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/puːl/
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/pʉwl/
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[pʊwl]
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/poːl/
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/pul/
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/pʉːl/
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[puːl]
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/pʉl/
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Noun
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.
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the pools of Solomon
the Pool of London
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[…] at laſt I left them I’ th’ filthy mantled poole beyond your Cell, There dancing vp to th’ chins, that the fowle Lake Ore-ſtunck their feet.
A Single Life doth well with Church-men : For Charitie will hardly water the Ground, where it muſt firſt fill a Poole.
I loved the brimming wave that swam Thro’ quiet meadows round the mill, The sleepy pool above the dam, The pool beneath it never still, The meal-sacks on the whiten’d floor, The dark round of the dripping wheel, The very air about the door Made misty with the floating meal.
Any small body of standing or stagnant water; a puddle.
A set of resources that are kept ready to use.
Usage- broadly
Any group of like things.
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A small amount of liquid on a surface.
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a pool of blood
A localized glow of light.
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He walked slowly, passing through one pool of light after another, his shadow running tall across the fronts of the barber shop, the Western Auto, the video-rental shop.
Verb
To form a pool.
Usage- Intransitive
- of a liquid
Noun
A supply of resources.
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The 4-BEP and 4-CEP stock is maintained in a common pool for both Chatham and South Eastern fast main-line services.
A supply of resources. A number of people when considered as a resource.
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dating pool
There is a limited pool of candidates from which to choose the new manager.
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This is not necessarily surprising; employers often use recessions to pay new workers less because they have such a large pool of potential applicants to choose from, says Ruth Milkman, the Labor Studies Chair at the City University of New York’s School of Labor and Urban Studies.
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.
Usage- Uncountable
A cue sport played on a pool table. There are 15 balls, 7 of one colour or solids, 7 of another color or stripes, and the black ball (also called the 8 ball). A player must pocket all their own colour balls and then the black ball in order to win.
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He plays pool at the billiard-houses, and may be seen engaged at cards and dominoes of forenoons.
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.
A group of fencers taking part in a competition.
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A set of teams playing each other in the same division, while not during the same period playing any teams that belong to other sets in the division.
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Any gambling or commercial venture in which several persons join.
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.
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.
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The pool took all the wheat offered below the limit.
He put $10,000 into the pool.
A set of players in quadrille etc.
A mutual arrangement between competing lines, by which the receipts of all are aggregated, and then distributed pro rata according to agreement.
An aggregation of properties or rights, belonging to different people in a community, in a common fund, to be charged with common liabilities.
Verb
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.
Usage- Transitive
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We must pool our resources.
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“She must be exceedingly clever to have beaten the police the way she has for the last few years; and—er—I worship at the shrine of cleverness—especially if it be a woman’s. The idea struck me last night that if she and I should—er—pool our resources, we should not have to complain of the reward.” “Oh, so youse wants to work wid her, eh?” sniffed Rhoda Gray. “So dat’s it, is it?”
It all started 6 years ago, as Rutgers University scientists Allan Conney, Ph.D., and George C. Wagner, Ph.D., chatted at an office get-together. […] From this conversation, the two decided to pool their knowledge and join forces.
27 February 2010, Barack Obama, Presidential Weekly Address - Time for Us to Act Many on both sides agreed that we should give small businesses and individuals the ability to participate in a new insurance marketplace – which members of Congress would also use – that would allow them to pool their purchasing power and get a better deal from insurance companies.
To combine or contribute with others, as for a commercial, speculative, or gambling transaction.
Usage- Intransitive
Noun
an excavation that is (usually) filled with water
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a small lake
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the pond was too small for sailing
an organization of people or resources that can be shared
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a car pool
a secretarial pool
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when he was first hired he was assigned to the pool
an association of companies for some definite purpose
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any communal combination of funds
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everyone contributed to the pool
a small body of standing water (rainwater) or other liquid
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there were puddles of muddy water in the road after the rain
the body lay in a pool of blood
the combined stakes of the betters
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something resembling a pool of liquid
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he stood in a pool of light
his chair sat in a puddle of books and magazines
any of various games played on a pool table having 6 pockets
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Verb
combine into a common fund
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We pooled resources
join or form a pool of people