Pond

A pond is:\n*A body of water smaller than a lake. Used for small bodies of water, generally smaller than one would require a boat to cross; Also: garden ponds, engineered treatment features (see treatment pond), and field units in agriculture (for example, "pondfields" for rice or taro culture) and aquaculture.\n*Temporary accumulation of water from runoff (ponded water). \n*A now obsolete metric unit of force, see kilopond.\n*A reference to the Atlantic Ocean, often used to describe events in the United States or United Kingdom, i.e. "across the pond."