Pond vs Rope - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between pond and rope

is that pond is an inland body of standing water, either natural or man-made, that is smaller than a lake while rope is thick strings, yarn, monofilaments, metal wires, or strands of other cordage that are twisted together to form a stronger line. {{jump|thick string|s|t}.

As verbs the difference between pond and rope

is that pond is to block the flow of water so that it can escape only through evaporation or seepage; to dam while rope is to tie (something) with something.

As a proper noun Pond

is {{surname|lang=en}.

pond

English

(wikipedia pond)

Noun

(en noun)

An inland body of standing water, either natural or man-made, that is smaller than a lake.

*: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.

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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rope

English

Alternative forms

* (all obsolete)

Noun

(wikipedia rope)

(uncountable) Thick strings, yarn, monofilaments, metal wires, or strands of other cordage that are twisted together to form a stronger line.

Nylon rope is usually stronger than similar rope made of plant fibers.

(countable) An individual length of such material.

The swinging bridge is constructed of 40 logs and 30 ropes .

A cohesive strand of something.

* {{quote-book, 2003, (Dennis Lehane), Mystic River, page=138 citation

, passage=Jimmy began to scream and ropes of spit shot from his mouth.}}

(dated) A continuous stream.

* {{quote-book, 1852, John Bourne, 3= A Treatise on the Screw Propeller: With Various Suggestions of Improvement, page=38

, passage=The principle of any such device should be to pull on the vessel by a rope of water passing in at the bow and out at the stern. }}

(baseball) A hard line drive.

He hit a rope past third and into the corner.

(ceramics) A long thin segment of soft clay, either extruded or formed by hand.

(computer science) A data structure resembling a string, using a concatenation tree in which each leaf represents a character.

(Jainism) A unit of distance equivalent to the distance covered in six months by a god flying at ten million miles per second.(jump)

* {{quote-book, 2001, , editor=Nagendra Kr. Singh, chapter=Review of Metaphysical Teaching, Encyclopaedia of Jainism, citation

, passage=The central strip of the loka , the Middle World, represents its smallest area, being only one rope wide and one hundred thousand leagues high,

(jewelry) A necklace of at least 1 meter in length.

(nautical) Cordage of at least 1 inch in diameter, or a length of such cordage.

(archaic) A unit of length equal to 20 feet.

(slang) Flunitrazepam, also known as Rohypnol.

(in the plural) The small intestines.

the ropes of birds

Synonyms

* twine, line, cord; see also * (jump) rajju, infinitude

Derived terms

* jump rope * know the ropes * learn the ropes * money for old rope * on the ropes * rope ladder * Rope Monday * rope tow * rope-band * rope-dancer * rope-dancing * rope-end * ropefull * rope-house * rope-like * rope-maker * ropemanship * rope-over * ropery * rope-ripe * rope's end * rope-sick * rope-tide * ropewalk, rope-walk * ropework, rope-work * ropey, ropy * rope-yard * show one the ropes * teach one the ropes * skipping rope * wire rope

Verb

(rop)

To tie (something) with something.

The robber roped the victims.

To throw a rope around (something).

The cowboy roped the calf.

To be formed into rope; to draw out or extend into a filament or thread.

* Shakespeare

Let us not hang like roping icicles / Upon our houses' thatch.

Synonyms

* (to tie something) tie, bind, secure * (throw a rope around) lasso

Derived terms

* ropable, ropeable * rope-a-dope * roped * roper * rope together

Anagrams

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