Pool
[puːl] or [pul]
Definition
(noun.) any of various games played on a pool table having 6 pockets.
(noun.) an excavation that is (usually) filled with water.
(noun.) 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'.
(noun.) something resembling a pool of liquid; 'he stood in a pool of light'; 'his chair sat in a puddle of books and magazines'.
(noun.) 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'.
(noun.) the combined stakes of the betters.
(noun.) any communal combination of funds; 'everyone contributed to the pool'.
(verb.) join or form a pool of people.
(verb.) combine into a common fund; 'We pooled resources'.
Typist: Tito--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) 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.
(n.) A small body of standing or stagnant water; a puddle.
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) Any gambling or commercial venture in which several persons join.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A mutual arrangement between competing lines, by which the receipts of all are aggregated, and then distributed pro rata according to agreement.
(n.) An aggregation of properties or rights, belonging to different people in a community, in a common fund, to be charged with common liabilities.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. i.) To combine or contribute with others, as for a commercial, speculative, or gambling transaction.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Pond (small), mere, LOCH, lake.[2]. Puddle, plash, collection of standing water.
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Definition
n. the receptacle for the stakes in certain games: the stakes themselves: a set of players at quadrille &c.: a game played on a billiard-table with six pockets by two or more persons.—v.t. to put into a common fund for redistribution.—v.i. to form a pool.
n. a small body of water: a deep part of a stream of water.—n. Pool′er a stick for stirring a tan-vat.
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Examples
- A horn-handled clasp knife was lying in a pool of blood beside him. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- These ovens were always built on the banks of a stream, a big spring, or pool of water. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- But I knew well enough how to 'shoot' the bridge after seeing it done, and so began to row about among the shipping in the Pool, and down to Erith. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Rimsmoor Pond is, but Oker's Pool isn't, because he is deep, and is never dry--'tis just over there. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- A quiet pool and a pebble will help to make it clear to us. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Occasionally an ember rolled off the bank, and dropped with a hiss into the pool. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- She had also asked him twice to dine at Rosings, and had sent for him only the Saturday before, to make up her pool of quadrille in the evening. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- No rustling of the leaves--no bird's note in the wood--no cry of water-fowl from the pools of the hidden lake. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- He could only see the black, bottomless pools of her eyes. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The wind blew roughly, the wet squalls came rattling past them, skimming the pools on the road and pavement, and raining them down into the river. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The Pussum lay in her bed, motionless, her round, dark eyes like black, unhappy pools. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The night had been very wet: large pools of water had collected in the road: and the kennels were overflowing. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- It is not four feet deep anywhere, and it is all puddles and pools. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Up there it looked like a trout stream, flowing swiftly with shallow stretches and pools under the shadow of the rocks. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- We all agreed we ought to back him and pooled one hundred lire. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
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