Mere vs. Pond

Mere vs. Pond — Is There a Difference?
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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.
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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.

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Mereadjective

(obsolete) Famous.

Pondverb

To ponder.

Mereadjective

(obsolete) Pure, unalloyed .

Pondnoun

a small lake;

the pond was too small for sailing

Mereadjective

(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 child

Mereadjective

apart from anything else; without additions or modifications;

only the bare factsshocked by the mere ideathe simple passage of time was enoughthe simple truth