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Noun pound has 12 senses
- pound, lb - 16 ounces; "he tried to lift 100 pounds"
--1 is a kind of avoirdupois unit
--1 is a part of stone; quarter
--1 has parts: ounce, oz.
- British pound, pound, pound sterling, quid - the basic unit of money in Great Britain; equal to 100 pence
--2 is a kind of British monetary unit
--2 has parts: penny
- Syrian pound, pound - the basic unit of money in Syria; equal to 100 piasters
--3 is a kind of Syrian monetary unit
--3 has parts: piaster, piastre
- Sudanese pound, pound - the basic unit of money in the Sudan; equal to 100 piasters
--4 is a kind of Sudanese monetary unit
--4 has parts: piaster, piastre
- Lebanese pound, pound - the basic unit of money in Lebanon; equal to 100 piasters
--5 is a kind of Lebanese monetary unit
--5 has parts: piaster, piastre
- Irish pound, Irish punt, punt, pound - formerly the basic unit of money in Ireland; equal to 100 pence
--6 is a kind of Irish monetary unit
--6 has parts: penny
- Egyptian pound, pound - the basic unit of money in Egypt; equal to 100 piasters
--7 is a kind of Egyptian monetary unit
--7 has parts: piaster, piastre
- Cypriot pound, pound - the basic unit of money in Cyprus; equal to 100 cents
--8 is a kind of Cypriot monetary unit
--8 has parts: mil
- pound, lbf. - a nontechnical unit of force equal to the mass of 1 pound with an acceleration of free fall equal to 32 feet/sec/sec
--9 is a kind of force unit
- Pound, Ezra Pound, Ezra Loomis Pound - United States writer who lived in Europe; strongly influenced the development of modern literature (1885-1972)
--10 is a kind of writer, author; poet
- pound, dog pound - a public enclosure for stray or unlicensed dogs; "unlicensed dogs will be taken to the pound"
--11 is a kind of enclosure
- hammer, pound, hammering, pounding - the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows); "the sudden hammer of fists caught him off guard"; "the pounding of feet on the hallway"
--12 is a kind of blow
Verb pound has 8 senses
- thump, pound, poke - hit hard with the hand, fist, or some heavy instrument; "the salesman pounded the door knocker"; "a bible-thumping Southern Baptist"
--1 is one way to hit
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
- ram, ram down, pound - strike or drive against with a heavy impact; "ram the gate with a sledgehammer"; "pound on the door"
--2 is one way to thrust
Sample sentences:
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP
- lumber, pound - move heavily or clumsily; "The heavy man lumbered across the room"
--3 is one way to walk
Sample sentence:
The children pound to the playground
- beat, pound, thump - move rhythmically; "Her heart was beating fast"
--4 is one way to move
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
- pound, pound off - partition off into compartments; "The locks pound the water of the canal"
--5 is one way to partition, partition off
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- pound, pound up - shut up or confine in any enclosure or within any bounds or limits; "The prisoners are safely pounded"
--6 is one way to restrain, confine, hold
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody
- impound, pound - place or shut up in a pound; "pound the cows so they don't stray"
--7 is one way to restrain, confine, hold
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
- pound - break down and crush by beating, as with a pestle; "pound the roots with a heavy flat stone"
--8 is one way to break up, fragment, fragmentize, fragmentise
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
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