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What does pond mean?

Definitions for pond
pɒndpond

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. pond, poolnoun

    a small lake

    "the pond was too small for sailing"

Wiktionary

  1. pondnoun

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

  2. pondnoun

    The Atlantic Ocean. Especially in across the pond.

  3. pondverb

    To block the flow of water so that it can escape only through evaporation or seepage; to dam.

  4. Etymology: Variant of pound.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Pondnoun

    supposed to be the same with pound; A small pool or lake of water; a bason; water not running or emitting any stream.

    Etymology: pindan , Sax. to shut up.

    In the midst of all the place was a fair pond, whose shaking crystal was a perfect mirror to all the other beauties, so that it bare shew of two gardens. Philip Sidney.

    Through bogs and mires, and oft through pond or pool,
    There swallow’d up. John Milton, Par. Lost, b. ix.

    Had marine bodies been found in only one place, it might have been suspected, that the sea was, what the Caspian is, a great pond or lake, confined to one part. John Woodward.

    His building is a town,
    His pond an ocean. Alexander Pope.

  2. To Pondverb

    To ponder. A corrupt obsolete word.

    O my liege lord, the god of my life,
    Pleaseth you pond your suppliant’s plaint. Edmund Spenser.

Wikipedia

  1. Pond

    A pond is an area filled with water, either natural or artificial, that is smaller than a lake. Defining them to be less than 5 hectares (12 acres) in area, less than 5 meters (16 ft) deep, and with less than 30% emergent vegetation helps in distinguishing their ecology from that of lakes and wetlands.: 460  Ponds can be created by a wide variety of natural processes (e.g. on floodplains as cutoff river channels, by glacial processes, by peatland formation, in coastal dune systems, by beavers), or they can simply be isolated depressions (such as a kettle hole, vernal pool, prairie pothole, or simply natural undulations in undrained land) filled by runoff, groundwater, or precipitation, or all three of these. They can be further divided into four zones: vegetation zone, open water, bottom mud and surface film.: 160–163  The size and depth of ponds often varies greatly with the time of year; many ponds are produced by spring flooding from rivers. Ponds may be freshwater or brackish in nature. 'Ponds' with saltwater, with a direct connection to the sea that maintains full salinity, would normally be regarded as part of the marine environment because they would not support fresh or brackish water organisms, so not really within the realm of freshwater science. Ponds are usually by definition quite shallow water bodies with varying abundances of aquatic plants and animals. Depth, seasonal water level variations, nutrients fluxes, amount of light reaching the ponds, the shape, the presence of visiting large mammals, the composition of any fish communities and salinity can all affect the types of plant and animal communities present. Food webs are based both on free-floating algae and upon aquatic plants. There is usually a diverse array of aquatic life, with a few examples including algae, snails, fish, beetles, water bugs, frogs, turtles, otters and muskrats. Top predators may include large fish, herons, or alligators. Since fish are a major predator upon amphibian larvae, ponds that dry up each year, thereby killing resident fish, provide important refugia for amphibian breeding. Ponds that dry up completely each year are often known as vernal pools. Some ponds are produced by animal activity, including alligator holes and beaver ponds, and these add important diversity to landscapes.Ponds are frequently manmade or expanded beyond their original depths and bounds by anthropogenic causes. Apart from their role as highly biodiverse, fundamentally natural, freshwater ecosystems ponds have had, and still have, many uses, including providing water for agriculture, livestock and communities, aiding in habitat restoration, serving as breeding grounds for local and migrating species, decorative components of landscape architecture, flood control basins, general urbanization, interception basins for pollutants and sources and sinks of greenhouse gases.

ChatGPT

  1. pond

    A pond is a small body of still water, typically formed naturally but can also be created by humans. It is generally smaller than a lake and can support various forms of aquatic life such as fish, amphibians, plants, and often serves as a habitat for various species of animals and birds. It plays an important ecological role in the environment, including serving as a water source and aiding in flood control.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Pondnoun

    a body of water, naturally or artificially confined, and usually of less extent than a lake

  2. Pondverb

    to make into a pond; to collect, as water, in a pond by damming

  3. Pondverb

    to ponder

  4. Etymology: [See Ponder.]

Wikidata

  1. Pond

    A pond is a body of standing water, either natural or man-made, that is usually smaller than a lake. They may arise naturally in floodplains as part of a river system, or they may be somewhat isolated depressions. Usually they contain shallow water with marsh and aquatic plants and animals. A few animals also make ponds, including both alligators and beavers. The type of life in a pond is generally determined by a combination of factors including water level regime and nutrient levels, but other factors may also be important, including presence or absence of shading by trees, presence or absence of streams, effects of grazing animals, and salinity. Humans also make ponds. A wide variety of man-made bodies of water are classified as ponds. Some ponds are created specifically for habitat restoration, including water treatment. Others, like water gardens, water features and koi ponds are designed for aesthetic ornamentation as landscape or architectural features. Fish ponds are designed for commercial fish breeding, and solar ponds designed to store thermal energy. Standing bodies of water such as puddles, ponds, and lakes are often categorized separately from flowing water courses, such as a brook, creek, stream or river.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Pond

    pond, v.i. (Spens.) to ponder.

  2. Pond

    pond, n. a pool of standing water.—v.t. to make into a pond.—v.i. to collect into a pond.—ns. Pon′dage, the amount of water in a pond; Pond′-lil′y, a plant of the aquatic genus Nymphæa; Pond′-tur′tle, a terrapin, a mud turtle; Pond′weed, a common aquatic herb. [From A.S. pyndan, to shut in, thus a doublet of pound, an enclosure.]

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. pond

    A word often used for a small lagoon, but improperly, for ponds are formed exclusively from springs and surface-drainage, and have no affluent. Also, a cant name for the Mediterranean. Also, the summit-level of a canal.

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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. POND

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Pond is ranked #3930 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Pond surname appeared 9,052 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 3 would have the surname Pond.

    90.9% or 8,235 total occurrences were White.
    2.8% or 260 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    2.1% or 196 total occurrences were Black.
    1.4% or 131 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    1.3% or 125 total occurrences were Asian.
    1.1% or 105 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

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British National Corpus

  1. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'pond' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4700

  2. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'pond' in Nouns Frequency: #1715

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  1. DNOP

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of pond in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of pond in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of pond in a Sentence

  1. Schopenhauer:

    What a man can do and suffer is unknown to himself till some occasion presents itself which draws out the hidden power. Just as one sees not in the water of an unruffled pond the fury and roar with which it can dash down a steep rock without injury to itself, or how high it is capable of rising; or as little as one can suspect the latent heat in ice-cold water.

  2. Robin Marshall:

    If you ease the problems in the banking system you reduce the risk of the banking system pulling down the sovereign and the sovereign pulling down the banks like two big rocks tied together and hurled into a pond.

  3. Robin Ficker:

    He was using a rock as a tool. ... He hit the window five times, the exhibit was unique in the sense that the pond came right up to you, allowing you to be within inches of bears.

  4. Arthur Caplan:

    We're just early. We will see surges in other places, it's like a rock thrown into a pond and it ripples out.

  5. Colin Wilson:

    Boredom, passivity, stagnation: these are the beginning of mental illness, which propagates itself like the scum on a stagnant pond.

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