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Tersane

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Pond or Lake
« on: January 09, 2010, 04:08:31 pm »
Can anyone out there in boating land, tell me when a pond becomes a lake? There must be a defining moment when a pond grows enough to grow into a lake. Sailing ones boat on a lake sounds so much more grand than playing in a pond!
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Re: Pond or Lake
« Reply #1 on: January 09, 2010, 04:12:32 pm »
When it's too big to be called a pond- if your feeling pretentious calling it a lake it's a pond, and if your feeling inadequate with pond, it's a lake. :-))

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FullLeatherJacket

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Re: Pond or Lake
« Reply #2 on: January 09, 2010, 05:00:58 pm »
Isn't a lake fed by streams etc, while a pond is just a hole in the ground - full of water?
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Re: Pond or Lake
« Reply #3 on: January 09, 2010, 05:41:50 pm »
Quote from: FullLeatherJacket on January 09, 2010, 05:00:58 pm
Isn't a lake fed by streams etc, while a pond is just a hole in the ground - full of water?
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Who's a clever Mayhemer then.  Wikepedia gives more verbose definitions of both 'lake' and 'pond' though FLJ puts it more succinctly.
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Re: Pond or Lake
« Reply #4 on: January 09, 2010, 05:51:13 pm »
On all the maps, Tynemouth water is referred to as a "Boating Lake". Although not much larger than an overgrown pond it is, however fed by a stream. But again, it is a man-made artifact. So the lines can remain happily blurred! BY.
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dbninja

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Re: Pond or Lake
« Reply #5 on: January 09, 2010, 06:02:02 pm »
All well and good!


BUT......



when does a       Puddle      become a  Pond? :}


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Re: Pond or Lake
« Reply #6 on: January 09, 2010, 06:12:14 pm »
Quote from: dbninja on January 09, 2010, 06:02:02 pm

BUT......

when does a       Puddle      become a  Pond? :}


db

When you can sail your model on it :-))
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Re: Pond or Lake
« Reply #7 on: January 09, 2010, 11:21:14 pm »
and there's only one lake in the Lake District................ %)
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Re: Pond or Lake
« Reply #8 on: January 09, 2010, 11:24:29 pm »
Can you name it...? %)
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Brian Roberts

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Re: Pond or Lake
« Reply #9 on: January 09, 2010, 11:29:48 pm »
Bassenthwaite Lake!
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Re: Pond or Lake
« Reply #10 on: January 10, 2010, 02:06:54 am »
Quote from: Bryan Young on January 09, 2010, 05:51:13 pm
On all the maps, Tynemouth water is referred to as a "Boating Lake". Although not much larger than an overgrown pond it is, however fed by a stream. But again, it is a man-made artifact. So the lines can remain happily blurred! BY.

Ah! but compound nouns are different. e.g. pool + table, pond + life, boating + lake.
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dbninja

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Re: Pond or Lake
« Reply #11 on: January 10, 2010, 07:33:27 am »
Quote from: tigertiger on January 10, 2010, 02:06:54 am
Ah! but compound nouns are different. e.g. pool + table, pond + life, boating + lake.



Ahhhhhh!     so if you moved "Pond Life"  into a lake.....



would it then be called           "Lake Life"?  :}


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Re: Pond or Lake
« Reply #12 on: January 10, 2010, 08:01:23 am »
Quote from: dbninja on January 10, 2010, 07:33:27 am


Ahhhhhh!     so if you moved "Pond Life"  into a lake.....



would it then be called           "Lake Life"?  :}


db

They would probably drown in a pond or a lake  :o :}
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Re: Pond or Lake
« Reply #13 on: January 10, 2010, 08:53:10 am »
..and of course in Scotland we have lochs ( not LOCKS , >>:-( say lough) except for only one lake.
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Re: Pond or Lake
« Reply #14 on: January 10, 2010, 08:54:56 am »
Quote from: tigertiger on January 10, 2010, 08:01:23 am
They would probably drown in a pond or a lake  :o :}


They would probably not survive a puddle either or Lake Mentieth

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Rex Hunt

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Re: Pond or Lake
« Reply #15 on: January 10, 2010, 11:55:59 am »
Quote from: dbninja on January 09, 2010, 06:02:02 pm
All well and good!


BUT......



when does a       Puddle      become a  Pond? :}


db


When it's depth or circumference is not significantly altered by a 'piddle'  !

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Re: Pond or Lake
« Reply #16 on: January 12, 2010, 12:37:43 am »
As FLJ says Lakes are fed by a stream and have a run off,ponds have neither,Here in Scotland Ponds are normally man made ponds in the countryside are known as Stanks,where no stream feeds them and no water leaves them,apart from evaporation,In Ireland its Loughs and in Germany its See,as in Bodensee,or Konigsee,pronounced Konig zay

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Re: Pond or Lake
« Reply #17 on: January 12, 2010, 12:39:42 am »
Quote from: Rex Hunt on January 10, 2010, 11:55:59 am

When Ive had too much Ale and wearing jeans with a button fly {-)

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Re: Pond or Lake
« Reply #18 on: January 12, 2010, 03:24:41 am »
Quote from: Wasyl on January 12, 2010, 12:39:42 am
When Ive had too much Ale and wearing jeans with a button fly {-)

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