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pond
(pŏnd)n.
A still body of water smaller than a lake.
v. pond·ed, pond·ing, ponds
v.intr.
To form ponds or large puddles: Debris blocked the culvert, and the stream began to pond.
v.tr.
1. To cause to form ponds or large puddles: The landslide ponded the stream.
2. To form ponds or large puddles on (a piece of land).
[Middle English ponde, from Old English pund-, enclosure.]
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pond
(pɒnd)n
a. a pool of still water, often artificially created
b. (in combination): a fishpond.
[C13 ponde enclosure; related to pound3]
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pond
(pɒnd)n.
1. a body of water smaller than a lake, sometimes artificially formed, as by damming a stream.
v.i. 2. (esp. of water) to collect into a pond or large puddle.
[1250–1300; Middle English ponde, pande, akin to Old English pynding dam, gepyndan to impound. See pound3]
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pond
(pŏnd) An inland body of standing water that is smaller than a lake.
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pond
- lake - First meant pool or pond.
- nursery - Can be a pond in which fry are reared.
- tank - May have come from Gujarati tanku, or Marathi tanke, "underground cistern," from Sanskrit tadaga, "pond."
- pond - To pond is to accumulate water in a pond, which is really a small lake.
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| Noun | 1. |  pond - a small lake; "the pond was too small for sailing"fishpond - a freshwater pond with fish horsepond - a pond for watering horses lake - a body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land mere - a small pond of standing water millpond - a pond formed by damming a stream to provide a head of water to turn a mill wheel swimming hole - a small body of water (usually in a creek) that is deep enough to use for swimming water hole - a natural hole or hollow containing water |
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pond
noun pool, tarn, small lake, fish pond, duck pond, millpond, lochan (Scot.), dew pond youths skating on the frozen village pond
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[pɒnd]Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
pond
(pond) noun a small lake or pool. the village pond.estanque
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