What's the difference between gound and pound?

Gound


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Subarachnoid hemorrhage, when diagnosed, was generally based on firmer gounds.
  • (2) Ratings of the degree of eye and head following were made as subjects pursued facial targets which varied in terms of the degree fo figure-gound contrast and te degree of contrast internal to the figure as defined by the presence of contrast such that the strongest pursuit occurred to stimuli which had clearly discriminable facial detailing in addition to strong figure-ground contrast.
  • (3) That provides gounds to admit that hyperprolactinemia plays no essential role as an additional diabetogenic factor in the patients with diabetes mellitus.
  • (4) A feeding trial was conducted on a total of 96 pigs to investigate the effect of lysine supplements added to rations of wheat+extracted soya bean meal and rations of wheat+extracted gound nut meal.
  • (5) This approach facilitates the conceptualization of a complex psychiatric illness and makes it more appealing to primary care physicians by demonstrating common gound between medicine and psychiatry.
  • (6) The bile salt media is shown to increase the sensitivity and dynamic range of fluorescence measurements relative to simple ethanolic solutions, without promoting gound-state and excited-state interactions that occur in the detergent micellar media.
  • (7) Dried gound potato sprout preparations from seven varieties produced congenital deformities in one strain of hamsters.
  • (8) R. orientalis can persist subclinically for a certain period in the spleen and liver of chickens placed on the gound endemic of scrub typhus.
  • (9) The feeding of finely gound straw produced a higher level of FFS production (by 10%) than that of straw pellets.
  • (10) This pattern of results parallels that found in patients suffering from Hungtington's chorea, thus strengthening the parallels between the kainic acid animal model and the human disease state initially suggested on biochemical gounds.

Pound


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To strike repeatedly with some heavy instrument; to beat.
  • (v. t.) To comminute and pulverize by beating; to bruise or break into fine particles with a pestle or other heavy instrument; as, to pound spice or salt.
  • (v. i.) To strike heavy blows; to beat.
  • (v. i.) To make a jarring noise, as in running; as, the engine pounds.
  • (n.) An inclosure, maintained by public authority, in which cattle or other animals are confined when taken in trespassing, or when going at large in violation of law; a pinfold.
  • (n.) A level stretch in a canal between locks.
  • (n.) A kind of net, having a large inclosure with a narrow entrance into which fish are directed by wings spreading outward.
  • (v. t.) To confine in, or as in, a pound; to impound.
  • (pl. ) of Pound
  • (n.) A certain specified weight; especially, a legal standard consisting of an established number of ounces.
  • (n.) A British denomination of money of account, equivalent to twenty shillings sterling, and equal in value to about $4.86. There is no coin known by this name, but the gold sovereign is of the same value.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Stringer, a Vietnam war veteran who was knighted in 1999, is already inside the corporation, if only for a few months, after he was appointed as one of its non-executive directors to toughen up the BBC's governance following a string of scandals, from the Jimmy Savile abuse to multimillion-pound executive payoffs.
  • (2) Any MP who claims this is not statutory regulation is a liar, and should be forced to retract and apologise, or face a million pound fine.
  • (3) It would cost their own businesses hundreds of millions of pounds in transaction costs, it would blow a massive hole in their balance of payments, it would leave them having to pick up the entirety of UK debt.
  • (4) "It will mean root-and-branch change for our banks if we are to deliver real change for Britain, if we are to rebuild our economy so it works for working people, and if we are to restore trust in a sector of our economy worth billions of pounds and hundreds of thousands of jobs to our country."
  • (5) The cull in 2013 required a policing effort costing millions of pounds and pulling in officers from many different forces.
  • (6) Each malnourished child was given 1 pound of dried skimmed milk (DSM) per week.
  • (7) The pound was also down more than 1% against the US dollar to $1.2835, not far off a 31-year low hit in the wake of June’s shock referendum result.
  • (8) I paid 200,000 Syrian pounds (£695) to leave Syria.
  • (9) "A pound spent in Croydon is of far more value to the country than a pound spent in Strathclyde," Johnson told the Huffington Post in an extraordinary interview this weekend.
  • (10) We continue to offer customers a great range of beer, lager and cider.” Heineken’s bid to raise prices for its products in supermarkets comes just a few months after it put 6p on a pint in pubs , a decision it blamed on the weak pound.
  • (11) Sir Ken Morrison, supermarkets Jersey trusts protect the billion-pound wealth of the 83-year-old Bradford-born Morrisons supermarket founder and a large number of his family members.
  • (12) "If we are going to turn our economy around, protect our NHS and build a stronger country, we will have to be laser-focused on how we spend every pound," he will say.
  • (13) From Tuesday, the Neckarsulm-based grocer will be the official supplier of water, fish, fruit and vegetables for Roy Hodgson’s boys under a multimillion-pound three-year deal with the Football Association.
  • (14) Hunt’s comments were, in many senses, a restatement of traditional, economically liberal ideas on relationships between doing wage work and poverty relief, mirroring, for example, arguments of the 1834 poor law commissioners, which suggested wage supplements diminished the skills, honesty and diligence of the labourer, and the more recent claim of Iain Duncan Smith’s Centre for Social Justice that the earned pound was “superior” to that received in benefits.
  • (15) Detailed analysis of the resources used revealed that the mean cost to the NHS of each case of NSAP was 807 pounds, the bulk of which was attributable to the hospital stay.
  • (16) Current obstetric recommendations call for 22-27 pound weight gain.
  • (17) She also complained of occasional night sweats, a 6-pound weight loss, vaginal discharge, and a low-grade fever for 6 weeks prior to admission.
  • (18) Correcting all this would cost hundreds of millions of pounds, a sum which councils and other housing providers simply cannot afford, they say.
  • (19) A total weight gain of 22 to 26 pounds is recommended, with the pattern of weight gain being more important than the total amount.
  • (20) Labour is exploring radical plans to give local councils and new regional bodies a central role in shaping the way billions of pounds of welfare funding is spent in order to bring down the benefits bill.