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noun
- (British, slang) Pound sterling.
- A snigger or suppressed laugh.
- (euphemistic, vulgar, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) nigger.
- The cutting lip which projects downward at the edge of a boring bit and cuts a circular groove in the wood to limit the size of the hole that is bored.
- A soft neighing sound characteristic of a horse.
- (informal) Someone who nicks (steals) something, a thief.
- A type of mythological sea creature or sea monster; also, a water sprite; a nix or nixie; a mermaid or merman.
- Hippopotamus.
- the characteristic sounds made by a horse
verb
noun
- (UK, colloquial) Pound sterling. (usually only used with a whole number of pounds)
- the basic unit of money in Great Britain and Northern Ireland; equal to 100 pence
- (historical) A sovereign or guinea, that is, a certain coin or amount of money.
- A piece of material for chewing, especially chewing tobacco.
- (US, colloquial) The act of chewing such tobacco.
- (Commonwealth, colloquial, by extension, rare) Dollar, dollars.
- (Ireland, colloquial, by extension) Euro.
- (Ireland, Commonwealth, colloquial, historical) Various national currencies typically known by the name "pound".
- Paired with quo, in reference to the phrase quid pro quo (“this for that”): something offered in exchange for something else.
- The inherent nature of something.
- (US, historical) A member of a section of the Democratic-Republican Party between 1805 and 1811, following John Randolph of Roanoke. (From tertium quid.)
- something for something; that which a party receives (or is promised) in return for something they do or give or promise
- a wad of something chewable as tobacco
verb
noun
- an English coin worth one twentieth of a pound
- (historical) A coin formerly used in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Malta, Australia, New Zealand and many other Commonwealth countries worth twelve old pence, or one twentieth of a pound sterling.
- a former monetary unit in Great Britain
- the basic unit of money in Tanzania; equal to 100 cents
- the basic unit of money in Somalia; equal to 100 cents
- the basic unit of money in Kenya; equal to 100 cents
- the basic unit of money in Uganda; equal to 100 cents
- (US, historical, New York and some other states) The Spanish real, formerly having the value of one eighth of a dollar.
- (historical) Alternative form of schilling, a coin formely used in Germany and German states, worth twelve pfennig.
- (historical) Alternative form of skilling, a coin formely used in Denmark, Norway or Sweden, worth twelve penning.
- (US, historical) A currency in the United States, differing in value between states.
- The currency of Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania and Uganda.
verb
noun
- (slang, UK) One hundred pounds sterling.
- (US, Canada) A piece of paper money; a banknote.
- A document, originally sealed; a formal statement or official memorandum. (Now obsolete except with certain qualifying words; bill of health, bill of sale etc.)
- A cutting instrument, with hook-shaped point, and fitted with a handle, used in pruning, etc.; a billhook.
- A written list or inventory. (Now obsolete except in specific senses or set phrases; bill of lading, bill of goods, etc.)
- Somebody armed with a bill; a billman.
- A writing that binds the signer or signers to pay a certain sum at a future day or on demand, with or without interest, as may be stated in the document; a bill of exchange. In the United States, it is usually called a note, a note of hand, or a promissory note.
- A pickaxe or mattock.
- A written note of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, with the price or charge owing; an invoice.
- A draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law.
- Any of various bladed or pointed hand weapons, originally designating an Anglo-Saxon sword, and later a weapon of infantry, especially in the 14th and 15th centuries, commonly consisting of a broad, heavy, double-edged, hook-shaped blade, with a short pike at the back and another at the top, attached to the end of a long staff.
- (nautical) The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke (also called the peak).
- A set of items presented together.
- A beaklike projection, especially a promontory.
- (slang, India) A written note of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, listing the price or charge paid; a receipt.
- The bell, or boom, of the bittern.
- A paper, written or printed, and posted up or given away, to advertise something, as a lecture, a play, or the sale of goods
- (zootomy) The beak of a bird, especially when small or flattish; sometimes also used with reference to a platypus, turtle, or other animal.
- (slang, Canada, US) One hundred dollars.
- Of a cap or hat: the brim or peak, serving as a shade to keep sun off the face and out of the eyes.
- (UK, Eton College) A list of pupils to be disciplined for breaking school rules.
- a list of particulars (as a playbill or bill of fare)
- horny projecting mouth of a bird
- the entertainment offered at a public presentation
- a sign posted in a public place as an advertisement
- an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution
- a piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank)
- a brim that projects to the front to shade the eyes
- a cutting tool with a sharp edge
- a statute in draft before it becomes law
- an itemized statement of money owed for goods shipped or services rendered
verb
- (transitive) To charge; to send a bill to.
- (transitive) To dig, chop, etc., with a bill.
- (ambitransitive, UK, slang) To roll up a marijuana cigarette.
- to stroke bill against bill, with reference to doves; to caress in fondness
- (transitive) To advertise by a bill or public notice.
- publicize or announce by placards
- demand payment
- advertise especially by posters or placards
noun
- (UK) An amount of money that the English (later British) coin was worth.
- an English coin worth half a penny
- (UK) A discontinued English (later British) coin worth half of one penny (old or new).
- (philately, historical) A postage stamp worth half of one penny.
- (by extension, Ireland, Scotland) An amount of money that the Irish or Scottish coin was worth.
- (by extension, Ireland, Scotland) A similar coin formerly used in Ireland and Scotland.
noun
- In the United Kingdom, a unit of currency worth ¹⁄₁₀₀ of a pound sterling, or a copper coin worth this amount. Abbreviation: p.
- a fractional monetary unit of Ireland and the United Kingdom; equal to one hundredth of a pound
- (historical) In the United Kingdom and Ireland and many other countries, a unit of currency worth ¹⁄₂₄₀ of a pound sterling or Irish pound before decimalisation, or a copper coin worth this amount. Abbreviation: d.
- In the US and (formerly) Canada, a one-cent coin, worth ¹⁄₁₀₀ of a dollar. Abbreviation: ¢.
- In various countries, a small-denomination copper or brass coin.
- Money in general.
- (historical) In Ireland, a coin worth ¹⁄₁₀₀ of an Irish pound before the introduction of the euro. Abbreviation: p.
- A unit of nail size, said to be either the cost per 100 nails, or the number of nails per penny. Abbreviation: d.
- a coin worth one-hundredth of the value of the basic unit
verb
- (Oxbridge slang) During a meal or as part of a drinking game, to drop a penny in a person's drink with the expectation that they finish it (or some such variation thereof); commonly associated with crewdates at Oxford and swaps at Cambridge.
- (electronics) To circumvent the tripping of an electrical circuit breaker by the dangerous practice of inserting a coin in place of a fuse in a fuse socket.
- (slang) To jam a door shut by inserting pennies between the doorframe and the door.
noun
- (historical) A half pound, a former English and Scottish currency equivalent to 13 shillings and fourpence and notionally equivalent to a mark of sterling silver.
- Importance, noteworthiness. (Generally in postmodifier “of mark”.)
- An omen; a symptomatic indicator of something.
- (cooking) A specified level on a scale denoting gas-powered oven temperatures.
- A particular design or make of an item (now usually with following numeral).
- (historical) Similar half-pound units in other measurement systems, chiefly used for gold and silver.
- (product design/engineering) The model number of a device; a device model.
- (sports) The line indicating an athlete's starting-point.
- Badge or sign of honour, rank, or official station.
- (informal) The target or intended victim of a swindle, fixed game or con game; a gullible person; a professional wrestling fan who believes matches are legitimate contests rather than scripted or predetermined
- (historical) A former currency of Germany and West Germany.
- A stamp or other indication of provenance, quality etc.
- A visible impression or sign; a blemish, scratch, or stain, whether accidental or intentional.
- (nautical) One of the bits of leather or coloured bunting placed upon a sounding line at intervals of from two to five fathoms. (The unmarked fathoms are called "deeps".)
- (historical) A half pound, a traditional unit of mass equivalent to 226.8 g.
- An official note that is added to a record kept about someone's behavior or performance.
- A stone or post used to indicate position and guide travellers.
- (Commonwealth) A score for finding the correct answer, or other academic achievement; the sum of such points gained as out of a possible total.
- (heading) Attention.
- An indication or sign used for reference or measurement.
- (historical) A common, or area of common land, especially among early Germanic peoples.
- (logic) A characteristic or essential attribute; a differential.
- A sign or brand on a person.
- A score for a sporting achievement.
- A written character or sign.
- Limit or standard of action or fact.
- A target for shooting at with a projectile.
- A characteristic feature.
- (Rugby football, Australian rules football) A catch of the ball directly from a kick of 10 metres or more without having been touched in transit, resulting in a free kick.
- (historical) Other similar currencies notionally equal to a mark of silver or gold.
- a reference point to shoot at
- a number or letter indicating quality (especially of a student's performance)
- a written or printed symbol (as for punctuation)
- a perceptible indication of something not immediately apparent (as a visible clue that something has happened)
- a visible indication made on a surface
- formerly the basic unit of money in Germany
- an indication of damage
- the impression created by doing something unusual or extraordinary that people notice and remember
- a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of
- a symbol of disgrace or infamy
- something that exactly succeeds in achieving its goal
- a marking that consists of lines that cross each other
- a distinguishing symbol
verb
- (of people) To assign (someone) to a particular category or class.
- To hold (someone) in one's line of sight.
- (imperative, marching) Alternative form of march.
- To create an indication of (a location).
- To be a point in time or space at which something takes place; to accompany or be accompanied by (an event, action, etc.); to coincide with.
- To create (a mark) on a surface.
- (of people) To choose or intend (someone) for a particular end or purpose.
- (sports) To follow a player not in possession of the ball when defending, to prevent them receiving a pass easily.
- (figurative) To have a long-lasting negative impact on (someone or something).
- To indicate (something) in writing or by other symbols.
- (Australian rules football) To catch the ball directly from a kick of 15 metres or more without having been touched in transit, resulting in a free kick.
- (Canada, UK) To indicate the correctness of and give a score to (a school assignment, exam answers, etc.).
- (singing) To sing softly, sometimes an octave lower than usual, in order to protect one's voice during a rehearsal.
- To be typical or characteristic of (something).
- To leave a mark (often an undesirable or unwanted one) on (something).
- (golf) To put a marker in the place of one's ball.
- (dated except in the phrase "mark my words") To focus one's attention on (something or someone); to pay attention to, to take note of.
- To put a mark on (something); to make (something) recognizable by a mark; to label or write on (something).
- (transitive, intransitive) To keep account of; to enumerate and register; to keep score.
- To distinguish (one person or thing from another).
- To be an indication of (something); to show where (something) is located.
- (of things) To identify (someone as a particular type of person or as having a particular role).
- To record that (someone) has a particular status.
- To celebrate or acknowledge (an event) through an action of some kind.
- remove from a list
- notice or perceive
- insert punctuation marks into
- put a check mark on or near or next to
- assign a grade or rank to, according to one's evaluation
- make underscoring marks
- be a distinctive feature, attribute, or trait; sometimes in a very positive sense
- mark with a scar
- celebrate by some ceremony or observation
- attach a tag or label to
- to accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful
- make or leave a mark on
- establish as the highest level or best performance
- make small marks into the surface of
- designate as if by a mark
noun
- British money; especially the pound sterling as the basic monetary unit of the UK
- (uncountable) The currency of the United Kingdom, based on the pound sterling; hence, genuine English or British currency, as contrasted with foreign currency.
- (countable) A penny issued in other countries, such as Scotland.
- (countable, obsolete except historical) An English silver penny first introduced by the Normans.
- (uncountable, historical) Former British gold or silver coinage of a standard fineness (0.91666 for gold and 0.925 for silver).
- (uncountable) Short for sterling silver (“an alloy containing not less than 92.5 percent silver, the remainder usually being copper; articles made from this alloy collectively”).
adj
- highest in quality
- Of acknowledged influence; authoritative; also, of high or excellent quality; of proven worth.
- Of silver: being of standard quality.
- Of a thing: of or relating to, or made from, sterling silver.
- Of or relating to the currency of the United Kingdom, or former types of English or British coinage.
noun
- A gold coin of the United Kingdom, with a nominal value of one pound sterling but in practice used as a bullion coin.
- Ellipsis of sovereign citizen.
- (UK, slang) A large, garish ring; a sovereign ring.
- A former Australian gold coin, minted from 1855–1931, of one pound value.
- A very large champagne bottle with the capacity of about 25 liters, equivalent to 33+¹⁄₃ standard bottles.
- One who is not a subject to a ruler or nation.
- Any butterfly of the tribe Nymphalini, or genus Basilarchia, eg., ursula, viceroy.
- A monarch; the ruler of a country.
- a nation's ruler or head of state usually by hereditary right
adj
verb
noun
- an English coin worth 5 shillings
- (historical) A former predecimalization British coin worth five shillings.
- the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill)
- an ornamental jeweled headdress signifying sovereignty
- the part of a hat (the vertex) that covers the crown of the head
- the top of the head
- a wreath or garland worn on the head to signify victory
- (dentistry) dental appliance consisting of an artificial crown for a broken or decayed tooth
- the center of a cambered road
- the award given to the champion
- the upper branches and leaves of a tree or other plant
- the part of a tooth above the gum that is covered with enamel
- The upper range of facets in a rose diamond.
- (firearms) A rounding or smoothing of the barrel opening.
- A whole bird with the legs and wings removed to produce a joint of white meat.
- (botany) The part of a plant where the root and stem meet.
- (UK) A standard size of printing paper measuring 20 × 15 inches.
- The highest part of a hill.
- (dentistry) A prosthetic covering for a tooth.
- (US) A standard size of writing paper measuring 19 × 15 inches.
- (old slang) The police (referring to Crown Victoria police cars).
- (clothing, monarchy) A royal, imperial or princely headdress; a diadem.
- Splendor; culmination; acme.
- (religion) A round spot shaved clean on the top of the head, as a mark of the clerical state; the tonsure.
- The dome of a furnace.
- The raised centre of a road.
- (nautical) A knot formed in the end of a rope by tucking in the strands to prevent them from unravelling.
- (anatomy, dentistry) The part of a tooth above the gums.
- The topmost part of the head.
- Any currency (originally) issued by the crown (regal power) and often bearing a crown (headdress); (translation) various currencies known by similar names in their native languages, such as the korona, koruna, krona, króna, krone.
- (nautical) The rounding, or rounded part, of the deck from a level line.
- (geometry) The area enclosed between two concentric perimeters.
- (African-American Vernacular, colloquial) A formal hat worn by women to Sunday church services; a church crown.
- (architecture) A kind of spire or lantern formed by converging flying buttresses.
- Imperial or regal power, or those who wield it.
- (by extension, especially in law) The state, the government (headed by a monarch).
- (forestry) The top of a tree.
- (nautical) The part of an anchor where the arms and the shank meet.
- (horology) The knurled knob or dial, on the outside of a watch case, used to wind it or adjust the hands.
- (metonymic) The sovereign (in a monarchy), as head of state.
- A wreath or band for the head, especially one given as reward of victory or a mark of honor.
- (chemistry) A monocyclic ligand having three or more binding sites, capable of holding a guest in a central location.
- The top section of a hat, above the brim.
- (by extension) Any reward of victory or mark of honor.
- The upper part of certain fruits, as the pineapple or strawberry, that is removed before eating.
- The highest part of an arch.
- (historical, by extension) A coin or note worth five shillings in various countries that are or were in the British Commonwealth, such as Ireland or Jamaica.
- (medicine) During childbirth, the appearance of the baby's head from the mother's vagina.
verb
- be the culminating event
- put an enamel cover on
- invest with regal power; enthrone
- form the topmost part of
- (board games) In checkers, to stack two checkers to indicate that the piece has become a king.
- To hit on the head.
- To bestow something upon as a mark of honour, dignity, or recompense; to adorn; to dignify.
- To place a crown on the head of.
- (medicine) Of a baby, during the birthing process; for the surface of the baby's head to appear in the vaginal opening.
- To declare (someone) a winner.
- (video games) To shoot an opponent in the back of the head with a shotgun in a first-person shooter video game.
- (military) To effect a lodgment upon, as upon the crest of the glacis, or the summit of the breach.
- (nautical) To lay the ends of the strands of (a knot) over and under each other.
- (firearms) To widen the opening of the barrel.
- To form the topmost or finishing part of; to complete; to consummate; to perfect.
- Of a forest fire or bushfire, to spread to the crowns of the trees and thence move from tree to tree independent of the surface fire.
- To formally declare (someone) a king, queen, emperor, etc.
- (intransitive, slang) To be on the point of defecating.
- (transitive) To cause to round upward; to make anything higher at the middle than at the edges, such as the face of a machine pulley.
adj
noun
- A pre-decimal British coin, worth two shillings or ten new pence.
- A pre-decimal Australian, and New Zealand, coin, worth 24 pence or a tenth of a pound.
- Any of several gold coins once produced in Florence, Italy; model for the other currencies.
- A guilder (pre-Euro currency unit of the Netherlands).
- The currency of Aruba, divided into 100 cents, symbol ƒ.
- the basic unit of money in Suriname; equal to 100 cents
- formerly the basic unit of money in the Netherlands; equal to 100 cents
noun
- a symbol for a unit of currency (especially for the pound sterling in Great Britain)
- the basic unit of money in Great Britain and Northern Ireland; equal to 100 pence
- The unit of currency used in the United Kingdom and its dependencies. It is divided into 100 pence.
- the basic unit of money in Egypt; equal to 100 piasters
- 16 ounces avoirdupois
- a unit of apothecary weight equal to 12 ounces troy
- the basic unit of money in Syria; equal to 100 piasters
- a nontechnical unit of force equal to the mass of 1 pound with an acceleration of free fall equal to 32 feet/sec/sec
- a public enclosure for stray or unlicensed dogs
- the basic unit of money in the Sudan; equal to 100 piasters
- the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows)
- the basic unit of money in Cyprus; equal to 100 cents
- the basic unit of money in Lebanon; equal to 100 piasters
- formerly the basic unit of money in Ireland; equal to 100 pence
- Ellipsis of pound force.
- Ellipsis of pound weight.
- (UK) A place for the detention of automobiles that have been illegally parked, abandoned, etc.
- A hard blow.
- A section of a canal between two adjacent locks.
- Any of various units of currency formerly used in the United States.
- (informal) Various non-English units of currency not officially called pounds.
- Ellipsis of pound mass.
- A unit of mass equal to 16 avoirdupois ounces (= 453.592 g). Today this value is the most common meaning of "pound" as a unit of weight.
- A unit of weight in various measurement systems.
- A kind of fishing net, having a large enclosure with a narrow entrance into which fish are directed by wings spreading outward.
- A unit of mass equal to 12 troy ounces (≈ 373.242 g). Today, this is a common unit of mass when measuring precious metals, and is little used elsewhere.
- (metonymic) The people who work for the pound.
- A place for the detention of stray or wandering animals.
- (Newfoundland) A division inside a fishing stage where cod is cured in salt brine.
- Various non-English units of measure.
- Any of various units of currency used in Egypt, Lebanon, Sudan, and Syria, and formerly in the Republic of Ireland, Cyprus, Nigeria, Israel, and South Africa.
- (US) The symbol #.
- (informal, non-scientific) Ellipsis of pound-force.
verb
- (slang, UK regional, transitive) To wager a pound on.
- move rhythmically
- break down and crush by beating, as with a pestle
- place or shut up in a pound
- hit hard with the hand, fist, or some heavy instrument
- shut up or confine in any enclosure or within any bounds or limits
- move heavily or clumsily
- strike or drive against with a heavy impact
- partition off into compartments
- (transitive, vulgar, slang) To penetrate sexually, with vigour.
- (engineering) To make a jarring noise, as when running.
- To advance heavily with measured steps.
- (transitive, slang) To eat or drink very quickly.
- To confine in, or as in, a pound; to impound.
- (transitive) To strike hard, usually repeatedly.
- (intransitive, of a body part, generally heart, blood, or head) To beat strongly or throb.
- (transitive, baseball, slang) To pitch consistently to a certain location.
- (transitive) To crush to pieces; to pulverize.
name
noun
- (UK, slang, humorous, rare) A quid; one pound sterling.
- (US, military, slang, mildly derogatory) A sailor in the Navy.
- (inexact) A vampire squid.
- A fishhook with a piece of bright lead, bone, or other substance fastened on its shank to imitate a squid.
- (slang, motorcycling, derogatory) A motorcyclist, especially a sport biker, characterized by reckless riding and lack of protective gear.
- A South Korean children's game where players, divided into offense and defense, compete on a squid-shaped field; the offensive team tries to reach a designated area, and the defensive team attempts to block them.
- Any of several carnivorous marine cephalopod mollusks, of the order Teuthida, having a mantle, eight arms, and a pair of tentacles
- widely distributed fast-moving ten-armed cephalopod mollusk having a long tapered body with triangular tail fins
- (Italian cuisine) squid prepared as food
verb
noun
- 100 pounds sterling.
- a British unit of weight equivalent to 2240 pounds
- A speed of 100 mph.
- Synonym of tunny, particularly the common tunny or horse mackerel.
- The long ton of 2240 pounds (about 1016 kg), 20 hundredweights of 112 pounds avoirdupois each.
- The short ton of 2000 pounds (about 907 kg), 20 hundredweights of 100 pounds avoirdupois each.
- The measurement ton of (US) 40 or (UK) 42 cubic feet (about 1.1 or 1.2 m³).
- (HVAC) A unit of thermal power equal to 12,000 BTU/h (about 3.5 kW), approximating the idealized rate of cooling provided by uniform isothermal melting of 1 short ton of ice per day at 0°C.
- The register ton of 100 cubic feet (about 2.83 m³).
- (darts, snooker, etc.) 100 points.
- The metric ton of 1000 kilograms (about 2205 lb), 10 quintals of 100 kilograms each.
- (figuratively) Any large, excessive, or overwhelming amount of anything.
- Fashionable society; those in style.
- (cricket) 100 runs.
- Fashion, the current style, the vogue.
- a United States unit of weight equivalent to 2000 pounds
noun
- (UK, formerly Australia, slang) a five-pound (£5) note; the sum of five pounds.
- A similar structure protruding from a projectile, used to help keep it on course.
- (surfing) A similar structure on the bottom of a surfboard, used to help steer it.
- (nautical) The conning tower of a submarine.
- An extending part on a surface of a radiator, engine, heatsink, etc., used to facilitate cooling.
- A thin, rigid component of an aircraft, extending from the fuselage and used to stabilise and steer the aircraft.
- A hairstyle, resembling the fin of a fish, in which the hair is combed and set into a vertical ridge along the top of the head from about the crown to the forehead.
- A sharp raised edge (generally in concrete) capable of damaging a roof membrane or vapor retarder.
- (ichthyology, zootomy) One of the appendages of a fish, used to propel itself and to manoeuvre/maneuver.
- A device worn by divers and swimmers on their feet.
- A similar appendage of a cetacean or other marine animal.
- a stabilizer on a ship that resembles the fin of a fish
- one of a set of parallel slats in a door or window to admit air and reject rain
- the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one
- organ of locomotion and balance in fishes and some other aquatic animals
- one of a pair of decorations projecting above the rear fenders of an automobile
- a shoe for swimming; the paddle-like front is an aid in swimming (especially underwater)
verb
- (intransitive) (Of a fish) to swim with the dorsal fin above the surface of the water.
- (intransitive) To swim in the manner of a fish.
- (transitive) To provide (a motor vehicle etc) with fins.
- (transitive) To cut the fins from a fish, shark, etc.
- propel oneself through the water in a finning motion
- show the fins above the water while swimming
- equip (a car) with fins
noun
- (British, colloquial) A former British coin worth six old pence.
- a small coin of the United Kingdom worth six pennies; not minted since 1970
- A long-horned beetle of species Prionus coriarius.
- A person whose occupation is to tan hides, or convert them into leather by the use of tan.
- Any of several spider crabs of the genus Chionoecetes, especially Chionoecetes bairdi and Chionoecetes opilio.
- A person who applies a tan (especially a spray tan) on someone's skin.
- a craftsman who tans skins and hides
adj
noun
- (UK, colloquial, historical) A quarter of a pound or one crown, historically minted as a coin of approximately the same size and composition as a then-contemporary dollar coin of the United States, and worth slightly more.
- Official designation for currency in some parts of the world, including Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong, and elsewhere. Its symbol is $.
- (attributive, historical) Imported from the United States, and paid for in U.S. dollars. (Note: distinguish "dollar wheat", North American farmers' slogan, meaning a market price of one dollar per bushel.)
- (nuclear physics) A unit of reactivity equal to the interval between delayed criticality and prompt criticality.
- (by extension) Money generally.
- (by extension, Malaysia, colloquial) A ringgit, a unit of currency in Malaysia.
- a piece of paper money worth one dollar
- a symbol of commercialism or greed
- the basic monetary unit in many countries; equal to 100 cents
- a United States coin worth one dollar
noun
- a former British gold coin worth 21 shillings
- a west African bird having dark plumage mottled with white; native to Africa but raised for food in many parts of the world
- Synonym of guinea fowl.
- (British, historical) A gold coin originally worth twenty shillings; later (from 1717 until the adoption of decimal currency) standardised at a value of twenty-one shillings.
- (US, slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) A person of Italian descent.
noun
- A unit of currency used in England around the 10th to 12th centuries.
- (historical) A type of fine wool, especially of the type historically produced in the market town of Leominster, Herefordshire.
- Rock or other material that contains valuable or utilitarian materials; primarily a rock containing metals or gems for which it is typically mined and processed.
- Alternative form of öre.
- a mineral that contains metal that is valuable enough to be mined
- a monetary subunit in Denmark and Norway and Sweden; 100 ore equal 1 krona
verb
adj
noun
- An act in which something or someone is pounded.
- An old-fashioned event to welcome someone (typically a new pastor) to a new community by bring gifts of storable food (a pound of coffee, flour, sugar, etc.) to help stock the pantry. It is somewhat similar to a “shower”.
- the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows)
- repeated heavy blows
- an instance of rapid strong pulsation (of the heart)
noun
- (British, slang) Twenty pounds sterling.
- A subject.
- (music) The written form of a musical composition showing all instrumental and vocal parts.
- (UK, regional) In the Lowestoft area, a narrow pathway running down a cliff to the beach.
- (often in the plural) A great deal; many, several.
- A document which systematically lists differences among compiled manuscripts of a source text.
- A notch or incision; especially, one that is made as a tally mark; hence, a mark, or line, made for the purpose of account.
- An account or reckoning; account of dues; bill; debt.
- (music) The music of a movie or play.
- (gambling) An amount of money won in gambling; winnings.
- A bribe paid to a police officer.
- A robbery.
- The number of points accrued by each of the participants in a game, expressed as a ratio or a series of numbers.
- The performance of an individual or group on an examination or test, expressed by a number, letter, or other symbol; a grade.
- (originally US, vulgar, slang) A sexual conquest.
- The total number of goals, points, runs, etc. earned by a participant in a game.
- A period of twenty years.
- A weight of twenty pounds.
- An account; a reason; a motive; a sake; a behalf.
- A prostitute's client.
- A distance of twenty yards, in ancient archery and gunnery.
- Twenty (20).
- An illegal sale, especially of drugs.
- a resentment strong enough to justify retaliation
- the facts about an actual situation
- a number that expresses the accomplishment of a team or an individual in a game or contest
- a number or letter indicating quality (especially of a student's performance)
- the act of scoring in a game or sport
- a written form of a musical composition; parts for different instruments appear on separate staves on large pages
- grounds
- a set of twenty members
- a slight surface cut (especially a notch that is made to keep a tally)
- an amount due (as at a restaurant or bar)
- a seduction culminating in sexual intercourse
intj
verb
- (US, crime, slang, of a police officer) To extract a bribe.
- (intransitive) To record the tally of points for a game, a match, or an examination.
- (transitive, music, film) To provide (a film, etc.) with a musical score.
- (vulgar, slang) To obtain a sexual favor.
- (ambitransitive) To obtain something desired.
- (transitive) To cut a notch or a groove in a surface.
- To achieve academic credit on a test, quiz, homework, assignment, or course.
- (horse racing, ambitransitive) To return (a horse and rider) to the starting-point repeatedly, until a fair start is achieved.
- (gambling) To win money by gambling.
- To earn points in a game.
- (slang) To acquire or gain.
- (transitive) To rate; to evaluate the quality of.
- induce to have sex
- assign a grade or rank to, according to one's evaluation
- get a certain number or letter indicating quality or performance
- make underscoring marks
- write a musical score for
- gain points in a game
- make small marks into the surface of
noun
- a British unit of weight equivalent to 112 pounds
- (UK, chiefly historical) A unit of measurement containing 112 avoirdupois pounds (eight stone or about 50.8 kg).
- a United States unit of weight equivalent to 100 pounds
- a unit of weight equal to 100 kilograms in the metric system
- (Canada, US) A unit of measurement containing 100 avoirdupois pounds (about 45.4 kg).
- (historical) Synonym of quintal, a unit of measurement containing various amounts depending on the objects weighed.
- (historical) Various units of ancient measurement systems consisting of 100 units usually translated as "pounds".
noun
- (historical) Synonym of pound, a notional pound of silver as a money of account, especially in medieval contexts.
- (historical) Synonym of arratel, a separate Portuguese unit of mass, usually around 460 g.
- (historical) A traditional Spanish unit of mass, usually around 460 g.
- (historical) Alternative spelling of libbra, a traditional Italian unit of mass.
- (historical) A Roman unit of mass, usually equivalent to 327 g.
- (historical) A traditional Portuguese unit of mass, usually equivalent to 345 g and particularly used for trade in medicines.
noun
name
- A habitational surname from Old English.
- A city in Los Angeles County, California, United States.
- A township in Mille Lacs County, Minnesota, United States.
- A suburb of Sydney, in the City of Campbelltown, New South Wales, Australia.
- A village in Bradbury and the Isle parish, County Durham, England (OS grid ref NZ3128).
noun
- (UK, slang) A £50 banknote.
- (architecture) An oculus.
- The central part of a crown glass disk, with concentric ripple effect.
- (glassblowing) The mark left on a glass piece from its attachment to a punty.
- A hand-cancelled postmark issued by a counter clerk at a post office, typically done on a receipt for proof of mailing.
- (military, firearms) The centre of a target, inside the inner and magpie.
- (darts) The two central rings on a dartboard.
- A convex glass lens which is placed in front of a lamp to concentrate the light so as to make it more conspicuous as a signal; also the lantern itself.
- (military, by extension) A commonly-known reference point used when indicating the location or direction of something.
- An egg in a hole.
- A shot which hits the centre of a target.
- A hard striped peppermint-flavoured boiled sweet.
- (philately, informal) Any of the first postage stamps produced in Brazil from 1843.
intj
noun
- (slang, UK, Australia) 1000 pounds sterling or dollar.
- An ape of the genus Gorilla; endemic to the forests of Central Africa and typified by superlative physical size and strength in relation to other primates.
- (informal) A powerful person or organization; a heavyweight or behemoth.
- A big and brutish man or a thug; a goon or ruffian.
- largest anthropoid ape; terrestrial and vegetarian; of forests of central west Africa
noun
- (historical) An English gold coin, bearing the figure of the archangel Michael, circulated between the 15th and 17th centuries, and varying in value from six shillings and eightpence to ten shillings.
- Someone who is pure or innocent.
- An incorporeal and holy or semidivine messenger from a deity or other divine entity, traditionally depicted as a youthful, winged figure in flowing robes.
- (theater) The person who funds a show.
- (Abrahamic religion) One of the lowest order of such beings, below virtues.
- Someone, especially a woman or child, having youthful, wholesome, or radiant beauty.
- Someone who is kind or selfless.
- (informal) A person who has Angelman syndrome; often capitalized.
- (military slang, originally Royal Air Force) An altitude, measured in thousands of feet.
- (finance) An angel investor.
- spiritual being attendant upon God
- someone who provides financial support for some venture
- a person of exceptional holiness
verb
noun
- (UK, slang) Twenty-five pounds (money).
- a contraption built like a mount, strong enough to support one's weight
- (Australia, New South Wales, Victoria, Western Australia) A serving of 140 millilitres of beer (formerly 5 fl oz); a quarter pint.
- (slang) A ponytail hairstyle.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) Crap; rubbish, nonsense.
- (endearing) A horse of any size.
- (regional) A small serving of an alcoholic beverage, especially beer.
- (slang) A chorus girl of small stature.
- (preceded by definite article) A dance from the 1960s in which the dancer mimics the high-stepping prance of a pony.
- (automotive, slang) One horsepower.
- (slang, derogatory, video games) Ellipsis of Sony pony.
- A small horse; specifically, any of several small breeds of horse under 14.2 hands at the withers.
- (US, slang) A translation used as a study aid; loosely, a crib, a cheat-sheet.
- a range horse of the western United States
- any of various breeds of small gentle horses usually less than five feet high at the shoulder
- a small glass adequate to hold a single swallow of whiskey
- an informal term for a racehorse
- a literal translation used in studying a foreign language (often used illicitly)
adj
verb
adj
- Of Britain.
- (historical) Of the ancient inhabitants of the southern part of Britain; Brythonic.
- (informal, proscribed) Of England; English.
- Of British English.
- Of the United Kingdom.
- (historical) Of the British Isles.
- Of the Commonwealth of Nations, or the British Empire.
- of or relating to or characteristic of Great Britain or its people or culture
name
noun
noun
- (British, slang) Pound sterling.
- A snigger or suppressed laugh.
- (euphemistic, vulgar, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) nigger.
- The cutting lip which projects downward at the edge of a boring bit and cuts a circular groove in the wood to limit the size of the hole that is bored.
- A soft neighing sound characteristic of a horse.
- (informal) Someone who nicks (steals) something, a thief.
- A type of mythological sea creature or sea monster; also, a water sprite; a nix or nixie; a mermaid or merman.
- Hippopotamus.
- the characteristic sounds made by a horse
verb
noun
- (UK, colloquial) Pound sterling. (usually only used with a whole number of pounds)
- the basic unit of money in Great Britain and Northern Ireland; equal to 100 pence
- (historical) A sovereign or guinea, that is, a certain coin or amount of money.
- A piece of material for chewing, especially chewing tobacco.
- (US, colloquial) The act of chewing such tobacco.
- (Commonwealth, colloquial, by extension, rare) Dollar, dollars.
- (Ireland, colloquial, by extension) Euro.
- (Ireland, Commonwealth, colloquial, historical) Various national currencies typically known by the name "pound".
- Paired with quo, in reference to the phrase quid pro quo (“this for that”): something offered in exchange for something else.
- The inherent nature of something.
- (US, historical) A member of a section of the Democratic-Republican Party between 1805 and 1811, following John Randolph of Roanoke. (From tertium quid.)
- something for something; that which a party receives (or is promised) in return for something they do or give or promise
- a wad of something chewable as tobacco
verb
noun
- an English coin worth one twentieth of a pound
- (historical) A coin formerly used in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Malta, Australia, New Zealand and many other Commonwealth countries worth twelve old pence, or one twentieth of a pound sterling.
- a former monetary unit in Great Britain
- the basic unit of money in Tanzania; equal to 100 cents
- the basic unit of money in Somalia; equal to 100 cents
- the basic unit of money in Kenya; equal to 100 cents
- the basic unit of money in Uganda; equal to 100 cents
- (US, historical, New York and some other states) The Spanish real, formerly having the value of one eighth of a dollar.
- (historical) Alternative form of schilling, a coin formely used in Germany and German states, worth twelve pfennig.
- (historical) Alternative form of skilling, a coin formely used in Denmark, Norway or Sweden, worth twelve penning.
- (US, historical) A currency in the United States, differing in value between states.
- The currency of Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania and Uganda.
verb
noun
- (slang, UK) One hundred pounds sterling.
- (US, Canada) A piece of paper money; a banknote.
- A document, originally sealed; a formal statement or official memorandum. (Now obsolete except with certain qualifying words; bill of health, bill of sale etc.)
- A cutting instrument, with hook-shaped point, and fitted with a handle, used in pruning, etc.; a billhook.
- A written list or inventory. (Now obsolete except in specific senses or set phrases; bill of lading, bill of goods, etc.)
- Somebody armed with a bill; a billman.
- A writing that binds the signer or signers to pay a certain sum at a future day or on demand, with or without interest, as may be stated in the document; a bill of exchange. In the United States, it is usually called a note, a note of hand, or a promissory note.
- A pickaxe or mattock.
- A written note of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, with the price or charge owing; an invoice.
- A draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law.
- Any of various bladed or pointed hand weapons, originally designating an Anglo-Saxon sword, and later a weapon of infantry, especially in the 14th and 15th centuries, commonly consisting of a broad, heavy, double-edged, hook-shaped blade, with a short pike at the back and another at the top, attached to the end of a long staff.
- (nautical) The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke (also called the peak).
- A set of items presented together.
- A beaklike projection, especially a promontory.
- (slang, India) A written note of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, listing the price or charge paid; a receipt.
- The bell, or boom, of the bittern.
- A paper, written or printed, and posted up or given away, to advertise something, as a lecture, a play, or the sale of goods
- (zootomy) The beak of a bird, especially when small or flattish; sometimes also used with reference to a platypus, turtle, or other animal.
- (slang, Canada, US) One hundred dollars.
- Of a cap or hat: the brim or peak, serving as a shade to keep sun off the face and out of the eyes.
- (UK, Eton College) A list of pupils to be disciplined for breaking school rules.
- a list of particulars (as a playbill or bill of fare)
- horny projecting mouth of a bird
- the entertainment offered at a public presentation
- a sign posted in a public place as an advertisement
- an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution
- a piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank)
- a brim that projects to the front to shade the eyes
- a cutting tool with a sharp edge
- a statute in draft before it becomes law
- an itemized statement of money owed for goods shipped or services rendered
verb
- (transitive) To charge; to send a bill to.
- (transitive) To dig, chop, etc., with a bill.
- (ambitransitive, UK, slang) To roll up a marijuana cigarette.
- to stroke bill against bill, with reference to doves; to caress in fondness
- (transitive) To advertise by a bill or public notice.
- publicize or announce by placards
- demand payment
- advertise especially by posters or placards
noun
- (UK) An amount of money that the English (later British) coin was worth.
- an English coin worth half a penny
- (UK) A discontinued English (later British) coin worth half of one penny (old or new).
- (philately, historical) A postage stamp worth half of one penny.
- (by extension, Ireland, Scotland) An amount of money that the Irish or Scottish coin was worth.
- (by extension, Ireland, Scotland) A similar coin formerly used in Ireland and Scotland.
noun
- In the United Kingdom, a unit of currency worth ¹⁄₁₀₀ of a pound sterling, or a copper coin worth this amount. Abbreviation: p.
- a fractional monetary unit of Ireland and the United Kingdom; equal to one hundredth of a pound
- (historical) In the United Kingdom and Ireland and many other countries, a unit of currency worth ¹⁄₂₄₀ of a pound sterling or Irish pound before decimalisation, or a copper coin worth this amount. Abbreviation: d.
- In the US and (formerly) Canada, a one-cent coin, worth ¹⁄₁₀₀ of a dollar. Abbreviation: ¢.
- In various countries, a small-denomination copper or brass coin.
- Money in general.
- (historical) In Ireland, a coin worth ¹⁄₁₀₀ of an Irish pound before the introduction of the euro. Abbreviation: p.
- A unit of nail size, said to be either the cost per 100 nails, or the number of nails per penny. Abbreviation: d.
- a coin worth one-hundredth of the value of the basic unit
verb
- (Oxbridge slang) During a meal or as part of a drinking game, to drop a penny in a person's drink with the expectation that they finish it (or some such variation thereof); commonly associated with crewdates at Oxford and swaps at Cambridge.
- (electronics) To circumvent the tripping of an electrical circuit breaker by the dangerous practice of inserting a coin in place of a fuse in a fuse socket.
- (slang) To jam a door shut by inserting pennies between the doorframe and the door.
noun
- (historical) A half pound, a former English and Scottish currency equivalent to 13 shillings and fourpence and notionally equivalent to a mark of sterling silver.
- Importance, noteworthiness. (Generally in postmodifier “of mark”.)
- An omen; a symptomatic indicator of something.
- (cooking) A specified level on a scale denoting gas-powered oven temperatures.
- A particular design or make of an item (now usually with following numeral).
- (historical) Similar half-pound units in other measurement systems, chiefly used for gold and silver.
- (product design/engineering) The model number of a device; a device model.
- (sports) The line indicating an athlete's starting-point.
- Badge or sign of honour, rank, or official station.
- (informal) The target or intended victim of a swindle, fixed game or con game; a gullible person; a professional wrestling fan who believes matches are legitimate contests rather than scripted or predetermined
- (historical) A former currency of Germany and West Germany.
- A stamp or other indication of provenance, quality etc.
- A visible impression or sign; a blemish, scratch, or stain, whether accidental or intentional.
- (nautical) One of the bits of leather or coloured bunting placed upon a sounding line at intervals of from two to five fathoms. (The unmarked fathoms are called "deeps".)
- (historical) A half pound, a traditional unit of mass equivalent to 226.8 g.
- An official note that is added to a record kept about someone's behavior or performance.
- A stone or post used to indicate position and guide travellers.
- (Commonwealth) A score for finding the correct answer, or other academic achievement; the sum of such points gained as out of a possible total.
- (heading) Attention.
- An indication or sign used for reference or measurement.
- (historical) A common, or area of common land, especially among early Germanic peoples.
- (logic) A characteristic or essential attribute; a differential.
- A sign or brand on a person.
- A score for a sporting achievement.
- A written character or sign.
- Limit or standard of action or fact.
- A target for shooting at with a projectile.
- A characteristic feature.
- (Rugby football, Australian rules football) A catch of the ball directly from a kick of 10 metres or more without having been touched in transit, resulting in a free kick.
- (historical) Other similar currencies notionally equal to a mark of silver or gold.
- a reference point to shoot at
- a number or letter indicating quality (especially of a student's performance)
- a written or printed symbol (as for punctuation)
- a perceptible indication of something not immediately apparent (as a visible clue that something has happened)
- a visible indication made on a surface
- formerly the basic unit of money in Germany
- an indication of damage
- the impression created by doing something unusual or extraordinary that people notice and remember
- a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of
- a symbol of disgrace or infamy
- something that exactly succeeds in achieving its goal
- a marking that consists of lines that cross each other
- a distinguishing symbol
verb
- (of people) To assign (someone) to a particular category or class.
- To hold (someone) in one's line of sight.
- (imperative, marching) Alternative form of march.
- To create an indication of (a location).
- To be a point in time or space at which something takes place; to accompany or be accompanied by (an event, action, etc.); to coincide with.
- To create (a mark) on a surface.
- (of people) To choose or intend (someone) for a particular end or purpose.
- (sports) To follow a player not in possession of the ball when defending, to prevent them receiving a pass easily.
- (figurative) To have a long-lasting negative impact on (someone or something).
- To indicate (something) in writing or by other symbols.
- (Australian rules football) To catch the ball directly from a kick of 15 metres or more without having been touched in transit, resulting in a free kick.
- (Canada, UK) To indicate the correctness of and give a score to (a school assignment, exam answers, etc.).
- (singing) To sing softly, sometimes an octave lower than usual, in order to protect one's voice during a rehearsal.
- To be typical or characteristic of (something).
- To leave a mark (often an undesirable or unwanted one) on (something).
- (golf) To put a marker in the place of one's ball.
- (dated except in the phrase "mark my words") To focus one's attention on (something or someone); to pay attention to, to take note of.
- To put a mark on (something); to make (something) recognizable by a mark; to label or write on (something).
- (transitive, intransitive) To keep account of; to enumerate and register; to keep score.
- To distinguish (one person or thing from another).
- To be an indication of (something); to show where (something) is located.
- (of things) To identify (someone as a particular type of person or as having a particular role).
- To record that (someone) has a particular status.
- To celebrate or acknowledge (an event) through an action of some kind.
- remove from a list
- notice or perceive
- insert punctuation marks into
- put a check mark on or near or next to
- assign a grade or rank to, according to one's evaluation
- make underscoring marks
- be a distinctive feature, attribute, or trait; sometimes in a very positive sense
- mark with a scar
- celebrate by some ceremony or observation
- attach a tag or label to
- to accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful
- make or leave a mark on
- establish as the highest level or best performance
- make small marks into the surface of
- designate as if by a mark
noun
- British money; especially the pound sterling as the basic monetary unit of the UK
- (uncountable) The currency of the United Kingdom, based on the pound sterling; hence, genuine English or British currency, as contrasted with foreign currency.
- (countable) A penny issued in other countries, such as Scotland.
- (countable, obsolete except historical) An English silver penny first introduced by the Normans.
- (uncountable, historical) Former British gold or silver coinage of a standard fineness (0.91666 for gold and 0.925 for silver).
- (uncountable) Short for sterling silver (“an alloy containing not less than 92.5 percent silver, the remainder usually being copper; articles made from this alloy collectively”).
adj
- highest in quality
- Of acknowledged influence; authoritative; also, of high or excellent quality; of proven worth.
- Of silver: being of standard quality.
- Of a thing: of or relating to, or made from, sterling silver.
- Of or relating to the currency of the United Kingdom, or former types of English or British coinage.
noun
- A gold coin of the United Kingdom, with a nominal value of one pound sterling but in practice used as a bullion coin.
- Ellipsis of sovereign citizen.
- (UK, slang) A large, garish ring; a sovereign ring.
- A former Australian gold coin, minted from 1855–1931, of one pound value.
- A very large champagne bottle with the capacity of about 25 liters, equivalent to 33+¹⁄₃ standard bottles.
- One who is not a subject to a ruler or nation.
- Any butterfly of the tribe Nymphalini, or genus Basilarchia, eg., ursula, viceroy.
- A monarch; the ruler of a country.
- a nation's ruler or head of state usually by hereditary right
adj
verb
noun
- an English coin worth 5 shillings
- (historical) A former predecimalization British coin worth five shillings.
- the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill)
- an ornamental jeweled headdress signifying sovereignty
- the part of a hat (the vertex) that covers the crown of the head
- the top of the head
- a wreath or garland worn on the head to signify victory
- (dentistry) dental appliance consisting of an artificial crown for a broken or decayed tooth
- the center of a cambered road
- the award given to the champion
- the upper branches and leaves of a tree or other plant
- the part of a tooth above the gum that is covered with enamel
- The upper range of facets in a rose diamond.
- (firearms) A rounding or smoothing of the barrel opening.
- A whole bird with the legs and wings removed to produce a joint of white meat.
- (botany) The part of a plant where the root and stem meet.
- (UK) A standard size of printing paper measuring 20 × 15 inches.
- The highest part of a hill.
- (dentistry) A prosthetic covering for a tooth.
- (US) A standard size of writing paper measuring 19 × 15 inches.
- (old slang) The police (referring to Crown Victoria police cars).
- (clothing, monarchy) A royal, imperial or princely headdress; a diadem.
- Splendor; culmination; acme.
- (religion) A round spot shaved clean on the top of the head, as a mark of the clerical state; the tonsure.
- The dome of a furnace.
- The raised centre of a road.
- (nautical) A knot formed in the end of a rope by tucking in the strands to prevent them from unravelling.
- (anatomy, dentistry) The part of a tooth above the gums.
- The topmost part of the head.
- Any currency (originally) issued by the crown (regal power) and often bearing a crown (headdress); (translation) various currencies known by similar names in their native languages, such as the korona, koruna, krona, króna, krone.
- (nautical) The rounding, or rounded part, of the deck from a level line.
- (geometry) The area enclosed between two concentric perimeters.
- (African-American Vernacular, colloquial) A formal hat worn by women to Sunday church services; a church crown.
- (architecture) A kind of spire or lantern formed by converging flying buttresses.
- Imperial or regal power, or those who wield it.
- (by extension, especially in law) The state, the government (headed by a monarch).
- (forestry) The top of a tree.
- (nautical) The part of an anchor where the arms and the shank meet.
- (horology) The knurled knob or dial, on the outside of a watch case, used to wind it or adjust the hands.
- (metonymic) The sovereign (in a monarchy), as head of state.
- A wreath or band for the head, especially one given as reward of victory or a mark of honor.
- (chemistry) A monocyclic ligand having three or more binding sites, capable of holding a guest in a central location.
- The top section of a hat, above the brim.
- (by extension) Any reward of victory or mark of honor.
- The upper part of certain fruits, as the pineapple or strawberry, that is removed before eating.
- The highest part of an arch.
- (historical, by extension) A coin or note worth five shillings in various countries that are or were in the British Commonwealth, such as Ireland or Jamaica.
- (medicine) During childbirth, the appearance of the baby's head from the mother's vagina.
verb
- be the culminating event
- put an enamel cover on
- invest with regal power; enthrone
- form the topmost part of
- (board games) In checkers, to stack two checkers to indicate that the piece has become a king.
- To hit on the head.
- To bestow something upon as a mark of honour, dignity, or recompense; to adorn; to dignify.
- To place a crown on the head of.
- (medicine) Of a baby, during the birthing process; for the surface of the baby's head to appear in the vaginal opening.
- To declare (someone) a winner.
- (video games) To shoot an opponent in the back of the head with a shotgun in a first-person shooter video game.
- (military) To effect a lodgment upon, as upon the crest of the glacis, or the summit of the breach.
- (nautical) To lay the ends of the strands of (a knot) over and under each other.
- (firearms) To widen the opening of the barrel.
- To form the topmost or finishing part of; to complete; to consummate; to perfect.
- Of a forest fire or bushfire, to spread to the crowns of the trees and thence move from tree to tree independent of the surface fire.
- To formally declare (someone) a king, queen, emperor, etc.
- (intransitive, slang) To be on the point of defecating.
- (transitive) To cause to round upward; to make anything higher at the middle than at the edges, such as the face of a machine pulley.
adj
noun
- A pre-decimal British coin, worth two shillings or ten new pence.
- A pre-decimal Australian, and New Zealand, coin, worth 24 pence or a tenth of a pound.
- Any of several gold coins once produced in Florence, Italy; model for the other currencies.
- A guilder (pre-Euro currency unit of the Netherlands).
- The currency of Aruba, divided into 100 cents, symbol ƒ.
- the basic unit of money in Suriname; equal to 100 cents
- formerly the basic unit of money in the Netherlands; equal to 100 cents
noun
- a symbol for a unit of currency (especially for the pound sterling in Great Britain)
- the basic unit of money in Great Britain and Northern Ireland; equal to 100 pence
- The unit of currency used in the United Kingdom and its dependencies. It is divided into 100 pence.
- the basic unit of money in Egypt; equal to 100 piasters
- 16 ounces avoirdupois
- a unit of apothecary weight equal to 12 ounces troy
- the basic unit of money in Syria; equal to 100 piasters
- a nontechnical unit of force equal to the mass of 1 pound with an acceleration of free fall equal to 32 feet/sec/sec
- a public enclosure for stray or unlicensed dogs
- the basic unit of money in the Sudan; equal to 100 piasters
- the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows)
- the basic unit of money in Cyprus; equal to 100 cents
- the basic unit of money in Lebanon; equal to 100 piasters
- formerly the basic unit of money in Ireland; equal to 100 pence
- Ellipsis of pound force.
- Ellipsis of pound weight.
- (UK) A place for the detention of automobiles that have been illegally parked, abandoned, etc.
- A hard blow.
- A section of a canal between two adjacent locks.
- Any of various units of currency formerly used in the United States.
- (informal) Various non-English units of currency not officially called pounds.
- Ellipsis of pound mass.
- A unit of mass equal to 16 avoirdupois ounces (= 453.592 g). Today this value is the most common meaning of "pound" as a unit of weight.
- A unit of weight in various measurement systems.
- A kind of fishing net, having a large enclosure with a narrow entrance into which fish are directed by wings spreading outward.
- A unit of mass equal to 12 troy ounces (≈ 373.242 g). Today, this is a common unit of mass when measuring precious metals, and is little used elsewhere.
- (metonymic) The people who work for the pound.
- A place for the detention of stray or wandering animals.
- (Newfoundland) A division inside a fishing stage where cod is cured in salt brine.
- Various non-English units of measure.
- Any of various units of currency used in Egypt, Lebanon, Sudan, and Syria, and formerly in the Republic of Ireland, Cyprus, Nigeria, Israel, and South Africa.
- (US) The symbol #.
- (informal, non-scientific) Ellipsis of pound-force.
verb
- (slang, UK regional, transitive) To wager a pound on.
- move rhythmically
- break down and crush by beating, as with a pestle
- place or shut up in a pound
- hit hard with the hand, fist, or some heavy instrument
- shut up or confine in any enclosure or within any bounds or limits
- move heavily or clumsily
- strike or drive against with a heavy impact
- partition off into compartments
- (transitive, vulgar, slang) To penetrate sexually, with vigour.
- (engineering) To make a jarring noise, as when running.
- To advance heavily with measured steps.
- (transitive, slang) To eat or drink very quickly.
- To confine in, or as in, a pound; to impound.
- (transitive) To strike hard, usually repeatedly.
- (intransitive, of a body part, generally heart, blood, or head) To beat strongly or throb.
- (transitive, baseball, slang) To pitch consistently to a certain location.
- (transitive) To crush to pieces; to pulverize.
noun
- (UK, slang, humorous, rare) A quid; one pound sterling.
- (US, military, slang, mildly derogatory) A sailor in the Navy.
- (inexact) A vampire squid.
- A fishhook with a piece of bright lead, bone, or other substance fastened on its shank to imitate a squid.
- (slang, motorcycling, derogatory) A motorcyclist, especially a sport biker, characterized by reckless riding and lack of protective gear.
- A South Korean children's game where players, divided into offense and defense, compete on a squid-shaped field; the offensive team tries to reach a designated area, and the defensive team attempts to block them.
- Any of several carnivorous marine cephalopod mollusks, of the order Teuthida, having a mantle, eight arms, and a pair of tentacles
- widely distributed fast-moving ten-armed cephalopod mollusk having a long tapered body with triangular tail fins
- (Italian cuisine) squid prepared as food
verb
noun
- 100 pounds sterling.
- a British unit of weight equivalent to 2240 pounds
- A speed of 100 mph.
- Synonym of tunny, particularly the common tunny or horse mackerel.
- The long ton of 2240 pounds (about 1016 kg), 20 hundredweights of 112 pounds avoirdupois each.
- The short ton of 2000 pounds (about 907 kg), 20 hundredweights of 100 pounds avoirdupois each.
- The measurement ton of (US) 40 or (UK) 42 cubic feet (about 1.1 or 1.2 m³).
- (HVAC) A unit of thermal power equal to 12,000 BTU/h (about 3.5 kW), approximating the idealized rate of cooling provided by uniform isothermal melting of 1 short ton of ice per day at 0°C.
- The register ton of 100 cubic feet (about 2.83 m³).
- (darts, snooker, etc.) 100 points.
- The metric ton of 1000 kilograms (about 2205 lb), 10 quintals of 100 kilograms each.
- (figuratively) Any large, excessive, or overwhelming amount of anything.
- Fashionable society; those in style.
- (cricket) 100 runs.
- Fashion, the current style, the vogue.
- a United States unit of weight equivalent to 2000 pounds
noun
- (UK, formerly Australia, slang) a five-pound (£5) note; the sum of five pounds.
- A similar structure protruding from a projectile, used to help keep it on course.
- (surfing) A similar structure on the bottom of a surfboard, used to help steer it.
- (nautical) The conning tower of a submarine.
- An extending part on a surface of a radiator, engine, heatsink, etc., used to facilitate cooling.
- A thin, rigid component of an aircraft, extending from the fuselage and used to stabilise and steer the aircraft.
- A hairstyle, resembling the fin of a fish, in which the hair is combed and set into a vertical ridge along the top of the head from about the crown to the forehead.
- A sharp raised edge (generally in concrete) capable of damaging a roof membrane or vapor retarder.
- (ichthyology, zootomy) One of the appendages of a fish, used to propel itself and to manoeuvre/maneuver.
- A device worn by divers and swimmers on their feet.
- A similar appendage of a cetacean or other marine animal.
- a stabilizer on a ship that resembles the fin of a fish
- one of a set of parallel slats in a door or window to admit air and reject rain
- the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one
- organ of locomotion and balance in fishes and some other aquatic animals
- one of a pair of decorations projecting above the rear fenders of an automobile
- a shoe for swimming; the paddle-like front is an aid in swimming (especially underwater)
verb
- (intransitive) (Of a fish) to swim with the dorsal fin above the surface of the water.
- (intransitive) To swim in the manner of a fish.
- (transitive) To provide (a motor vehicle etc) with fins.
- (transitive) To cut the fins from a fish, shark, etc.
- propel oneself through the water in a finning motion
- show the fins above the water while swimming
- equip (a car) with fins
noun
- (British, colloquial) A former British coin worth six old pence.
- a small coin of the United Kingdom worth six pennies; not minted since 1970
- A long-horned beetle of species Prionus coriarius.
- A person whose occupation is to tan hides, or convert them into leather by the use of tan.
- Any of several spider crabs of the genus Chionoecetes, especially Chionoecetes bairdi and Chionoecetes opilio.
- A person who applies a tan (especially a spray tan) on someone's skin.
- a craftsman who tans skins and hides
adj
noun
- (UK, colloquial, historical) A quarter of a pound or one crown, historically minted as a coin of approximately the same size and composition as a then-contemporary dollar coin of the United States, and worth slightly more.
- Official designation for currency in some parts of the world, including Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong, and elsewhere. Its symbol is $.
- (attributive, historical) Imported from the United States, and paid for in U.S. dollars. (Note: distinguish "dollar wheat", North American farmers' slogan, meaning a market price of one dollar per bushel.)
- (nuclear physics) A unit of reactivity equal to the interval between delayed criticality and prompt criticality.
- (by extension) Money generally.
- (by extension, Malaysia, colloquial) A ringgit, a unit of currency in Malaysia.
- a piece of paper money worth one dollar
- a symbol of commercialism or greed
- the basic monetary unit in many countries; equal to 100 cents
- a United States coin worth one dollar
noun
- a former British gold coin worth 21 shillings
- a west African bird having dark plumage mottled with white; native to Africa but raised for food in many parts of the world
- Synonym of guinea fowl.
- (British, historical) A gold coin originally worth twenty shillings; later (from 1717 until the adoption of decimal currency) standardised at a value of twenty-one shillings.
- (US, slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) A person of Italian descent.
noun
- A unit of currency used in England around the 10th to 12th centuries.
- (historical) A type of fine wool, especially of the type historically produced in the market town of Leominster, Herefordshire.
- Rock or other material that contains valuable or utilitarian materials; primarily a rock containing metals or gems for which it is typically mined and processed.
- Alternative form of öre.
- a mineral that contains metal that is valuable enough to be mined
- a monetary subunit in Denmark and Norway and Sweden; 100 ore equal 1 krona
noun
- (British, slang) Twenty pounds sterling.
- A subject.
- (music) The written form of a musical composition showing all instrumental and vocal parts.
- (UK, regional) In the Lowestoft area, a narrow pathway running down a cliff to the beach.
- (often in the plural) A great deal; many, several.
- A document which systematically lists differences among compiled manuscripts of a source text.
- A notch or incision; especially, one that is made as a tally mark; hence, a mark, or line, made for the purpose of account.
- An account or reckoning; account of dues; bill; debt.
- (music) The music of a movie or play.
- (gambling) An amount of money won in gambling; winnings.
- A bribe paid to a police officer.
- A robbery.
- The number of points accrued by each of the participants in a game, expressed as a ratio or a series of numbers.
- The performance of an individual or group on an examination or test, expressed by a number, letter, or other symbol; a grade.
- (originally US, vulgar, slang) A sexual conquest.
- The total number of goals, points, runs, etc. earned by a participant in a game.
- A period of twenty years.
- A weight of twenty pounds.
- An account; a reason; a motive; a sake; a behalf.
- A prostitute's client.
- A distance of twenty yards, in ancient archery and gunnery.
- Twenty (20).
- An illegal sale, especially of drugs.
- a resentment strong enough to justify retaliation
- the facts about an actual situation
- a number that expresses the accomplishment of a team or an individual in a game or contest
- a number or letter indicating quality (especially of a student's performance)
- the act of scoring in a game or sport
- a written form of a musical composition; parts for different instruments appear on separate staves on large pages
- grounds
- a set of twenty members
- a slight surface cut (especially a notch that is made to keep a tally)
- an amount due (as at a restaurant or bar)
- a seduction culminating in sexual intercourse
intj
verb
- (US, crime, slang, of a police officer) To extract a bribe.
- (intransitive) To record the tally of points for a game, a match, or an examination.
- (transitive, music, film) To provide (a film, etc.) with a musical score.
- (vulgar, slang) To obtain a sexual favor.
- (ambitransitive) To obtain something desired.
- (transitive) To cut a notch or a groove in a surface.
- To achieve academic credit on a test, quiz, homework, assignment, or course.
- (horse racing, ambitransitive) To return (a horse and rider) to the starting-point repeatedly, until a fair start is achieved.
- (gambling) To win money by gambling.
- To earn points in a game.
- (slang) To acquire or gain.
- (transitive) To rate; to evaluate the quality of.
- induce to have sex
- assign a grade or rank to, according to one's evaluation
- get a certain number or letter indicating quality or performance
- make underscoring marks
- write a musical score for
- gain points in a game
- make small marks into the surface of
noun
- a British unit of weight equivalent to 112 pounds
- (UK, chiefly historical) A unit of measurement containing 112 avoirdupois pounds (eight stone or about 50.8 kg).
- a United States unit of weight equivalent to 100 pounds
- a unit of weight equal to 100 kilograms in the metric system
- (Canada, US) A unit of measurement containing 100 avoirdupois pounds (about 45.4 kg).
- (historical) Synonym of quintal, a unit of measurement containing various amounts depending on the objects weighed.
- (historical) Various units of ancient measurement systems consisting of 100 units usually translated as "pounds".
noun
- (historical) Synonym of pound, a notional pound of silver as a money of account, especially in medieval contexts.
- (historical) Synonym of arratel, a separate Portuguese unit of mass, usually around 460 g.
- (historical) A traditional Spanish unit of mass, usually around 460 g.
- (historical) Alternative spelling of libbra, a traditional Italian unit of mass.
- (historical) A Roman unit of mass, usually equivalent to 327 g.
- (historical) A traditional Portuguese unit of mass, usually equivalent to 345 g and particularly used for trade in medicines.
noun
name
- A habitational surname from Old English.
- A city in Los Angeles County, California, United States.
- A township in Mille Lacs County, Minnesota, United States.
- A suburb of Sydney, in the City of Campbelltown, New South Wales, Australia.
- A village in Bradbury and the Isle parish, County Durham, England (OS grid ref NZ3128).
noun
- (UK, slang) A £50 banknote.
- (architecture) An oculus.
- The central part of a crown glass disk, with concentric ripple effect.
- (glassblowing) The mark left on a glass piece from its attachment to a punty.
- A hand-cancelled postmark issued by a counter clerk at a post office, typically done on a receipt for proof of mailing.
- (military, firearms) The centre of a target, inside the inner and magpie.
- (darts) The two central rings on a dartboard.
- A convex glass lens which is placed in front of a lamp to concentrate the light so as to make it more conspicuous as a signal; also the lantern itself.
- (military, by extension) A commonly-known reference point used when indicating the location or direction of something.
- An egg in a hole.
- A shot which hits the centre of a target.
- A hard striped peppermint-flavoured boiled sweet.
- (philately, informal) Any of the first postage stamps produced in Brazil from 1843.
intj
noun
- (slang, UK, Australia) 1000 pounds sterling or dollar.
- An ape of the genus Gorilla; endemic to the forests of Central Africa and typified by superlative physical size and strength in relation to other primates.
- (informal) A powerful person or organization; a heavyweight or behemoth.
- A big and brutish man or a thug; a goon or ruffian.
- largest anthropoid ape; terrestrial and vegetarian; of forests of central west Africa
noun
- (historical) An English gold coin, bearing the figure of the archangel Michael, circulated between the 15th and 17th centuries, and varying in value from six shillings and eightpence to ten shillings.
- Someone who is pure or innocent.
- An incorporeal and holy or semidivine messenger from a deity or other divine entity, traditionally depicted as a youthful, winged figure in flowing robes.
- (theater) The person who funds a show.
- (Abrahamic religion) One of the lowest order of such beings, below virtues.
- Someone, especially a woman or child, having youthful, wholesome, or radiant beauty.
- Someone who is kind or selfless.
- (informal) A person who has Angelman syndrome; often capitalized.
- (military slang, originally Royal Air Force) An altitude, measured in thousands of feet.
- (finance) An angel investor.
- spiritual being attendant upon God
- someone who provides financial support for some venture
- a person of exceptional holiness
verb
noun
- (UK, slang) Twenty-five pounds (money).
- a contraption built like a mount, strong enough to support one's weight
- (Australia, New South Wales, Victoria, Western Australia) A serving of 140 millilitres of beer (formerly 5 fl oz); a quarter pint.
- (slang) A ponytail hairstyle.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) Crap; rubbish, nonsense.
- (endearing) A horse of any size.
- (regional) A small serving of an alcoholic beverage, especially beer.
- (slang) A chorus girl of small stature.
- (preceded by definite article) A dance from the 1960s in which the dancer mimics the high-stepping prance of a pony.
- (automotive, slang) One horsepower.
- (slang, derogatory, video games) Ellipsis of Sony pony.
- A small horse; specifically, any of several small breeds of horse under 14.2 hands at the withers.
- (US, slang) A translation used as a study aid; loosely, a crib, a cheat-sheet.
- a range horse of the western United States
- any of various breeds of small gentle horses usually less than five feet high at the shoulder
- a small glass adequate to hold a single swallow of whiskey
- an informal term for a racehorse
- a literal translation used in studying a foreign language (often used illicitly)
adj
verb
verb
adj
noun
- An act in which something or someone is pounded.
- An old-fashioned event to welcome someone (typically a new pastor) to a new community by bring gifts of storable food (a pound of coffee, flour, sugar, etc.) to help stock the pantry. It is somewhat similar to a “shower”.
- the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows)
- repeated heavy blows
- an instance of rapid strong pulsation (of the heart)
noun
- a symbol for a unit of currency (especially for the pound sterling in Great Britain)
- the basic unit of money in Great Britain and Northern Ireland; equal to 100 pence
- The unit of currency used in the United Kingdom and its dependencies. It is divided into 100 pence.
- the basic unit of money in Egypt; equal to 100 piasters
- 16 ounces avoirdupois
- a unit of apothecary weight equal to 12 ounces troy
- the basic unit of money in Syria; equal to 100 piasters
- a nontechnical unit of force equal to the mass of 1 pound with an acceleration of free fall equal to 32 feet/sec/sec
- a public enclosure for stray or unlicensed dogs
- the basic unit of money in the Sudan; equal to 100 piasters
- the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows)
- the basic unit of money in Cyprus; equal to 100 cents
- the basic unit of money in Lebanon; equal to 100 piasters
- formerly the basic unit of money in Ireland; equal to 100 pence
- Ellipsis of pound force.
- Ellipsis of pound weight.
- (UK) A place for the detention of automobiles that have been illegally parked, abandoned, etc.
- A hard blow.
- A section of a canal between two adjacent locks.
- Any of various units of currency formerly used in the United States.
- (informal) Various non-English units of currency not officially called pounds.
- Ellipsis of pound mass.
- A unit of mass equal to 16 avoirdupois ounces (= 453.592 g). Today this value is the most common meaning of "pound" as a unit of weight.
- A unit of weight in various measurement systems.
- A kind of fishing net, having a large enclosure with a narrow entrance into which fish are directed by wings spreading outward.
- A unit of mass equal to 12 troy ounces (≈ 373.242 g). Today, this is a common unit of mass when measuring precious metals, and is little used elsewhere.
- (metonymic) The people who work for the pound.
- A place for the detention of stray or wandering animals.
- (Newfoundland) A division inside a fishing stage where cod is cured in salt brine.
- Various non-English units of measure.
- Any of various units of currency used in Egypt, Lebanon, Sudan, and Syria, and formerly in the Republic of Ireland, Cyprus, Nigeria, Israel, and South Africa.
- (US) The symbol #.
- (informal, non-scientific) Ellipsis of pound-force.
verb
- (slang, UK regional, transitive) To wager a pound on.
- move rhythmically
- break down and crush by beating, as with a pestle
- place or shut up in a pound
- hit hard with the hand, fist, or some heavy instrument
- shut up or confine in any enclosure or within any bounds or limits
- move heavily or clumsily
- strike or drive against with a heavy impact
- partition off into compartments
- (transitive, vulgar, slang) To penetrate sexually, with vigour.
- (engineering) To make a jarring noise, as when running.
- To advance heavily with measured steps.
- (transitive, slang) To eat or drink very quickly.
- To confine in, or as in, a pound; to impound.
- (transitive) To strike hard, usually repeatedly.
- (intransitive, of a body part, generally heart, blood, or head) To beat strongly or throb.
- (transitive, baseball, slang) To pitch consistently to a certain location.
- (transitive) To crush to pieces; to pulverize.
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adj
- Of Britain.
- (historical) Of the ancient inhabitants of the southern part of Britain; Brythonic.
- (informal, proscribed) Of England; English.
- Of British English.
- Of the United Kingdom.
- (historical) Of the British Isles.
- Of the Commonwealth of Nations, or the British Empire.
- of or relating to or characteristic of Great Britain or its people or culture