different between pond vs cond

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: p?nd, IPA^(key): /p?nd/
• Rhymes: -?nd
• (US) enPR: pänd, IPA^(key): /p?nd/
• Homophone: pawned (in accents with the cot-caught merger)

Etymology 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.

Noun

pond (plural ponds)

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

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

pond (third-person singular simple present ponds, present participle ponding, simple past and past participle ponded)

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

Etymology 2

Clipping of ponder.

Verb

pond (third-person singular simple present ponds, present participle ponding, simple past and past participle ponded)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To ponder.

Anagrams

• DNOP

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch pond, from Middle Dutch pont, pond, from Old Dutch punt, from Proto-Germanic *pund? (“pound, weight”), borrowed from Latin pond?.

Noun

pond (plural ponds)

1. pound (currency)

2. pound (unit of weight)

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch pont, pond, from Old Dutch punt, from Proto-Germanic *pund? (“pound, weight”), borrowed from Latin pond?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?nt/
• Hyphenation: pond
• Rhymes: -?nt
• Homophone: pont

Noun

pond n (plural ponden, diminutive pondje n)

1. unit of mass, often broadly similar to 500 grams
   1. metric pound (500 grams)

   2. (imperial units) pound (453.6 grams)
   3. (historical) pound, any of several local units, with a range between 420 and 500 grammes, divided into 16 historical ounces
   4. (historical, Dutch metric system) kilogram
2. one of several monetary units
   1. British pound, pound sterling (currency)

   2. Egyptian pound
   3. (historical) Flemish pound

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: pond

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??/
• Homophone: ponds

Verb

pond

1. third-person singular present indicative of pondre

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?nd

Etymology 1

Clipping.

Adjective

cond (not comparable)

1. Clipping of conditional.

Etymology 2

From Middle English conduen, condien, French conduire (“to conduct”), from Latin conducere.

Verb

cond (third-person singular simple present conds, present participle conding, simple past and past participle conded)

1. Obsolete spelling of con (“direct or steer a ship”)
   • 1922, Publications of the Navy Records Society:

     Sometimes he who conds the ship will be speaking to him at helm at every little yaw; which the sea-faring men love not, as being a kind of disgrace to their steerage; then in mockage they will say, sure the channel is narrow he conds so thick […]

Further reading

• cond in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• no-CD