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Pond

//pɒnd// name, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Chiefly in across the pond: the Atlantic Ocean. informal

    "I wonder how they do this on the other side of the pond."

  2. 2
    Alternative letter-case form of the pond (“the Atlantic Ocean”). alt-of

    "The legendary liner is retiring from transatlantic sailing after 33 years of crossing the Pond between New York and Southampton, England."

  3. 3
    A surname.

    ""How do you know?" asked Mr Pond rather snappishly and in unusual irritation."

Noun
  1. 1
    An inland body of standing water, either natural or man-made, that is smaller than a lake.

    "But when the moon rose and the breeze awakened, and the sedges stirred, and the cat's-paws raced across the moonlit ponds, and the far surf off Wonder Head intoned the hymn of the four winds, the trinity, earth and sky and water, became one thunderous symphony—a harmony of sound and colour silvered to a monochrome by the moon."

  2. 2
    a small lake wordnet
  3. 3
    An inland body of standing water of any size that is fed by springs rather than by a river.
Verb
  1. 1
    To block the flow of water so that it can escape only through evaporation or seepage; to dam. transitive

    "The rate of fall of the surface of water ponded over the soil within the ring gives a measure of the infiltration rate for the particular enclosed area."

  2. 2
    To ponder. obsolete, transitive

    "Pleaseth you, pond your suppliant's plaint."

  3. 3
    To make into a pond; to collect, as water, in a pond by damming. transitive
  4. 4
    To form a pond; to pool. intransitive

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English pond, ponde (“pond, pool”), probably from Old English *pond, *pand (attested in placenames), a variant of *pund (“enclosure”). Doublet of pound.

Etymology 2

From Middle English pond, ponde (“pond, pool”), probably from Old English *pond, *pand (attested in placenames), a variant of *pund (“enclosure”). Doublet of pound.

Etymology 3

From Middle English pond, ponde (“pond, pool”), probably from Old English *pond, *pand (attested in placenames), a variant of *pund (“enclosure”). Doublet of pound.

Etymology 4

Clipping of ponder.

Etymology 5

* As an English surname, from both senses of the noun pound. * As a German and north/Low German surname, Americanized from Pfund and Pund respectively, both related to the above.

Etymology 6

* As an English surname, from both senses of the noun pound. * As a German and north/Low German surname, Americanized from Pfund and Pund respectively, both related to the above.

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