Word Meanings - POUNDRATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A rate or proportion estimated at a certain amount for each pound; poundage.

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• PROPORTIONATE
  Adjusted to something else according to a proportion; proportional. Longfellow. What is proportionate to his transgression. Locke.
• POUNDKEEPER; POUND-KEEPER
  The keeper of a pound.
• POUNDCAKE
  A kind of rich, sweet cake; -- so called from the ingredients being used by pounds, or in equal quantities.
• POUND
  1. To strike repeatedly with some heavy instrument; to beat. With cruel blows she pounds her blubbered cheeks. Dryden. 2. To comminute and pulverize by beating; to bruise or break into fine particles with a pestle or other heavy instrument; as,
• PROPORTION
  1. The relation or adaptation of one portion to another, or to the whole, as respect magnitude, quantity, or degree; comparative relation; ratio; as, the proportion of the parts of a building, or of the body. The image of Christ, made after his
• POUNDER
  1. One who, or that which, pounds, as a stamp in an ore mill. 2. An instrument used for pounding; a pestle. 3. A person or thing, so called with reference to a certain number of pounds in value, weight, capacity, etc.; as, a cannon carrying
• PROPORTIONABLE
  Capable of being proportioned, or made proportional; also, proportional; proportionate. -- Pro*por"tion*a*ble*ness, n. But eloquence may exist without a proportionable degree of wisdom. Burke.
• POUNDING
  1. The act of beating, bruising, or breaking up; a beating. 2. A pounded or pulverized substance. "Covered with the poundings of these rocks." J. S. Blackie.
• CERTAINTY
  Clearness; freedom from ambiguity; lucidity. Of a certainty, certainly. (more info) 1. The quality, state, or condition, of being certain. The certainty of punishment is the truest security against crimes. Fisher Ames. 2. A fact or truth
• ESTIMATION
  1. The act of estimating. Shak. 2. An opinion or judgment of the worth, extent, or quantity of anything, formed without using precise data; valuation; as, estimations of distance, magnitude, amount, or moral qualities. If he be poorer that thy
• ESTIMATE
  1. To judge and form an opinion of the value of, from imperfect data, -- either the extrinsic , or intrinsic , value; to fix the worth of roughly or in a general way; as, to estimate the value of goods or land; to estimate the worth or talents
• PROPORTIONALITY
  The state of being in proportion. Coleridge.
• PROPORTIONATENESS
  The quality or state of being proportionate. Sir M. Hale.
• POUNDRATE
  A rate or proportion estimated at a certain amount for each pound; poundage.
• PROPORTIONLESS
  Without proportion; unsymmetrical.
• CERTAINNESS
  Certainty.
• POUND-BREACH
  The breaking of a public pound for releasing impounded animals. Blackstone.
• PROPORTIONABLY
  Proportionally. Locke.
• AMOUNT
  L. ad montem to the mountain) upward, F. amont up the river. See 1. To go up; to ascend. So up he rose, and thence amounted straight. Spenser. 2. To rise or reach by an accumulation of particular sums or quantities; to come in the aggregate or
• PROPORTIONATELY
  In a proportionate manner; with due proportion; proportionally.
• DISPROPORTIONALLY
  In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally.
• IMPROPORTIONATE
  Not proportionate.
• DISPROPORTIONABLE
  Disproportional; unsuitable in form, size, quantity, or adaptation; disproportionate; inadequate. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*ble*ness, n. Hammond. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*bly, adv.
• DISPROPORTIONALITY
  The state of being disproportional. Dr. H. More.
• TEN-POUNDER
  A large oceanic fish found in the tropical parts of all the oceans. It is used chiefly for bait.
• ASCERTAINMENT
  The act of ascertaining; a reducing to certainty; a finding out by investigation; discovery. The positive ascertainment of its limits. Burke.
• ASCERTAINABLE
  That may be ascertained. -- As`cer*tain"a*ble*ness, n. -- As`cer*tain"a*bly, adv.
• ASSAY POUND
  A small standard weight used in assaying bullion, etc., sometimes equaling 0.5 gram, but varying with the assayer.
• IMPOUNDER
  One who impounds.
• MISPROPORTION
  To give wrong proportions to; to join without due proportion.
• DISPROPORTIONATE
  Not proportioned; unsymmetrical; unsuitable to something else in bulk, form, value, or extent; out of proportion; inadequate; as, in a perfect body none of the limbs are disproportionate; it is wisdom not to undertake a work disproportionate means.
• COMPOUNDER
  A Jacobite who favored the restoration of James II, on condition of a general amnesty and of guarantees for the security of the civil and ecclesiastical constitution of the realm. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, compounds or mixes; as, a
• COMPOUNDABLE
  That may be compounded.
• UNCERTAINTY
  1. The quality or state of being uncertain. 2. That which is uncertain; something unknown. Our shepherd's case is every man's case that quits a moral certainty for an uncertainty. L'Estrange.
• MISEXPOUND
  To expound erroneously.
• IMPOUNDAGE
  1. The act of impounding, or the state of being impounded. 2. The fee or fine for impounding.