Definition, Betydelse & Synonymer | Engelska ordet POUND

Definition av POUND

1. fålla (för strövande djur)
2. (mått för massa) pund
3. (valutor) pund
4. (mynt) brittiskt mynt med valören 1 pund

Exempel på hur man kan använda POUND i en mening

• Based upon the international yard and pound agreement of 1959, an acre may be declared as exactly 4,046.
• It was originally defined as the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one pound of water by one degree Fahrenheit.
• The United States and the Commonwealth of Nations agreed upon common definitions for the pound and the yard.
• January 9 – British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger introduces an income tax of two shillings to the pound, to raise funds for Great Britain's war effort in the French Revolutionary Wars.
• Although classified as a comedy in the First Folio and sharing certain aspects with Shakespeare's other romantic comedies, the play is most remembered for its dramatic scenes, and it is best known for the character Shylock and his famous demand for a "pound of flesh".
• Since decimalisation, on 15 February 1971, the pound has been divided into 100 pence (minted on coins as new until 1981).
• Prior to independence in 1964, the Rhodesia and Nyasaland pound was the legal tender of the British protectorate of Northern Rhodesia.
• The kwacha replaced other types of currency, namely the British pound sterling, the South African rand, and the Rhodesian dollar, that had previously circulated through the Malawian economy.
• The shilling is a historical coin, and the name of a unit of modern currencies formerly used in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, other British Commonwealth countries and Ireland, where they were generally equivalent to 12 pence or one-twentieth of a pound before being phased out during the 1960s and 1970s.
• The Australian dollar was introduced as a decimal currency on 14 February 1966 to replace the non-decimal Australian pound, with the conversion rate of two dollars to the pound (A£1 = A$2).
• On coins of the pound sterling issued by Charles II of England, Scotland, and Ireland, Britannia appears with her shield bearing the Union Flag.
• They built handcarts out of native woods during their encampment so that an adult could haul a 600–700 pound load and cover about 15 miles per day on foot in their continuing trek to Salt Lake City.
• The Confederates lost eight significant artillery pieces although two large 32 pound cannons were preserved.
• In the early 1890s, Maxfield was within the range of a giant (400 pound) wild black bear named "Old Ranger", who was eventually shot and killed by a local hunting party after a lifetime of raiding orchards, and having survived numerous other attempts to do him in.
• Joseph Colburn was paid "forty shillings of the Town rate" for constructing an animal pound measuring 33' square on his land.

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