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Tarn vs Pond - What's the difference?

tarn | pond |

As nouns the difference between tarn and pond

is that tarn is a small mountain lake, especially in Northern England while pond is an inland body of standing water, either natural or man-made, that is smaller than a lake.

As proper nouns the difference between tarn and pond

is that tarn is one of the départements of Midi-Pyrénées, France (INSEE code 81 while Pond is {{surname|lang=en}.

As a verb pond is

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

tarn

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (Northern England) A small mountain lake, especially in Northern England.
  • * 1839, (1997), 1,
    • It was possible, I reflected, that a mere different arrangement of the particulars of the scene, of the details of the picture, would be sufficient to modify, or perhaps to annihilate its capacity for sorrowful impression; and, acting upon this idea, I reined my horse to the precipitous brink of a black and lurid tarn that lay in unruffled lustre by the dwelling, and gazed down—but with a shudder even more thrilling than before—upon the remodelled and inverted images of the gray sedge, and the ghastly tree-stems, and the vacant and eye-like windows.

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    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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