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historical
1. adj. Of, concerning, or in accordance with recorded history, (particularly) as opposed to legends, myths, and fictions.
July 4, 1776, is a historic date. A great deal of historical research has been done on the events leading up to that day.
The historical works of Lord Macaulay and Edward Gibbon are in and of themselves historic.
2. adj. (literature, art) About history; depicting persons or events from history.
3. adj. Of, concerning, or in accordance with the past generally.
4. adj. (literature, art) Set in the past.
5. adj. (uncommon) Former, erstwhile; (religious, obsolete) lapsed, nominal.
6. adj. (grammar) One of various tenses or moods used to tell about past events, historic (tense).
7. adj. (obsolete, biology) (synonym of hereditary) or evolutionary.
8. adj. Of, concerning, or in accordance with the scholarly discipline of history.
The Royal Historical Society
The State Historical Society of Wisconsin
9. adj. Done in the manner of a historian: written as a development over time or in accordance with the historical method.
10. adj. (uncommon) (synonym of historic): important or likely to be important to history and historians.
11. adj. Forming compound adjectives with the meaning "historical/~" or "historically":
historical-political
12. n. A historical romance.
an
1. art. Form of a used before a vowel sound
2. art. (now quite rare) Form of a used before 'h' in an unstressed syllable
3. art. (nonstandard) Form of a used before 'h' in a stressed syllable
4. conj. (archaic) If
5. conj. (archaic) So long as.
An it harm none, do what ye will.
6. conj. (archaic) As if; as though.
7. n. The first letter of the Georgian alphabet, ა (Mkhedruli), Ⴀ (Asomtavruli) or ⴀ (Nuskhuri).
8. prep. In each; to or for each; per.
I was only going twenty miles an hour.
old
1. adj. Of an object, concept, relationship, etc., having existed for a relatively long period of time.
an old abandoned building; an old friend
2. adj. Of a living being, having lived for most of the expected years.
a wrinkled old man
3. adj. Of a perishable item, having existed for most, or more than its shelf life.
an old loaf of bread
4. adj. Of an item that has been used and so is not new (unused).
I find that an old toothbrush is good to clean the keyboard with.
5. adj. Having existed or lived for the specified time.
How old are they? She’s five years old and he's seven. We also have a young teen and a two-year-old child.
My great-grandfather lived to be a hundred and one years old.
6. adj. Of an earlier time.:
7. adj. Former, previous.
My new car is not as good as my old one. a school reunion for Old Etonians
8. adj. That is no longer in existence.
The footpath follows the route of an old railway line.
9. adj. Obsolete; out-of-date.
That is the old way of doing things; now we do it this way.
10. adj. Familiar.
When he got drunk and quarrelsome they just gave him the old heave-ho.
11. adj. Tiresome.
Your constant pestering is getting old.
12. adj. Said of subdued colors, particularly reds, pinks and oranges, as if they had faded over time.
13. adj. A grammatical intensifier, often used in describing something positive. (Mostly in idioms like good old, big old and little old, any old and some old.)
We're having a good old time. My next car will be a big old SUV. My wife makes the best little old apple pie in Texas.
14. adj. (obsolete) Excessive, abundant.
15. n. (with "the") People who are old; old beings; the older generation, taken as a group.
A civilised society should always look after the old in the community.
English
1. adj. Of or pertaining to England.
2. adj. English-language; of or pertaining to the language, descended from Anglo-Saxon, which developed in England.
Those immigrants Anglicised their names to make them sound more English.
3. adj. Of or pertaining to the people of England (to Englishmen and Englishwomen).
4. adj. Of or pertaining to the avoirdupois system of measure.
an English ton
5. adj. (Amish) Non-Amish, so named for speaking English rather than a variety of German.
6. n. (collective plural) The people of England; Englishmen and Englishwomen.
The Scottish and the English have a history of conflict.
7. n. The language originating in England but now spoken in all parts of the British Isles, the Commonwealth of Nations, North America, and other parts of the world.
English is spoken here as an unofficial language and lingua franca.
How do you say ‘à peu près’ in English?
8. n. (Amish, collective plural) The non-Amish; non-Amish people.
9. n. One's ability to employ the English language correctly.
My coworker has pretty good English for a non-native speaker.
10. n. The English-language term or expression for something.
What's the English for ‘à peu près’?
11. n. Specific language or wording in English; English text or statements in speech, whether in translation or otherwise.
The technical details are correct, but the English is not very clear.
12. n. A variety or dialect of spoken and or written English.
13. n. (printing, dated) The size of type between pica and great primer, standardized as 14-point.
14. n. (North American) Spin or side given to a ball, especially in pool or billiards.
Put more English on the ball.
15. v. (transitive, archaic) To translate, adapt or render into English.
16. n. (US) Spinning or rotary motion given to a ball around the vertical axis, as in billiards or bowling.
You can't hit it directly, but maybe if you give it some english.
17. n. (figurative) An unusual or unexpected interpretation of a text or idea, a spin, a nuance.
measure
1. n. A prescribed quantity or extent.
2. n. (obsolete) Moderation, temperance.
3. n. A limit that cannot be exceeded; a bound. (Now chiefly in set phrases.)
4. n. An (unspecified) portion or quantity.
a measure of salt
5. n. The act or result of measuring.
6. n. (now chiefly cooking) A receptacle or vessel of a standard size, capacity etc. as used to deal out specific quantities of some substance.
7. n. A standard against which something can be judged; a criterion.
Honesty is the true measure of a man.
8. n. Any of various standard units of capacity.
The villagers paid a tithe of a thousand measures of corn.
9. n. A unit of measurement.
10. n. The size of someone or something, as ascertained by measuring. (Now chiefly in make to measure.)
11. n. (now rare) The act or process of measuring.
12. n. A ruler, measuring stick, or graduated tape used to take measurements.
13. n. (mathematics, now rare) A number which is contained in a given number a number of times without a remainder; a divisor or factor.
the greatest common measure of two or more numbers
14. n. (geology) A bed or stratum.
coal measures; lead measures
15. n. (mathematics) A function that assigns a non-negative number to a given set following the mathematical nature that is common among length, volume, proba
16. n. Metrical rhythm.
17. n. (now archaic) A melody.
18. n. (now archaic) A dance.
19. n. (poetry) The manner of ordering and combining the quantities, or long and short syllables; meter; rhythm; hence, a metrical foot.
a poem in iambic measure
20. n. (music) A musical designation consisting of all notes and or rests delineated by two vertical bars; an equal and regular division of the whole of a com
21. n. A course of action.
22. n. (in plural) Actions designed to achieve some purpose; plans.
23. n. A piece of legislation.
24. v. To ascertain the quantity of a unit of material via calculated comparison with respect to a standard.
We measured the temperature with a thermometer. You should measure the angle with a spirit level.
25. v. To be of (a certain size), to have (a certain measurement)
The window measured two square feet.
26. v. To estimate the unit size of something.
I measure that at 10 centimetres.
27. v. To judge, value, or appraise.
28. v. To obtain or set apart; to mark in even increments.
29. v. (rare) To traverse, cross, pass along; to travel over.
30. v. To adjust by a rule or standard.
31. v. To allot or distribute by measure; to set off or apart by measure; often with out or off.
of
1. prep. Expressing distance or motion.
2. prep. (now obsolete, or dialectal) From (of distance, direction), "off".
3. prep. (obsolete except in phrases) Since, from (a given time, earlier state etc.).
4. prep. From, away from (a position, number, distance etc.).
There are no shops within twenty miles of the cottage.
5. prep. (North America, Scotland, Ireland) Before (the hour); to.
What's the time? / Nearly a quarter of three.
6. prep. Expressing separation.
7. prep. (Indicating removal, absence or separation, with the action indicated by a transitive verb and the quality or substance by a grammatical object.)
Finally she was relieved of the burden of caring for her sick husband.
8. prep. (Indicating removal, absence or separation, with resulting state indicated by an adjective.)
He seemed devoid of human feelings.
9. prep. (obsolete) (Indicating removal, absence or separation, construed with an intransitive verb.)
10. prep. Expressing origin.
11. prep. (Indicating an ancestral source or origin of descent.)
The word is believed to be of Japanese origin.
12. prep. (Indicating a (non-physical) source of action or emotion; introducing a cause, instigation); from, out of, as an expression of.
The invention was born of necessity.
13. prep. (following an intransitive verb) (Indicates the source or cause of the verb.)
It is said that she died of a broken heart.
14. prep. (following an adjective) (Indicates the subject or cause of the adjective.)
I am tired of all this nonsense.
15. prep. Expressing agency.
16. prep. (following a passive verb) (Indicates the agent (for most verbs, now usually expressed with by).)
I am not particularly enamoured of this idea.
17. prep. (Used to introduce the "subjective genitive"; following a noun to form the head of a postmodifying noun phrase) (see also 'Possession' senses below).
The contract can be terminated at any time with the agreement of both parties.
18. prep. (following an adjective) (Used to indicate the agent of something described by the adjective.)
It was very brave of you to speak out like that.
19. prep. Expressing composition, substance.
20. prep. (after a verb expressing construction, making etc.) (Used to indicate the material or substance used.)
Many 'corks' are now actually made of plastic.
21. prep. (directly following a noun) (Used to indicate the material of the just-mentioned object.)
She wore a dress of silk.
22. prep. (Indicating the composition of a given collective or quantitative noun.)
What a lot of nonsense!
23. prep. (Used to link a given class of things with a specific example of that class.)
Welcome to the historic town of Harwich.
24. prep. (Links two nouns in near-apposition, with the first qualifying the second); "which is also".
I'm not driving this wreck of a car.
25. prep. Introducing subject matter.
26. prep. (Links an intransitive verb, or a transitive verb and its subject (especially verbs to do with thinking, feeling, expressing etc.), with its subject-ma
I'm always thinking of you.
27. prep. (following a noun (now chiefly nouns of knowledge, communication etc.)) (Introduces its subject matter); about, concerning.
He told us the story of his journey to India.
28. prep. (following an adjective) (Introduces its subject matter.)
This behaviour is typical of teenagers.
29. prep. Having partitive effect.
30. prep. (following a number or other quantitive word) (Introduces the whole for which is indicated only the specified part or segment); "from among".
Most of these apples are rotten.
31. prep. (following a noun) (Indicates a given part.)
32. prep. (now archaic, literary, with preceding partitive word assumed, or as a predicate after to be) Some, an amount of, one of.
On the whole, they seem to be of the decent sort.
33. prep. (Links to a genitive noun or possessive pronoun, with partitive effect (though now often merged with possessive senses, below).)
He is a friend of mine.
34. prep. Expressing possession.
35. prep. Belonging to, existing in, or taking place in a given location, place or time. Compare "origin" senses, above.
He was perhaps the most famous scientist of the twentieth century.
36. prep. Belonging to (a place) through having title, ownership or control over it.
The owner of the nightclub was arrested.
37. prep. Belonging to (someone or something) as something they possess or have as a characteristic; (the "possessive genitive". (With abstract nouns, this inter
Keep the handle of the saucepan away from the flames.
38. prep. Forming the "objective genitive".
39. prep. (Follows an agent noun, verbal noun or noun of action.)
She had a profound distrust of the police.
40. prep. Expressing qualities or characteristics.
41. prep. (now archaic, or literary) (Links an adjective with a noun or noun phrase to form a quasi-adverbial qualifier); in respect to, as regards.
My companion seemed affable and easy of manner.
42. prep. (Indicates a quality or characteristic); "characterized by".
Pooh was said to be a bear of very little brain.
43. prep. (Indicates quantity, age, price, etc.)
We have been paying interest at a rate of 10%.
44. prep. (US, informal considered incorrect by some) (Used to link singular indefinite nouns (preceded by the indefinite article) and attributive adjectives mod
It's not that big of a deal.
45. prep. Expressing a point in time.
46. prep. (chiefly regional) During the course of (a set period of time, day of the week etc.), now specifically with implied repetition or regularity.
Of an evening, we would often go for a stroll along the river.
47. prep. (UK dialectal, chiefly in negative constructions) For (a given length of time).
I've not tekken her out of a goodly long while.
48. prep. (after a noun) (Indicates duration of a state, activity etc.)
After a delay of three hours, the plane finally took off.
glass
1. n. An amorphous solid, often transparent substance made by melting sand with a mixture of soda, potash and lime.
The tabletop is made of glass.
A popular myth is that window glass is actually an extremely viscous liquid.
2. n. A vessel from which one drinks, especially one made of glass, plastic, or similar translucent or semi-translucent material.
Fill my glass with milk, please.
3. n. (metonymically) The quantity of liquid contained in such a vessel.
There is half a glass of milk in each pound of chocolate we produce.
4. n. Glassware.
We collected art glass.
5. n. A mirror.
She adjusted her lipstick in the glass.
6. n. A magnifying glass or telescope.
7. n. (sport) A barrier made of solid, transparent material.
8. n. (basketball, colloquial) The backboard.
He caught the rebound off the glass.
9. n. (ice hockey) The clear, protective screen surrounding a hockey rink.
He fired the outlet pass off the glass.
10. n. A barometer.
11. n. (attributive, in names of species) Transparent or translucent.
glass frog; glass shrimp; glass worm
12. n. (obsolete) An hourglass.
13. v. To fit with glass; to glaze.
14. v. To enclose in glass.
15. v. (clipping of fibreglass). To fit, cover, fill, or build, with fibreglass-reinforced resin composite (fiberglass).
16. v. (transitive, UK, colloquial) To strike (someone), particularly in the face, with a drinking glass with the intent of causing injury.
17. v. (science fiction) To bombard an area with such intensity (nuclear bomb, fusion bomb, etc) as to melt the landscape into glass.
18. v. To view through an optical instrument such as binoculars.
19. v. To smooth or polish (leather, etc.), by rubbing it with a glass burnisher.
20. v. (archaic, reflexive) To reflect; to mirror.
21. v. To become glassy.
containing
1. v. present participle of contain
2. n. (in the plural) contents
contain
1. v. To hold inside.
2. v. To include as a part.
3. v. To put constraint upon; to restrain; to confine; to keep within bounds.
I'm so excited, I can hardly contain myself!
4. v. (mathematics, of a set etc., transitive) To have as an element or subset.
A group contains a unique inverse for each of its elements.
If that subgraph contains the vertex in question then it must be spanning.
5. v. (obsolete, intransitive) To restrain desire; to live in continence or chastity.
twenty
1. num. The cardinal number 20, occurring after nineteen and before twenty-one.
2. n. (colloquial) A banknote with a denomination of 20.
The waiter’s face lit up when I gave him a twenty.
3. n. (CB slang) 10-20 (location).
What’s your twenty, good buddy?
4. n. (historical) An old English division of infantry.
four
1. num. (cardinal) A numerical value equal to 4; the number after three and before five; two plus two. This many dots (••••)
There are four seasons: winter, spring, summer and autumn.
2. num. Describing a set or group with four elements.
3. n. The digit or figure 4; an occurrence thereof.
4. n. Anything measuring four units, as length.
Do you have any more fours? I want to make this a little taller.
5. n. A person who is four years old.
I'll take the threes, fours and fives and go to the playground.
6. n. (cricket) An event whereby a batsman hits a ball which bounces on the ground before passing over a boundary in the air, resulting in an award of 4 runs for the batting team. If the ball does not bounc
7. n. (basketball) A power forward.
8. n. (rowing) Quadruple sculls.
9. n. (obsolete) A four-pennyworth of spirits.
weys
1. n. plural of wey
of
1. prep. Expressing distance or motion.
2. prep. (now obsolete, or dialectal) From (of distance, direction), "off".
3. prep. (obsolete except in phrases) Since, from (a given time, earlier state etc.).
4. prep. From, away from (a position, number, distance etc.).
There are no shops within twenty miles of the cottage.
5. prep. (North America, Scotland, Ireland) Before (the hour); to.
What's the time? / Nearly a quarter of three.
6. prep. Expressing separation.
7. prep. (Indicating removal, absence or separation, with the action indicated by a transitive verb and the quality or substance by a grammatical object.)
Finally she was relieved of the burden of caring for her sick husband.
8. prep. (Indicating removal, absence or separation, with resulting state indicated by an adjective.)
He seemed devoid of human feelings.
9. prep. (obsolete) (Indicating removal, absence or separation, construed with an intransitive verb.)
10. prep. Expressing origin.
11. prep. (Indicating an ancestral source or origin of descent.)
The word is believed to be of Japanese origin.
12. prep. (Indicating a (non-physical) source of action or emotion; introducing a cause, instigation); from, out of, as an expression of.
The invention was born of necessity.
13. prep. (following an intransitive verb) (Indicates the source or cause of the verb.)
It is said that she died of a broken heart.
14. prep. (following an adjective) (Indicates the subject or cause of the adjective.)
I am tired of all this nonsense.
15. prep. Expressing agency.
16. prep. (following a passive verb) (Indicates the agent (for most verbs, now usually expressed with by).)
I am not particularly enamoured of this idea.
17. prep. (Used to introduce the "subjective genitive"; following a noun to form the head of a postmodifying noun phrase) (see also 'Possession' senses below).
The contract can be terminated at any time with the agreement of both parties.
18. prep. (following an adjective) (Used to indicate the agent of something described by the adjective.)
It was very brave of you to speak out like that.
19. prep. Expressing composition, substance.
20. prep. (after a verb expressing construction, making etc.) (Used to indicate the material or substance used.)
Many 'corks' are now actually made of plastic.
21. prep. (directly following a noun) (Used to indicate the material of the just-mentioned object.)
She wore a dress of silk.
22. prep. (Indicating the composition of a given collective or quantitative noun.)
What a lot of nonsense!
23. prep. (Used to link a given class of things with a specific example of that class.)
Welcome to the historic town of Harwich.
24. prep. (Links two nouns in near-apposition, with the first qualifying the second); "which is also".
I'm not driving this wreck of a car.
25. prep. Introducing subject matter.
26. prep. (Links an intransitive verb, or a transitive verb and its subject (especially verbs to do with thinking, feeling, expressing etc.), with its subject-ma
I'm always thinking of you.
27. prep. (following a noun (now chiefly nouns of knowledge, communication etc.)) (Introduces its subject matter); about, concerning.
He told us the story of his journey to India.
28. prep. (following an adjective) (Introduces its subject matter.)
This behaviour is typical of teenagers.
29. prep. Having partitive effect.
30. prep. (following a number or other quantitive word) (Introduces the whole for which is indicated only the specified part or segment); "from among".
Most of these apples are rotten.
31. prep. (following a noun) (Indicates a given part.)
32. prep. (now archaic, literary, with preceding partitive word assumed, or as a predicate after to be) Some, an amount of, one of.
On the whole, they seem to be of the decent sort.
33. prep. (Links to a genitive noun or possessive pronoun, with partitive effect (though now often merged with possessive senses, below).)
He is a friend of mine.
34. prep. Expressing possession.
35. prep. Belonging to, existing in, or taking place in a given location, place or time. Compare "origin" senses, above.
He was perhaps the most famous scientist of the twentieth century.
36. prep. Belonging to (a place) through having title, ownership or control over it.
The owner of the nightclub was arrested.
37. prep. Belonging to (someone or something) as something they possess or have as a characteristic; (the "possessive genitive". (With abstract nouns, this inter
Keep the handle of the saucepan away from the flames.
38. prep. Forming the "objective genitive".
39. prep. (Follows an agent noun, verbal noun or noun of action.)
She had a profound distrust of the police.
40. prep. Expressing qualities or characteristics.
41. prep. (now archaic, or literary) (Links an adjective with a noun or noun phrase to form a quasi-adverbial qualifier); in respect to, as regards.
My companion seemed affable and easy of manner.
42. prep. (Indicates a quality or characteristic); "characterized by".
Pooh was said to be a bear of very little brain.
43. prep. (Indicates quantity, age, price, etc.)
We have been paying interest at a rate of 10%.
44. prep. (US, informal considered incorrect by some) (Used to link singular indefinite nouns (preceded by the indefinite article) and attributive adjectives mod
It's not that big of a deal.
45. prep. Expressing a point in time.
46. prep. (chiefly regional) During the course of (a set period of time, day of the week etc.), now specifically with implied repetition or regularity.
Of an evening, we would often go for a stroll along the river.
47. prep. (UK dialectal, chiefly in negative constructions) For (a given length of time).
I've not tekken her out of a goodly long while.
48. prep. (after a noun) (Indicates duration of a state, activity etc.)
After a delay of three hours, the plane finally took off.
five
1. num. (cardinal) A numerical value equal to 5; the number following four and preceding six. This many dots: (•••••).
2. num. Describing a group or set with five elements.
3. n. The digit/figure 5.
He wrote a five followed by four zeroes.
4. n. (US) A five-dollar bill.
Can anyone here change a five?
5. n. Anything measuring five units, as length.
All the fives are over there in the corner, next to the fours.
6. n. A person who is five years old.
The fives and sixes will have snack first, then the older kids.
7. n. Five o'clock.
See you at five.
8. n. A short rest, especially one of five minutes.
Take five, soldier.
9. n. (basketball) A basketball team, club or lineup.
pounds
1. n. plural of pound
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of pound
pound
1. n. (sometimes pound after numerals)
2. n. A unit of mass equal to 16 avoirdupois ounces (= 453.592 37 g). Today this value is the most common meaning of "pound" as a unit of weight.
3. n. A unit of mass equal to 12 troy ounces (≈ 373.242 g). Today, this is a common unit of weight when measuring precious metals, and is little used elsewhere.
4. n. (US) The symbol (unsupported #) (octothorpe, hash)
5. n. The unit of currency used in the United Kingdom and its dependencies. It is divided into 100 pence.
6. n. Any of various units of currency used in Egypt and Lebanon, and formerly in the Republic of Ireland, Cyprus and Israel.
7. n. Any of various units of currency formerly used in the United States.
the Rhode Island pound; the New Hampshire pound
8. n. Abbreviation for pound-force, a unit of force/weight. Using this abbreviation to describe pound-force is inaccurate and unscientific.
9. n. A place for the detention of stray or wandering animals. An animal shelter.
10. n. (by metonymy) The people who work for the pound
11. n. A place for the detention of automobiles that have been illegally parked, abandoned, etc. Short form of impound.
Beverly Hills Cop, Paramount Pictures, 1984:
Inspector Douglas Todd: Where did you get a truckload of cigarettes from anyway?
Detective Axel Foley: From the Dearborn Hijacking.
Todd: The Dearborn Hijacking? That bust went down weeks ago. That load's supposed to be in the damn pound!
12. n. A section of a canal between two adjacent locks.
13. n. A kind of fishing net, having a large enclosure with a narrow entrance into which fish are directed by wings spreading outward.
14. v. To confine in, or as in, a pound; to impound.
15. v. To strike hard, usually repeatedly.
16. v. To crush to pieces; to pulverize.
17. v. (transitive, slang) To eat or drink very quickly.
You really pounded that beer!
18. v. (transitive, baseball, slang) To pitch consistently to a certain location.
The pitcher has been pounding the outside corner all night.
19. v. (intransitive, of a body part, generally heart, blood, or head) To beat strongly or throb.
As I tiptoed past the sleeping dog, my heart was pounding but I remained silent.
My head was pounding.
20. v. (transitive, vulgar, slang) To penetrate sexually, with vigour.
I was pounding her all night!
21. v. To advance heavily with measured steps.
22. v. (engineering) To make a jarring noise, as when running.
The engine pounds.
23. v. (slang) To wager a pound on.
24. n. A hard blow.
or
1. conj. Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc. each of which could make a passage true. In English, this is the "inclusive or." The "exclusive or" is formed by "either(...)
In Ohio, anyone under the age of 18 who wants a tattoo or body piercing needs the consent of a parent or guardian.
He might get cancer, or be hit by a bus, or God knows what.
2. conj. (logic) An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms, the inclusive or and the exclusive or.
3. conj. Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities.
4. conj. Otherwise (a consequence of the condition that the previous is false).
It's raining! Come inside or you'll catch a cold!
5. conj. Connects two equivalent names.
The country Myanmar, or Burma
6. n. (logic, electronics) alternative form of OR
7. n. (tincture) The gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms.
8. adj. (tincture) Of gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms.
9. adv. (obsolete) Early (on).
10. adv. (obsolete) Earlier, previously.
11. prep. (now archaic, or dialect) Before; ere.
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pounds
1. n. plural of pound
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of pound
pound
1. n. (sometimes pound after numerals)
2. n. A unit of mass equal to 16 avoirdupois ounces (= 453.592 37 g). Today this value is the most common meaning of "pound" as a unit of weight.
3. n. A unit of mass equal to 12 troy ounces (≈ 373.242 g). Today, this is a common unit of weight when measuring precious metals, and is little used elsewhere.
4. n. (US) The symbol (unsupported #) (octothorpe, hash)
5. n. The unit of currency used in the United Kingdom and its dependencies. It is divided into 100 pence.
6. n. Any of various units of currency used in Egypt and Lebanon, and formerly in the Republic of Ireland, Cyprus and Israel.
7. n. Any of various units of currency formerly used in the United States.
the Rhode Island pound; the New Hampshire pound
8. n. Abbreviation for pound-force, a unit of force/weight. Using this abbreviation to describe pound-force is inaccurate and unscientific.
9. n. A place for the detention of stray or wandering animals. An animal shelter.
10. n. (by metonymy) The people who work for the pound
11. n. A place for the detention of automobiles that have been illegally parked, abandoned, etc. Short form of impound.
Beverly Hills Cop, Paramount Pictures, 1984:
Inspector Douglas Todd: Where did you get a truckload of cigarettes from anyway?
Detective Axel Foley: From the Dearborn Hijacking.
Todd: The Dearborn Hijacking? That bust went down weeks ago. That load's supposed to be in the damn pound!
12. n. A section of a canal between two adjacent locks.
13. n. A kind of fishing net, having a large enclosure with a narrow entrance into which fish are directed by wings spreading outward.
14. v. To confine in, or as in, a pound; to impound.
15. v. To strike hard, usually repeatedly.
16. v. To crush to pieces; to pulverize.
17. v. (transitive, slang) To eat or drink very quickly.
You really pounded that beer!
18. v. (transitive, baseball, slang) To pitch consistently to a certain location.
The pitcher has been pounding the outside corner all night.
19. v. (intransitive, of a body part, generally heart, blood, or head) To beat strongly or throb.
As I tiptoed past the sleeping dog, my heart was pounding but I remained silent.
My head was pounding.
20. v. (transitive, vulgar, slang) To penetrate sexually, with vigour.
I was pounding her all night!
21. v. To advance heavily with measured steps.
22. v. (engineering) To make a jarring noise, as when running.
The engine pounds.
23. v. (slang) To wager a pound on.
24. n. A hard blow.

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