A horse is easily distinguished from the pony mainly by height. The ponies are shorter than horses. When ponies come to a height up to 14.2 hands (hands are generally used to determine the height of horses and ponies), the horses come to a height of more than 14.2 hands and mostly 15.2 hands.
Learner's definition of SYMPATHY. 1. : the feeling that you care about and are sorry about someone else's trouble, grief, misfortune, etc. : a sympathetic feeling. [noncount] She went to her best friend for sympathy. Letters of sympathy were sent to the families of the victims.
Sympathy is the older of the two terms. It entered English in the mid-1500s with a very broad meaning of âagreement or harmony in qualities between things or people.â Since then, the term has come to be used in a more specific way.