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Backwater vs Pond - What's the difference?

backwater | pond |

As nouns the difference between backwater and pond

is that backwater is the water held back by a dam or other obstruction while pond is an inland body of standing water, either natural or man-made, that is smaller than a lake.

As verbs the difference between backwater and pond

is that backwater is to row or paddle a backwater stroke while pond is to block the flow of water so that it can escape only through evaporation or seepage; to dam.

As a proper noun Pond is

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backwater

English

Alternative forms

* back water * back-water

Noun

(en noun)
  • The water held back by a dam or other obstruction
  • (idiomatic) A remote place; somewhere that remains unaffected by new events, progresses, ideas, etc.
  • * 1978 , National Opera Association - The Opera Journal page 29
    • It's a volume for those who delight in exploring the backwaters of nineteenth-century opera
  • A rowing stroke in which the oar is pushed forward to stop the boat; see back water

    • Synonyms

    * jerkwater town, one-horse town, Podunk * See

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To row or paddle a backwater stroke.
  • (idiomatic) To vacillate on a long-held position.

    • pond

    English

    (wikipedia pond)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An inland body of standing water, either natural or man-made, that is smaller than a lake.
  • *
  • *:But when the moon rose and the breeze awakened, and the sedges stirred, and the cat's-paws raced across the moonlit ponds , and the far surf off Wonder Head intoned the hymn of the four winds, the trinity, earth and sky and water, became one thunderous symphony—a harmony of sound and colour silvered to a monochrome by the moon.
  • (lb) The Atlantic Ocean. Especially in across the pond.
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    • Derived terms

    * across the pond * ducks on the pond * Leftpondia * pondian * Rightpondia

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • 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 [http://books.google.com/books?id=TxCQ-DaSIwUC], 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.
  • To make into a pond; to collect, as water, in a pond by damming.
  • (obsolete) To ponder.
  • * Spenser
    • Pleaseth you, pond your suppliant's plaint.

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