangement of nets (the wings leader and pocket bowl or pound).

v.t. to beat into fine pieces: to bruise: to bray with a pestle.—v.i. to walk with heavy steps.—n. Pound′er.

n. long the unit of weight in the western and central states of Europe differing however in value in all of them—a weight of 16 oz. avoirdupois for general goods the troy-pound of 12 oz. being for bullion (the troy lb. is defined as 5760 grains of which the lb. avoirdupois contains 7000): the pound sterling a money of account: a sovereign or 20s. also represented in Scotland by a note (the Pound Scots is 1⁄12th of the pound sterling or 1s. 8d.—of its twenty shillings each is worth an English penny): (Spens.) a balance.—v.t. (slang) to wager a pound on.—ns. Pound′age a charge or tax made on each pound; Pound′al a name sometimes used for the absolute foot pound second unit of force which will produce in one pound a velocity of one foot per second after acting for one second; Pound′-cake a sweet cake whose ingredients are measured by weight; Pound′er he who has or that which weighs many pounds—used only after a number as a 12-pounder.—adj. Pound′-fool′ish neglecting the care of large sums in attending to little ones.

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