pound
suomi-englanti sanakirjapound englannista suomeksi
pauna, naula
tarhata
tömistellä
punta
jauhaa, murskata
jakaa
punnan merkki
hakata
hakkaaminen
troy-pauna
koiratarha, eläinkoti
jyskyttää
sulkea
Substantiivi
pound englanniksi
Pound
(ellipsis of)
Various non-English units of measure.
A unit of mass equal to 16 avoirdupois ounces (= 453.592 g). Today this value is the most common meaning of "pound" as a unit of weight.
(quote-journal)
(syn)
A unit of mass equal to 12 weight|troy ounces (≈ 373.242 g). Today, this is a common unit of mass when measuring precious metals, and is little used elsewhere.
(short for)
Various non-English units of currency.
The unit of currency used in the United Kingdom and its dependencies. It is divided into 100 pence. Symbol £.
(quote-book)
Any of various units of currency used in Egypt, Lebanon, Sudan and Syria, and formerly in the Republic of Ireland, Cyprus, Israel and South Africa.
(RQ:Joyce Ulysses)
Any of various units of currency formerly used in the States.
(ux)
(senseid) The symbol (l).
(hol)
To wager a pound on. (defdate)
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(hypo)
The people who work for the pound.
(quote-av)
A place for the detention of automobiles that have been illegally parked, abandoned, etc.
A kind of fishing net, having a large enclosure with a narrow entrance into which fish are directed by wings spreading outward.
(RQ:Lincoln Pratt's Patients)
A division inside a fishing stage where cod is cured in salt brine.
To confine in, or as in, a pound; to impound.
(c.), anonymous, “(w)” 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 skinas a suite of guilt apparrell
(quote-book); A speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England|passage=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.
(quote-song)
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To eat or drink very quickly.
To pitch consistently to a certain location.
To advance heavily with measured steps.
(RQ:Conrad Heart of Darkness)
A hard blow.
A measurement for weight, most notably the Tower pound, merchant's pound or pound avoirdupois, or a weight of said measurement.
A (l) or other silver coin (including ancient coins), weighing one Tower pound of silver.
Money or coinage in general, especially a great amount of it.
(l)