Pound
[paʊnd]
Definition
(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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Definition
(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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Beat, strike.[2]. Bray, bruise, crush, pulverize, triturate, comminute, levigate.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Beat, bruise, pulverize, triturate
ANT:Soothe, stroke, amalgamate, compound
SYN:Imprison, cage, coop
ANT:Discharge, liberate, release
Typist: Weldon
Definition
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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Examples
- It might have been twenty thousand pound. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Now it is known that one cubic inch of mercury weighs about half a pound. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Get a quarter or half a pound of dark green ink, which is put up in collapsible tubes costing from fifty cents to $2 per pound, according to quality. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- In that case the steady pull on the balance will be one half the weight of the roller; or a force of 6 pounds will suffice to raise the 12-pound roller. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- I'll pound it that you han't,' replied Sikes, with a bitter grin. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- All this fuss about a rascally three hundred pound-house and not twenty carriages! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- In the time of Servius Tullius, who first coined money at Rome, the Roman as or pondo contained a Roman pound of good copper. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- It's a hundred and ten pounds, the deuce take it! George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- There is scarcely any man alive who does not think himself meritorious for giving his neighbour five pounds. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- She asks for a hundred pounds, and endeavors to buy them off. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- We should be rich men if we had 1000 pounds for every poor devil who has been done to death in that den. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- I happen to know that he paid seven hundred pounds to a footman for a note two lines in length, and that the ruin of a noble family was the result. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Weight of gun, 6,170 pounds. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Jos's London agents had orders to pay one hundred and twenty pounds yearly to his parents at Fulham. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The nuts they cracked between their powerful jaws, or, if too hard, broke by pounding between stones. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Gould was pounding the Western Union on the Stock Exchange, disturbing its railroad contracts, and, being advised by his lawyers that this patent was of great value, bought it. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Muriate of ammonium 5 parts}| n t | Nitrate of potassium 5 parts}| y u | | r | Snow or pounded ice 12 parts}| e | Muriate of sodium 5 parts}| to -25° | . William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Cakes of dates pounded and kneaded together are the food of the Arabs who traverse the deserts. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Muriate of sodium 1 part }| | | t | Snow or pounded ice 5 parts}| F e | Muriate of sodium 2 parts}| r m to -12° | . William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Muriate of ammonium 1 part }| o p | | m e | Snow or pounded ice 24 parts}| r | Muriate of sodium 10 parts}| a a to -18° | . William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- So we slanted to the right (where the East was), and Joe pounded away so wonderfully, that I had to hold on tight to keep my seat. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- As is well known common salt mixed with pounded ice or snow lowers the temperature to a considerable degree, so there are other mixtures which will produce a still greater degree of cold. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- He had seen the Duke of Brunswick fall, the black hussars fly, the Ecossais pounded down by the cannon. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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