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pool

1  [pool]
Use pool in a Sentence
–noun
1. a small body of standing water; pond.
2. a still, deep place in a stream.
3. any small collection of liquid on a surface: a pool of blood.
4. a puddle.
5. swimming pool.
6. a subterranean accumulation of oil or gas held in porous and permeable sedimentary rock (reservoir).
–verb (used without object)
7. to form a pool.
8. (of blood) to accumulate in a body part or organ.
–verb (used with object)
9. 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:
bef. 900; ME; OE pōl; c. D poel, G Pfuhl
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2  [pool]
–noun
1. 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.
2. the total amount staked by a combination of bettors, as on a race, to be awarded to the successful bettor or bettors.
3. the combination of such bettors.
4. 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.
5. Finance. a combination of persons or organizations for the purpose of manipulating the prices of securities.
6. a combination of resources, funds, etc., for common advantage.
7. the combined interests or funds.
8. a facility, resource, or service that is shared by a group of people: a car pool; a typing pool.
9. 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.
–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; < F poule stakes, lit., hen. See pullet

Related forms:
pooler, noun

Synonyms:
4. corner, monopoly. 13. combine, merge, consolidate.
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pool 1   (pōōl)   
n.  
  1. A small body of still water.
  2. An accumulation of standing liquid; a puddle: a pool of blood.
  3. A deep or still place in a stream.
  4. A swimming pool.
  5. An underground accumulation of petroleum or gas in porous sedimentary rock.
intr.v.   pooled, pool·ing, pools
  1. To form pools or a pool: The receding tide pooled in hollows along the shore.
  2. To accumulate in a body part: preventing blood from pooling in the limbs.

[Middle English, from Old English pōl.]
pool 2   (pōōl)   
n.  
    1. A game of chance, resembling a lottery, in which the contestants put staked money into a common fund that is later paid to the winner.
    2. A fund containing all the money bet in a game of chance or on the outcome of an event.
    3. A mutual fund established by a group of stockholders for speculating in or manipulating prices of securities.
    4. The persons or parties participating in such a fund.
  2. A grouping of resources for the common advantage of the participants: a pool of implements for the use of all the workers on the estate; forming a pool of our talents.
  3. An available supply, the use of which is shared by a group.
  4. A group of journalists who cover an event and then by agreement share their reports with participating news media: the White House press pool.
    1. A mutual fund established by a group of stockholders for speculating in or manipulating prices of securities.
    2. The persons or parties participating in such a fund.
  6. An agreement between competing business concerns to establish controls over production, market, and prices for common profit.
  7. Any of several games played on a six-pocket billiards table usually with 15 object balls and a cue ball. Also called pocket billiards.
v.   pooled, pool·ing, pools

v.   tr.
To put into a fund for use by all: Let's pool our resources to finish the project quickly.
v.   intr.
To join or form a pool.

[French poule, hen, stakes, booty, from Old French, hen, young chicken, from Latin pullus, young of an animal; see pau-1 in Indo-European roots.]
pool'er n.
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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.

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.

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.

Pool

Pool\, v. i. To combine or contribute with others, as for a commercial, speculative, or gambling transaction.
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Language Translation for : pool
Spanish: charco,
German: die Pfütze,
Japanese: 水たまり
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pool  (1)
"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.

pool  (2)
"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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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pool

  1. A temporary affiliation of two or more people in an attempt to manipulate a security's price and/or volume. The pool is necessary in order to acquire the capital needed to manipulate a stock having a large market value. Pools were especially popular in the 1920s and early 1930s but now have been regulated out of existence. See also blind pool, trading pool.
  2. See mortgage pool.

Wall Street Words: An A to Z Guide to Investment Terms by David L. Scott.
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Main Entry: pool
Function: noun
1 : an aggregation of the interests, obligations, or undertakings of several parties working together pool>
2 : a group of people available for some purpose —see also JURY POOL

Main Entry: pool
Function: transitive verb
: to combine (as assets or votes) in a common form or effort; especially : to combine (interests) so as not to have a merger of companies considered a purchase for accounting purposes
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Main Entry: 1pool
Pronunciation: 'pül
Function: intransitive verb
of blood : to accumulate or become static (as in the veins of abodily part) pooled in his legs>

Main Entry: 2pool
Function: noun
: a readily available supply: as a : the whole quantity of a particular material present in the body andavailable for function or the satisfying of metabolic demands —see GENE POOL, METABOLIC POOL b : a body product (as blood) collected from many donors and stored for later use
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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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.

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

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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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.

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