What's the difference between brook and pond?

Brook


Definition:

  • (v. t.) A natural stream of water smaller than a river or creek.
  • (v. t.) To use; to enjoy.
  • (v. t.) To bear; to endure; to put up with; to tolerate; as, young men can not brook restraint.
  • (v. t.) To deserve; to earn.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This modified endocrine activity in brook trout may reflect adjustment to adverse external ionic conditions.
  • (2) Later Downing Street elaborated on its position, pointing out that Brooks was a constituent of Cameron's and, in any case, "the prime minister regularly meets newspaper executives from lots of different companies".
  • (3) Where Brooks was concerned on the hacking charge, there was very little extra evidence to add to that platform of inference.
  • (4) The Guardian's Xan Brooks described Fruitvale Station as a "quietly gripping debut feature" in which "one has the sense of a man being slowly, surely written back into being" after the film's Cannes screening in May.
  • (5) He will be asked to explain why he only once reputedly asked for assurances over Coulson, and why he infamously sent Brooks text messages ending in "LOL", which he believed meant lots of love.
  • (6) In the words of the Brookings Institution think tank, victory by Trump, the quintessential New Yorker, “would not have been possible without the influence of rural areas and smaller metropolitan areas”.
  • (7) Cameron said the common cause identified in the text referred to the fact his party and Brooks's newspapers had the same agenda.
  • (8) But yes, the thing about Brooke is that she’s the classic American hustler,” she says.
  • (9) Charlize Theron is set to star opposite Seth MacFarlane in the Ted creator's new comedy western A Million Ways to Die in the West, tipped as a homage to Mel Brooks's classic movie Blazing Saddles .
  • (10) Summer Zervos: Apprentice contestant claims Trump kissed and groped her Read more “There’s an old principle,” said William Galston , a former adviser to Bill Clinton and now a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.
  • (11) As the strain of this unconsummated relationship told on both parties, Brooke’s true feelings began to surface.
  • (12) And Mick Brookes, general secretary of the National Association of Headteachers, which is also calling on members to back the boycott, said there were ways of moderating teacher assessment to make it more reliable.
  • (13) He said he counted dozens of Afghan asylum seekers who have been brought to Brook House immigration removal centre, near Gatwick, over the last few weeks.
  • (14) All the subjects took the Brook Reaction Test, the aim of the inquiry being to ascertain whether this test differentiates (scored blind) between the experimental groups and their controls.
  • (15) Two hundred ninety-eight ileal pouch patients and 406 Brooke ileostomy patients who had the operations performed for chronic ulcerative colitis or familial adenomatous polyposis formed the basis of the study.
  • (16) 8.22pm BST 39 mins Ball given away again in midfield , although Brooks then defends against Dzeko well enough.
  • (17) They are small-state Conservatives who believe the commercial world should provide.” Bryant, whose campaign against phone hacking won an award and who has a cartoon of himself as Luke Skywalker slaying the Sith lords Rupert Murdoch and Rebekah Brooks on his office wall, said the rumoured return of Brooks to News UK, if it happened, would be a “massive two fingers to the British public”.
  • (18) The Shakespearian critic and scholar, Nicholas Brooke, who had taught Sage at Durham, was also there, as was the writer, Jonathan Raban.
  • (19) 3.38pm BST My colleague Libby Brooks , who is at the scene, says she has gone round the back of the building and can see most of the roof destroyed.
  • (20) John Brooks, a 21-year-old centre-back who had never played in an official game for the USA, coming off the bench to score an 86th-minute winner in their World Cup opener against Ghana on Monday night .

Pond


Definition:

  • (n.) A body of water, naturally or artificially confined, and usually of less extent than a lake.
  • (v. t.) To make into a pond; to collect, as water, in a pond by damming.
  • (v. t.) To ponder.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But in 2017, to borrow another phrase from across the pond, there simply is no alternative.
  • (2) Although selenium deficiency in livestock is consequently now rare in Oregon, selenium-deficient soils and attendant selenium deficiency conditions have been reported near the Kesterson Wildlife Refuge in the Northern part of the San Joaquin Valley, California, where, paradoxically, selenium toxicity in wildfowl, nesting near evaporation ponds, occurred and attracted wide attention.
  • (3) The 180-acre imperial palace appears to send ripples through the surrounding urban grain like a rock thrown into a pond, forming the successive layers of ring-roads.
  • (4) Mosquito infection occurred primarily around dusk, the same period during which A. robustus and E. serrulatus were most abundant near the surface of the pond.
  • (5) Images of dead ducks in oil sands tailings pond have been plastered on billboards in Denver, Portland, Seattle and Minneapolis.
  • (6) In both juvenile and adult pond snails, LS1+ (LS1 positive) hemocytes have the morphology of immature cells.
  • (7) We have argued for our positive plans and, three years after the Liberals came to power in a landslide, they have lost their mandate,” Shorten told the party faithful assembled at the Moonee Ponds racecourse.
  • (8) When my floor was dirty, I rose early, and, setting all my furniture out of doors on the grass, bed and bedstead making but one budget, dashed water on the floor, and sprinkled white sand from the pond on it, and then with a broom scrubbed it clean and white... Further - and this is a stroke of his sensitive, pawky genius - he contemplates his momentarily displaced furniture and the nuance of enchanting strangeness: It was pleasant to see my whole household effects out on the grass, making a little pile like a gypsy's pack, and my three-legged table, from which I did not remove the books and pen and ink, standing amid the pines and hickories ...
  • (9) A net increase in the pH of the lower pond water was observed when compared to the upper pond water.
  • (10) Another group of six males in a separate pond were used as a control group.
  • (11) Male eastern red-spotted newts (Notophthalmus viridescens) under controlled laboratory conditions exhibit unimodal magnetic compass orientation either in a trained compass direction or in the direction of their home pond.
  • (12) Cruden Farm, Victoria The 54-hectare Murdoch family estate in Langwarrin south of Melbourne, Australia, features magnificent gardens complete with ponds, lemon-scented gum trees and two walled gardens and perennial borders.
  • (13) The authors report on the results of a 2-year study on the ecology and resistance to drought of B. umbilicatus and B. senegalensis on 3 temporary ponds in the North-Sudan area (region of Tambacounda, Senegal).
  • (14) Fifty-eight households were studied in the Red Pond community, the site of the established smelter and several backyard smelters, and 21 households were studied in the adjacent, upwind Ebony Vale community in Saint Catherine Parish, Jamaica.
  • (15) Under these conditions, the pH of the bond becomes a factor that limits the operational efficiency of the oxidation pond.
  • (16) It doesn't just describe ecologists looking for newts in a pond, as it did a few years ago."
  • (17) The use of self-topping aqua privies, discharging through sewers to oxidation ponds, has made possible the economic installation of water-carriage systems of waste disposal in low-cost high-density housing areas.In the oxidation ponds, typhoid bacteria appear to be more resistant than indicator organisms; helminths, cysts and ova settle out; there are no snails and, if peripheral vegetation is removed, mosquitos will not breed.
  • (18) In effect, B29 is simply a huge covered cooling pond that once stretched between the heat stacks of Piles 1 and 2.
  • (19) The tissues of many of the test animals, especially from the Saudi Arabian and Nigerian oil-treated ponds, were clear, watery, and emaciated in appearance, which was not the normal condition of oysters from the Gulf during the period of the samplings.
  • (20) 75 strains of free living amoebae were isolated from public drinking water supplies, swimming pools and official swimming ponds in Strasbourg.