Pound vs Step - What's the difference?
pound | step |
(en noun) (sometimes pound after numerals)
Short for pound-force, a unit of force/weight.
A unit of mass equal to 16 avoirdupois ounces (= 453.592 37 g). Today this value is the most common meaning of "pound" as a unit of weight.
* 28 July 2010 , Rachel Williams in The Guardian, Mothers who lose weight before further pregnancy ‘reduce risks’ [http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/jul/28/mothers-lose-weight-reduce-risks?INTCMP=SRCH]
A unit of mass equal to 12 troy ounces (? 373.242 g). Today, this is a common unit of weight when measuring precious metals, and is little used elsewhere.
(US) The symbol (octothorpe, hash)
The unit of currency used in the United Kingdom and its dependencies. It is divided into 100 pence.
* November 11 2012 , Carole Cadwalladr in the Observer, Do online courses spell the end for the traditional university? [http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2012/nov/11/online-free-learning-end-of-university?INTCMP=SRCH]
* 1860 , (George Eliot), The Mill on the Floss , Book 5, Chapter 6
Any of various units of currency used in Cyprus, Egypt, Lebanon, and formerly in the Republic of Ireland and Israel.
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Any of various units of currency formerly used in the United States.
English plurals (unit of currency)
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A place for the detention of stray or wandering animals.
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A place for the detention of automobiles that have been illegally parked, abandoned, etc.
The part of a canal between two locks, and therefore at the same water level.
A kind of fishing net, having a large enclosure with a narrow entrance into which fish are directed by wings spreading outward.
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To confine in, or as in, a pound; to impound.
* 1644 , (John Milton), (Areopagitica); A speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England
(label) To strike hard, usually repeatedly.
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(label) To crush to pieces; to pulverize.
To eat or drink very quickly.
To pitch consistently to a certain location.
To beat strongly or throb.
To penetrate sexually, with vigour.
To advance heavily with measured steps.
* 1899 , (Joseph Conrad),
(label) To make a jarring noise, as when running.
(slang, dated) To wager a pound on.
*1854 , Dickens, Hard Times , Chapter 4:
*:Good-bye, my dear!' said Sleary. 'You'll make your fortun, I hope, and none of our poor folkth will ever trouble you, I'll pound it.
To move the foot in walking; to advance or recede by raising and moving one of the feet to another resting place, or by moving both feet in succession.
To walk; to go on foot; especially, to walk a little distance.
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* Home the swain retreats, His flock before him stepping to the fold. —
(figuratively) To move mentally; to go in imagination.
* They are stepping almost three thousand years back into the remotest antiquity. — (Alexander Pope)
To set, as the foot.
(nautical) To fix the foot of (a mast) in its step ; to erect.
* 1898 , (Joseph Conrad),
An advance or movement made from one foot to the other; a pace.
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*:Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
A rest, or one of a set of rests, for the foot in ascending or descending, as a stair, or a rung of a ladder.
*Sir (Henry Wotton) (1568-1639)
*:The breadth of every single step or stair should be never less than one foot.
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A running board where passengers step to get on and off the bus.
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The space passed over by one movement of the foot in walking or running. Used also figuratively of any kind of progress.
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*(Isaac Newton) (1642-1727)
*:To derive two or three general principles of motion from phenomena, and afterwards to tell us how the properties and actions of all corporeal things follow from those manifest principles, would be a very great step in philosophy.
A small space or distance.
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A print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track.
A gait; manner of walking.
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*1900 , , (The House Behind the Cedars) , Chapter I,
*:Warwick passed through one of the wide brick arches and traversed the building with a leisurely step .
Proceeding; measure; action; act.
*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
*:The reputation of a man depends on the first steps he makes in the world.
*(William Cowper) (1731-1800)
*:Beware of desperate steps . The darkest day, Live till to-morrow, will have passed away.
*(George Washington Cable) (1844-1925)
*:I have lately taken steps to relieve the old gentleman's distresses.
(lb) A walk; passage.
*(John Dryden)
*:Conduct my steps to find the fatal tree.
(lb) A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position.
(lb) A framing in wood or iron which is intended to receive an upright shaft; specif., a block of wood, or a solid platform upon the keelson, supporting the heel of the mast.
(lb) One of a series of offsets, or parts, resembling the steps of stairs, as one of the series of parts of a cone pulley on which the belt runs.
(lb) A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves.
(lb) The interval between two contiguous degrees of the scale.
:Usage note: The word tone is often used as the name of this interval; but there is evident incongruity in using tone for indicating the interval between tones. As the word scale is derived from the Italian scala , a ladder, the intervals may well be called steps.
(lb) A change of position effected by a motion of translation.
:(William Kingdon Clifford)
As nouns the difference between pound and step
is that pound is short for pound-force, a unit of force/weight or pound can be a place for the detention of stray or wandering animals or pound can be a hard blow while step is stitch.As a verb pound
is to confine in, or as in, a pound; to impound or pound can be (label) to strike hard, usually repeatedly.pound
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) . Cognate with Dutch pond, German Pfund, Swedish pund.Noun
- Research shows that retaining even one or two pounds after giving birth can make problems more likely in a subsequent pregnancy, experts said, with women who have several children facing a "slippery slope" if they continue to gain weight each time.
- For students in developing countries who can't get it any other way, or for students in the first world, who can but may choose not to. Pay thousands of pounds a year for your education? Or get it free online?
- "Only a hundred and ninety-three pound ," said Mr. Tulliver. "You've brought less o' late; but young fellows like to have their own way with their money. Though I didn't do as I liked before I was of age." He spoke with rather timid discontent.
- He glanced back through what he had read and, while feeling his water flow quietly, he envied kindly Mr Beaufoy who had written it and received payment of three pounds , thirteen and six.
- the Rhode Island pound'''; the New Hampshire '''pound
Usage notes
* Internationally, the "pound" has most commonly referred to the UK pound, £, (pound sterling). The other currencies were usually distinguished in some way, e.g., the "Irish pound" or the "punt". * In the vicinity of each other country calling its currency the pound among English speakers the local currency would be the "pound", with all others distinguished, e.g., the "British pound", the "Egyptian pound" etc. * The general plural of "pound" has usually been "pounds" (at least since Chaucer), but the continuing use of the Old English genitive or neuter "pound" as the plural after numerals (for both currency and weight) is common in some regions. It can be considered correct, or colloquial, depending on region. (English Citations of "pound")Synonyms
* lb * lb t * (UK unit of currency) , pound sterling, GBP, quid (colloquial), nicker (slang) * (Other units of currency) punt (the former Irish currency) * hash (UK), sharpDerived terms
* -pounder * * Amsterdam pound * avoirdupois pound * foot-pound * foot-pound-second * * metric pound * pack on the pounds * pink pound * pound cake * pound-foolish * pound-force * pound-for-pound * pound of flesh * pound shop * pound sign * take care of the pennies and the pounds will take care of themselves * ten pound pom * ten pound tourist * troy poundSee also
* * * (UK unit of currency) crown, farthing, florin, guinea, penny, pence, shilling, sovereign, sterlingEtymology 2
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- (Police officer to a dog owner) "He'd better stay calm or I'll have the pound come and get him."
Usage notes
* (Manx English) uses this word uncountably.Derived terms
* dog pound * impound * lobster poundVerb
(en verb)- And he who were pleasantly disposed, could not well avoid to liken it to the exploit of that gallant man, who thought to pound up the crows by shutting his park gate.
Etymology 3
From an alteration of earlier poun, pown, from (etyl) pounen, from (etyl) , pynd, in relation to the hollow mortar for pounding with the pestle.Alternative forms
* (l), (l) (obsolete or dialectal)Verb
(en verb)- We pounded along, stopped, landed soldiers; went on, landed custom–house clerks to levy toll in what looked like a God–forsaken wilderness, with a tin shed and a flag–pole lost in it; landed more soldiers—to take care of the custom–house clerks, presumably.
Synonyms
* (drink quickly)Derived terms
* pounding * pound down * pound the pavement * pound the table * pound sand * pound town * pound upSee also
* bangstep
English
Verb
Ideas coming down the track, passage=A “moving platform” scheme
- We put everything straight, stepped the long-boat's mast for our skipper, who was in charge of her, and I was not sorry to sit down for a moment.