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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES pound sterling COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN pound ▪ The rate for the pound sterling was 1,650,000 roubles in January 1922 and 71,730,000 by October. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ However, she cautioned against taking ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 of, or relating to British currency, or the former British coinage. 2 of, relating to, or made from sterling silver. 3 Of acknowledged worth or influence; high quality; authoritative. n. The currency of the United Kingdom; especially the pound.
Wikipedia
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Sterling is a fractal -generating computer program written in the C programming language in 1999 for Microsoft Windows by Stephen C. Ferguson. Sterling was initially released as freeware but is not free now. Sterling2 is a freeware version of Sterling with ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. British money; especially the pound sterling as the basic monetary unit of the UK
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, "silver penny," probably from Middle English sterre (see star (n.)), according to OED "presumably" from the stars that appeared in the design of certain Norman coins, + diminutive suffix -ling . But starred coins were not especially common among ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Starling \Star"ling\ (-l[i^]ng), n. [OE. sterlyng, a dim. of OE. stare, AS. st[ae]r; akin to AS. stearn, G. star, staar, OHG. stara, Icel. starri, stari, Sw. stare, Dan. st[ae]r, L. sturnus. Cf. Stare a starling.] (Zo["o]l.) Any passerine bird belonging ...
Gazetteer
Word definitions in Gazetteer
Population (2000): 1393 Housing Units (2000): 633 Land area (2000): 923.357747 sq. miles (2391.485484 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.131714 sq. miles (0.341137 sq. km) Total area (2000): 923.489461 sq. miles (2391.826621 sq. km) Located within: Texas (TX), ...
Usage examples of sterling.
One of these regulations was, that no man coming into any given district or county within the control assumed by the associating parties, should be allowed to work without previously paying five pounds sterling, to be applied to the funds of the association.
Of these one firm, namely, Messrs Guinness, owning the largest brewery in the world, brewed upwards of two million barrels, paying a sum of, roughly, one million sterling to the revenue.
Ford little realized how soon the time was to come when the outdoor girls were to prove their sterling worth in a peculiar manner.
But he is bound to Sterling Silver in the same fashion as Parsnip and must always return.
Bunion and Parsnip still here at Sterling Silver when everyone else in the court is gone?
There were four receipts showing that one of the senior two had bought cell phones of the buy-use-and-throw variety, tri-band versions usable almost anywhere in the world, and each containing a prepaid SIM card worth about twenty pounds sterling.
We all conceived a prepossession in his favour, for there was a sterling quality in this laugh, and in his vigorous, healthy voice, and in the roundness and fullness with which he uttered every word he spoke, and in the very fury of his superlatives, which seemed to go off like blank cannons and hurt nothing.
Karl Schey showed up at the Sterling, Virginia, farmhouse around 10:00 P.
Sterling crossed to the towering secretaire in the corner and poured a generous splash of brandy in a glass.
The mists that shrouded Sterling Silver swirled in murky trailers before him, and the darkness of coming night slipped across the land.
Sterling to cook up the Spangler sighting as a last-ditch effort to jumpstart his career.
His spivs take the barter goods and exchange them for gold or silver or diamonds, some sort of precious commodity acceptable internationallyNew Sterling was no good, it was a restricted currency under the PSP.
Geoff Sterling, which saved him the trouble of hunting the strig down on his own.
And what she was about to tell us was that she and Sterling were swingers, or he was a cross-dresser, or something good and juicy like that.
They declare that the unconditional abolition of slavery, in a country abounding in unappropriated lands, where men may squat without being disturbed, means simply the confiscation of three hundred millions sterling, the value of the slaves, in the first place, and the abandonment and destruction of the entire planting interest, in the second.