River vs. Pond — What's the Difference?

A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. In some cases, a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of water.

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.

A large natural stream of water flowing in a channel to the sea, a lake, or another river

A still body of water smaller than a lake.

Abbr. R. A large natural stream of water emptying into an ocean, lake, or other body of water and usually fed along its course by converging tributaries.

To form ponds or large puddles

A stream or abundant flow

To cause to form ponds or large puddles

The fifth and last of the community cards in various poker games, especially Texas hold'em.

To form ponds or large puddles on (a piece of land).

To win a hand in poker by beating (someone) on the basis of the last community card that is turned up.

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

A large and often winding stream which drains a land mass, carrying water down from higher areas to a lower point, oftentimes ending in another body of water, such as an ocean or in an inland sea.

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

Any large flow of a liquid in a single body.

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

(poker) The last card dealt in a hand.

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

(typography) A visually undesirable effect of white space running down a page, caused by spaces between words on consecutive lines happening to coincide.

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

One who rives or splits.

(intransitive) To form a pond; to pool.

(poker) To improve one’s hand to beat another player on the final card in a poker game.

To ponder.

One who rives or splits.

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

A large stream of water flowing in a bed or channel and emptying into the ocean, a sea, a lake, or another stream; a stream larger than a rivulet or brook.

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

Fig.: A large stream; copious flow; abundance; as, rivers of blood; rivers of oil.

To ponder.

To hawk by the side of a river; to fly hawks at river fowl.

A small lake;

A large natural stream of water (larger than a creek);