pool

Plural: pools

Noun

• an excavation that is (usually) filled with water
• a small lake
• 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"
• an association of companies for some definite purpose
• any communal combination of funds
  • "everyone contributed to the pool"
• a small body of standing water (rainwater) or other liquid
  • "the body lay in a pool of blood"
• the combined stakes of the betters
• something resembling a pool of liquid
  • "he stood in a pool of light"
• any of various games played on a pool table having 6 pockets
• 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.
• Any small body of standing or stagnant water; a puddle.
• Ellipsis of swimming pool.
• A set of resources that are kept ready to use.
• A small amount of liquid on a surface.
• A localized glow of light.
• A supply of resources.
• A supply of resources.
• A number of people when considered as a resource.
• 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 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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

Verb Forms: pooled, pooling, pools

• To combine resources or funds for a common purpose.
• combine into a common fund
  • "We pooled resources"
• join or form a pool of people
• To form a pool.
• 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.
• To combine or contribute with others, as for a commercial, speculative, or gambling transaction.

Examples

• a pool of blood
• dating pool
• He put $10,000 into the pool.
• the Pool of London
• The pool took all the wheat offered below the limit.
• the pools of Solomon
• There is a limited pool of candidates from which to choose the new manager.
• They decided to pool their letters in a collaborative game, aiming for the highest combined score.
• We must pool our resources.

Synonyms

consortium, kitty, pocket billiards, pond, puddle, syndicate, group, poule

Anagrams of pool