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# pond

«pond» in Mova's school dictionary: **a small area of still water, smaller than a lake** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (pond, ponds)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A pond is a small area of still water, smaller than a lake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pond/#m1)

2) «The pond» (informal) can mean the Atlantic Ocean: «across the pond». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pond/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In maths: a place with fish, ducks or frogs counted; water in it; animals coming and going. In science: pond life (tadpoles, water snails, dragonflies), the life cycle of a frog, pond dipping. In everyday life and safety: feeding ducks; never go near a pond without an adult. In stories: ice on a pond, a frog prince.

### examples

- There are 12 ducks on the pond. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pond/#x1)
- 4 frogs jumped into the pond. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pond/#x2)
- The pond has 30 fish. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pond/#x3)
- How many ducks are left on the pond? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pond/#x4)
- We went pond dipping and found tadpoles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pond/#x5)
- Never walk on a frozen pond. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pond/#x6)
- Dragonflies lay their eggs in ponds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pond/#x7)
- My cousin lives across the pond in America. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pond/#x8)
- And the water in the pond became dark with blood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pond/#x9)

### note

A place, not a number. Animals coming and going: add and subtract. Trap: count animals in the pond, not the pond. «On the pond» for things floating, «in the pond» for things under water. Safety: ponds can be deep; ice on a pond may break.

### In the corpora

- [The diving bell spider of European ponds lives underwater in a silk tent filled with air from the surface.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/38-spiders-scorpions-and-eight-legged-creatures/18/)
- [Bread fills ducks with little goodness and rotting leftovers dirty the pond; oats, peas, sweetcorn or duck food are better.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/123-bugs-bunny-and-daffy-duck-real-rabbits-hares-and-ducks/16/)
- [Hard deer hooves grip soil and snow but slip on smooth ice, so real deer avoid frozen ponds where they can.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/143-bambi-real-deer-rabbits-skunks-and-owls/16/)
- [In a good pond goldfish can grow to over 20 to 30 centimetres and live 10 to 20 years or more.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/152-goldfish-memory/11/)
- [Beaver dams slow floods, clean water and make ponds full of life, though some farmers worry about flooded fields.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/283-wolves-in-yellowstone-beavers-in-britain-and-bringing-nature-back/11/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «pond» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pond/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.