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   pool

   /puːl/

   noun

   • 1. a shared supply of vehicles or resources to be drawn on when needed: "a car pool" Similar supplycommon supplyreserve(s)storereservoirstockstockpileaccumulationstorehousehoardcachefundbacklog
   • ▪ a group of people available for work when required or considered as a resource: "the typing pool" Similar supplycommon supplyreserve(s)storereservoirstockstockpileaccumulationstorehousehoardcachefundbacklog
   • ▪ a common fund into which all contributors pay and from which financial backing is provided: "big public investment pools" Similar fundreservekittypotbankpursejackpotantestakes
   • ▪ the collective amount of players' stakes in gambling or sweepstakes; a kitty: "dividends are calculated by dividing the net pool by the stakes on the winners"
   • ▪ another term for football pool
   • 2. a game played on a small billiard table using two sets of seven coloured and numbered balls together with one black ball and a white cue ball, with the aim of pocketing all one's own balls and then the black.
   • 3. a group of contestants who compete against each other in a tournament for the right to advance to the next round: "the sides in Pool A"
   • 4. an arrangement, illegal in many countries, between competing parties to fix prices or rates and share business in order to eliminate competition: "pool arrangements by the competing networks reduce individual costs"

   verb

   • 1. (of two or more people or organizations) put (money or other assets) into a common fund: "they entered a contract to pool any gains and invest them profitably"
   • ▪ share (resources or information) for the benefit of all involved: "the skills of teachers can be pooled and shared"

   Word Origin late 17th century (originally denoting a game of cards having a pool): from French poule in the sense ‘stake, kitty’, associated with pool1.

   Derivatives

   • 1. pooler noun

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   What does a pool mean?

   • Get a quick, free translation! POOL definition: 1. an area of water that has been made for people to swim in: 2. a small area of water or a small…. Learn more.

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   Is a pool the same as a swimming pool?

   • A pool is the same as a swimming pool. ...a heated indoor pool. A pool is a fairly small area of still water. The pool had dried up and was full of bracken and reeds. 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.

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   What is a pool of people?

   • It was raining quietly and steadily and there were little pools of water on the gravel drive. 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 available pool of healthy manpower was not as large as military officials had expected.

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   What does billiards mean?

   • to cause (blood) to form pools. pool filters. a pool party. 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. Compare billiards ( def ).

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   What is a pool of liquid or light?

   • 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. It was raining quietly and steadily and there were little pools of water on the gravel drive. A pool of people, money, or things is a quantity or number of them that is available for an organization or group to use.

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   Where does the word pool come from?

   • From Middle English pool, pole, pol, from Old English pōl (“pool”), from Proto-West Germanic pōl, from Proto-Germanic *pōlaz (“pool, pond”), from Proto-Indo-European *bōlos (“bog, marsh”).

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

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   Definition of pool noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. pool. noun. /puːl/ for swimming. (also swimming pool) [countable] an area of water that has been created for people to swim in. an indoor/outdoor pool. Does the hotel have a pool? relaxing by the pool. see also infinity pool, paddling pool, plunge pool, wading pool.

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   4 days ago · Noun. [edit] A pool (as one supplied by a spring or occurring in the course of a stream) pool (plural pools) A small and rather deep area of (usually) fresh water, as one supplied by a spring, or occurring in the course of a stream or river; a reservoir for water. the pools of Solomon. the Pool of London.

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    A poolis a fairly small area of still water. The pool had dried up and was full of bracken and reeds. Synonyms: pond, lake, mere, tarn More Synonyms of pool. 3. countable noun. A pool ofliquid or light is a small area of it on the ground or on a surface. She was found lying in a pool of blood.