POOL - 19 definitions found
pool n 1: an excavation that is (usually) filled with water 2: a small lake; "the pond was too small for sailing" [syn: pond, pool] 3: an organization of people or resources that can be shared; "a car pool"; "a secretarial pool"; "when he was first hired he was assigned to the pool" 4: an association of companies for some definite purpose [syn: consortium, pool, syndicate] 5: any communal combination of funds; "everyone contributed to the pool" 6: a small body of standing water (rainwater) or other liquid; "there were puddles of muddy water in the road after the rain"; "the body lay in a pool of blood" [syn: pool, puddle] 7: the combined stakes of the betters [syn: pool, kitty] 8: something resembling a pool of liquid; "he stood in a pool of light"; "his chair sat in a puddle of books and magazines" [syn: pool, puddle] 9: any of various games played on a pool table having 6 pockets [syn: pool, pocket billiards] v 1: combine into a common fund; "We pooled resources" 2: join or form a pool of people pool ̈ɪpu:l See: CAR POOL. Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003) pool I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English pōl; akin to Old High German pfuol pool Date: before 12th century 1. a. (1) a small and rather deep body of usually fresh water (2) a quiet place in a stream (3) a body of water forming above a dam b. something resembling a pool <a pool of light> 2. a small body of standing liquid 3. a continuous area of porous sedimentary rock that yields petroleum or gas 4. swimming pool} II. intransitive verb Date: 1626 1. to form a pool 2. of blood to accumulate or become static (as in the veins of a bodily part) III. noun Etymology: French poule, literally, hen, from Old French, feminine of poul cock — more at pullet Date: 1708 1. a. an aggregate stake to which each player of a game has contributed b. all the money bet by a number of persons on a particular event 2. a. a game played on an English billiard table in which each of the players stakes a sum and the winner takes all b. any of various games of billiards played on an oblong table having 6 pockets with usually 15 object balls 3. an aggregation of the interests or property of different persons made to further a joint undertaking by subjecting them to the same control and a common liability 4. a readily available supply: as a. the whole quantity of a particular material present in the body and available for function or the satisfying of metabolic demands b. a body product (as blood) collected from many donors and stored for later use c. a group of people available for some purpose <a shrinking pool of applicants> <typing pool> 5. gene pool 6. a group of journalists from usually several news organizations using pooled resources (as television equipment) to produce shared coverage especially of events to which access is restricted IV. transitive verb Date: 1879 to combine (as resources) in a common pool or effort Oxford English Reference Dictionary
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner\'s English Dictionary pool (pools, pooling, pooled) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. A pool is the same as a swimming pool. ...a heated indoor pool... During winter, many people swim and the pool is crowded. N-COUNT 2. A pool is a fairly small area of still water. The pool had dried up and was full of bracken and reeds. N-COUNT see also rock pool 3. A pool of liquid or light is a small area of it on the ground or on a surface. She was found lying in a pool of blood... The lamps on the side-tables threw warm pools of light on the polished wood. N-COUNT: N of n 4. A pool of people, money, or things is a quantity or number of them that is available for an organization or group to use. The new proposal would create a reserve pool of cash. N-COUNT: with supp, usu N of n see also car pool 5. If a group of people or organizations pool their money, knowledge, or equipment, they share it or put it together so that it can be used for a particular purpose. We pooled ideas and information... VERB: V n 6. Pool is a game played on a large table covered with a cloth. Players use a long stick called a cue to hit a white ball across the table so that it knocks coloured balls with numbers on them into six holes around the edge of the table. N-UNCOUNT 7. If you do the pools, you take part in a gambling competition in which people try to win money by guessing correctly the results of football matches. (BRIT) The odds of winning the pools are about one in 20 million. = football pools N-PLURAL: the N English-Old English dictionary pool Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) POOL Parallel Object Orientated Language (DOOM, OOP) Big Comprehensive Abbreviation Dictionary POOL Big Comprehensive Abbreviation Dictionary pool Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Pool \Pool\, n. [F. poule, properly, a hen. See Pullet.] [Written also poule.] 1. The stake played for in certain games of cards, billiards, etc.; an aggregated stake to which each player has contributed a snare; also, the receptacle for the stakes. 2. A game at billiards, in which each of the players stakes a certain sum, the winner taking the whole; also, in public billiard rooms, a game in which the loser pays the entrance fee for all who engage in the game; a game of skill in pocketing the balls on a pool table. Note: This game is played variously, but commonly with fifteen balls, besides one cue ball, the contest being to drive the most balls into the pockets. He plays pool at the billiard houses. --Thackeray. 3. In rifle shooting, a contest in which each competitor pays a certain sum for every shot he makes, the net proceeds being divided among the winners. 4. Any gambling or commercial venture in which several persons join. 5. A combination of persons contributing money to be used for the purpose of increasing or depressing the market price of stocks, grain, or other commodities; also, the aggregate of the sums so contributed; as, the pool took all the wheat offered below the limit; he put $10,000 into the pool. 6. (Railroads) A mutual arrangement between competing lines, by which the receipts of all are aggregated, and then distributed pro rata according to agreement. 7. (Law) An aggregation of properties or rights, belonging to different people in a community, in a common fund, to be charged with common liabilities. Pin pool, a variety of the game of billiards in which small wooden pins are set up to be knocked down by the balls. Pool ball, one of the colored ivory balls used in playing the game at billiards called pool. Pool snipe (Zo["o]l.), the European redshank. [Prov. Eng.] Pool table, a billiard table with pockets. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Pool \Pool\, n. [AS. p[=o]l; akin to LG. pool, pohl, D. poel, G. pfuhl; cf. Icel. pollr, also W. pwll, Gael. poll.] 1. A small and rather deep collection of (usually) fresh water, as one supplied by a spring, or occurring in the course of a stream; a reservoir for water; as, the pools of Solomon. --Wyclif. Charity will hardly water the ground where it must first fill a pool. --Bacon. The sleepy pool above the dam. --Tennyson. 2. A small body of standing or stagnant water; a puddle. ``The filthy mantled pool beyond your cell.'' --Shak. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Pool \Pool\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pooled; p. pr. & vb. n. Pooling.] To put together; to contribute to a common fund, on the basis of a mutual division of profits or losses; to make a common interest of; as, the companies pooled their traffic. Finally, it favors the poolingof all issues. --U. S. Grant. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Pool \Pool\, v. i. To combine or contribute with others, as for a commercial, speculative, or gambling transaction. Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary Pool a pond, or reservoir, for holding water (Heb. berekhah; modern Arabic, birket), an artificial cistern or tank. Mention is made of the pool of Gibeon (2 Sam. 2:13); the pool of Hebron (4:12); the upper pool at Jerusalem (2 Kings 18:17; 20:20); the pool of Samaria (1 Kings 22:38); the king's pool (Neh. 2:14); the pool of Siloah (Neh. 3:15; Eccles. 2:6); the fishpools of Heshbon (Cant. 7:4); the "lower pool," and the "old pool" (Isa. 22:9,11). The "pool of Bethesda" (John 5:2,4, 7) and the "pool of Siloam" (John 9:7, 11) are also mentioned. Isaiah (35:7) says, "The parched ground shall become a pool." This is rendered in the Revised Version "glowing sand," etc. (marg., "the mirage," etc.). The Arabs call the mirage "serab," plainly the same as the Hebrew word _sarab_, here rendered "parched ground." "The mirage shall become a pool", i.e., the mock-lake of the burning desert shall become a real lake, "the pledge of refreshment and joy." The "pools" spoken of in Isa. 14:23 are the marshes caused by the ruin of the canals of the Euphrates in the neighbourhood of Babylon. The cisterns or pools of the Holy City are for the most part excavations beneath the surface. Such are the vast cisterns in the temple hill that have recently been discovered by the engineers of the Palestine Exploration Fund. These underground caverns are about thirty-five in number, and are capable of storing about ten million gallons of water. They are connected with one another by passages and tunnels. Pool, WV Zip code(s): 26684 Soule\'s Dictionary of English Synonyms pool n. 1. Pond (small), mere, lake, loch. 2. Puddle, plash, collection of standing water. English Explanatory Dictionary (Synonyms) pool ̈ɪpu:l n. 1 pond, lake, tarn, mere, lagoon; swimming-pool, leisure pool, wading pool, Brit paddling pool, US wading pool, Formal natatorium: We found an icy mountain pool where we went for a swim. 2 collection, fund(s), purse, stakes, reserve(s), bank, Colloq pot, jackpot, kitty: So far we have too little money in the pool for an office party at Christmas. 3 syndicate, trust, group, consortium, cartel, combine: The object of the pool was the private regulation of market prices, which is illegal. --v. 4 accumulate, collect, gather, combine, merge, consolidate, amalgamate, league, bring or come or band or get together, team (up) with: We would do better if we pooled our resources. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 134 Moby Thesaurus words for "pool": Aktiengesellschaft, Swiss bank account, accumulate, aktiebolag, amalgamate, artificial lake, assets, balance, bank, bank account, bayou lake, bear pool, blind pool, body corporate, bottom dollar, budget, bull pool, business, business establishment, cartel, cash reserves, chain, chamber of commerce, checking account, cistern, collect, collection, combine, command of money, commercial enterprise, compagnie, company, concern, conglomerate, conglomerate corporation, consolidate, consolidating company, consortium, copartnership, corporate body, corporation, dam, dead water, dike, diversified corporation, enterprise, etang, exchequer, farm pond, finances, firm, fishpond, freshwater lake, fund, funds, gather, glacial lake, group, holding company, house, industry, inland sea, jackpot, joint-stock association, joint-stock company, kitty, lagoon, laguna, lake, lakelet, landlocked water, league, life savings, linn, loch, lough, means, mere, merge, millpond, millpool, moneys, natatorium, nest egg, nyanza, operating company, oxbow lake, partnership, pecuniary resources, plash, plunderbund, plunge, plunge bath, pocket, pond, pondlet, pot, public utility, puddle, purse, reserves, reservoir, resources, salina, salt pond, savings, savings account, stagnant water, stakes, standing water, still water, stock company, substance, sump, swimming bath, swimming hole, swimming pool, syndicate, tank, tarn, team up with, tidal pond, tiger, trade association, treasure, trust, unregistered bank account, utility, volcanic lake, wading pool, water hole, water pocket, well, wherewithal |
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