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Meanings of pound weight in English
A unit of force: the force exerted by one standard gravity on a one-pound mass.
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1
Semihard; blue; goat; mellow; small; square; a quarter to a half pound.
2
The portfolio generated a 17 million pound loss last year, Lloyds said.
3
The second problem is the likely boost to an already appreciating pound.
4
BNY avoided a 180 million pound fine by settling the case early.
5
In Europe, Britain's fourth-quarter growth data looms large for the embattled pound.
1
The quantity of provisions I found in the boat was 150 lb.
2
The heaviest fruit within the ken of the writer weighed 8 lb.
3
In the U.S. retail market, sugar fetches about 20 cents a lb.
4
Each degree of hardness indicates the destruction and waste of 12 lb.
5
The weight of the usual projectile for this mortar is 850 lb.
1
Of note is that the impact force increased nearly 500 lbf from the first to the sixth drop, with a five-minute rest between falls.
2
The difference between a five-minute and a 24-hour rest for the second drop, for example, was a decrease of only 102 lbf.
3
I returned to the LBF offices, and looked out the window.
4
None of these books will appear at the 2012 LBF.
5
The revised LBF grant programmes will kick in from April.
1
It also requires technology capable of handling pressure of 20,000 pound-force per square inch.
2
Three grip measurements for each hand were recorded in pounds-force; the mean of these 3 assessments was used in the analysis.
3
"It would take eighty thousand pound-force to pull this train, Mr. Socrates," he said.
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They set to work with every pound of force they could bring to the front.
2
One pound of force is about 4.45 newtons.
3
As Wendy rose holding the golf club, Bonnie swung the crutch, putting every foot- pound of force she could muster into the swing.
4
The cadavers' ligaments blew apart just after 40 pounds of force.
5
The software calculated the force the thrusters needed to exert in pounds of force.
Usage of pound weight in English
1
Nothing has actually changed about the ten- pound weight-exceptyour perception of it.
2
She felt as though she had a ten-thousand- pound weight on her shoulders.
3
I feel as if a thousand- pound weight was taken off my back.
4
We have killed this morning four fish averaging a pound weight each.
5
It was as if each thought came with a thousand- pound weight.
6
A pound weight on the moon would scale six pounds on the earth.
7
Imagine hanging upside down with a 660- pound weight in your hand.
8
In my lap there's a 20- pound weight anchoring me in place.
9
Suddenly Lionel felt as though a thousand- pound weight had been lifted from him.
10
That's where Crawley outmuscled him for the pick despite a 75- pound weight disadvantage.
11
I am going to fasten to it a hundred pound weight.
12
Putting a hundred pound weight upon it is an experiment that is perilous.
13
Not as telling as the thirty- pound weight loss, but still bad.
14
It's as heavy as a hundred- pound weight, and prevents me from turning round.
15
A thousand- pound weight she'd carried for a lifetime had been lifted from her heart.
16
This measures the rope's stretch when holding a 176- pound weight.