A small body of standing water (rainwater) or other liquid
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;
Noun
any of various games played on a pool table having 6 pockets
Noun
an excavation that is (usually) filled with water
Noun
an association of companies for some definite purpose
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 lake; "the pond was too small for sailing"
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"
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.
Pool
Charity will hardly water the ground where it must first fill a pool.
The sleepy pool above the dam.2.
Pool
He plays pool at the billiard houses.3.
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Finally, it favors the poolingof all issues.
Pool
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;
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.
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;
To combine or contribute with others, as for a commercial, speculative, or gambling transaction.
Usage Examples
Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.
The pool is terrible, but that doesn't have much to do with my record swims. That's all mental attitude.
On one level, nothing's really changed in my life. I still drive my daughter in the car pool on Monday. But it's impossible not to be aware of this rush of attention it's impossible not to be seduced by it once you've entered into it, seduced by being unhappy when the attention wanes.
My dad was kind of a pool shark and had a Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin thing going on. I've always been fascinated by the fifties because of him. There was a hip, cool, anything-goes atmosphere back then, but looking good was still a priority.
The dirty little secret is that the pool man, who's making $30,000 a year, is subsidizing the million-dollar mortgage for the family whose pool he cleans. No wonder people want to get rid of tax breaks for corporate jets.
Famous people come up to me, but I don't know who they are because my sight is so bad. It's always at the pool of the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills when I don't have my lenses in and my glasses are in my room.
The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.
And perfect happiness? Man, that's a... the pool is about 92 degrees, the Jacuzzi is about 102 and an avocado farm.
Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool.
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Other Usage ExamplesSmall businesses pay 18 percent more than big businesses for health care, the same health care, just because they're small and they have too small a pool of risk.
I never saw film stars at home. We had no maid, no cook, no swimming pool.
The E.U. has moved to combat global terrorism by instituting common European arrest and evidence warrants and creating a joint situation center to pool and analyze intelligence.
Even in high school, I'd tell my mom I was sick of swimming and wanted to try to play golf. She wasn't too happy. She'd say, 'Think about this.' And I'd always end up getting back in the pool.
My grandmother was a kind of Scarsdale, New York, society woman, best known in her day as the author of the 1959 book 'Growing Your Own Way: An Informal Guide for Teen-Agers' - this despite being a person whose parenting style made Joan Crawford's wire hangers look like pool noodles.
I have a certain pool of subject matter that I like to write about, things that interest me: politics, religion, ecology, and relationships between men and women. And that's usually what I focus on.
Somehow I kept my head above water. I relied on the discipline, character, and strength that I had started to develop as that little girl in her first swimming pool.
Europe has a lot of strength. We need to pool that strength, and I am very much in favour of that - more of a deeper political union.
I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn't enough. I was exploding inside.
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