pound

A unit of weight in various measurement systems.

A unit of mass in various measurement systems.

A unit of force in various measurement systems

A unit of currency in various currency systems.

(US)The symbol #.

Holonym: hashtag

To be connected, press pound.

Đồng nghĩa: octothorpe, pound sign, hash, hash sign, hashtag, number sign, sharp

A place for the detention of stray or wandering animals.

Đồng nghĩa: animal shelter

(metonymically)(metonymic) The people who work for the pound.

(UK)A place for the detention of automobiles that have been illegally parked, abandoned, etc.

Đồng nghĩa: impound, car pound, impound lot, impound

A section of a canal between two adjacent locks.

Đồng nghĩa: 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.

Đồng nghĩa: bulk

A hard blow.

Đồng nghĩa: pounding

(UK, regional, slang, transitive)(slang, UK regional, transitive) To wager a pound on.

To confine in, or as in, a pound; to impound.

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

(transitive)To strike hard, usually repeatedly.

Đồng nghĩa: hammer, pelt, bang, baste, batter, beat, belabor, blow, boom-boom, buffet, butt, calcitrate, cuff, dab, dash, dowse, feeze, fetch one a blow, flap, give toco, kick, knock, hammer, hit, impact, jerk, lambaste, lay into, lay on, lunge, patter, pat, pelt, pink, poke, pummel, punch, pound, tap, thrash, thump, thwack, rap, slam, slap, smack, smite, spank, strike, swap, swinge, vapulate, whack, whip, yerk

(transitive)To crush to pieces; to pulverize.

Đồng nghĩa: pulverate, triturate

(slang, transitive)To eat or drink very quickly.

You really pounded that beer!

Đồng nghĩa: bolt, down, chug, eat, have, fret, drink, hydrate, imbibe, wet one's whistle, wet one's beak

(slang, transitive)(transitive, baseball, slang) To pitch consistently to a certain location.

The pitcher has been pounding the outside corner all night.

(intransitive)(intransitive, of a body part, generally heart, blood, or head) To beat strongly or throb.

As I tiptoed past the sleeping dog, my heart was pounding but I remained silent.

My head was pounding.

(slang, transitive, vulgar)To penetrate sexually, with vigour.

I was pounding her all night!

Đồng nghĩa: drill, get up in, nail, poke, Formal terms, bed, coit, coitize, dight, enjoy, feague, go in unto, go to bed with, have, know, lie by, lie with, love, mount, occupy, penetrate, season, seduce, sleep with, take, Any of Thesaurus:copulate + "with", Informal and slang terms, ball, bang, bauf, beep, be with, bone, boff, boink, bonk, boom-boom, dick, diddle, dig out, do, doink, drill, eff, expletive deleted, fill, frack, frak, frick, frig, fuck, get into someone's pants, get over on, get up in, give someone one, give someone the time, go with, have one's way with, have one's wicked way with, hit, hump, jape, jump, jump someone's bones, knob, knock, knock off, know someone in the biblical sense, lay, love up, make, nail, plough, plug, poke, pork, pound, prig, pump, ravage, ream, rock, roger, root, run through, rut, sard, schlong, screw, see to, service, shaft, shag, shelve, slay, slip it to, smash, smush, stallionize, swive, tap, tup, wap

To advance heavily with measured steps.

(engineering) To make a jarring noise, as when running.

The engine pounds.