noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a duck pond (= a small area of water where there are ducks )
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The park has a duck pond which the children like.
a fish pond (= for keeping fish outdoors, in a garden )
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We’re thinking of building a fish pond in the back garden.
a garden pond (= a small area of water in a garden )
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The garden pond was full of fish.
pond scum
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He’s lower than pond scum.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
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There was a four-bedroom ranch house and a big pond , almost a lake.
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HomeShark has swallowed another from the big pond of technology.
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Would you rather be a small fish in a big pond , or a big fish in a small pond?
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How big can a pond get and still be called a a pond?
large
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Clearly this type of set up is for the larger filter and pond .
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Next to the cemetery was a large pond covered with moss and tall grass crowned with silver blossoms.
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Beyond us a large shallow pond expands its tepid shores on to the field.
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Lift and divide large clumps of pond plants and marginals.
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Of those that are known, aquatic insects that winter as immature stages in large ponds probably have the warmest environments.
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An excellent oxygenating plant, but apt to get out of control in large or natural ponds .
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They were also able to survive because of a large freshwater pond .
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Four models are available from the smallest to the large pond of 6000 gallons.
new
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A new pond and a bird hide are also being installed.
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Top: The excitement of a new pond will quickly wane if it turns into a disaster area overnight.
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Because this new pond is interconnected with the main one, adding the water was like doing a major water change.
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How do fish start up in a new pond anywhere?
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As with any new aquarium or pond the water quality must be monitored especially in the first 6-8 weeks.
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The following weekend I cemented capping stones round the top of the new pond and also round the header pools.
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Planting the new pond A shoal of Neons for £2?
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The tank became a temporary home for most of John and Jenny's livestock during the creation of the new pond .
ornamental
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Laid out as a patio garden, with tall fencing all around and various shrubs, plants and an ornamental pond .
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The empty ornamental pond was choked with rotten leaves, starlings blew about the place like avian litter.
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You can also use them safely in or around an ornamental pond .
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They began almost by accident, when the house they bought contained an unfiltered ornamental pond .
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What only a few weeks ago had been a car park was transformed into an ornamental duck pond .
small
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Outside is a small garden pond .
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I liked being a comparatively big fish in a relatively small pond !
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A smaller pond was pressure cleaned and filled with direct mains water.
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Would you rather be a small fish in a big pond , or a big fish in a small pond?
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I was in the Ralembergs' garden where something black and white was floating in the small carp pond .
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Outdoor aquariums Q My garden is too small for a pond to keep fish which could easily be seen.
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Those in smaller ponds must experience much lower temperatures when the water about them freezes.
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Sussex is also well supplied with smaller lakes and ponds , of which Burton Ponds and Knepp Lake are two typical examples.
■ NOUN
carp
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I was in the Ralembergs' garden where something black and white was floating in the small carp pond .
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Her sister spent hours in the pavilion by the carp pond , composing replies.
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And that he bequeathed his carp pond to the local Boy Scouts?
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On our estate were granges, barns, a mill, carp ponds , lush fields and fertile meadows.
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In the middle of the garden was a large, deep carp pond .
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Even from where we looked you could glimpse the glint of the huge carp pond where Abbe Gerard had drowned.
fish
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In the best of all possible worlds, we'd all quarantine our pond fish .
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On mild autumn days, pond fish will be feeding enthusiastically, building up their fat reserves.
garden
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Outside is a small garden pond .
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During the summer it thrives even in garden ponds .
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If looked after correctly, and given suitable conditions both goldfish and Orfe will live for 10-20 years in a garden pond .
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Gardening Garden ponds An important part of garden design is the use of water as a feature.
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Remove any debris from the garden pond and thin out plants showing signs of excessive growth.
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For a really stunning effect, fit fully submerged lights into a garden pond or pool.
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Another good choice of pink would be N. Madame Wilfon Gonnere an almost double-cupped shape bloom suitable for the average garden pond .
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As the weather was nice I transferred the goldfish to my garden pond where he stayed from May to September.
lily
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The house was fronted by a flat Italianate lily pond .
mill
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The mill pond still existed during the 1950s, but has now been filled in.
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The mill pond is still maintained in good order although it is smaller, formerly extending right up to the back wall.
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To aid drainage of the area, the Leadon has been culverted, so much of the mill pond is dry.
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Within a few years of closure, the mill pond was filled in and much of the mill's machinery removed.
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Part of the main mill and the mill ponds have now gone.
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Much of the water control equipment and the mill pond embankments have not survived.
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The mill pond no longer exists, its place now taken by two fast-flowing streams.
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The yard was cleared, the mill pond dug out and an extensive programme of rebuilding and renovation carried out.
scum
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Borden Stoppelgard is pond scum , Bernie.
water
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The pond water wasn't ever such good quality and we wondered if this may be the cause.
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This type of system works by pumping pond water through a quartz tube running parallel to an ultra violet germicidal lamp.
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The pond water was strangled with poisonous weed.
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Bring along, too, a sample of your pond water for analysis.
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It would be an idea to test the pond water for ammonia and nitrite when you restock with fish.
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Recently a remedy was introduced that can be added to the pond water and this is proving to be successful.
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Laverne is launched into the still treacle of pond water which reluctantly draws itself up like sluggish curtains to receive this intrusion.
■ VERB
build
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Eventually, I contemplated myself into making a decision that would build another pond on part of my patio.
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Ponds on a split level I intend to start building two ponds in my garden.
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I am building a new pond in an L shape.
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Could I come down one weekend and build such a pond for her?
fill
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The freshly-dug earth was used to fill the old pond , which now forms a neat rockery around the patio.
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The remaining 200 to 300 acres will be restored to seasonal wetlands, which fill with freshwater ponds during the rains.
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If you're filling the pond with tap water, allow seven days for any chlorine to disappear before planting.
keep
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Unfortunately not all of these varieties are suitable for keeping in a pond .
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I keep half a dozen pond mongrels in a tank, and every one is dear to me.
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If not, are there any fish I could keep in such a pond ?
return
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For gravity-fed systems, it can sit in the pipework that returns water to the pond from the filter.
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Some males return to the ponds on subsequent nights, but because there are few females around, very little happens.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a big fish in a little/small pond
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a goldfish pond
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Pond purloined: A Scarborough school's nature garden has been scuppered by thieves who made off with their fish pond.
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A water flea that is starving in a crowded pond is the victim not of food shortage but of competition.
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Alternatively dirt and silt could find their way back into the pond .
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And you come to lakes and you come to ponds and you come to deer and you come up on some sheep.
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I gaze at the pond in awe.
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So far this seems to have helped, as the pond has stayed quite clear though it is in constant sunlight.
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Where is the pond and its lilies?