Pond vs Overmorrow - What's the difference?
pond | overmorrow |
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.
* Spenser
(obsolete) On the day after tomorrow.
* {{quote-book
, year = 1535
, first = Myles
, last = Coverdale
, authorlink = Myles Coverdale
, title = The Byble, that is, the Holy Scrypture of the Olde and New Te?tament, faythfully tran?lated into Engly?he
, section = Tobit 8:4
, page = D.iiij
, url = http://www.bibles-online.net/1535/Apocrypha/3-Tobit/
, passage = Th? ?pake Tobias unto the virgin, and ?ayde: Up Sara, let us make oure prayer unto God to daye, tomorow, and ouermorow : for the?e thre nightes wil we reconcyle oure ?elues with God: and whan the thirde holy night is pa?t, we ?hall ioyne together in ye deutye of mariage.
, transliteration = Then spake Tobias unto the virgin, and said: Up Sara, let us make our prayer unto God today, tomorrow, and overmorrow : for these three nights will we reconcile ourselves with God, and when the third holy night is past, we shall join together in the duty of marriage.
}}
* {{quote-book
, year = 1925
, title = Parliamentary Debates: Official Report
, volume = 188
, publisher = H.M. Stationery Off.
, url = http://books.google.com/books?id=xswtAAAAYAAJ&q=overmorrow&dq=overmorrow
, page = iv
, passage = We can go not overmorrow , but on Thursday.
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* {{quote-book
, year = 1969
, first = James
, last = Klugman
, title = History of the Communist Party of Great Britain: The General Strike, 1925-1927
, volume = 2
, quotee = Bucharin
, publisher = Lawrence & Wishart
, location = London
, page = 73
, url = http://books.google.com/books?id=kwCJAAAAMAAJ&q=overmorrow&dq=overmorrow
, passage = Sinowjeff and myself go to Caucasus overmorrow .
}}
(obsolete) The day after tomorrow.
* {{quote-book
, year = 1898
, title = The first part of the tragedy of Faust
, author = Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
, authorlink = Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
, publisher = Longmans, Green and Co.
, page = 197
, pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=MTcTAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA197&dq=overmorrow
, passage = My prescient limbs already borrow
From rare Walpurgis-night a glow :
It comes round on the overmorrow —
Then why we are awake we know. }}
As a proper noun pond
is .As an adverb overmorrow is
(obsolete) on the day after tomorrow.As a noun overmorrow is
(obsolete) the day after tomorrow.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.
Anagrams
* ----overmorrow
English
Adverb
(-)Antonyms
* (obsolete) ereyesterdayNoun
(-)From rare Walpurgis-night a glow :
It comes round on the overmorrow —
Then why we are awake we know. }}