Pond vs Millpond - What's the difference?
pond | millpond |
An inland body of standing water, either natural or man-made, that is smaller than a lake.
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*: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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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:
To make into a pond; to collect, as water, in a pond by damming.
(obsolete) To ponder.
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As nouns the difference between pond and millpond
is that pond is an inland body of standing water, either natural or man-made, that is smaller than a lake while millpond is a pond or reservoir produced by damming a river or stream in order to provide a steady source of water for a millrace.As a verb pond
is to block the flow of water so that it can escape only through evaporation or seepage; to dam.pond
English
(wikipedia pond)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* across the pond * ducks on the pond * Leftpondia * pondian * RightpondiaVerb
(en verb)- 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.
- Pleaseth you, pond your suppliant's plaint.