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Etymology 1

From Old English pōl, from Proto-Germanic *pōla.

Noun

A pool (as one supplied by a spring or occurring in the course of a stream)

Singular pool

Plural pools

pool (plural pools)

  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. --Francis 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. --Shakespeare.
  3. A swimming pool.
  4. A supply of resources.

Derived terms

Translations
body of water
  • Czech: tůň cs(cs) f.
  • French: piscine fr(fr)
  • Georgian: გუბე ka(ka) (gube)
  • German: Becken de(de) n.
  • Irish: linn ga(ga) f.
small body of standing or stagnant water; a puddle
  • Armenian: ջրափոս hy(hy) (ǰrap’os)
  • Czech: kaluž cs(cs) f., louže cs(cs) f.
  • Georgian: გუბე ka(ka) (gube)
  • Polish: kałuża pl(pl) f.
swimming pool — see swimming pool supply of resources
  • Hebrew: מאגר he(he) m.
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  • Italian: piscina f.
  • Serbian: kupelj (swimming pool)

Etymology 2

French poule (in the sense of collective stakes in a game). The OED suggests that this may be a transferred use of poule (hen), but the derivation is uncertain.

Noun

Singular pool

Plural pools

pool (plural pools)

  1. (uncountable) 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Any gambling or commercial venture in which several persons join.
  4. The stake played for in certain games of cards, billiards, etc.; an aggregated stake to which each player has contributed a share; also, the receptacle for the stakes.
  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. (rail transport) 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.

Derived terms

Verb

Infinitive to pool

Third person singular pools

Simple past pooled

Past participle pooled

Present participle pooling

to pool (third-person singular simple present pools, present participle pooling, simple past and past participle pooled)

  1. (transitive) to put together; 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 pooling of all issues. -- Grant.
  2. (intransitive) combine or contribute with others, as for a commercial,speculative, or gambling transaction.

Translations
to put together

Anagrams

Dutch

Etymology 1

Noun

pool

  1. pole (extreme point of an axis)

Etymology 2

Noun

pool

  1. Pole (male)

Coordinate terms

Estonian

Noun

pool

  1. half

 

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