ponder : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: ponder	by the DICT Development Group
5 results for ponder
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [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" Synonym(s): chew over, think over, meditate, ponder, excogitate, contemplate, muse, reflect, mull, mull over, ruminate, speculate
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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[82]rer. See {Pendant}, and cf. {Pound} a weight.] 1. To weigh. [Obs.] 2. 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ponder \Pon"der\, v. i. To think; to deliberate; to muse; -- usually followed by on or over. --Longfellow.
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 The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [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].