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pond [pɒnd]

n. 池塘

vt. 筑成池塘

vi. 筑成池塘

pond

[ noun ]
a small lake
<noun.object>
the pond was too small for sailing

Pond \Pond\, v. t.
To make into a pond; to collect, as water, in a pond by
damming.

Pond \Pond\, v. t. [See {Ponder}.]
To ponder. [Obs.]

Pleaseth you, pond your suppliant's plaint. --Spenser.

Pond \Pond\, n. [Probably originally, an inclosed body of water,
and the same word as pound. See {Pound} an inclosure.]
A body of water, naturally or artificially confined, and
usually of less extent than a lake. ``Through pond or pool.''
--Milton.

{Pond hen} (Zo["o]l.), the American coot. See {Coot}
(a) .

{Pond lily} (Bot.), the water lily. See under {Water}, and
Illust. under {Nymph[ae]a}.

{Pond snail} (Zo["o]l.), any gastropod living in fresh-water
ponds or lakes. The most common kinds are air-breathing
snails (Pulmonifera) belonging to Limn[ae]a, Physa,
Planorbis, and allied genera. The operculated species are
pectinibranchs, belonging to {Melantho}, {Valvata}, and
various other genera.

{Pond spice} (Bot.), an American shrub ({Tetranthera
geniculata}) of the Laurel family, with small oval leaves,
and axillary clusters of little yellow flowers. The whole
plant is spicy. It grows in ponds and swamps from Virginia
to Florida.

{Pond tortoise}, {Pond turtle} (Zo["o]l.), any freshwater
tortoise of the family {Emydid[ae]}. Numerous species are
found in North America.

The group announced agreements with the state and private developers to conserve land around the pond where Thoreau built an cabin and lived for two years, and also promoted an effort to create affordable housing in nearby Concord.
He said flood damage from a dam break on the pond, which has a capacity of 23 million gallons, could be greater than the risks posed by toxic substances.
"For the wildlife artist there's nothing greater than the Federal Duck Stamp," says Neal Anderson, the winner last year, who was selected in his sixth try with a painting of a pair of lesser scaup nestled amid a growth of reeds in a pond.
"We're a big fish in a small pond," he said.
The other 20, ranging from 3 pounds to 8 pounds, occupy a pond in his basement.
FBI divers, meanwhile, began dredging a pond near his home.
The pond became a breeding ground of disease amid an extended heat wave that summer.
John C. Biddle, 73, of Elburn, 40 miles west of Chicago, said the skull was found five years ago while the family was digging a pond in a swampy area.
In the small pond of publishing, he is a big fish.
A pond just to the south would have furnished water and freshwater fish, Towle said.
In the quiet Pleasure Lake community, where houses and mobile homes cluster around a fish pond crowded with cypress, some neighbors had a feeling something was wrong at the secondhand Jackson trailer.
Too much use is made of press-bashing cliches such as Janet Cooke's composite "Jimmy," and too much of the book is set in periods past (Joe McCarthy, Goldwater) when the author was a bigger fish in a smaller conservative pond.
Thoreau, a naturalist and writer, built a cabin on the pond in 1845 and remained there two years.
Another dolphin expert, Dr. Zhou Kaiya of the Nanjing Normal University, has separately started building a large holding pond for dolphins in the channel between two Yangtze islands futher downstream in Anhui province.
Despite their precarious financial situation, they immediately set about renovating the kitchen and landscaping the wild gardens which sloped gently down to wide meadows and a small pond.
The Roseburg woman went to the Wildlife Safari animal park in Winston for her birthday Monday and had lunch at the White Rhino restaurant overlooking a pond and an island providing habitat for white gibbon apes.
The pieces were scattered on a dirt road, a rice field and a pond, where the charred cockpit and fuselage were found along with most of the bodies.
Instead, next winter, he'll haul dirt onto the ice-covered pond so when spring arrives, mounds will sprout to produce ideal nesting habitat for ducks.
"I was a big fish in a small pond.
Yes, the catfish are an awfully good smoking gun." Hoke said he would refill the pond outside the main entrance to Interior Department headquarters and set an underwater trap for the catfish as soon as possible.
The two-floor, nine-room masonry house with a barn and pond is located in north-central New Jersey.
The Natural Resources Committee declined Tuesday to adopt a bill that would eliminate a manmade sand beach, restrict fishing and boating and require construction of sound barriers beside roadways near the pond in Concord, 15 miles west of Boston.
Now suddenly, the Forest Service has made a decision to bring motors to the edge of a pond recognized as the most remote and isolated water in the entire national forest.
The bridges to the pond behind the house also are strung with garlands, and 6-foot candy canes and lollipops stand sentry on the bridge to the island.
A police helicopter tracked Eben McDowell to a pond a few miles north of the crime scene and a half-mile away from the family's home.
Landry hopes to market redfish from the pond every 22 months, with his first crop due in midsummer.
Or will it be a relief if only the pond and mill race are left? If the leat is dry, it becomes a curious channel in the garden to remind you of what is no more.
One gulp and they are gone." She spread rakes, brooms, 2-by-4 boards and shelves across the pond, but "they only provided better perches for the heron to gobble fish," she said.
Earlier, they had said the plane had barely skimmed the pond, a flood reservoir, before crashing.
Pump-storage, for instance, keeps the generators running at their optimum level at night to pump water to a hilltop pond.

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