pound

1. (Abbr. lb.)
   1. A unit of weight equal to 16 ounces (453.592 grams).
   2. A unit of apothecary weight equal to 12 ounces (373.242 grams).
2. A unit of weight differing in various countries and times.
3. A British unit of force equal to the weight of a standard one-pound mass where the local acceleration of gravity is 9.817 meters (32.174 feet) per second per second.
4. 1. The basic monetary unit of the United Kingdom, worth 20 shillings or 240 old pence before the decimalization of 1971. Also called pound sterling.
   2. A basic unit of currency in Egypt and Syria.
5. The primary unit of currency in Ireland before the adoption of the euro.
6. A monetary unit of Scotland before the Act of Union (1707). Also called pound scots.
7. The pound key on a telephone.

[Middle English, from Old English pund, from West Germanic *punda-, from Latin (lībra) pondō, (a pound) by weight.]

1. To strike repeatedly and forcefully. See synonyms at beat.
2. To beat to a powder or pulp; pulverize or crush.
3. To instill by persistent, emphatic repetition: pounded knowledge into the students' heads.
4. To assault with heavy gunfire.

1. To strike vigorous, repeated blows: He pounded on the table.
2. To move along heavily and noisily: The children pounded up the stairs.
3. To pulsate rapidly and heavily; throb: My heart pounded.
4. To move or work laboriously: a ship that pounded through heavy seas.

1. A heavy blow.
2. The sound of a heavy blow; a thump.
3. The act of pounding.

pound the pavement Slang.

1. To travel the streets on foot, especially in search of work.

[Middle English pounden, alteration of pounen, from Old English pūnian.]

1. A public enclosure for the confinement of stray dogs or livestock.
2. A place in which impounded property is held until redeemed.
3. An enclosure in which animals or fish are trapped or kept.
4. A place of confinement for lawbreakers.

To confine in or as if in a pound; impound.

[Middle English, from Old English pund-, enclosure (as in pundfall, pen).]

Unit of measure of the weight and thickness of paper, such as 50-pound paper equal to the weight of one ream of paper. See also basis weight.

Monetary unit of Cyprus, Egypt, Lebanon, and Syria.

verb

1. To hit heavily and repeatedly with violent blows: assail, assault, baste, batter, beat, belabor, buffet, drub, hammer, pummel, smash, thrash, thresh. Informal lambaste. Slang clobber. Idioms: rain blows on. See attack/defend, strike/miss.
2. To shape, break, or flatten with repeated blows: beat, forge¹, hammer. See repetition, strike/miss.
3. To make rhythmic contractions, sounds, or movements: beat, palpitate, pulsate, pulse, throb. See repetition, sounds/pleasant sounds/unpleasant sounds/neutral sounds or silence.
4. To fix (an idea, for example) in someone's mind by reemphasis and repetition: drill, drive, implant, impress, inculcate, instill. See teach/learn.

noun

1. A sudden sharp, powerful stroke: bang, blow², clout, crack, hit, lick, slug³, sock, swat, thwack, welt, whack, wham, whop. Informal bash, biff, bop, clip¹, wallop. Slang belt, conk, paste. See attack/defend, strike/miss.
2. A stroke or blow, especially one that produces a sound: beat, clunk, thud, thump. See attack/defend, sounds/pleasant sounds/unpleasant sounds/neutral sounds or silence, strike/miss.

Idioms beginning with pound:
pound of flesh
pound out
pound the pavement

See also in for a penny, in for a pound; penny wise, pound foolish.

Definition: impress; make someone listen
Antonyms: give up

mass. Symbols lb, lb av, lb avdp. Distinctively the pound avoirdupois:

Internat, BI, US-C, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, etc., 1959 453.592 37 g, so 1 kg = 2.204 622 62~ lb.
[Bigg P. H. Nature Vol. 194, 719-21 (1962)]

Canada 1951 453.592 43 g, so 1 kg = 2.204 622 33~ lb.Canada: An Act respecting Weights and Measures assented to 20 June 1951

BI 1898 By Order-in-Council it was declared that, on the basis of comparative measurement of the prototype pound and the international prototype kilogram, 1 kg = 2.204 622 3 lb, so 1 lb = 453.592 436~ g (making the prototype pound obsolescent, but not displacing it).

US-C 1893 Defined by the Mendenhall Order, = ¹/_2.20462234 kg = ¹/_453.5924277~ g, i.e. 1 kg = 2.204 622 34 lb.

US-C 1866 Specified by the statute that spawned the Mendenhall Order (but not enacted to displace the extant prototype definition) = 1/2.204 622 78 kg = 453.592 338~ g, i.e. 1 kg = 2.204 622 78 lb.

BI 1855 The prototype pound avoirdupois, carefully created
[Connor R. D. The Weights and Measures of England (London: HMSO, 1987)] to succeed the master prototype troy pound, was damaged, along with the prototype yard, in the conflagration at the Houses of Parliament in 1834.

BI 1825, US-C 1838 defined as ⁷⁰⁰⁰/₅₇₆₀, the prototype troy pound.

See ounce and hundredweight for scales.

See poundal for the derived unit of force.

See apothecaries' scale and troy scale for the distinct pound used for medications and for precious metals.

History

Always = 7 000 gr (although the grain was discontinued officially in the UK in 1985), the pound avoirdupois has for centuries been very close to its current international value, probably the same to at least six significant figures.
[Connor R. D. The Weights and Measures of England (London: HMSO, 1987)] However, the unit of modern times differed minutely between the UK (lb avdp), the USA (lb av),
[Nature Vol. 183, 80-1 (1959)] and Canada until the agreed international standard, with 1 gr = 64.798 91 mg, was implemented in 1959 (though in the UK not exclusively until 1964). Careful measurement in 1960 of the prototype BI pounds still in practical use showed the British master copy as being 453.592 338~ g, and the Canadian as being 453.592 43~ g.
[Nature Vol. 183, 80-1 (1959)]

weight, force (pound-force) See gravitational system; weight.

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A unit of weight in the old UK system of weights and measure. It is equivalent to 0.45359237 kg: it is also used as a unit of force and mass

1. a unit of weight in the avoirdupois (453.6 g, or 16 ounces) or apothecaries’ (373.2 g, or 12 ounces) system.
2. said of the gait of a horse which strikes the ground hard with the front feet at the canter.
3. an enclosure or building maintained by a local government authority in which stray animals are kept until claimed by their owners. See also animal shelter.

To convert from pounds to:

drams, multiply by 256.
dynes, multiply by 44.4823E+04.
grains, multiply by 7000.
grams, multiply by 453.5924.
joules/cm, multiply by .04448.
joules/meter (newtons), multiply by 4.448.
kilograms, multiply by .4536.
ounces, multiply by 16.
ounces (troy), multiply by 14.5833.
poundals, multiply by 32.17.
pounds (troy), multiply by 1.21528.
stones (British), multiply by .07142857.
tons (short), multiply by .0005.

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Contents 1 Units 2 People 3 Places 3.1 United States 3.2 Elsewhere 4 Other

Pound may refer to:

Units

• Pound (currency), a unit of currency in various countries
• Pound sign, £
• Pound sterling, the fundamental unit of currency in Great Britain
• Pound-force, unit of force
• Pound (mass), various units of mass or weight
• Number sign (#), sometimes used as "pound sign"
• Pound (rail), a unit of size for railroad (train) rails

People

• Cuthbert W. Pound (1864-1935), Chief Judge of the NY Court of Appeals 1932-1934
• Dick Pound, Canadian sports official
• Dudley Pound, British naval officer
• Ezra Pound, American modernist poet and critic
• Louise Pound, American educator
• Olivia Pound, American educator
• R. V. Pound, physicist, eponym of the Pound-Rebka experiment
• Roscoe Pound, American legal scholar
• Stephen Pound, British politician
• Stephen Bosworth Pound, American senator and judge
• Thaddeus C. Pound, Wisconsin politician

Places

United States

• Pound Ridge, New York
• Pound, Virginia
• Pound, Wisconsin
• Pound (town), Wisconsin

Elsewhere

• Pound Loney, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Other

• Pound (village), a high-walled, lockable structure featured in most medieval British villages, used for temporary holding
• Dog pound, a temporary home for pet animals
• Buffalo pound (archaic), an enclosed space, for capturing and killing large numbers of buffalo
• Canal pound, the stretch of level water impounded between two canal locks
• Pound cake, a type of dessert cake
• Pound (greeting), a greeting in which two individuals touch fists
• Pound (networking), an open-source reverse proxy and load balancing program
• Tha Dogg Pound, a music group
• Pound (band), an American rock band
• Pound (magazine), a Canadian hip-hop magazine
• A Sharp (music) (♯), a musical symbol (from resemblance to # used as a pound sign)
• Pound (film), a 1970 film

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Dansk (Danish)
1.
n. - pund

idioms:

• pound of flesh    pund kød
• pound sterling    pund sterling

2.
v. tr. - banke løs på, knuse, pulverisere
v. intr. - dundre, hamre
n. - hamren, hårdt slag

3.
n. - indelukke (for bortløbne husdyr)
v. tr. - lukke inde i en fold

Nederlands (Dutch)
pond (0, 454 kg), munteenheid, geld ter waarde van een pond, kooi (vooral voor onbeheerde dieren), ruimte voor kreeft, plaats waar levende kreeft wordt verkocht, bonzen, verpulveren, (fijn)stampen

Français (French)
1.
n. - (Mes) livre (= 453,6 g), (GB) unité monétaire

idioms:

• pound of flesh    livre de viande
• pound sterling    livre sterling

2.
v. tr. - (Culin) piler, broyer, concasser, aplatir (de la viande), battre, pilonner (une artillerie)
v. intr. - marteler, battre, frapper/taper dur, monter/descendre d'un pas lourd, palpiter
n. - coup violent, cognement, action de cogner

idioms:

• pound something out    faire ressortir (rythme, air), pondre (qch) sur une machine à écrire, (Culin) aplatir (un steak)
• pound the beat    faire sa ronde (un policier)
• pound the pavement    battre le pavé (à la recherche d'un emploi)

3.
n. - fourrière
v. tr. - mettre (un animal) en fourrière

Deutsch (German)
1.
n. - Pfund

idioms:

• pound of flesh    jmds. Recht (das anderen Unannehmlichkeiten verursacht)
• pound sterling    Pfund Sterling

2.
v. - stampfen, schlagen, zerstoßen, herumhämmern, beschießen
n. - schwerer Stoß

idioms:

• pound something out    hämmern
• pound the beat    zu Fuß die Runde machen
• pound the pavement    Arbeit suchen

3.
n. - Pfandstall
v. - einsperren

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - λίρα (στερλίνα), λίβρα, μάντρα, περίβολος
v. - χτυπώ, κοπανώ, λειοτριβώ, κονιοποιώ, συντρίβω, λιώνω, σφυροκοπώ

idioms:

• pound of flesh    υπερβολική (αν και θεμιτή) απαίτηση
• pound sterling    (οικον.) (λίρα) στερλίνα

Italiano (Italian)
palpitare, pestare, tempestare di colpi, triturare

idioms:

• pound of flesh    fino all'ultimo centesimo
• pound sterling    lira sterlina

Português (Portuguese)
n. - libra (f), pancada (f)
v. - pesar, socar, triturar, encurralar, martelar, andar pesadamente

idioms:

• pound of flesh    dívida cobrada com severidade
• pound sterling    libra esterlina

Русский (Russian)
колотить, биться, фунт

idioms:

• pound of flesh    фунт мяса, безжалостно требовать плату
• pound sterling    фунт стерлингов

Español (Spanish)
1.
n. - libra

idioms:

• pound of flesh    libra de carne
• pound sterling    libra esterlina

2.
v. tr. - palpitar, latir con fuerza, aporrear, golpear, machacar, martillar
v. intr. - trabajar duro, latir con violencia, andar, bailar pesadamente
n. - golpe, contusión, prisión, encierro, depósito

idioms:

• pound something out    (fig.) obtener algo a golpes (e.g. aporrear una melodía en el piano)
• pound the beat    caminar por un precinto
• pound the pavement    patear las calles buscando un empleo

3.
n. - perrera
v. tr. - encerrar un animal en la perrera

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - (skål)pund = 454 gr., pund = 100 pence, fålla, inhägnad, dunkande, uppställningsplats (f beslagtagna bilar)
v. - stänga in, ställa upp, dunka, stöta, krossa, banka, klampa

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
1. 磅, 镑, 英镑, 英镑的汇率

idioms:

• pound of flesh    合法但极不合理的要求
• pound sterling    英镑

2. 捣碎, 敲打, 猛击, 灌输, 剧跳, 脚步沉重地走, 重击, 重击声

3. 动物收容所, 走失动物认领栏, 汽车扣押场, 牲畜栏, 拘留处, 监禁所, 把关在栏内, 拘留, 监禁, 扣押

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
1.
v. tr. - 搗碎, 敲打, 猛擊, 灌輸
v. intr. - 猛擊, 劇跳, 敲打, 腳步沈重地走
n. - 重擊, 重擊聲

2.
n. - 磅, 鎊, 英鎊, 英鎊的匯率

idioms:

• pound of flesh    合法但極不合理的要求
• pound sterling    英鎊

3.
n. - 動物收容所, 走失動物認領欄, 汽車扣押場, 牲畜欄, 拘留處, 監禁所
v. tr. - 把關在欄內, 拘留, 監禁, 扣押

한국어 (Korean)
1.
n. - 타격 , 연타, 강타

2.
v. tr. - 탕탕치다, 사정없이 치다
v. intr. - 세게 두드리다, 마구 치다
n. - 파운드

3.
n. - 울(타리), (압수물의) 유치소, 짐승우리
v. tr. - (동물을) 울타리에 가두다

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - ポンド, 英国の貨幣制度, ポンド相場, 動物収容所, 放置自動車保管所
v. - 強く打つ, 突き砕く, ドシンドシンと歩く, 激しく鼓動する

idioms:

• pound of flesh    ひどい要求, 致命的な代償
• pound sterling    ポンド

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) الباوند : رطل اكليزي, جنيه انكليزي, ضربه أو لكمه قويه, زريبه, صوت السحن أو الضربه (فعل) يمشي محدثا صوت, يكد, يعمل من غير كلل‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮לירה שטרלינג (לי"ש), ליטרה או ליברה - כ-054 גרם (בריטניה)‬
v. tr. - ‮היכה, כתש, דפק, ניפץ, הלם‬
v. intr. - ‮שעט, נע בכבדות, הלם חזק (לב)‬
n. - ‮חבטה, מכה‬
n. - ‮גדרה לחיות תועות או למכוניות שנגררו, גדרת בקר‬
v. tr. - ‮כלא חיה במכלאה, הכניס פרות לגדרה‬

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