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Pundit vs Pond - What's the difference?

pundit | pond |

As a noun pundit

is a learned person in india; someone with knowledge of sanskrit, philosophy, religion and law; a hindu scholar.

As a proper noun pond is

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pundit

English

(wikipedia pundit)

Alternative forms

* pandit

Noun

(en noun)
  • A learned person in India; someone with knowledge of Sanskrit, philosophy, religion and law; a Hindu scholar.
  • * 1888 , (Rudyard Kipling), ‘On the City Wall’, In Black and White , Folio Society 2005, p. 430:
    • Pundits in black gowns, with spectacles on their noses and undigested wisdom in their insides; bearded headmen of the wards; [...] all these people and more also you might find in the white room.
  • (historical) A native surveyor in British India, trained to carry out clandestine surveillance beyond British borders.
  • * 1990 , (Peter Hopkirk), The Great Game , Folio Society 2010, p. 295:
    • At every hundredth pace the Pundit would automatically slip one bead. Each complete circuit of the rosary thus represented ten thousand paces.
  • A self-professed expert in a particular field, especially as called upon to provide comment or opinion in the media; a commentator, a critic.
  • * 2006 , The Observer , 4 Jun 2006:
    • This week we introduce Jenny Walker, who will be The Observer's expert pundit for the duration of the World Cup.

    See also

    * hafiz, hafez * pandit * qari'

    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.

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