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pound
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pa?nd/
- Rhymes: -a?nd
Etymology 1
From Middle English pound, from Old English pund (“a pound, weight”), from Proto-Germanic *pund? (“pound, weight”), an early borrowing from Latin pond? (“by weight”), ablative form of pondus (“weight”), from Proto-Indo-European *pend-, *spend- (“to pull, stretch”). Cognate with Dutch pond, German Pfund, Swedish pund. Doublet of pood.
Noun
pound (plural pounds) (sometimes pound after numerals)
- 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.
- Synonym: lb
- 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.
- Synonym: lb t
- (US) The symbol # (octothorpe, hash)
- Synonyms: hash, sharp
- The unit of currency used in the United Kingdom and its dependencies. It is divided into 100 pence.
- Synonyms: £, pound sterling, GBP, quid, nicker
- Any of various units of currency used in Egypt and Lebanon, and formerly in the Republic of Ireland, Cyprus and Israel.
- Synonym: punt
- Any of various units of currency formerly used in the United States.
- Abbreviation for pound-force, a unit of force/weight. Using this abbreviation to describe pound-force is inaccurate and unscientific.
Usage notes
- Internationally, the "pound" has most commonly referred to the UK pound, £, (pound sterling). The other currencies were usually distinguished in some way, e.g., the "Irish pound" or the "punt".
- In the vicinity of each other country calling its currency the pound among English speakers the local currency would be the "pound", with all others distinguished, e.g., the "British pound", the "Egyptian pound" etc.
- The general plural of "pound" has usually been "pounds" (at least since Chaucer), but the continuing use of the Old English genitive or neuter "pound" as the plural after numerals (for both currency and weight) is common in some regions. It can be considered correct, or colloquial, depending on region.
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- Pound (the unit of mass) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Pound (the UK unit of currency) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- crown, farthing, florin, guinea, penny, pence, shilling, sovereign, sterling
Etymology 2
From Middle English pounde, ponde, pund, from Old English pund (“an enclosure”), related to Old English pyndan (“to enclose, shut up, dam, impound”). Compare also Old English pynd (“a cistern, lake”).
Noun
pound (plural pounds)
- A place for the detention of stray or wandering animals.
- Synonym: animal shelter
- (metonymically) The people who work for the pound.
- (Britain) A place for the detention of automobiles that have been illegally parked, abandoned, etc. Short form of impound.
- Synonyms: (UK) car pound, (US) impound lot, (US) impound
- A section of a canal between two adjacent locks.
- Synonym: reach
- A kind of fishing net, having a large enclosure with a narrow entrance into which fish are directed by wings spreading outward.
- (Newfoundland) a division inside a fishing stage where cod is cured in salt brine
- Synonym: bulk
Usage notes
- Manx English uses this word uncountably.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
pound (third-person singular simple present pounds, present participle pounding, simple past and past participle pounded)
- To confine in, or as in, a pound; to impound.
- c. 1620, anonymous, “Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song” in Giles Earle his Booke (British Museum, Additional MSS. 24, 665):
- 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
- When I short haue shorne my sowce face
- c. 1620, anonymous, “Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song” in Giles Earle his Booke (British Museum, Additional MSS. 24, 665):
Etymology 3
From an alteration of earlier poun, pown, from Middle English pounen, from Old English p?nian (“to pound, beat, bray, bruise, crush”), from Proto-Germanic *p?n?n? (“to break to pieces, pulverise”). Related to Saterland Frisian Pün (“debris, fragments”), Dutch puin (“debris, fragments, rubbish”), Low German pun (“fragments”). Perhaps influenced by Etymology 2 Middle English *pound, pond, from Old English *pund, pynd, in relation to the hollow mortar for pounding with the pestle.
Alternative forms
- poun, pown (obsolete or dialectal)
Verb
pound (third-person singular simple present pounds, present participle pounding, simple past and past participle pounded)
- (transitive) To strike hard, usually repeatedly.
- Synonyms: hammer, pelt; see also Thesaurus:hit
- (transitive) To crush to pieces; to pulverize.
- Synonyms: pulverate, triturate
- (transitive, slang) To eat or drink very quickly.
- Synonyms: bolt, down, chug; see also Thesaurus:eat, Thesaurus:drink
- (transitive, baseball, slang) To pitch consistently to a certain location.
- (intransitive, of a body part, generally heart, blood, or head) To beat strongly or throb.
- (transitive, vulgar, slang) To penetrate sexually, with vigour.
- Synonyms: drill, get up in, nail, poke; see also Thesaurus:copulate with
- To advance heavily with measured steps.
- (engineering) To make a jarring noise, as when running.
- (slang, dated) To wager a pound on.
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- bang
Noun
pound (plural pounds)
- A hard blow.
- Synonym: pounding
Translations
Middle English
Alternative forms
- pounde, pund, punde, powund
Etymology
From Old English pund, in turn from Proto-Germanic *pund?, from Latin pond?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pu?nd/, /pund/
Noun
pound (plural poundes or pounden or pound)
- A measurement for weight, most notably the Tower pound, merchant's pound or pound avoirdupois, or a weight of said measurement.
- A pound or other silver coin (including ancient coins), weighing one Tower pound of silver.
- Money or coinage in general, especially a great amount of it.
Descendants
- English: pound
- Scots: pund, poond
References
- “p?und(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-02-22.
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demolish
English
Etymology
Attested since the 16th century; from Middle French demoliss-, the stem of some conjugated forms of the verb demolir (“to destroy”, “to tear down”), from Latin d?m?lior (“I tear down”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /d??m?l.??/
Verb
demolish (third-person singular simple present demolishes, present participle demolishing, simple past and past participle demolished)
- To destroy.
- (transitive, figuratively) To defeat or consume utterly (as a theory, belief or opponent).
- 1992, Robert Rankin, The Antipope (page 68)
- The Captain folded his brow into a look of intense perplexity. 'You seem exceedingly spry for a man who demolished an entire bottle of brandy and better part of an ounce of shag in a single evening.'
'And very nice too,' said the tramp. 'Now as to breakfast?'
- The Captain folded his brow into a look of intense perplexity. 'You seem exceedingly spry for a man who demolished an entire bottle of brandy and better part of an ounce of shag in a single evening.'
- 1992, Robert Rankin, The Antipope (page 68)
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:destroy
Related terms
- demolition
Translations
References
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “demolish”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
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