pound
part of speech
noun (pound, pounds; lb, £); verb (pound, pounds, pounded, pounding)
meaning for a pupil
1) A pound is a unit of weight; a loaf of bread weighs about one pound. A pound is 16 ounces. tree →
2) A pound (£) is the money of the United Kingdom; a pound has 100 pence. tree →
3) To pound is to hit hard again and again. tree →
4) A pound is a place where lost dogs or towed cars are kept. tree →
sense in the lessons
a unit of weight for fruit, flour, sugar or animals; often with a price per pound; in British stories, prices are in pounds and pence; phrases «per pound», «pound coin», «heart pounding»
examples
- The strawberries weighed 35 pounds. tree →
- A bag of flour weighs 5 pounds. tree →
- Apples cost 2 dollars per pound. tree →
- How many pounds did they pick? tree →
- The comic cost 3 pounds in the shop in London. tree →
- My heart was pounding before the race. tree →
- He pounded on the door. tree →
- The baby weighed 7 pounds when she was born. tree →
- They got a puppy from the dog pound. tree →
- A pound is a little less than half a kilogram. tree →
- Please give us the thousand pounds reward." tree →
note
A unit of weight, not a thing counted. «per pound» is a rate (price or amount). Trap: a pound is also British money; in these problems with dollars it is weight. «lb» means pounds of weight, «£» means pounds of money. 1 pound is about 0.45 kilograms.
In the corpora
- A deposit for buying a home is often tens of thousands of pounds, and saving for it can take years.
- Inflation means prices rise over time, so the same pound buys less; if pay rises more slowly, families are worse off.
- Harry also took a pound from Mum's purse for a lolly.
- A pound is small, but trust is big.
- Ollie, asked by his mum how much he had spent on games that year, guessed «about five pounds».
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «pound» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.