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pond
[ pond ]
noun
- a body of water smaller than a lake, sometimes artificially formed, as by damming a stream.
- the pond, Informal. the Atlantic Ocean:
American companies are finding business is different on the other side of the pond.
verb (used without object)
- (especially of water) to collect into a pond or large puddle:
to prevent rainwater from ponding on the roof.
pond
/ pɒnd /
noun
- a pool of still water, often artificially created
- ( in combination )
a fishpond
pond
/ pŏnd /
- An inland body of standing water that is smaller than a lake. Natural ponds form in small depressions and are usually shallow enough to support rooted vegetation across most or all of their areas.
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of pond1
Idioms and Phrases
see big fish in a small pond ; little frog in a big pond .Example Sentences
There, settling ponds, bacteria, chemicals and machines make the wastes safe enough to go back into the environment.
Ground-penetrating radar now has revealed that these were no cattle ponds.
If GWAS are like fishing for a rare species in several large oceans, then the authors’ point is to focus on ponds—distributed across the world—which are small, but packed with those rare species.
Some are large ponds, and others are major lakes more than 270 feet deep.
The fish were supposed to help control the growth of algae in ponds on fish farms.
Just who is crazy enough to go swimming when the pond across the street has a layer of ice across the top?
“I jumped over a few cars, almost turned it upside down in a pond and came out on top of all four tires,” she wrote in an email.
Stampy, the biggest YouTube star this side of the pond, is also known as 23-year-old Joseph Garrett from Portsmouth.
Then, a sharp-eyed woman pointed out a ladder leaning against a tree on the side of the pond.
This was not the Impossible—the Eiffel Tower, the Sydney Opera House—this was a walk above the LongHouse pond.
A little boy of four was moved to passionate grief at the sight of a dead dog taken from a pond.
It was no wonder that he felt quite at home in the duck-pond, which was made for web-footed folk.
On a rocky islet in the centre of a fresh water pond two miles in circuit they commenced erecting a fort and store house.
Under cover of this they crawled towards a large pond on which ducks were resting but by no means asleep.
In the autumn it occurs both in the Braye Pond and on the coast in the more sheltered parts.
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