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Ponded vs Podded - What's the difference?

ponded | podded |

As verbs the difference between ponded and podded

is that ponded is (pond) while podded is (pod).

As an adjective podded is

having pods (of a particular kind).

ponded

English

Verb

(head)
  • (pond)

    • 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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    podded

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • having pods (of a particular kind)
    • edible-podded peas

    Verb

    (head)
  • (pod)