"the British Museum Friends, Nicholas Barber. The Barber Cup has a low-relief design of a vine and grapes, and may have been intended as a ""trulla"", or dipper. It measures 15 cm high (13.5 cm without the handle) by 9.5 cm wide (at the rim). The foot is 6.4 cm in diameter. Barber Cup and Crawford Cup The Barber Cup and Crawford Cup are two non-matching carved fluorite cups from about 50–100 AD. They were discovered during World War I by an Austro-Croatian officer who excavated a Roman tomb near the current Turkish–Syrian border. Both cups are now in the"
"unit is often still referred to as the foot-pound (ft⋅lbf). Similarly, an inch-pound (though should be more correctly as ""pound-inch"") is the torque of one pound of force applied to one inch of distance from the pivot, and is equal to of a pound-foot. It is commonly used on torque wrenches and torque screwdrivers for setting specific fastener tension. Pound-foot (torque) A pound-foot (lbf⋅ft) is a unit of torque (a pseudovector). One pound-foot is the torque created by one pound of force acting at a perpendicular distance of one foot from a pivot point. Conversely one pound-foot is the moment"
"Pound-foot (torque) A pound-foot (lbf⋅ft) is a unit of torque (a pseudovector). One pound-foot is the torque created by one pound of force acting at a perpendicular distance of one foot from a pivot point. Conversely one pound-foot is the moment about an axis that applies one pound-force at a radius of one foot. The value in SI units is given by multiplying the following approximate factors: This gives the conversion factor: The name ""pound-foot"", intended to minimize confusion with the foot-pound as a unit of work, was apparently first proposed by British physicist Arthur Mason Worthington. However, the torque"
"Cup A cup is an open-top container used to hold liquids for pouring or drinking; it also can be used to store solids for pouring (e.g., sugar, flour, grains). Cups may be made of clay, wood, stone, glass, metal, china, styrofoam, plastic, or other materials, and are sometimes fixed with a stem, handles, or other adornments. Cups are used for quenching thirst across a wide range of cultures and social classes, and different styles of cups may be used for different liquids or in different situations. Cups of different styles may be used for different liquids or other foodstuffs (e.g."
"Pound cake Pound cake refers to a type of cake traditionally made with a pound of each of four ingredients: flour, butter, eggs, and sugar. Pound cakes are generally baked in either a loaf pan or a Bundt mold, and served either dusted with powdered sugar, lightly glazed, or sometimes with a coat of icing. It is believed that the pound cake is of northern European origin that dates back to the early 1700s. A recipe for pound cake is in the first American cookbook, ""American Cookery"", which was published in 1796. Over time the ingredients for pound cake changed."
"feet in English are: There are a wide range of names for other types of feet, right up to a choriamb, a four syllable metric foot with a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables and closing with a stressed syllable. The choriamb is derived from some ancient Greek and Latin poetry. Languages which utilize vowel length or intonation rather than or in addition to syllabic accents in determining meter, such as Ottoman Turkish or Vedic, often have concepts similar to the iamb and dactyl to describe common combinations of long and short sounds. Each of these types of feet"
"Club foot (furniture) A club foot is a type of rounded foot for a piece of furniture, such as the end of a chair leg. It is also known by the alternative names pad foot and Dutch foot, the latter sometimes corrupted into duck foot. Such feet are rounded flat pads or disks at the end of furniture legs. Pad feet were regularly used on cabriole legs during the 18th century. They can be found on tables, chairs, and some early sofas. Pad feet were first seen in the French and Italian Renaissance periods and have been widely used ever"
"Pound for pound Pound for pound is a ranking used in combat sports, such as boxing wrestling, or mixed martial arts, of who the better fighters are relative to their weight (i.e., adjusted to compensate for weight class). As these fighters do not compete directly, judging the best fighter pound for pound is subjective, and ratings vary. They may be based on a range of criteria including ""quality of opposition"", factors such as how exciting the fighter is or how famous they are, or be an attempt to determine who would win if all those ranked were the same size."
"Pound (force) The pound of force or pound-force (symbol: lbf, sometimes lb,) is a unit of force or weight used in some systems of measurement including English Engineering units and the British Gravitational System. Pound-force should not be confused with foot-pound, a unit of energy, or pound-foot, a unit of torque, that may be written as ""lbf⋅ft""; nor should these be be confused with pound-mass (symbol: lb), often simply called ""pound,"" which is a unit of mass. The pound-force is equal to the gravitational force exerted on a mass of one avoirdupois pound on the surface of Earth. Since the"
"Foot–pound–second system The foot–pound–second system or FPS system is a system of units built on three fundamental units: the foot for length, the (avoirdupois) pound for either mass or force (see below), and the second for time. Collectively, the variants of the FPS system were the most common system in technical publications in English until the middle of the 20th century. Errors can be avoided and translation between the systems facilitated by labelling all physical quantities consistently with their units. Especially in the context of the FPS system this is sometimes known as the Stroud system after William Stroud, who"
"Foot (prosody) The foot is the basic repeating rhythmic unit that forms part of a line of verse in most Indo-European traditions of poetry, including English accentual-syllabic verse and the quantitative meter of classical ancient Greek and Latin poetry. The unit is composed of syllables, and is usually two, three, or four syllables in length. The most common feet in English are the iamb, trochee, dactyl, and anapest. The foot might be compared to a bar in musical notation. The English word ""foot"" is a translation of the Latin term ""pes"", plural ""pedes"", which in turn is a translation of"
"Pood Pood (), is a unit of mass equal to 40 funt (фунт, Russian pound). Plural: pudi or pudy. Since 1899 It is approximately set to 16.38 kilograms (36.11 pounds). It was used in Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine. Pood was first mentioned in a number of 12th-century documents. Unlike ""funt"", which came at least in the 14th century from , ""pud"" (the earlier unattested form *пѫдъ ""pǫdŭ"") is a much older borrowing from which in turn came through the mediation of from ""weight"". Together with other units of weight of the Imperial Russian weight measurement system, the USSR officially abolished"
"Pood Pood (), is a unit of mass equal to 40 funt (фунт, Russian pound). Plural: pudi or pudy. Since 1899 It is approximately set to 16.38 kilograms (36.11 pounds). It was used in Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine. Pood was first mentioned in a number of 12th-century documents. Unlike ""funt"", which came at least in the 14th century from , ""pud"" (the earlier unattested form *пѫдъ ""pǫdŭ"") is a much older borrowing from which in turn came through the mediation of from ""weight"". Together with other units of weight of the Imperial Russian weight measurement system, the USSR officially abolished"
"have at times been called ""foot-pound-second"" systems after the Imperial units for length, weight and time even though the tons, hundredweights, gallons, and nautical miles, for example, are different for the U.S. units. Many Imperial units remain in use in Britain, which has officially switched to the SI system—with a few exceptions such as road signs, which are still in miles. Draught beer and cider must be sold by the imperial pint, and milk in returnable bottles can be sold by the imperial pint. Many people measure their height in feet and inches and their weight in stone and pounds,"
"Foot (unit) The foot ( feet; abbreviation: ft; symbol: ′, the prime symbol) is a unit of length in the imperial and US customary systems of measurement. Since 1959, both units have been defined by international agreement as equivalent to 0.3048 meters exactly. In both systems, the foot comprises 12 inches and three feet compose a yard. Historically the ""foot"" was a part of many local systems of units, including the Greek, Roman, Chinese, French, and English systems. It varied in length from country to country, from city to city, and sometimes from trade to trade. Its length was usually"
"the bushel, the hogshead, the acre-foot and the board foot. ""Capacity"" is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as ""the measure applied to the content of a vessel, and to liquids, grain, or the like, which take the shape of that which holds them"". (The word ""capacity"" has other unrelated meanings, as in e.g. capacity management.) Capacity is not identical in meaning to volume, though closely related; the capacity of a container is always the volume in its interior. Units of capacity are the SI litre and its derived units, and Imperial units such as gill, pint, gallon, and others."
"Poundal The poundal (symbol: pdl) is a unit of force that is part of the foot–pound–second system of units, in Imperial units introduced in 1877, and is from the specialized subsystem of English absolute (a coherent system). The poundal is defined as the force necessary to accelerate 1 pound-mass at 1 foot per second per second. 1 pdl = exactly. English units require re-scaling of either force or mass to eliminate a numerical proportionality constant in the equation ""F = ma"". The poundal represents one choice, which is to rescale units of force. Since a pound of ""force"" (pound force)"
"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 definitions have been used; the most common today is the international avoirdupois pound, which is legally defined as exactly , and which is divided into 16 avoirdupois ounces. The international standard symbol for the avoirdupois pound is lb; an alternative symbol is lb (for most pound definitions), # (chiefly in the U.S.), and ℔ or ″̶ (specifically for the apothecaries' pound). The unit is descended from the Roman ""libra"" (hence the abbreviation ""lb""). The English word"
"a constant. The SI is an ""absolute"" metric system with kilogram and meter as base units. Pound (force) The pound of force or pound-force (symbol: lbf, sometimes lb,) is a unit of force or weight used in some systems of measurement including English Engineering units and the British Gravitational System. Pound-force should not be confused with foot-pound, a unit of energy, or pound-foot, a unit of torque, that may be written as ""lbf⋅ft""; nor should these be be confused with pound-mass (symbol: lb), often simply called ""pound,"" which is a unit of mass. The pound-force is equal to the gravitational"
"1871. The palm (typically 200 mm to 280 mm) was used in many Mediterranean cities instead of the foot. Horace Doursther, whose reference was published in Belgium which had the smallest foot measurements, grouped both units together, while J.F.G. Palaiseau devoted three chapters to units of length: one for linear measures (palms and feet), one for cloth measures (ells) and one for distances traveled (miles and leagues). In the table below, arbitrary cut-off points of 270 mm and 350 mm have been chosen. Notes Foot (unit) The foot ( feet; abbreviation: ft; symbol: ′, the prime symbol) is a unit"
"rod, pole or perch to become (rather than the older 15) agricultural feet. The furlong and the acre, once it became a measure of the size of a piece of land rather than its value, remained relatively unchanged. In the last thousand years, three principal pounds were used in England. The troy pound (5760 grains) was used for precious metals, the apothecaries' pound, (also 5760 grains) was used by pharmacists and the avoirdupois pound (7000 grains) was used for general purposes. The apothecaries and troy pounds are divided into 12 ounces (of 480 grains) while the avoirdupois pound has 16"
"pound agreement of July 1959 defined the length of the international yard in the United States and countries of the Commonwealth of Nations as exactly 0.9144 meters. Consequently, the international foot is defined to be equal to exactly 0.3048 meters. This was 2 ppm shorter than the previous U.S. definition and 1.7 ppm longer than the previous British definition. The international standard symbol for a foot is ""ft"" (see ISO 31-1, Annex A). In some cases, the foot is denoted by a prime, which is often marked by an apostrophe, and the inch by a double prime; for example, 2"
"Board foot The board foot or board-foot is a unit of measurement for the volume of lumber in the United States and Canada. It is the volume of a one-foot length of a board one foot wide and one inch thick. Board foot can be abbreviated FBM (for ""foot, board measure""), BDFT, or BF. Thousand board feet can be abbreviated as MFBM, MBFT, or MBF. Similarly, million board feet can be abbreviated as MMFBM, MMBFT, or MMBF. In Australia and New Zealand the term super foot or superficial foot was used to mean the same. One board foot equals: Board"
"Board foot The board foot or board-foot is a unit of measurement for the volume of lumber in the United States and Canada. It is the volume of a one-foot length of a board one foot wide and one inch thick. Board foot can be abbreviated FBM (for ""foot, board measure""), BDFT, or BF. Thousand board feet can be abbreviated as MFBM, MBFT, or MBF. Similarly, million board feet can be abbreviated as MMFBM, MMBFT, or MMBF. In Australia and New Zealand the term super foot or superficial foot was used to mean the same. One board foot equals: Board"
"Ball (association football) A football, soccer ball, or association football ball is the ball used in the sport of association football. The name of the ball varies according to whether the sport is called ""football"", ""soccer"", or ""association football"". The ball's spherical shape, as well as its size, weight, and material composition, are specified by Law 2 of the Laws of the Game maintained by the International Football Association Board. Additional, more stringent, standards are specified by FIFA and subordinate governing bodies for the balls used in the competitions they sanction. Early footballs began as animal bladders or stomachs that"
"to the proportionality constant. This has the effect of identifying the pound-force with the pound. The pound is then both a base unit of mass and a coherent derived unit of force. One may apply any unit one pleases to the proportionality constant. If one applies the unit s/lb to it, then the foot becomes a unit of force. In a four-unit system (English engineering units), the pound and the pound-force are distinct base units, and the proportionality constant has the unit lbf⋅s/(lb⋅ft). All these systems are coherent. One that is not is a three-unit system (also called English engineering"
"Fotmal The fotmal (, ""foot-measure""; ), also known as the foot ('), formel, fontinel, and fotmell, was an English unit of variable weight particularly used in measuring production, sales, and duties of lead. Under the Assize of Weights and Measures, it was equal to 70 Merchants' pounds and made up of a load of lead. Elsewhere, it was made of 70 avoirdupois pounds and made up load. According to Kiernan, in 16th-century Derbyshire, the fotmal was divided into ""boles"" and made up of a fother, meaning it was considered to be 84 avoirdupois pounds. It continued to be used until"
"""pound"" is cognate with, among others, German ""Pfund"", Dutch ""pond"", and Swedish ""pund"". All ultimately derive from a borrowing into Proto-Germanic of the Latin expression ""lībra pondō"" (""a pound by weight""), in which the word ""pondō"" is the ablative case of the Latin noun ""pondus"" (""weight""). Usage of the unqualified term ""pound"" reflects the historical conflation of mass and weight. This accounts for the modern distinguishing terms ""pound-mass"" and ""pound-force"". The United States and countries of the Commonwealth of Nations agreed upon common definitions for the pound and the yard. Since 1 July 1959, the international avoirdupois pound (symbol lb)"
"Comparative foot morphology Comparative foot morphology involves comparing the form of distal limb structures of a variety of terrestrial vertebrates. Understanding the role that the foot plays for each type of organism must take account of the differences in body type, foot shape, arrangement of structures, loading conditions and other variables. However, similarities also exist among the feet of many different terrestrial vertebrates. The paw of the dog, the hoof of the horse, the ""manus"" (foot) and ""pes"" (foot) of the elephant, and the foot of the human all share some common features of structure, organization and function. Their foot"
"Cubic foot The cubic foot (symbol ft) is an imperial and US customary (non-metric) unit of volume, used in the United States, and partially in Canada, and the United Kingdom. It is defined as the volume of a cube with sides of one foot (0.3048 m) in length. Its volume is 28.3168 liters or about of a cubic meter. At , a cubic foot of water weighs . The IEEE symbol for the cubic foot is ft. The following abbreviations are used: cubicfeet, cubicfoot, cubicft, cufeet, cufoot, cuft, cu.ft, cuft, cbft, cb.ft, cbft, cbf, feet, foot, ft, feet/-3, foot/-3, ft/-3."
"baseball slang). Foot The foot (plural feet) is an anatomical structure found in many vertebrates. It is the terminal portion of a limb which bears weight and allows locomotion. In many animals with feet, the foot is a separate organ at the terminal part of the leg made up of one or more segments or bones, generally including claws or nails. The word ""foot"", in the sense of meaning the ""terminal part of the leg of a vertebrate animal"" comes from ""Old English fot ""foot,"" from Proto-Germanic *fot (source also of Old Frisian fot, Old Saxon fot, Old Norse fotr,"
"drinks or petrol. Though use of kilograms is increasing, most British people also still use imperial units in everyday life for body weight (stones and pounds for adults, pounds and ounces for babies). Some government documents aimed at the public give body weight and height not only in metric units (kilograms centimetres) but also in imperial units (stones and pounds, feet and inches). A survey in 2015 found that many people did not know their body weight or height in one system or the other. People under the age of 40 preferred the metric system but people aged 40 and"
"all England. The Magna Carta, signed by King John in 1215 extended this to include cloth. Some time between 1266 and 1303 the weights and measures of England were radically revised by a law known as the ""Composition of Yards and Perches"" (""Compositio ulnarum et perticarum"") often known as the ""Compositio"" for short. This law, attributed to either Henry III or his successor Edward I, instituted a new foot that was exactly the length of the old foot, with corresponding reductions in the size of the yard, ell, inch, and barleycorn. (Furlongs remained the same, but the rod changed from"