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jordan | pond |

As a noun jordan

is (obsolete) a pot or vessel with a large neck, formerly used by physicians and alchemists.

As a proper noun pond is

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jordan

English

(wikipedia Jordan)

Proper noun

(s)
  • A country in the Middle East. Official name: Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.
  • A river of the Middle East, mentioned in the Bible, that empties into the Dead Sea, and after which the country is named.
  • ; in the Middle Ages given to children baptized with Jordan water brought by Crusaders.
  • * 1989 (Jeanette Winterson), Sexing the Cherry , Grove Press 1998, ISBN 0802135781, pages 3-4:
    • I call him Jordan and it will do. He has no other name before or after. What was there to call him, fished as he was from the stinking Thames? A child can't be called Thames, no and not Nile either, for all his likeness to Moses. But I wanted to given him a river name, a name not bound to anything, just as the waters aren't bound to anything.
  • derived from the male given name.
  • used since mid-20th century.

    • Derived terms

    * Jordanian * Jordanesque *Jordanianism *Jordanianness

    See also

    * English unisex given names ----

    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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