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Pool

noun
1.
An excavation that is (usually) filled with water.
2.
A small lake.  Synonym: pond.
3.
An organization of people or resources that can be shared.  "A secretarial pool" , "When he was first hired he was assigned to the pool"
4.
An association of companies for some definite purpose.  Synonyms: consortium, syndicate.
5.
Any communal combination of funds.
6.
A small body of standing water (rainwater) or other liquid.  Synonym: puddle.  "The body lay in a pool of blood"
7.
The combined stakes of the betters.  Synonym: kitty.
8.
Something resembling a pool of liquid.  Synonym: puddle.  "His chair sat in a puddle of books and magazines"
9.
Any of various games played on a pool table having 6 pockets.  Synonym: pocket billiards.
verb
(past & past part. pooled; pres. part. pooling)
1.
Combine into a common fund.
2.
Join or form a pool of people.



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"Pool" Quotes from Famous Books



... senses they are geese, Dull drowsing by a weedy pool; But try the impression trick. Cool! Cool! Snow-slumbering ...
— The Book of Humorous Verse • Various
... of the street and every crack and fissure in the stones ran with scorching spirit, which being dammed up by busy hands overflowed the road and pavement, and formed a great pool into which the people dropped down dead by dozens. They lay in heaps all round this fearful pond, husbands and wives, fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, women with children in their arms and babies at their breasts, and drank until ...
— Holborn and Bloomsbury - The Fascination of London • Sir Walter Besant
... whispering voice, as we were groping about in the darkness; "you are close to a pool that would drown an ox. I guess you ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 • Various
... watching Mr. O'Rourke squirming on the horns of a dilemma. They took counsel together, and the result of their deliberations was peculiar. They proposed to invite Mr. O'Rourke to join his appeal to theirs, to pool the money which came in, and to divide it evenly between the volunteers and the members of Parliament. It was Tim Halloran who hit upon the brilliant idea. Augusta Goold chuckled over it as she grasped its consequences. Mr. O'Rourke, Tim argued, would ...
— Hyacinth - 1906 • George A. Birmingham
... Protection and Peace. This Mill was built A.D. 1767 By Sir John Glynne, Bart., Lord of this Manor: Charles Howard Millwright. Wheat was at this year 9s. and Barley at 5s. 6d. a Bushel. Luxury was at a great height, and Charity extensive, but the pool were starving, ...
— The Hawarden Visitors' Hand-Book - Revised Edition, 1890 • William Henry Gladstone


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