pound meaning

Noun: pound  pawnd

1. 16 ounces avoirdupois
   "he got a hernia when he tried to lift 100 pounds"
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Verb: pound  pawnd

1. Hit hard with the hand, fist, or some heavy instrument
   "the salesman pounded the door knocker"
   - thump, poke 
2. Strike or drive against with a heavy impact
   "pound on the door"
   - ram, ram down 
3. Move heavily or clumsily
   - lumber 
4. Move rhythmically
   - beat, thump 
5. Partition off into compartments
   "The locks pound the water of the canal"
   - pound off 
6. Shut up or confine in any enclosure or within any bounds or limits
   "The prisoners are safely pounded"
   - pound up 
7. Place or shut up in a pound
   "pound the cows so they don't stray"
   - impound 
8. Break down and crush by beating, as with a pestle
   "pound the roots with a heavy flat stone"

Noun: Pound  pawnd

1. United States writer who lived in Europe; strongly influenced the development of modern literature (1885-1972)
   - Ezra Pound, Ezra Loomis Pound

Derived forms: pounds, pounding, pounded

See also: poundage, pounder, pounding

Type of: author, avoirdupois unit, blow, break up, British monetary unit, confine, Cypriot monetary unit, Egyptian monetary unit, enclosure, force unit, fragment, fragmentise [Brit], fragmentize, hit, hold, Irish monetary unit, Lebanese monetary unit, move, partition, partition off, poet, restrain, Sudanese monetary unit, symbol, Syrian monetary unit, thrust, walk, writer

Part of: quarter [US], stone [Brit]

Encyclopedia: Pound, Richard Pound, Ezra Pound Pound, VA Pound, Wisconsin Pound, WI Pound, Virginia

[American slang]
tr. to drink something quickly.
• Dan said he could pound the cup of coffee in thirty seconds.
• You don't have to pound your milk. Take your time.

[British slang]
Verb. To have vigorous sex.

[Business]
noun [C]

1

the unit of money in the UK and several other countries; £:

a ten-pound note

Total losses were estimated at over three million pounds.

2

the value of the British pound compared with the value of the money of other countries:

The euro fell 1% against the pound.

the strength/weakness of the pound

3 (abbr lb)

a unit for measuring weight, equal to 0.454 of a kilogram:

This laptop weighs under 4 pounds.

[Economics]
1) (£) The standard monetary unit of the UK, divided into 100 pence. It dates back to the 8th century AD when Offa, King of Mercia, coined 240 pennyweights of silver from 1 pound of silver. When sterling was decimalized in 1971 it was divided into 100 newly defined pence. The pound is also the currency unit of the Falkland Islands (Fk£), Gibraltar (Gib£), the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man.

See also:

punt

2) The standard monetary unit of Egypt (LE), Lebanon (LL), and Syria (LS), divided into 100 piastres.

3) (£C) The standard monetary unit of Cyprus, divided into 100 cents.

[Electronics]
1. Abbreviations, lb, p. A unit of weight equal to 16 avoirdupois ounces.
2. Abbreviation, lbf. A unit of force approximately equal to 4.448 newtons.
3. Abbreviation, lbm. A unit of mass approximately equal to 0.4536 kilogram.

[Medicine]
n pl pounds also pound : any of various units of mass and weight: as
a : a unit of troy weight equal to 12 troy ounces or 5760 grains or 0.3732417216 kilogram formerly used in weighing gold, silver, and a few other costly materials —called also troy pound
b : a unit of avoirdupois weight equal to 16 avoirdupois ounces or 7000 grains or 0.45359237 kilogram —called also avoirdupois pound

[Computer]
1. <character> hash character.

2. <programming> hash coding.

3. The preferred term for a Perl associative array.

Examples

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1. i will give you a pound in part payment.
2. enclosed is an order for fifty pounds.
3. i paid my bill and have several pounds over ..
4. i paid the bill and have three pounds over.
5. the judge imposed a fine of ten pounds on him.