Pound
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Pound may refer to:
In geography:
In other uses:
- Pound (mass)Pound (mass)The pound or pound-mass is a unit of mass used in the Imperial, United States customary and other systems of measurement...
, various units of mass - Pound-forcePound-forceThe pound force is a unit of force in some systems of measurement including English engineering units and British gravitational units.- Definitions :...
, a unit of force - Pound (currency)Pound (currency)The pound is a unit of currency in some nations. The term originated in England as the value of a pound of silver.The word pound is the English translation of the Latin word libra, which was the unit of account of the Roman Empire...
, a unit of currency in various countries (further disambiguation)- Pound signPound signThe pound sign is the symbol for the pound sterling—the currency of the United Kingdom . The same symbol is used for similarly named currencies in some other countries and territories, such as the Irish pound, Gibraltar pound, Australian pound and the Italian lira...
, £
- Pound sign
- Number signNumber signNumber sign is a name for the symbol #, which is used for a variety of purposes including, in some countries, the designation of a number...
or pound sign, #
In geography:
- Pound, VirginiaPound, VirginiaPound is a town in Wise County, Virginia, United States. The population was 1,089 as recorded in the 2000 census.-Geography:Pound is located at ....
- Pound, WisconsinPound, WisconsinPound is a village in Marinette County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 355 at the 2000 census. The village is located within the Town of Pound. Pound is part of the Marinette, WI– MI Micropolitan Statistical Area.-History:...
- Pound (town), WisconsinPound (town), WisconsinPound is a town in Marinette County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 1,367 at the 2000 census. The Village of Pound is located within the town.-Geography:...
In other uses:
- Pound (rail), a unit of size for railroad rails
- Pound (village)Pound (village)The Village pound was a feature of most British medieval villages.A high walled and lockable structure it served several purposes; the most common use was to hold stray sheep, pigs and cattle until they were claimed by the owners, usually for the payment of a fine or levy. The pound could be as...
, a high-walled, lockable structure in most medieval British villages - Pound (greeting), a greeting in which two individuals touch fists
- Pound (networking)Pound (networking)Pound is a lightweight open source reverse proxy program and application firewall suitable to be used as a web server load balancing solution. Developed by an IT security company, it has a strong emphasis on security. The original intent on developing Pound was to allow distributing the load among...
, an open-source reverse proxy and load balancing program - Pound (band)Pound (band)Pound was an American rock band from Poughkeepsie, New York.-History:Four of the members of Pound were in a New York hair metal band in the early 1990s. Later in the decade, they went on to be signed with EMI Music Publishing working closely with then EMI V.P. Evan Lamberg...
, an American rock band - Pound (magazine)Pound (magazine)Pound is a Toronto-based hip hop magazine that is distributed for free across Canada. Founded in 1998 and beginning publication in December 1999, Pound is published quarterly. As of July 2009, the magazine had published 42 issues.- History :...
, a Canadian hip-hop magazine - Pound (film)Pound (film)Pound is a 1970 film directed and written by Robert Downey, Sr., it was based on The Comeuppance, an off-off broadway play written by Downey in 1961. It is about several dogs at a pound, the dogs are played by human actors. The film is notable as being the screen debut of Robert Downey, Jr., the...
, a 1970 film - Dog pound, a temporary home for pet animals
People
- Cuthbert W. PoundCuthbert W. PoundCuthbert Winfred Pound was an American lawyer and politician from New York. He was Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals from 1932 to 1934.-Life:...
(1864–1935), Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals 1932–1934 - Dick PoundDick PoundRichard William Duncan Pound, is a Canadian lawyer, partner of the law firm Stikeman Elliott, the former president of the World Anti-Doping Agency based in Montreal, and former chancellor of McGill University...
(born 1942), Canadian sports official - Dudley PoundDudley PoundAdmiral of the Fleet Sir Alfred Dudley Pickman Rogers Pound GCB OM GCVO RN was a British naval officer who served as First Sea Lord, professional head of the Royal Navy from June 1939 to September 1943.- Early life :...
(1877–1943), British naval officer - Ezra PoundEzra PoundEzra Weston Loomis Pound was an American expatriate poet and critic and a major figure in the early modernist movement in poetry...
(1885–1972), American modernist poet and critic - Louise PoundLouise PoundLouise Pound was a distinguished American folklorist and college professor at the University of Nebraska.-Early life:...
(1872–1958), American educator - Olivia PoundOlivia PoundOlivia Pound was a Nebraska educator.Born in Lincoln, Nebraska, she was a daughter of Stephen Bosworth Pound and sister of Roscoe Pound and Louise Pound....
(1874–1961), American educator - Omar PoundOmar PoundOmar Shakespear Pound was an Anglo-American writer, teacher, and translator. He is the author of Arabic & Persian Poems and co-author of Wyndham Lewis: A Descriptive Bibliography...
(born 1926-2010), Anglo-American writer, son of Ezra Pound - Robert PoundRobert PoundRobert Vivian Pound was an American physicist who helped discover nuclear magnetic resonance and who devised the famous Pound-Rebka experiment supporting general relativity .Pound was born in Ridgeway, Ontario....
(1919–2010), physicist, eponym of the Pound-Rebka experiment - Roscoe PoundRoscoe PoundNathan Roscoe Pound was a distinguished American legal scholar and educator. He was Dean of Harvard Law School from 1916 to 1936...
(1870–1964), American legal scholar - Stephen Pound (born 1948), British politician
- Stephen Bosworth PoundStephen Bosworth PoundStephen B. Pound was a pioneer lawyer, senator and judge in Nebraska, USA.Born and educated in New York state, Pound moved to Nebraska in 1869...
(1833–1911), American senator and judge - Thaddeus C. PoundThaddeus C. PoundThaddeus Coleman Pound was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly and the Wisconsin State Senate. Pound was Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin 1870 - 1872...
(1833–1914), Wisconsin politician
See also
- Pound Ridge, New YorkPound Ridge, New YorkPound Ridge is a town in Westchester County, New York, United States. The population was 5,104 at the 2010 census.The town is located in the eastern corner of the county, bordered by New Canaan, Connecticut, to the east, Stamford, Connecticut, to the south, Bedford, New York, to the west and...
- Pound Loney, Belfast, Northern Ireland
- Buffalo poundBuffalo poundThe buffalo pound was a hunting device constructed by native peoples of the North American plains for the purpose of entrapping and slaughtering American Bison, also known as buffalo. It consisted of a circular corral at the terminus of a flared chute through which buffalo were herded and thereby...
, an enclosed space for capturing and killing buffalo - Canal poundCanal poundA canal pound, aka reach, is the stretch of level water impounded between two canal locks. Canal pounds can vary in length from the non-existent, where two or more immediately adjacent locks form a lock staircase, to many miles....
, the stretch of level water impounded between two canal locks - Pound cakePound cakePound cake refers to a type of cake traditionally made with a pound of each of four ingredients: flour, butter, eggs, and sugar. The traditional recipe makes a cake much larger than most families can consume, and so the quantity is often changed to suit the size of the cake that is desired...
, a type of dessert cake - Tha Dogg PoundTha Dogg PoundTha Dogg Pound is a rap group made up of Daz Dillinger and Kurupt. They were signed to Death Row Records in their early careers and were key to the label's success. The group made their 1992 rap debut on Dr. Dre's The Chronic, on various songs. They also appeared on Snoop Dogg's debut album...
, a music group - Sharp (music)Sharp (music)In music, sharp, dièse , or diesis means higher in pitch and the sharp symbol raises a note by a half tone. Intonation may be flat, sharp, or both, successively or simultaneously...
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