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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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viss
English
Alternative forms
- vis
Etymology
Borrowed from Tamil ???? (v?cai) and/or Telugu ???? (v?se)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /v?s/
- Rhymes: -?s
Noun
viss (plural visses)
- A Burmese unit of measure for weight, approximately 1.63293 kilograms (3.6 pounds).
Related terms
- tical (a unit of weight equal to 0.01 viss)
Translations
Anagrams
- ISVs
Icelandic
Etymology
From Old Norse viss (“certain, sure”), from Proto-Germanic *gawissaz. Cognate with Swedish viss.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /v?s?/
- Rhymes: -?s?
Adjective
viss (comparative vissari, superlative vissastur)
- certain, sure, positive
- Ertu viss? — Já, ég er alveg viss.
- Are you sure? — Yes, I'm positive.
- Ertu viss? — Já, ég er alveg viss.
- certain, having been determined but unspecific
- Að falla úr vissri hæð.
- To fall from a certain height.
- Að falla úr vissri hæð.
Inflection
Synonyms
- (sure): öruggur, (informal, dated) sikker
- (certain): ákveðinn
Derived terms
- óviss
Latvian
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *visas, from Proto-Indo-European *wi-so-s, from *wi-, *w?- (“separated, divided; two parts of a whole”). Cognates include Lithuanian vìsas, Sudovian wisa, Proto-Slavic *v?x? (Old Church Slavonic ???? (v?s?), Russian ???? (ves?), Belarusian ?????? (uvjés?), Ukrainian ???? (ves?), ?????? (uvés?), Bulgarian ??? (vse), Czech ves, Polish wszy, Sanskrit ?? (ví, “apart, asunder, off, in several directions”), ????? (ví?va, “all, each, whole”), Avestan ????????????????????-? (v?spa-), Old Persian [script needed] (visa-, “all, whole”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [vis]
Adjective
viss (no definite forms; irreg. adv. (none))
- (usually singular) all, whole, entire (considered as a single entity)
- (of time periods, in the accusative) all, whole (during the entire time period)
- (usually plural) all, all the... (the entire group of, without exception)
- (with abstractions entities, ideas) all, full (maximally intense)
Pronoun
viss (indefinite)
- (masculine singular forms) all, everything, anything
- vieta, kur? var?ja atrast visu ko: labo un slikto, jauno un veco, atpalikušo un progres?vo - a place where one could find all that (= all kinds of things): good and bad, new and old, backward and progressive
- (plural forms) all, everyone, everybody
- visi jau ir pa?duši - everybody has already eaten
- visi ir veseli - all are healthy
- n?ca visi kop? - they all came together
- visu v?rd? - in the name of (= on behalf of) everyone
- visi bez iz??muma - everybody, without exception
- visi skraid?ja ap ugunsgr?ku k? apmulsuši, cits caur citu vaiman?dami - everybody (just) ran around the fire confusedly, wailing at each other
- visi, kas no m?tes ir aizg?juši pasaul? laimi mekl?t, ir apg?juši pasaulei apk?rt un atraduši tikai m?ti - all those who went away from their mother to look for happiness in the world, went all around the world and found only (their) mother
Usage notes
Viss has no definite forms; the indefinite forms are used in all cases. It has also no comparative or superlative forms.
Declension
Synonyms
- (of "whole"): vesels
- (for time periods): augs
Antonyms
- (of "everything"): nekas
Derived terms
- All superlative adjectives and superlative adverbs.
References
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old Norse víss
Adjective
viss (neuter singular visst, definite singular and plural visse)
- certain
- til en viss grad - to a certain extent
Antonyms
- uviss
Derived terms
- visshet
References
- “viss” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??s?/
Etymology 1
From Old Norse víss
Adjective
viss (neuter singular visst, definite singular and plural visse)
- certain
Antonyms
- uviss
Etymology 2
From Middle Low German wes
Conjunction
viss
- if
Synonyms
- dersom
References
- “viss” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Norse viss, from Proto-Germanic *gawissaz. Cognate with Icelandic viss.
Pronunciation
Adjective
viss (comparative vissare, superlative vissast)
- certain, convinced
- Experterna har nu blivit vissa om olyckans orsaker.
- The experts have now become certain regarding the causes of the accident.
- Experterna har nu blivit vissa om olyckans orsaker.
- some, certain, particular (not comparable)
- I vissa avseenden, fungerar det inte.
- In some ways, it doesn't work.
- I vissa avseenden, fungerar det inte.
Declension
Related terms
- visshet
See also
- några
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