Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word POOL
POOL
Definitions of POOL
- A supply of resources.
- A small amount of liquid on a surface.
- A localized glow of light.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- (by extension, computing) A set of resources that are kept ready to use.
- (intransitive, of a liquid) To form a pool.
- (game, 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.
- (sport) A cue sport played on a pool table. There are 15 balls, 7 of one colour, 7 of another, 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.
- (fencing) A group of fencers taking part in a competition.
- (rugby union) 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.
- (rail transport) A mutual arrangement between competing lines, by which the receipts of all are aggregated, and then distributed pro rata according to agreement.
- (legal) An aggregation of properties or rights, belonging to different people in a community, in a common fund, to be charged with common liabilities.
- (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.
- (intransitive) To combine or contribute with others, as for a commercial, speculative, or gambling transaction.
- A village in Carn Brea, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW6641).
- Short for Pool-in-Wharfedale.
- A cpar in the, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, also known as Pool in Wharfedale.
- A unincorporated community in Nicholas County, West Virginia, USA.
Number of letters
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Examples of Using POOL in a Sentence
- In crokinole, the shooting is generally towards the centre of the board, unlike carroms and pitchnut, where the shooting is towards the four outer corner pockets, as in pool.
- A carbon sink is a type of carbon pool that has the capability to take up more carbon from the atmosphere than it releases.
- They recognize individuals who have supposedly contributed to human evolution by selecting themselves out of the gene pool by dying or becoming sterilized by their own actions.
- Larger, higher-priced hotels may provide additional guest facilities such as a swimming pool, a business center with computers, printers, and other office equipment, childcare, conference and event facilities, tennis or basketball courts, gymnasium, restaurants, day spa, and social function services.
- Johnson Student Center, a complex including teaching theaters, shops, a student pool hall, and office space located at the Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas; President Johnson's college alma mater.
- The word comes from Proto-Indo-European *lókus ("lake, pool"), and is related to the Latin lacus ("lake, pond"), English lay ("lake") and French lac, as well as the Italian, Portuguese and Spanish word for a lake, lago.
- According to the best known version of the story, by Ovid, Narcissus rejected all advances, eventually falling in love with a reflection in a pool of water, tragically not realizing its similarity, entranced by it.
- Parimutuel betting or pool betting is a betting system in which all bets of a particular type are placed together in a pool; taxes and the "house-take" or "vigorish" are deducted, and payoff odds are calculated by sharing the pool among all winning bets.
- In 1875, army officer Neville Chamberlain, stationed in India, devised a set of rules that combined black pool and pyramids.
- It also introduces the concept of a Delphi pool, perhaps derived from the RAND Corporation's Delphi method – a futures market on world events which bears close resemblance to DARPA's controversial and cancelled Policy Analysis Market.
- The valleys of the river Helford and Loe Pool form the northern boundary, with the rest of the peninsula surrounded by sea.
- In the computer hacking scene of the 1980s, demon dialing was a technique by which a computer was used to repeatedly dial a number (usually to a crowded modem pool) in an attempt to gain access immediately after another user had hung up.
- January 21 – (3 Shawwal 713 AH) Muhammad III of Granada, who had been the Sultan from 1302 to 1309, is murdered by being drowned in the pool of the Dar al-Kubra, on orders of his brother, the Sultan Nasr.
- It is cognate with the Wear in England and Vistula (Polish Wisła, German Weichsel) in Poland, all of which are derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *weys- "to flow", which also gives rise to Old English/Old Frisian wāse "mud, ooze", Old Norse veisa "slime, stagnant pool", Dutch waas "haze; soggy land" (see Waasland), Old Saxon waso "wet ground, mire", Old High German wasal "rain" and French vase "mud, sludge".
- It takes its name from a local church, the Bethesda Meeting House (1820, rebuilt 1849), which in turn took its name from Jerusalem's Pool of Bethesda.
- A game consists mainly of the players swimming to move about the pool, treading water (mainly using the eggbeater kick), passing the ball, and shooting at the goal.
- Free riders are a problem for common pool resources because they may overuse it by not paying for the good (either directly through fees or tolls or indirectly through taxes).
- The bridge was constructed to connect the 39 per cent of London's population that lived east of London Bridge, equivalent to the populations of "Manchester on the one side, and Liverpool on the other", while allowing shipping to access the Pool of London between the Tower of London and London Bridge.
- Polruan is very steep and well protected from the prevailing winds and Polruan Pool is a haven for small boats.
- Furthermore, there is a Sun Parks holiday centre called "Kempense Meren" with an indoor swimming pool.
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