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pound

noun
/ˈpaʊ̯nd/US/ˈpæʊ̯nd//paʊnd/

Etymology

From Middle English pound, from Old English pund (“a pound, weight”), from Proto-West Germanic *pund, from Proto-Germanic *pundą (“pound, weight”), an early borrowing from Latin pondō (“by weight”), ablative form of pondus (“weight”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pend- (“to pull, stretch”). Cognate with Dutch pond, German Pfund, Danish pund and Swedish pund. Doublet of funt, pfund, pood, and punt.

  1. derived from *(s)pend-✻
  2. derived from pondō
  3. inherited from *pundą✻
  4. inherited from *pund✻
  5. inherited from pund
  6. inherited from pound

Definitions

  1. A unit of weight in various measurement systems.

  2. A unit of mass in various measurement systems.

  3. A unit of force in various measurement systems

  4. ›+ 22 more definitions

    1. A unit of currency in various currency systems.

      • For students in developing countries who can't get it any other way, or for students in the first world, who can but may choose not to. Pay thousands of pounds a year for your education? Or get it free online?

    2. The symbol #.

      • Holonym: hashtag
      • To be connected, press pound.

    3. To wager a pound on.

      • ‘Good-bye, my dear!' said Sleary. 'You'll make your fortun, I hope, and none of our poor folkth will ever trouble you, I'll pound it.’
      • “He's done,” said the Moocher brutally. “He didn't hear nuffin, I'll pound it.”

    4. A place for the detention of stray or wandering animals.

    5. The people who work for the pound.

      • (Police officer to a dog owner) "He'd better stay calm or I'll have the pound come and get him."

    6. A place for the detention of automobiles that have been illegally parked, abandoned, etc.

    7. A section of a canal between two adjacent locks.

    8. A kind of fishing net, having a large enclosure with a narrow entrance into which fish…

      A kind of fishing net, having a large enclosure with a narrow entrance into which fish are directed by wings spreading outward.

    9. A division inside a fishing stage where cod is cured in salt brine.

    10. To confine in, or as in, a pound

      To confine in, or as in, a pound; to impound.

      • When I short haue shorne my sowce face & swigg’d my horny barrell, In an oaken Inne I pound my skin as a suite of guilt apparrell
      • And he who were pleasantly disposed, could not well avoid to liken it to the exploit of that gallant man, who thought to pound up the crows by shutting his park gate.

    11. To strike hard, usually repeatedly.

      • [...] and on the Saturday heavy seas pounded the W.R. on its exposed coastal stretch between Dawlish and Teignmouth, loosening the ballast and forcing trains to proceed with extreme caution.
      • I pounded on a farmhouse / Lookin' for a place to stay / I was mighty, mighty tired / I had come a long, long way

    12. To crush to pieces

      To crush to pieces; to pulverize.

      • Pound an onion, warm a spoonful of ghee and throw in the onion, brown it slightly, add your curry stuff, brown this till it smells pleasantly, […]

    13. To eat or drink very quickly.

      • You really pounded that beer!
      • The sounds of a house-party rolled down the street / So we pounded our Pilsner and leapt to our feet

    14. To pitch consistently to a certain location.

      • The pitcher has been pounding the outside corner all night.

    15. To beat strongly or throb.

      • As I tiptoed past the sleeping dog, my heart was pounding but I remained silent.
      • My head was pounding.

    16. To penetrate sexually, with vigour.

      • I was pounding her all night!
      • She acting, so I'm attacking, try break the mattress / Sexy, so I suggested to switch to sideways / Pounded for 'bout a hour she said she tired

    17. To advance heavily with measured steps.

    18. To make a jarring noise, as when running.

      • The engine pounds.

    19. A hard blow.

    20. A surname.

    21. A town in Wise County, Virginia, United States.

    22. A village and town in Marinette County, Wisconsin, United States, both named after…

      A village and town in Marinette County, Wisconsin, United States, both named after Thaddeus C. Pound.

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Derived

800-pound gorilla, 800-pound gorilla in the room, Amsterdam pound, an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, a pound to a penny, assay pound, avoirdupois pound, Bristol pound, brown pound, foot-pound, foot-pound-second, full-pound, geepound, green pound, grey pound, half-pound, in for a penny, in for a pound, kilopound, metric pound, multipound, pack on the pounds, penny wise and pound foolish, penny-wise and pound-foolish, petropound, pile on the pounds, pinfold, pink pound, poundable, poundage, poundal, pound cake, poundcake, pound coin, pounder, pound-foolish, pound-force, pound-for-pound, pound for pound, poundkeeper · +45 more

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No curated loop yet for pound. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA