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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
To weigh. [Obs.]
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To weigh in the mind; to view with deliberation; to examine carefully; to consider attentively.
Ponder the path of thy feet.
--Prov. iv. 26.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.
Ponder \Pon"der\, v. i.
To think; to deliberate; to muse; -- usually followed by on
or over.
--Longfellow.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 14c., "to estimate the worth of, to appraise," from Old French ponderer "to weigh, poise" (14c., Modern French pondérer) and directly from Latin ponderare "ponder, consider, reflect," literally "to weigh," from pondus (genitive ponderis) "weigh" (see pound (n.1)). Meaning "to weigh a matter mentally" is attested from late 14c. Related: Pondered; pondering; ponderation.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 To wonder, to think of deeply. 2 To consider (something) carefully and thoroughly; to chew over, to mull over. 3 (context obsolete English) To weigh.
WordNet
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]
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Wikipedia
Ponder can refer to:
People:
- Bruce Ponder, Director of and Professor of Oncology at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute
- Christian Ponder (born 1988), starting quarterback for the Minnesota Vikings football team
- Elmer Ponder (1893-1974), Major League Baseball pitcher
- James Ponder (1819–1897), an American merchant and politician
- Onie Ponder (1898-2010), American supercentenarian
- Patricia Maxwell née Ponder (born 1942), American romance writer
- Samantha Ponder (born 1987), American sportscaster and wife of Christian Ponder
- William Ponder (1893-1947), American World War I flying ace
- Winston Ponder (born c. 1944), Australian malacologist (studier of molluscs)
Other uses:
- Ponder (app), a photo sharing and discovery application
- Ponder, Texas, a town in the United States
- Ponder (horse), American Thoroughbred racehorse and 1956 Kentucky Derby winner
- Glen Ponder, a character in the UK comedy series Knowing Me, Knowing You
- Ponder Stibbons, a character from Terry prattchets Diskworld series.
- Permanent brain, the usage of the opponent's time for thinking in turn-based games
- "Ponder", a song by Knuckle Puck from their 2015 album Copacetic
Ponder (April 14, 1946 - October 10, 1958) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse who won the Kentucky Derby in 1949.
Ponder is a mobile photo-sharing, video-sharing, and content discovery application designed for content to be openly discovered by emphasizing personal relevance instead of limiting shared content to a user's social circle. User feedback plays a primary role in determining the how far posts spread, allowing well received content to regularly reach an audience far beyond what would be typical on traditional social networking platforms.
The company, officially Ponder Products, Inc., was founded by William LeGate in early 2015 during his Thiel Fellowship. It attracted financial backing pre-launch from prominent investors including Sean Rad and Justin Mateen (founders of the popular dating app, Tinder), Mark Cuban (star on ABC's Shark Tank and self-made multi-billionaire), and Greylock Partners (known for early investments in several top social networks, including Facebook), among others.
The company is based in Los Angeles and released Ponder as a free, iOS only app in 2015. Despite attracting numerous celebrities and hinting at an upcoming Android release, no formal announcements have been made regarding when an Android app is scheduled to be released.
Usage examples of "ponder".
It was now late in the afternoon, and Ralph pondered whether he should abide the night where he was and sleep the night there, or whether he should press on in hope of winning to some clear place before dark.
Here, in a vast old abandoned death house, replete with many strange vaulted chambers connected by dark and crumbling passageways winding convolutedly like so many intestines deep into the bowels of the earth, down ever downward, into small niche-pocked vaults filled with damp worm-eaten caskets, many askew and half-opened crypts of the long dead, urns of dust, and the scattered bones of dogs and man, here, chose Zulkeh to rest and ponder his wealth of artifacts and relics, his scrolls and tablets, his talismans and tomes, the fruit gathered of his many journeys.
When I awoke the next morning I began to think the matter over, and I soon discovered that, if I wanted to come to a decision, I ought not to ponder over it, as the more I considered the less likely I should be to decide.
Maia pondered, patting Brod on the back and turning to go back to work.
He was pondering a new excuse when he happened to notice Master Cadge, aged nine, Thomas Cadge, Jr.
Tyeglev pondered, heaved a deep sigh and dropping his chibouk out of his hand, informed me that that day was a very important one for him.
She cogitated and pondered and considered and thought about it until her skull began to overheat, and finally decided that she would simply ask for her fortune.
On the fourth day, whilst I was pondering as to how I should act, the ambassador received a letter from a minister requesting him, on behalf of the sovereign, to dismiss me from his house, as I had a suit pending with certain officers of his highness, and whilst I was with the ambassador justice could not take its course.
Pondering over my plan with the utmost coolness, I went and bought some balls of lead as large as my pockets would hold, and as heavy as I could bear, to carry to the Tower, where I intended to go on foot.
But although Cupples could say much to set Annie thinking, and although she did find enlightenment at last from pondering over his words, yet she could have told him far deeper things than he had yet suspected to exist.
Armed with a scratch awl and a square Dade was at the other end of the timber, his hat shoved back from his forehead while he ran his fingers through his hair as though pondering some weighty problem.
I was baffled, with the paper in front of me, my pen behind my ear, my elbow propped on the writing table, and my cheek resting in my hand, pondering what I would say, a friend of mine, a man who is witty and wise, unexpectedly came in and seeing me so perplexed asked the reason, and I hid nothing from him and said I was thinking about the prologue I had to write for the history of Don Quixote, and the problem was that I did not want to write it yet did not want to bring to light the deeds of so noble a knight without one.
Ralph was somewhat few spoken, whereas he pondered concerning the coming days, and what he half deemed that he saw a-doing at Upmeads.
Some say that an Atheist who ponders over the possible existence of a God is better than a Deist who never thinks of the Deity, but I will not venture to decide this point.
It is no great court secret King Domas has been pondering that perhaps we have begun to grow stale after all these years of shunning contact with the outside.