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POND
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A small lake
Example:
the pond was too small for sailing
Synonyms:
pond; pool
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("pond" is a kind of...):
lake (a body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pond"):
fishpond (a freshwater pond with fish)
horsepond (a pond for watering horses)
mere (a small pond of standing water)
millpond (a pond formed by damming a stream to provide a head of water to turn a mill wheel)
swimming hole (a small body of water (usually in a creek) that is deep enough to use for swimming)
water hole (a natural hole or hollow containing water)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (first person singular and plural, second person singular and plural, third person plural) of the verb pond
Context examples:
Scientists have confirmed the absence of microbial life in hot, saline, hyperacid ponds in the Dallol geothermal field in Ethiopia.
(Place discovered on earth with no microbial life, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
I tried my canoe in a large pond, near my master’s house, and then corrected in it what was amiss; stopping all the chinks with Yahoos’ tallow, till I found it staunch, and able to bear me and my freight; and, when it was as complete as I could possibly make it, I had it drawn on a carriage very gently by Yahoos to the sea-side, under the conduct of the sorrel nag and another servant.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
There are many trees on it, which make it in places gloomy, and there is a deep, dark-looking pond or small lake, evidently fed by some springs, as the water is clear and flows away in a fair-sized stream.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
We stayed there nearly a week: I and Sophie used to walk every day in a great green place full of trees, called the Park; and there were many children there besides me, and a pond with beautiful birds in it, that I fed with crumbs.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
From the point the shore curved away, more and more to the south and west, until at last it disclosed a cove within the cove, a little land-locked harbour, the water level as a pond, broken only by tiny ripples where vagrant breaths and wisps of the storm hurtled down from over the frowning wall of rock that backed the beach a hundred feet inshore.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Item, that upon brother Ambrose reproving him for this blasphemous wish, he did hold the said brother face downwards over the piscatorium or fish-pond for a space during which the said brother was able to repeat a pater and four aves for the better fortifying of his soul against impending death.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Two thousand a year without debt or drawback—except the little love-child, indeed; aye, I had forgot her; but she may be 'prenticed out at a small cost, and then what does it signify? Delaford is a nice place, I can tell you; exactly what I call a nice old fashioned place, full of comforts and conveniences; quite shut in with great garden walls that are covered with the best fruit-trees in the country; and such a mulberry tree in one corner! Lord! how Charlotte and I did stuff the only time we were there! Then, there is a dove-cote, some delightful stew-ponds, and a very pretty canal; and every thing, in short, that one could wish for; and, moreover, it is close to the church, and only a quarter of a mile from the turnpike-road, so 'tis never dull, for if you only go and sit up in an old yew arbour behind the house, you may see all the carriages that pass along.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
There was a pond in the park, and to this my friend led the way.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The cook, however, came up to them, and when she saw the pond she lay down by it, and was about to drink it up.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Curiosity scientists interpret rocks enriched in mineral salts discovered by the rover as evidence of shallow briny ponds that went through episodes of overflow and drying.
(NASA's Curiosity Rover Finds an Ancient Oasis on Mars, NASA)
