pound
USpaund
معنی فارسی
پاوند رطل گيروانکه ليره انگليسي
معنی کامل و مثالها
/pound/
● عزرا پاوند (شاعر امریکایی)
ریشه و کاربرد
ریشه
Derived from the Latin word 'pondo', meaning 'weight'.
مثال
- The recipe calls for half a pound of flour.
- He lifted the dumbbell weighing 50 pounds.
- The package weighed 2 pounds.
تعریف انگلیسی
verb
- 16 ounces avoirdupois “he got a hernia when he tried to lift 100 pounds”
- the basic unit of money in Great Britain and Northern Ireland; equal to 100 pence
- a unit of apothecary weight equal to 12 ounces troy
- the basic unit of money in Syria; equal to 100 piasters
- the basic unit of money in the Sudan; equal to 100 piasters
- the basic unit of money in Cyprus; equal to 100 cents
- formerly the basic unit of money in Ireland; equal to 100 pence
- the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows) “the sudden hammer of fists caught him off guard” “the pounding of feet on the hallway”
- the basic unit of money in Lebanon; equal to 100 piasters
- the basic unit of money in Egypt; equal to 100 piasters
- a public enclosure for stray or unlicensed dogs “unlicensed dogs will be taken to the pound”
- a nontechnical unit of force equal to the mass of 1 pound with an acceleration of free fall equal to 32 feet/sec/sec
- a symbol for a unit of currency (especially for the pound sterling in Great Britain)
- hit hard with the hand, fist, or some heavy instrument “the salesman pounded the door knocker” “a bible-thumping Southern Baptist” “Somebody ----s something” “Somebody ----s somebody”
- strike or drive against with a heavy impact “ram the gate with a sledgehammer” “pound on the door” “Something ----s something” “Somebody ----s something PP”
- move rhythmically “Her heart was beating fast” “Something ----s” “Something is ----ing PP”
- move heavily or clumsily “The heavy man lumbered across the room” “Somebody ----s” “Somebody ----s PP” “The children pound to the playground”
- partition off into compartments “The locks pound the water of the canal” “Somebody ----s something”
- shut up or confine in any enclosure or within any bounds or limits “The prisoners are safely pounded” “Somebody ----s somebody”
- place or shut up in a pound “pound the cows so they don't stray” “Somebody ----s something” “Somebody ----s somebody”
- break down and crush by beating, as with a pestle “pound the roots with a heavy flat stone” “Somebody ----s something” “Something ----s something”
noun
- United States writer who lived in Europe; strongly influenced the development of modern literature (1885-1972)
مترادفها
verb active
1. Beat, strike.
2. Bray, bruise, crush, pulverize, triturate, comminute, levigate.
3. Impound, confine in a pound, coop, enclose, shut up.