pond

IPA: pˈɑnd

An inland body of standing water, either natural or man-made, that is smaller than a lake.
An inland body of standing water of any size that is fed by springs rather than by a river.
(informal) Chiefly in across the pond: the Atlantic Ocean.
A surname.

(transitive) To block the flow of water so that it can escape only through evaporation or seepage; to dam.
(transitive) To make into a pond; to collect, as water, in a pond by damming.
(intransitive) To form a pond; to pool.
(transitive, obsolete) To ponder.

Examples of "pond" in Sentences

The water in a pond is at equilibrium when the surface is undisturbed.
Sometimes a walk around the pond is actually a barefoot wade through the pond.
The Institute drove home just how small this pond is and made me very glad to be swimming in it.
Across the pond is a sandy point that will never be built on because the property is held in trust.
Dare I say that these days crossing either pond is almost the only way to find humble gems of the genre.
On a long drive back and forth from Clackamas Lake a body of water, which at best, merits the term pond I gave it another listen.
In a very real way, the pond is a part of everybody's backyard, it's a very suburbanized bit of ocean, and the birds in the neighborhood are mostly suburban not ocean-going birds.