pound

Plural: pound, pounds

Noun

• 16 ounces avoirdupois
  • "he got a hernia when he tried to lift 100 pounds"
• the basic unit of money in Great Britain and Northern Ireland; equal to 100 pence
• a unit of apothecary weight equal to 12 ounces troy
• the basic unit of money in Syria; equal to 100 piasters
• the basic unit of money in the Sudan; equal to 100 piasters
• the basic unit of money in Lebanon; equal to 100 piasters
• formerly the basic unit of money in Ireland; equal to 100 pence
• the basic unit of money in Egypt; equal to 100 piasters
• the basic unit of money in Cyprus; equal to 100 cents
• a nontechnical unit of force equal to the mass of 1 pound with an acceleration of free fall equal to 32 feet/sec/sec
• United States writer who lived in Europe; strongly influenced the development of modern literature (1885-1972)
• a symbol for a unit of currency (especially for the pound sterling in Great Britain)
• a public enclosure for stray or unlicensed dogs
  • "unlicensed dogs will be taken to the pound"
• the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows)
  • "the pounding of feet on the hallway"
• A unit of weight in various measurement systems.
• A unit of weight in various measurement systems.
• Ellipsis of pound weight.
• A unit of weight in various measurement systems.
• Various non-English units of measure.
• A unit of mass in various measurement systems.
• Ellipsis of pound mass.
• A unit of mass in various measurement systems.
• Various non-English units of measure.
• A unit of mass in various measurement systems.
• A unit of mass equal to 16 avoirdupois ounces (= 453.592 g). Today this value is the most common meaning of "pound" as a unit of weight.
• A unit of mass in various measurement systems.
• A unit of mass equal to 12 troy ounces (≈ 373.242 g). Today, this is a common unit of mass when measuring precious metals, and is little used elsewhere.
• A unit of force in various measurement systems
• Ellipsis of pound force.
• A unit of force in various measurement systems
• Various non-English units of measure.
• A unit of force in various measurement systems
• Ellipsis of pound-force.
• A unit of currency in various currency systems.
• The unit of currency used in the United Kingdom and its dependencies. It is divided into 100 pence. Symbol £.
• A unit of currency in various currency systems.
• Any of various units of currency used in Egypt, Lebanon, Sudan, and Syria, and formerly in the Republic of Ireland, Cyprus, Nigeria, Israel, and South Africa.
• A unit of currency in various currency systems.
• Any of various units of currency formerly used in the United States.
• A unit of currency in various currency systems.
• Various non-English units of currency not officially called pounds.
• The symbol #.
• A place for the detention of stray or wandering animals.
• The people who work for the pound.
• A place for the detention of automobiles that have been illegally parked, abandoned, etc.
• A section of a canal between two adjacent locks.
• A kind of fishing net, having a large enclosure with a narrow entrance into which fish are directed by wings spreading outward.
• A division inside a fishing stage where cod is cured in salt brine.
• A hard blow.

Verb

Verb Forms: pounded, pounding, pounds

• To strike heavily or repeatedly; to crush or pulverize.
• hit hard with the hand, fist, or some heavy instrument
  • "the salesman pounded the door knocker"
• strike or drive against with a heavy impact
  • "pound on the door"
• move heavily or clumsily
• move rhythmically
• 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"
• place or shut up in a pound
  • "pound the cows so they don't stray"
• break down and crush by beating, as with a pestle
  • "pound the roots with a heavy flat stone"
• To wager a pound on.
• To confine in, or as in, a pound; to impound.
• To strike hard, usually repeatedly.
• To crush to pieces; to pulverize.
• To eat or drink very quickly.
• To pitch consistently to a certain location.
• To beat strongly or throb.
• To penetrate sexually, with vigour.
• To advance heavily with measured steps.
• To make a jarring noise, as when running.

Examples

• As I tiptoed past the sleeping dog, my heart was pounding but I remained silent.
• He began to POUND the table in frustration when his opponent played another bingo.
• I was pounding her all night!
• My head was pounding.
• The engine pounds.
• The pitcher has been pounding the outside corner all night.
• the Rhode Island pound; the New Hampshire pound
• To be connected, press pound.
• You really pounded that beer!

Synonyms

beat, British pound, British pound sterling, Cypriot pound, dog pound, Egyptian pound, Ezra Loomis Pound, Ezra Pound, hammer, hammering, impound, Irish pound, Irish punt, lb, lbf., Lebanese pound, lumber, poke, pound off, pound sign, pound sterling, pound up, pounding, punt, quid, ram, ram down, Sudanese pound, Syrian pound, thump, ;, Any of Thesaurus:copulate + "with", Formal terms, GBP, Informal and slang terms, animal shelter, ball, bang, baste, batter, bauf, be with, bed, beep, belabor, blow, boff, boink, bolt, bone, bonk, boom-boom, buffet, bulk, butt, calcitrate, car pound, chug, coit, coitize, dab, dash, dick, diddle, dig out, dight, do, doink, down, dowse, drill, drink, eat, eff, enjoy, expletive deleted, feague, feck, fetch one a blow, fill, flap, frack, frak, fret, frick, frig, fuck, get into someone's pants, get over on, get up in, give someone one, give someone the time, give toco, go in unto, go to bed with, go with, hash, hash sign, hashtag, have, have one's way with, have one's wicked way with, hit, hump, hydrate, imbibe, impact, impound lot, jape, jerk, jump, jump someone's bones, kick, knob, knock, knock off, know, know someone in the biblical sense, lay, lb t, lie by, lie with, love, love up, lunge, make, mount, nail, nicker, number sign, occupy, octothorpe, pat, patter, pelt, penetrate, pink, plough, plug, pork, pound, prig, pulverate, pummel, pump, punch, rap, reach, ream, rock, roger, root, run through, rut, sard, schlong, screw, season, seduce, see to, service, shaft, shag, sharp, shelve, slam, slap, slay, sleep with, slip it to, smash, smite, smush, stallionize, strike, swap, swive, take, tap, thrash, thwack, triturate, tup, vapulate, wap, wet one's beak, wet one's whistle, whack, whip, yerk

Related Words

bang, crown, farthing, florin, guinea, pence, penny, shilling, sovereign, sterling

Anagrams of pound