Ponder,

7 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Ponder \Pon"der\, v. i.
     To think; to deliberate; to muse; -- usually followed by on
     or over. --Longfellow.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  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.]
     [1913 Webster]
     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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  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].
       
       

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:

  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

From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:

  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