Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A still body of water smaller than a lake.
- intransitive verb To form ponds or large puddles.
- intransitive verb To cause to form ponds or large puddles.
- intransitive verb To form ponds or large puddles on (a piece of land).
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A body of water, natural or artificial, of less extent than a lake: as, a mill-pond.
- To dam or pen up; make into a pond by damming: collect in a pond by stopping the current of a river.
- To form pools or ponds; collect in the manner of water in a pond.
- noun A Middle English form of
pound . - To ponder.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To make into a pond; to collect, as water, in a pond by damming.
- transitive verb obsolete To ponder.
- noun A body of water, naturally or artificially confined, and usually of less extent than a lake.
- noun (Zoöl.) the American coot. See
Coot (a). - noun (Bot.) the water lily. See under
Water , andIllust. underNymphæa . - noun (Zoöl.) any gastropod living in fresh-water ponds or lakes. The most common kinds are air-breathing snails (Pulmonifera) belonging to Limnæa, Physa, Planorbis, and allied genera. The operculated species are pectinibranchs, belonging to Melantho, Valvata, and various other genera.
- noun (Bot.) an American shrub (
Tetranthera geniculata ) of the Laurel family, with small oval leaves, and axillary clusters of little yellow flowers. The whole plant is spicy. It grows in ponds and swamps from Virginia to Florida. - noun (Zoöl.) any freshwater tortoise of the family
Emydidæ . Numerous species are found in North America.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An inland body of standing
water , either natural or man-made, that is smaller than alake . - noun colloquial The
Atlantic Ocean . Especially inacross the pond . - verb To block the flow of water so that it can escape only through evaporation or seepage; to
dam . - verb obsolete To
ponder .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a small lake
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Examples
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On a long drive back and forth from Clackamas Lake a body of water, which at best, merits the term pond I gave it another listen.
I'm getting back, into getting back into listening to some Silver Jews
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On a long drive back and forth from Clackamas Lake a body of water, which at best, merits the term pond I gave it another listen.
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The Institute drove home just how small this pond is and made me very glad to be swimming in it.
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In a very real way, the pond is a part of everybody's backyard, it's a very suburbanized bit of ocean, and the birds in the neighborhood are mostly suburban not ocean-going birds.
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Sometimes a walk around the pond is actually a barefoot wade through the pond.
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Dare I say that these days crossing either pond is almost the only way to find humble gems of the genre.
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Sometimes a walk around the pond is actually a barefoot wade through the pond.
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In a very real way, the pond is a part of everybody's backyard, it's a very suburbanized bit of ocean, and the birds in the neighborhood are mostly suburban not ocean-going birds.
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The water in a pond is at equilibrium when the surface is undisturbed.
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Across the pond is a sandy point that will never be built on because the property is held in trust.
bilby commented on the word pond
"Everyone grumbled. The sky was grey.
We had nothing to do and nothing to say.
We were nearing the end of a dismal day,
And there seemed to be nothing beyond,
THEN
Daddy fell into the pond!"
- Alfred Noyes, 'Daddy Fell Into The Pond'.
November 1, 2008