pond
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- pŏnd, /pɒnd/, /pQnd/
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- Rhymes: -ɒnd
[edit] Etymology
Variant of pound.
[edit] Noun
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pond (plural ponds)
- An inland body of standing water, either natural or man-made, that is smaller than a lake.
- (colloquial) The Atlantic Ocean. Especially in across the pond.
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small lake
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The Atlantic Ocean
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to pond (third-person singular simple present ponds, present participle ponding, simple past and past participle ponded)
- To block the flow of water so that it can escape only through evaporation or seepage; to dam.
- 2004, Calvin W. Rose, An Introduction to the Environmental Physics of Soil, Water and Watersheds [1], ISBN 0521536790, page 201:
- 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.
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- Anagrams of DNOP
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pond n
- 500 gram
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pond n
- Pound (currency)
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pond