pond

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Variant of pound.

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A pond

pond (plural ponds)

  1. An inland body of standing water, either natural or man-made, that is smaller than a lake.
  2. (colloquial) The Atlantic Ocean. Especially in across the pond.

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pond (third-person singular simple present ponds, present participle ponding, simple past and past participle ponded)

  1. 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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pond n. (uncountable, diminutive pondje)

  1. metric pound (500 grams)

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pond c. (plural ponden, diminutive pondje)

  1. pound (currency)

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pond

  1. third-person singular present of pondre
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