Pondとは意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From Middle English pond, ponde (“pond, pool”), probably from 古期英語 *pond, *pand (attested in placenames), a variant of pund (“enclosure”). Doublet of pound.

名詞

A pond

pond (複数形 ponds)

1. An inland body of standing water, either natural or man-made, that is smaller than a lake.
   • 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VIII, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326:

     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.
3. (colloquial) The Atlantic Ocean. Especially in across the pond.

   I wonder how they do this on the other side of the pond.

   I haven't been back home across the pond in twenty years.

派生語

動詞

pond (三人称単数 現在形 ponds, 現在分詞 ponding, 過去形および過去分詞形 ponded)

1. (transitive) 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^[1], →ISBN, 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.

2. (transitive) To make into a pond; to collect, as water, in a pond by damming.
3. (intransitive) To form a pond; to pool.

語源 2

Clipping of ponder.

動詞

pond (三人称単数 現在形 ponds, 現在分詞 ponding, 過去形および過去分詞形 ponded)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To ponder.
   • 1579, Spenser, The Shepheardes Calender:

     Pleaseth you, pond your suppliant's plaint.

アナグラム

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