pound
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- noun
- /paʊnd/
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libra
- The package weighs five pounds and will be shipped today.
- weighs 200 pounds
- 4.5 pounds
- weight in pounds
Can you bring a pound of jello through TSA?
- Can you bring a pound of jello through TSA?
- You can lose a few pounds, hippie.
- No, no, a whole # a pound of ground beef.
Examples
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You weigh three more pounds than your sisters.
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And I didn't gain a single pound for three weeks.
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It's more like I want to lose half a pound a week, for example.
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That adds up in just ten days to a pound of body fat.
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Her weight has gone up by a few pounds in the last 2 years.
Academic text (2012) -
Moving house also makes you put on an average of 11 pounds in weight.
Academic text (2015) -
I mean, what is this, 15 pounds?
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There are more than five pounds of marrow in the human body.
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Have you recently lost more than fourteen pounds in a 3-month period?
Academic text (2011) -
Listen, there's 50 pounds of shrimp in a cooler at the hotel.
Synonyms
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A weight equal to 16 ounces, often called a pound and used in the US and UK
A measure of force equal to the push of gravity on one pound
Idioms
- Informal
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When you start something risky or difficult, you continue and do it fully
Stopping a problem early is better than fixing it later
Compounds
- Informal
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A very powerful person or company that others cannot easily challenge
A unit of money used in the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland equal to 100 pence
- Archaic
An old unit of weight used for medicines equal to 12 ounces, about 373 grams
- Specialized
A large net that guides fish into an enclosed area where they cannot escape
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Etymology
The word pound for the unit of weight comes from Latin pondus meaning 'weight', so a pound is just a way to measure how heavy something is.