pound
//ˈpaʊ̯nd//
Forms
- Plural
- pounds
- present (v1)
- pound
- past (v2)
- pounded
- past participle (v3)
- pounded
- present participle
- pounding
- 3rd person singular
- pounds
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.A unit of currency in various currency systems.
- He knocked out cans of warm cola at two pound fifty a time.
- He glanced back through what he had read and, while feeling his water flow quietly, he envied kindly Mr Beaufoy who had written it and received payment of three pounds, thirteen and six.
- 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?
1.To strike hard, usually repeatedly.
2.To crush to pieces; to pulverize.
3.To eat or drink very quickly.(slang)
- You really pounded that beer!
4.To confine in, or as in, a pound; to impound.
- 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.
Frequency
Overall
Common· #1667
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Uncommon
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
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”).