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pool

UK/puːl/ US/pʉwl/ common
noun (9) verb (2)

noun

1.

an excavation that is (usually) filled with water

2.

a small lake

  • “the pond was too small for sailing”
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3.

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”
4.

an association of companies for some definite purpose

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5.

any communal combination of funds

  • “everyone contributed to the pool”
6.

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”
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7.

the combined stakes of the betters

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8.

something resembling a pool of liquid

  • “he stood in a pool of light”
  • “his chair sat in a puddle of books and magazines”
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9.

any of various games played on a pool table having 6 pockets

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verb

1.

combine into a common fund

  • “We pooled resources”
2.

join or form a pool of people

Origin

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”). Cognate with Scots puil (“pool”), Saterland Frisian Pol (“pool”), West Frisian poel (“pool”), Dutch poel (“pool”), German Low German Pohl, Pool, Pul (“pool”), German Pfuhl (“quagmire, mudhole”), Danish pøl (“puddle”), Swedish pöl (“puddle, pool”), Icelandic pollur (“puddle”), Lithuanian bala (“puddle”), Latvian bala (“a muddly, treeless depression”), Russian боло́то (bolóto, “swamp, bog, marsh”). For the meaning development to a supply of resources compare typologically Russian пруд пруди́ (prud prudí) (< пруд (prud)).

Phrases

  • ball pool
  • bank pool
  • birthing pool
  • black pool
  • blind pool
  • brine pool
  • Bromborough Pool
  • bumper pool
  • cow pool
  • cowboy pool
  • dark pool
  • dirty pool

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