Lake vs. Pond

Lakenoun

A small stream of running water; a channel for water; a drain.

Lakenoun

A large, landlocked stretch of water.

Lakenoun

A large amount of liquid; as, a wine lake.

Lakenoun

(obsolete) A pit, or ditch

Lakenoun

(obsolete) An offering, sacrifice, gift.

Lakenoun

(dialectal) Play; sport; game; fun; glee.

Lakenoun

(obsolete) A kind of fine, white linen.

Lakenoun

In dyeing and painting, an often fugitive crimson or vermillion pigment derived from an organic colorant (cochineal or madder, for example) and an inorganic, generally metallic mordant.

Lakeverb

(obsolete) To present an offering.

Lakeverb

To leap, jump, exert oneself, play.

Lakeverb

To make lake-red.

Lakenoun

A pigment formed by combining some coloring matter, usually by precipitation, with a metallic oxide or earth, esp. with aluminium hydrate; as, madder lake; Florentine lake; yellow lake, etc.

Lakenoun

A kind of fine white linen, formerly in use.

Lakenoun

A large body of water contained in a depression of the earth's surface, and supplied from the drainage of a more or less extended area.

Lakeverb

To play; to sport.

Lakenoun

a body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land

Lakenoun

a purplish red pigment prepared from lac or cochineal

Lakenoun

any of numerous bright translucent organic pigments

Lakenoun

a large area of water surrounded by land

Lakenoun

the Lake District.

Lakenoun

a pool of liquid

Lakenoun

a large surplus of a liquid commodity

Lakenoun

an insoluble pigment made by combining a soluble organic dye and an insoluble mordant.

Lakenoun

a purplish-red pigment made in the same way as lake, originally one obtained from lac.

Lake

A lake is an area filled with water, localized in a basin, surrounded by land, apart from any river or other outlet that serves to feed or drain the lake. Lakes lie on land and are not part of the ocean, although like the much larger oceans, they form part of Earth's water cycle.

Pondnoun

An inland body of standing water, either natural or man-made, that is smaller than a lake.

Pondnoun

An inland body of standing water of any size that is fed by springs rather than by a river.

Pondnoun

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

Pondverb

(transitive) To block the flow of water so that it can escape only through evaporation or seepage; to dam.

Pondverb

(transitive) To make into a pond; to collect, as water, in a pond by damming.

Pondverb

(intransitive) To form a pond; to pool.

Pondverb

To ponder.

Pondnoun

A body of water, naturally or artificially confined, and usually of less extent than a lake.

Pondverb

To make into a pond; to collect, as water, in a pond by damming.

Pondverb

To ponder.

Pondnoun

a small lake;

Pond

A pond is an area filled with water, either natural or artificial, that is smaller than a lake. Ponds can be created by a wide variety of natural processes (e.g.