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発音

• (英国発音) enPR: pŏnd, IPA: /pɒnd/, X-SAMPA: /pQnd/
• 韻: -ɒnd
• (米国発音) enPR: pänd, IPA: /pɑnd/, X-SAMPA: /pAnd/

語源

Variant 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.
2. (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.

同意語

• polynya
• tarn

派生語

• across the pond
• ducks on the pond
• Leftpondia
• Rightpondia

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. 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 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.

アナグラム

• DNOP