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Pan vs Pond - What's the difference?

pan | pond |

As proper nouns the difference between pan and pond

is that pan is greek god of nature, often visualized as half goat and half man playing pipes. His Roman counterpart is Faunus while Pond is {{surname|lang=en}.

As nouns the difference between pan and pond

is that pan is a wide, flat receptacle used around the house, especially for cooking 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 pan and pond

is that pan is to wash in a pan (of earth, sand etc. when searching for gold) while pond is to block the flow of water so that it can escape only through evaporation or seepage; to dam.

As an acronym PAN

is acronym of lang=en.

As an adjective pan

is pansexual.

pan

Translingual

(wikipedia Pan)

Proper noun

    • Hypernyms

    * (genus) (Hominidae Hypernyms); Homininae - subfamily; Hominini - tribe; Panina - subtribe

    Hyponyms

    * (genus) Pan paniscus'', ''Pan troglodytes - species

    External links

    * (Chimpanzee) * ("Pan" species on Wikimedia) * (comcatlite) ----

    pond

    English

    (wikipedia pond)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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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    • 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.

    Anagrams

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