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Pond vs Yond - What's the difference?

pond | yond |

In obsolete terms the difference between pond and yond

is that pond is to ponder while yond is furious; mad; angry; fierce.

As a noun pond

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

As a verb pond

is to block the flow of water so that it can escape only through evaporation or seepage; to dam.

As a proper noun Pond

is {{surname|lang=en}.

As an adjective yond is

further; more distant.

As an adverb yond is

yonder.

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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    yond

    English

    Etymology 1

    From Middle English, equivalent to yon (from (etyl) ).

    Adjective

    (-)
  • further; more distant
  • yonder
  • * William Shakespeare, Hamlet , Lines 46-48:
    • Last night of all, / When yond same star that’s westward from the pole / Had made his course t' illume that part of heaven.

    Adverb

    (-)
  • yonder

    • Etymology 2

    From Old English onda, anda envy, jealousy; hatred, anger

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (obsolete) Furious; mad; angry; fierce.
  • * Spenser
    • Then wexeth wood and yond .

    Anagrams

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