Dictionary Thesaurus Word Dynamo Quotes Reference Translator Spanish

pool

[pool]

Coastal Aquatic Creations www.coastalaquaticcreations.com Custom Pool Design Construction & Remodeling. We'll Take Care of You.

Pool/Spa From $23,995 www.bluefountainpools.com Inground Concrete Pool/Spa Combo A+ Rating @ BBB, Insured & Comped

Discount Pool Supply www.dpspoolsupply.com/ Large Selection And Low Prices On The PoolSupplies You Need Today

Ads

noun

a small body of standing water; pond.

a still, deep place in a stream.

any small collection of liquid on a surface: a pool of blood.

a puddle.

swimming pool.

EXPAND

a subterranean accumulation of oil or gas held in porous and permeable sedimentary rock (reservoir).

COLLAPSE

L A Pool Builders, Inc www.lapoolbuilders.com Award winning designs, from "Concept to Completion"

verb (used without object)

to form a pool.

(of blood) to accumulate in a body part or organ.

:10

:09

:08

:07

:06

:05

:04

:03

:02

:01

Pool is one of our favorite verbs.

So is peculate. Does it mean:

chat, to converse

to steal or take dishonestly (money, esp. public funds, or property entrusted to one's care); embezzle.

LEARN MORE FUN, UNUSUAL VERBS WITH WORD DYNAMO...

verb (used with object)

to cause pools to form in.

10.

to cause (blood) to form pools.

adjective

11.

of or for a pool: pool filters.

12.

taking place or occurring around or near a pool: a pool party.

Origin:
before 900; Middle English; Old English pōl; cognate with Dutch poel, German Pfuhl

Example Sentences

New products that cater to increasingly busy homeowners can make second-home swimming pool care a cinch.

One in four does not realize that a response is required to enter an inquiry pool.

But the talent pool is shallow, and many of the hardened generals resent outsiders.

EXPAND

New products that cater to increasingly busy homeowners can make second-home swimming pool care a cinch.

One in four does not realize that a response is required to enter an inquiry pool.

But the talent pool is shallow, and many of the hardened generals resent outsiders.

If you get a chance to go to a pygmy pool party don't miss it.

Have you ever noticed how a coin at the bottom of a swimming pool seems to.

Pink as the sandstone around us, he walks toward the pool of water that blocks our way up this narrow canyon in.

The vanishing-edge pool creates the illusion that it could slip from its moorings and glide away.

So reads the annoying sign in any bar with a pool table, a killjoy message which destroys the whole point.

Manning of this city are hard at work practicing for their pool match.

Review of applications begins immediately and will continue until an adequate applicant pool is established.

Firms are much less squeamish about the wider pool of unbanked customers, however.

My bull terrier jumping into the swimming pool to recover her tennis ball.

Imagine that you are playing pocket billiards on a pool table that is three meters long and one meter wide.

Each figure holds an inflatable pool toy, such as water wings or a toy seahorse.

Effective against background of dark green shrubs or at end of pool where graceful form can be displayed.

From there, the rules of pool take over and it's up to you to sink your designated balls before your opponent does.

The pool sat amid factories and workshops, the streets around it.

Most presidents will retire in the next decade, and the pool of replacements is shallow.

Ponzi schemes depend on garnering an ever-increasing pool of new investors to pay out returns to.

Combine your errands, car pool to work, or take public transportation to reduce both your energy and water use.

Narrowing the gene pool to enhance meat and egg production in chickens could provoke some.

By the wedge, bare feet dangling into a pool or lake.

The lap pool is sheltered from the wind by a retaining wall and a hillside in the distance.

Normally, when you pour a liquid into a pool of another liquid, the stream plunges right in.

Chelsea is still waiting for its public swimming pool.

Open until filled or until an adequate applicant pool has been established.

Another reason is that the pool of potential college-goers has grown.

Spring-fed pool within walls of historic boiling house.

If you're being shot at, you could do worse than diving into a swimming pool.

We speed to the spot, in time to see a pool of blood.

Use in damp borders, at pool edges, or in shallow water.

How all-female species avoid the shrinkage of their gene pool is among the animal kingdom's great mysteries.

For a pool hall, a liquor license is not a trivial matter.

The real dysfunction began after a pool of candidates had been identified.

China's natural rise could be turbocharged by its vast pool of savings.

Tadpoles dive from their eggs into a dangerous jungle pool.

Cantor's loss was so great that its portion of the memorial surrounds almost half of the north pool.

The park's trails offer hiking and bird watching and the outdoor pool is big with the youngsters.

Backed by a guest house, an artificial creek doubles as a kid-size wading pool and water play area.

Your brain, being the clever little computer that it is, swaps this mad image out for something more sensible: a pool of water.

Explains federal high-risk pool which a state can use in addition or instead of their own high-risk pool.

Yet applications held steady, the diversity of the pool increased slightly, and so did average test scores.

Instead of launching drift nets or putting out a rod and line, fishermen round up the tuna in a shallow pool.

It could be that it is a clogged sink, a rainwater filled hole or even a kiddie pool.

They plopped each turtle into a small pool surrounded by magnetic coils.

The windows in the motel shook and the water in the pool rippled.

Colorado, where it's cut into rounds and set on a pool of custard sauce.

We will pool our knowledge about whether there's any surviving film footage or audio, or copies of scripts.

But today, adornments for the pool seem to outnumber those for the home.

But they also need to continually renew and refresh their pool of prospective adjuncts.

Those companies and their suppliers have nurtured a pool of highly trained technical workers fed by two large state universities.

Deep into the mud, the researchers found a pool of nitrate that seemed to correlate with foraminifera abundance.

With nine pieces on display, it's a great way to dip your feet into the pool and test the waters.

The space created between the two conceals pool equipment and a new outdoor shower.

The new pool of cheap labor: everyday people using their spare cycles to create content, solve.

Enrollment has fallen as the pool of college-age students has declined.

The pool of potential teachers has diversified as well as deepened.

The system can monitor the performance of solar photovoltaics, solar hot water and solar pool heating systems.

They probably never got out of a cold pool to warm up on a hot sidewalk.

But the rarest experience of all is to soak in a natural stone pool so close.

At the sculpture's base is a round pool with fountain pump that sends water in a circular motion around the pool.

Those colleges, he said, will be under increasing pressure as the pool of traditional college students contracts.

Companies that fish in only half of the talent pool will lose out to those that cast their net more widely.

So go to a store that sells pool supplies and purchase granular chlorine.

Splurge on a room with wood-burning fireplace, and bring a swimsuit for the outdoor pool.

Bell's microphone, for instance, involved suspending a diaphragm above a pool of electrified liquid.

Applications will be received until an adequate pool of applications is established or until the position is filled.

The world's best universities recruit from a global talent pool for both students and staff.

Each molecular species competed with the others for the common pool of building blocks.

Pumps recirculate water in a garden pool and deliver it to the head of a waterfall.

Woz has outfitted the house with an elaborate swimming pool that extends inside the house by way of an underwater channel.

There should be a pool of money always available for the merit pay system.

Long periods of high unemployment tend to reduce rather than augment the pool of potential workers.

In the discussion of alternative energy and fuels, algae have been bubbling to the top of the proverbial feedstock pool.

In the snorkeling pool on the north end, you might see a rare sleeping monk seal.

At the bottom of each slippery-sided leaf is a pool of water into which unlucky insects fall and drown.

Increasing the size of the pool is not an excuse for a deceptive job description.

Exchanges allow people to bet with each other, rather than going through a licensed bookie or a parimutuel pool.

But the seeds swimming in a fetid pool of neon-orange slime were limp and lifeless.

When he started the backyard was little more than pool and lawn.

The restricted lives of dolphins jumping in a pool can impact their ability to do what they normally do.

The pool of graduate students is no longer dominated by young men with stay-at-home wives.

It does not explain how the virus entered the pool of school-age children in the first place.

Puffer-fish light fixtures hang from the ceiling and locals shoot pool in the back of this neighborhood bar.

Like a prairie with no more vacant land to homestead or a hip area code with no more cellphone numbers, the pool of.

It is in their interest to have a strong pool of candidates.

If you want a real treat, zoom all the way to the people on the far side of the reflection pool.

Then notice how the soothing palette mimics the sparkle and cool, watery blue of a swimming pool or water feature.

The dice in your pool are retained and you actually add a bonus die to the pool.

Some private colleges are part of a tuition exchange pool.

Even if they do they have metal between you and it and unlike gas cars, the insides don't leak out making a huge pool of fire.

Our room was small and situated next to the hotel pool.

But he endorsed the idea of a device pool for basic scientific work.

My stainless steel pool ladder rusted, around the holes that attach the stepts to the rails.

Geometric steppingstones crossing a small pool give the illusion of walking on water.

Such a pool might provide not only support for existing journals, but also seed money for deserving new ones.

Hot water for all the apartments in the complex took less gas than this tiny swimming pool.

Head straight back to the touch pool to pet the bat rays, whose tails have been debarbed to protect young hands.

To search committees: a candidate pool of sufficient size, breadth, and quality to bring you the hire you need.

Two animals lived on a rotating disc over a pool of water, separated by a fixed wall.

By a simple food-in/energy-out model, a run on the treadmill or swim in the pool should make you want to eat more.

COLLAPSE

Dictionary.com Unabridged

noun

Also called pocket billiards. any of various games played on a pool table with a cue ball and 15 other balls that are usually numbered, in which the object is to drive all the balls into the pockets with the cue ball.

the total amount staked by a combination of bettors, as on a race, to be awarded to the successful bettor or bettors.

the combination of such bettors.

an association of competitors who agree to control the production, market, and price of a commodity for mutual benefit, although they appear to be rivals.

Finance. a combination of persons or organizations for the purpose of manipulating the prices of securities.

EXPAND

a combination of resources, funds, etc., for common advantage.

the combined interests or funds.

a facility, resource, or service that is shared by a group of people: a car pool; a typing pool.

the persons or parties involved.

10.

the stakes in certain games.

11.

British. a billiard game.

12.

Fencing. a match in which each teammate successively plays against each member of the opposing team.

COLLAPSE

verb (used with object)

13.

to put (resources, money, etc.) into a pool, or common stock or fund, as for a financial venture, according to agreement.

14.

to form a pool of.

15.

to make a common interest of.

verb (used without object)

16.

to enter into or form a pool.

adjective

17.

of or belonging to a pool: a pool typist; a pool reporter.

Origin:
1685–95; < French poule stakes, literally, hen. See pullet

Related forms

pool·er, noun

Synonyms
4. corner, monopoly. 13. combine, merge, consolidate.

Link To pool

Collins

World English Dictionary

pool¹ (puːl)

—n
1.	a small body of still water, usually fresh; small pond
2.	a small isolated collection of liquid spilt or poured on a surface; puddle: a pool of blood
3.	a deep part of a stream or river where the water runs very slowly
4.	an underground accumulation of oil or gas, usually forming a reservoir in porous sedimentary rock
5.	See swimming pool

[Old English pōl; related to Old Frisian pōl, German Pfuhl]

pool² (puːl)

—n
1.	any communal combination of resources, funds, etc: a typing pool
2.	the combined stakes of the betters in many gambling sports or games; kitty
3.	commerce a group of producers who conspire to establish and maintain output levels and high prices, each member of the group being allocated a maximum quota; price ring
4.	chiefly (US) finance
	a. a joint fund organized by security-holders for speculative or manipulative purposes on financial markets
	b. the persons or parties involved in such a combination
5.	any of various billiard games in which the object is to pot all the balls with the cue ball, esp that played with 15 coloured and numbered balls; pocket billiards

—vb
6.	to combine (investments, money, interests, etc) into a common fund, as for a joint enterprise
7.	commerce to organize a pool of (enterprises)
8.	informal (Austral) to inform on or incriminate (someone)

[C17: from French poule, literally: hen used to signify stakes in a card game, from Medieval Latin pulla hen, from Latin pullus young animal]

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
Cite This Source

Etymonline

Word Origin & History

pool

"small body of water," O.E. pol, from W.Gmc. *pol- (cf. O.Fris., M.L.G. pol, Du. poel, O.H.G. pfuol, Ger. Pfuhl). As a short form of swimming pool it is recorded from 1921.

EXPAND

pool

"game similar to billiards," 1848, originally (1693) a card game played for collective stakes (a "pool"), from Fr. poule "stakes, booty, plunder," lit. "hen," from O.Fr. poule "hen, young fowl." Perhaps the original notion is from jeu de la poule, supposedly a game in which people threw things at a hen

and the player who hit it, won it, which speaks volumes about life in the Middle Ages. The connection of "hen" and "stakes" is also present in Sp. polla and Walloon paie. Meaning "collective stakes" first recorded 1869; sense of "common reservoir of resources" is from 1917. Meaning "group of persons who share duties or skills" is from 1928. The verb meaning "to make a common interest, put things into a pool" is 1872, from the noun.

COLLAPSE

American Heritage

Medical Dictionary

pool (p&oomacr;l)
n.
A collection of blood in any region of the body due to dilation and retardation of the circulation in capillaries and veins.

FOLDOC

Computing Dictionary

POOL definition

Parallel Object-Oriented Language.
A series of languages from Philips Research Labs.
See POOL2, POOL-I, POOL-T.
(1995-02-07)

Easton

Bible Dictionary

Pool definition

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.

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
Cite This Source

Word Dynamo By Dictionary.com

Searching for pool?
How many words do you actually know?

FIND OUT

bank bumper pool carpool kitty Malebo Pool plash

Slang

dirty pool pocket pool

pocket pool

Images for pool

Matching Quote

"Fast Eddie, let's play some pool."

-Sydney Carroll

Partners:Word Bloglines Citysearch The Daily Beast Ask Answers Ask Kids Life123 Sendori Thesaurus

About Privacy Policy Terms of Use API Careers Advertise with Us Contact Us Help