Pond vs Pone - What's the difference?
pond | pone |
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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(legal, historical) A writ in law used by the superior courts to remove cases from inferior courts.
(wikipedia pone)
(Southern US) A baked or fried cornbread (bread made of cornmeal), often made without milk or eggs.
* 1967 , William Styron, The Confessions of Nat Turner , Vintage 2004, page 11:
As a proper noun pond
is .As a noun pone is
(legal|historical) a writ in law used by the superior courts to remove cases from inferior courts or pone can be (southern us) a baked or fried cornbread (bread made of cornmeal), often made without milk or eggs or pone can be the last player to bet or play in turn.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
* ----pone
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) pone and its source, .Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
From (etyl) apones, .Noun
(en noun)- ‘Maybe you could fetch me just a little piece of pone ,’ I said, pleading, thinking: Big talk will fetch you nothing but nigger talk might work.