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# pound

«pound» in Mova's school dictionary: **a unit of weight; a loaf of bread weighs about one pound** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pound/#m1)

2) A pound (£) is the money of the United Kingdom; a pound has 100 pence. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pound/#m2)

3) To pound is to hit hard again and again. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pound/#m3)

4) A pound is a place where lost dogs or towed cars are kept. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pound/#m4)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pound/#x1)
- A bag of flour weighs 5 pounds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pound/#x2)
- Apples cost 2 dollars per pound. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pound/#x3)
- How many pounds did they pick? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pound/#x4)
- The comic cost 3 pounds in the shop in London. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pound/#x5)
- My heart was pounding before the race. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pound/#x6)
- He pounded on the door. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pound/#x7)
- The baby weighed 7 pounds when she was born. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pound/#x8)
- They got a puppy from the dog pound. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pound/#x9)
- A pound is a little less than half a kilogram. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pound/#x10)
- Please give us the thousand pounds reward." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pound/#x11)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/6-paying-for-a-home-and-the-bills/19/)
- [Inflation means prices rise over time, so the same pound buys less; if pay rises more slowly, families are worse off.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/9-when-money-is-tight/11/)
- [Harry also took a pound from Mum's purse for a lolly.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/338-sweets-change-and-a-friends-toy/5/)
- [A pound is small, but trust is big.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/338-sweets-change-and-a-friends-toy/10/)
- [Ollie, asked by his mum how much he had spent on games that year, guessed «about five pounds».](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/412-in-game-purchases-and-skins/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «pound» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pound/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.