Difference between Pound and Lumber

What is the difference between Pound and Lumber?

Pound as a noun is short for pound-force, a unit of force/weight. while Lumber as a noun is wood intended as a building material.

Pound

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Short for pound-force, a unit of force/weight. A unit of mass equal to 16 avoirdupois ounces (= 453.592 37 g) A unit of mass equal to 12 troy ounces (≈ 373.242 g). The symbol (octothorpe, hash) The unit of currency of used in the United Kingdom and its dependencies. Any of various units of currency used in Cyprus; Egypt; Lebanon; and formerly in the Republic of Ireland and Israel. A place for the detention of stray or wandering animals. A place for the detention of automobiles that have been illegally parked, abandoned, etc. The part of a canal between two locks, and therefore at the same water level. A hard blow.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To strike (something or someone) hard repeatedly. To crush to pieces; to pulverize. To eat or drink very quickly. To pitch consistently to a certain location.

Example sentence: An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.

Lumber

Part of speech: verb

Definition: to move clumsilyto load down with things, to fill, to encumber

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Wood intended as a building material.Useless things that are stored away

Example sentence: The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.

We hope you now know whether to use Pound or Lumber in your sentence.

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