Meaning of pool | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A village in Carn Brea parish, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW6641).
2. 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.
3. 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
4. A supply of resources.
5. Ellipsis of Pool-in-Wharfedale.
   abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
6. Any small body of standing or stagnant water; a puddle.
7. Any small body of standing or stagnant water; a puddle
8. A number of people when considered as a resource.
9. A civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, also known as Pool in Wharfedale.
10. Ellipsis of swimming pool.
    abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
11. Ellipsis of swimming pool
12. 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.
    uncountable
13. An unincorporated community in Nicholas County, West Virginia, United States.
14. A set of resources that are kept ready to use.
    broadly
15. A set of resources that are kept ready to use
16. 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.
17. A department of the Republic of the Congo.
18. Any group of like things.
    broadly
19. Any group of like things
20. 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.
21. A small amount of liquid on a surface.
22. A group of fencers taking part in a competition.
23. A localized glow of light.
24. 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.
25. Any gambling or commercial venture in which several persons join.
26. 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.
27. 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.
28. A set of players in quadrille etc.
29. A mutual arrangement between competing lines, by which the receipts of all are aggregated, and then distributed pro rata according to agreement.
30. An aggregation of properties or rights, belonging to different people in a community, in a common fund, to be charged with common liabilities.

Equivalents

Examples

“the pools of Solomon”

“the Pool of London”

“[…] 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.”

“a pool of blood”

“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.”

“The 4-BEP and 4-CEP stock is maintained in a common pool for both Chatham and South Eastern fast main-line services.”

“dating pool”

“There is a limited pool of candidates from which to choose the new manager.”

“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.”

“He plays pool at the billiard-houses, and may be seen engaged at cards and dominoes of forenoons.”

“The pool took all the wheat offered below the limit.”

“He put $10,000 into the pool.”

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