Ponder \Pon"der\, v. i.
To think; to deliberate; to muse; -- usually followed by on
or over. --Longfellow.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Ponder \Pon"der\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pondered; p. pr. & vb.
n. Pondering.] [L. ponderare, fr. pondus, ponderis, a
weight, fr. pendere to weigh: cf. F. pond['e]rer. See
Pendant, and cf. Pound a weight.]
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1. To weigh. [Obs.]
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2. To weigh in the mind; to view with deliberation; to
examine carefully; to consider attentively.
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Ponder the path of thy feet. --Prov. iv.
26.
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Syn: To Ponder, Consider, Muse.
Usage: To consider means to view or contemplate with fixed
thought. To ponder is to dwell upon with long and
anxious attention, with a view to some practical
result or decision. To muse is simply to think upon
continuously with no definite object, or for the
pleasure it gives. We consider any subject which is
fairly brought before us; we ponder a concern
involving great interests; we muse on the events of
childhood.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
ponder
v : reflect deeply on a subject; "I mulled over the events of
the afternoon"; "philosophers have speculated on the
question of God for thousands of years"; "The scientist
must stop to observe and start to excogitate" [syn: chew
over, think over, meditate, excogitate, contemplate,
muse, reflect, mull, mull over, ruminate, speculate]
WordNet (r) 2.0
71 Moby Thesaurus words for "ponder":
appraise, back down, balance, be abstracted, brood, brood over,
chaw, chew over, chew the cud, cogitate, con over, consider,
contemplate, debate, deliberate, deliberate over, deliberate upon,
demur, digest, dwell, evaluate, excogitate, falter, fear,
hang back, hem and haw, hesitate, hover, hum and haw, introspect,
jib, meditate, meditate upon, mind, mull over, muse, muse on,
muse over, pause, perpend, play around with, play with,
ponder over, pull back, reason, reflect, reflect over, retreat,
revolve, roll, ruminate, ruminate over, run over, scruple,
shilly-shally, shy, speculate, stick at, stickle, stop to consider,
straddle the fence, strain at, study, think, think over,
think twice about, toy with, turn over, weigh, withdraw, yield
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
Ponder
A non-strict polymorphic, functional language by Jon
Fairbairn .
Ponder's type system is unusual. It is more powerful than the
Hindley-Milner type system used by ML and Miranda and
extended by Haskell. Ponder adds extra recursive 'mu' types
to those of Girard's System F, allowing more general
recursion. Surprisingly, the type system and type
inference algorithm are still not completely understood.
["Ponder and its Type System", J. Fairbairn, TR 31, Cambridge
U Computer Lab, Nov 1982].
[J. Fairbairn, "Design and Implementation of a Simple Typed
Language based on the Lambda-Calculus", Technical Report
No. 75, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, May
1985].
[J. Fairbairn, "A New Type-Checker for a Functional Language",
Technical Report No. 53, Computer Laboratory, University of
Cambridge, 1984].
[J. Fairbairn, "Some Types with Inclusion Properties in
\forall, \rightarrow, \mu", Technical Report No. 171, Computer
Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Jun 1989].
[Valeria C. V. de Paiva, "Subtyping in Ponder (Preliminary
Report)", Technical Report No. 203, Computer Laboratory,
University of Cambridge, Aug 1990].
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)
Ponder, TX (town, FIPS 58664)
Location: 33.17913 N, 97.28760 W
Population (1990): 432 (167 housing units)
Area: 7.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 76259
U.S. Gazetteer (1990)
Ponder, TX -- U.S. town in Texas
Population (2000): 507
Housing Units (2000): 205
Land area (2000): 3.174507 sq. miles (8.221936 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3.174507 sq. miles (8.221936 sq. km)
FIPS code: 58664
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 33.179741 N, 97.285805 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 76259
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Ponder, TX
Ponder
U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)
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