Pond vs Pend - What's the difference?
pond | pend |
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) To hang down.
(obsolete, Scotland) To arch over (something); to vault.
To hang; to depend.
* I. Taylor
(Scotland) An archway; especially, a vaulted passageway leading through a tenement-style building from the main street, giving access to the rear of the building or an internal courtyard.
To consider pending; to delay or postpone (something).
*1982 , (Lawrence Durrell), Constance'', Faber & Faber 2004 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 817:
*:The latest list of detainees would be pended and they would be allowed to return to their homes on a temporary basis.
(India) oil cake
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As a proper noun pond
is .As a verb pend is
(obsolete) to hang down or pend can be (obsolete|transitive) to pen; to confine or pend can be to consider pending; to delay or postpone (something).As a noun pend is
(scotland) an archway; especially, a vaulted passageway leading through a tenement-style building from the main street, giving access to the rear of the building or an internal courtyard or pend can be (india) oil cake.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
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- pending upon certain powerful motions