Mere vs. Pond
Difference Between Mere and Pond
Merenoun
A body of standing water, such as a lake or a pond. More specifically, it can refer to a lake that is broad in relation to its depth. Also included in place names such as Windermere.
Pondnoun
An inland body of standing water, either natural or man-made, that is smaller than a lake.
Merenoun
Boundary, limit; a boundary-marker; boundary-line.
Pondnoun
An inland body of standing water of any size that is fed by springs rather than by a river.
Merenoun
A Maori war-club.
Pondnoun
(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.Mereverb
To limit; bound; divide or cause division in.
Pondverb
(transitive) To block the flow of water so that it can escape only through evaporation or seepage; to dam.
Mereverb
To set divisions and bounds.
Pondverb
(transitive) To make into a pond; to collect, as water, in a pond by damming.
Mereverb
(cartography) To decide upon the position of a boundary; to position it on a map.
Pondverb
(intransitive) To form a pond; to pool.
Mereadjective
(obsolete) Famous.
Pondverb
To ponder.
Mereadjective
(obsolete) Pure, unalloyed .
Pondnoun
a small lake;
the pond was too small for sailingMereadjective
(obsolete) Nothing less than; complete, downright .
Mereadjective
Just, only; no more than, pure and simple, neither more nor better than might be expected.
Merenoun
a small pond of standing water
Mereadjective
being nothing more than specified;
a mere childMereadjective
apart from anything else; without additions or modifications;
only the bare factsshocked by the mere ideathe simple passage of time was enoughthe simple truth
