pond

名词 n. 动词 v. 专有名词
中文释义
英 /pɒnd/    美 /pɑnd/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An inland body of standing water, either natural or man-made, that is smaller than a lake.
    — 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.
  2. An inland body of standing water of any size that is fed by springs rather than by a river.
动词 v.
  1. To block the flow of water so that it can escape only through evaporation or seepage; to dam. transitive
    — 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.
  2. To ponder. obsolete,transitive
    — Pleaseth you, pond your suppliant's plaint.
  3. To make into a pond; to collect, as water, in a pond by damming. transitive
  4. To form a pond; to pool. intransitive
专有名词
  1. Chiefly in across the pond: the Atlantic Ocean. informal
    — I wonder how they do this on the other side of the pond.

词形变化

ponds plural the pond canonical ponds present,singular,third-person ponding participle,present ponded participle,past ponded past ponds present,singular,third-person ponding participle,present ponded participle,past ponded past

词汇关系

衍生词
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词源

词源 1
From Middle English pond, ponde (“pond, pool”), probably from Old English *pond, *pand (attested in placenames), a variant of *pund (“enclosure”). Doublet of pound.
词源 2
Clipping of ponder.
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