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lake | pong |

As a noun lake

is , valley.

As a proper noun pong is

(video games) an early video game from atari, resembling ping-pong, in which two players control paddles and attempt to intercept a ball.

lake

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) . Despite their similarity in form and meaning, (etyl) lake is not related to (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • A small stream of running water; a channel for water; a drain.
  • A large, landlocked stretch of water.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake . I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.}}
  • A large amount of liquid; as , a wine lake.
  • * 1991 , (Robert DeNiro) (actor), :
    • So you punched out a window for ventilation. Was that before'' or ''after you noticed you were standing in a lake of gasoline?
    Synonyms
    * See also
    Derived terms
    * ephemeral lake * Great Lakes * Lake District * Lakes * lakeness * oxbow lake
    See also
    * billabong * lagoon * pond * tarn
    References
    * {{reference-book , last = Kenneth , first = Sisam , title = Fourteenth Century Verse and Prose , origyear = 2009 , publisher = BiblioBazaar , id = ISBN 1110730802, 9781110730803 }} * {{reference-book , last = Astell , first = Ann W. , title = Political allegory in late medieval England , origyear = 1999 , publisher = Cornell University Press , id = ISBN 0801435609, 9780801435607 , pages = 192 }} * {{reference-book , last = Cameron , first = Kenneth , title = English Place Names , origyear = 1961 , publisher = B. T. Batsford Limited , id = SBN 416 27990 2 , pages = 164 }} * {{reference-book , last = Maetzner , first = Eduard Adolf Ferdinand , title = An English Grammar; Methodical, Analytical, and Historical , origyear = 2009 , publisher = BiblioBazaar, LLC , id = ISBN 1113149965, 9781113149961 , pages = 200 }} * {{reference-book , last = Rissanen , first = Matti , title = History of Englishes: new methods and interpretations in historical linguistics , origyear = 1992 , publisher = Walter de Gruyter , id = ISBN 3110132168, 9783110132168 , pages = 513-514 }} * {{reference-book , last = Ferguson , first = Robert , title = English surnames: and their place in the Teutonic family , origyear = 1858 , publisher = G. Routledge & co. , pages = 368 }}

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) lake, lak, lac (also loke, laik, layke), from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) An offering, sacrifice, gift.
  • (dialectal) Play; sport; game; fun; glee.
    • Derived terms
    * bridelock * wedlock

    Verb

    (lak)
  • (obsolete) To present an offering.
  • (chiefly, dialectal) To leap, jump, exert oneself, play.

    • Etymology 3

    From (etyl) lachen

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) Fine linen.

    • Etymology 4

    From (etyl) , referring to the number of insects that gather on the trees and make the resin seep out.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • In dyeing and painting, an often fugitive crimson or vermillion pigment derived from an organic colorant (cochineal or madder, for example) and an inorganic, generally metallic mordant.
    • Derived terms
    * lake-red

    Verb

    (lak)
  • To make lake-red.

    • Etymology 5

    Compare lek.

    Verb

    (lak)
  • (obsolete) To play; to sport.

    • Anagrams

    * kale * leak English terms with multiple etymologies ----

    pong

    English

    Etymology 1

    From ping, via the pairing of .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (networking) A packet that is replying to a ping, and thereby indicating the presence of a host.

    • Etymology 2

    Probably from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (UK, Australia, New Zealand, slang) A stench, a bad smell.
  • * 1992 , , Volume 1, 2011, Read How You Want, page 109,
    • She sniffed, squiffing up her nose. ‘What a pong ! Do they all smell like this?’
  • * 1998 , Catherine Fox, Heaven?s Scent'', '' , page 13,
    • I can remember calling round once and when she answered the door I was greeted by an unmistakable, noxious pong . “I can smell gas!”
    I said. “Oh, have I left the ring on?” she asked vaguely.
  • * 2000 , Susan Sallis, 2011, unnumbered page,
    • ‘I see what you mean about the pong . I couldn?t smell it on myself but I can smell it on you!’
  • * 2009 , Martin Fine, The Devil?s Fragrance , page 109,
    • If you want to empty a crowded room strong body pong will usually do the trick.
    Related terms
    * pongy

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (UK, Australia, New Zealand, slang) To stink, to smell bad.
  • * 1997 , , David M. E. Roskies (translator and editor), Stop Thief!'', ''Black Clouds Over the Isle of Gods and Other Modern Indonesian Short Stories , page 97,
    • On she walked at a crawling pace, ponging of sweat, drops of mucus and blood falling between her feet.
  • * 2009 , Susan Brocker, Saving Sam , HarperCollins, New Zealand, unnumbered page,
    • The place ponged , like the smell of stale cat pee.
  • * 2010 , Robin Easton, Naked in Eden: My Adventure and Awakening in the Australian Rainforest , page 63,
    • “That toothless bloke ponged . Couldn?t you smell him? He smelled like a bloody pub floor at closing time.”
  • * 2011 , , We?ll Sing at Dawn , 2012, eBook, Headline Publishing, unnumbered page,
    • and this evening, Eileen Perkins?s daughter Rita ponged with the smell of cheap carbolic soap, after a late-afternoon visit to the public baths down Hornsey Road.
    Synonyms
    * (stink) reek, smell, stink

    Etymology 3

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (games, mahjong) A set of three identical tiles.