Foot pound
() A unit of energy, or work, being equal to the work done in raising one pound avoirdupois against the force of gravity the height of one foot. |
Pound
(v. t.) To strike repeatedly with some heavy instrument |
Pound
(v. t.) To comminute and pulverize by beating |
Pound
(v. i.) To strike heavy blows |
Pound
(v. i.) To make a jarring noise, as in running |
Pound
(n.) An inclosure, maintained by public authority, in which cattle or other animals are confined when taken in trespassing, or when going at large in violation of law |
Pound
(n.) A level stretch in a canal between locks. |
Pound
(n.) A kind of net, having a large inclosure with a narrow entrance into which fish are directed by wings spreading outward. |
Pound
(v. t.) To confine in, or as in, a pound |
Pound
(pl. ) of Pound |
Pound
(n.) A certain specified weight |
Pound
(n.) A British denomination of money of account, equivalent to twenty shillings sterling, and equal in value to about $4.86. There is no coin known by this name, but the gold sovereign is of the same value. |
Pound-breach
(n.) The breaking of a public pound for releasing impounded animals. |
Pound/keeper
(n.) The keeper of a pound. |
Re-sign
(v. t.) To affix one's signature to, a second time |
Re sign
(n.) Resignation. |
Sign
(n.) That by which anything is made known or represented |
Sign
(n.) A remarkable event, considered by the ancients as indicating the will of some deity |
Sign
(n.) An event considered by the Jews as indicating the divine will, or as manifesting an interposition of the divine power for some special end |
Sign
(n.) Something serving to indicate the existence, or preserve the memory, of a thing |
Sign
(n.) Any symbol or emblem which prefigures, typifles, or represents, an idea |
Sign
(n.) A word or a character regarded as the outward manifestation of thought |
Sign
(n.) A motion, an action, or a gesture by which a thought is expressed, or a command or a wish made known. |
Sign
(n.) Hence, one of the gestures of pantomime, or of a language of a signs such as those used by the North American Indians, or those used by the deaf and dumb. |
Sign
(n.) A military emblem carried on a banner or a standard. |
Sign
(n.) A lettered board, or other conspicuous notice, placed upon or before a building, room, shop, or office to advertise the business there transacted, or the name of the person or firm carrying it on |
Sign
(n.) The twelfth part of the ecliptic or zodiac. |
Sign
(n.) A character indicating the relation of quantities, or an operation performed upon them |
Sign
(n.) An objective evidence of disease |
Sign
(n.) Any character, as a flat, sharp, dot, etc. |
Sign
(n.) That which, being external, stands for, or signifies, something internal or spiritual |
Sign
(n.) To represent by a sign |
Sign
(n.) To make a sign upon |
Sign
(n.) To affix a signature to |
Sign
(n.) To assign or convey formally |
Sign
(n.) To mark |
Sign
(v. i.) To be a sign or omen. |
Sign
(v. i.) To make a sign or signal |
Sign
(v. i.) To write one's name, esp. as a token of assent, responsibility, or obligation. |
Babinski
Babinski reflex
Babinski sign | extension upward of the toes when the sole of the foot is stroked firmly on the outer side from the heel to the front, normal in infants under the age of two years but a sign of brain or spinal cord injury in older persons |
hammer
pound
hammering
pounding | the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows), the sudden hammer of fists caught him off guard, the pounding of feet on the hallway |
pound
dog pound | a public enclosure for stray or unlicensed dogs, unlicensed dogs will be taken to the pound |
| pound net | trap consisting of an arrangement of nets directing fish into an enclosure |
signboard
sign | structure displaying a board on which advertisements can be posted, the highway was lined with signboards |
| sign manual | the signature of a sovereign on an official document |
| sign mark | a perceptible indication of something not immediately apparent (as a visible clue that something has happened), he showed signs of strain, they welcomed the signs of spring |
signal
signaling
sign | any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message, signals from the boat suddenly stopped |
| sign | a public display of a message, he posted signs in all the shop windows |
| street sign | a sign visible from the street |
| high sign | a silent signal of warning or recognition, she started to speak but he gave her the high sign |
pound
pound sign | a symbol for a unit of currency (especially for the pound sterling in Great Britain) |
| sign | a character indicating a relation between quantities, don't forget the minus sign |
| equal sign | a sign indicating that the quantities on either side are equal |
| plus sign | a sign indicating the operation of addition |
| minus sign | a sign indicating the operation of subtraction |
| radical sign | a sign indicating the extraction of a root |
dollar mark
dollar sign | a mark ($) written before a number to indicate that it stands for the number of dollars |
dollar
dollar mark dollar sign | a symbol of commercialism or greed, he worships the almighty dollar, the dollar sign means little to him |
percent sign
percentage sign | a sign (`%') used to indicate that the number preceding it should be understood as a proportion multiplied by |
sign language
signing | language expressed by visible hand gestures |
ASL
American sign language | the sign language used in the United States |
| sign | a gesture that is part of a sign language |
| V sign | a sign (for victory), making a V with the index and middle fingers |
| sign of the cross | a gesture with the right hand moving to form a cross, used by Catholics as a profession of faith |
| sign | a fundamental linguistic unit linking a signifier to that which is signified, The bond between the signifier and the signified is arbitrary--de Saussure |
augury
sign
foretoken
preindication | an event that is experienced as indicating important things to come, he hoped it was an augury, it was a sign from God |
| pound cake | rich loaf cake made of a pound each of butter and sugar and flour |
| sign industry | an industry that produces signs |
sign of the zodiac
star sign
sign
mansion
house
planetary house | (astrology) one of equal areas into which the zodiac is divided |
| sign painter | someone who paints signs and billboards etc. |
Pound
Ezra Pound
Ezra Loomis Pound | United States writer who lived in Europe, strongly influenced the development of modern literature (-) |
pound
lbf. | a nontechnical unit of force equal to the mass of pound with an acceleration of free fall equal to feet
sec
sec |
British pound
pound British pound sterling
pound sterling
quid | the basic unit of money in Great Britain and Northern Ireland, equal to pence |
Cypriot pound
pound | the basic unit of money in Cyprus, equal to cents |
Egyptian pound
pound | the basic unit of money in Egypt, equal to piasters |
Irish pound
Irish punt
punt
pound | formerly the basic unit of money in Ireland, equal to pence |
Lebanese pound
pound | the basic unit of money in Lebanon, equal to piasters |
Sudanese pound
pound | the basic unit of money in the Sudan, equal to piasters |
Syrian pound
pound | the basic unit of money in Syria, equal to piasters |
| pound lb | ounces avoirdupois, he got a hernia when he tried to lift pounds |
| pound | a unit of apothecary weight equal to ounces troy |
| half pound | ounces avoirdupois |
| quarter pound | ounces avoirdupois |
troy pound
apothecaries' pound | an apothecary weight equal to ounces or . grams |
| foot-pound | a unit of work equal to a force of one pound moving through a distance of one foot |
polarity
sign | having an indicated pole (as the distinction between positive and negative electric charges), he got the polarity of the battery reversed, charges of opposite sign |
| Jacquemier's sign | a purplish discoloration of the mucous membrane of the vagina that occurs early in pregnancy |
| Kernig's sign | symptom of meningitis, patient cannot extend the leg at the knee when the thigh is flexed because of stiffness in the hamstrings |
| sign | (medicine) any objective evidence of the presence of a disorder or disease, there were no signs of asphyxiation |