pool

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[edit] English

[edit] Pronunciation

[edit] Etymology 1

Old English pōl, from Proto-Germanic *pōlaz (compare Dutch poel, German Pfuhl), from Proto-Indo-European (compare Lithuanian balà 'marsh, swamp', Latvian bala 'woodless valley', Old Church Slavonic balŭka 'ravine').

[edit] Noun

A pool (as one supplied by a spring or occurring in the course of a stream)

pool (plural pools)

  1. A small and rather deep collection of (usually) fresh water, as one supplied by a spring, or occurring in the course of a stream; a reservoir for water; as, the pools of Solomon --Wyclif
    Charity will hardly water the ground where it must first fill a pool. --Francis Bacon
    The sleepy pool above the dam. --Tennyson
  2. A small body of standing or stagnant water; a puddle
    The filthy mantled pool beyond your cell. --Shakespeare
  3. A swimming pool
  4. A supply of resources
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[edit] Translations
body of water
small body of standing or stagnant water; a puddle
swimming pool — see swimming pool
supply of resources
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[edit] Etymology 2

French poule (“collective stakes in a game”) (The OED suggests that this may be a transferred use of poule (“hen”), but the derivation is uncertain.)

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pool (plural pools)

  1. (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; a game of skill in pocketing the balls on a pool table
    Note: This game is played variously, but commonly with fifteen balls, besides one cue ball, the contest being to drive the most balls into the pockets.
    He plays pool at the billiard houses. --Thackeray
  2. 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
  3. Any gambling or commercial venture in which several persons join
  4. 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
  5. 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; for example, as the pool took all the wheat offered below the limit, he put $10,000 into the pool
  6. (rail transport) A mutual arrangement between competing lines, by which the receipts of all are aggregated, and then distributed pro rata according to agreement
  7. (law) An aggregation of properties or rights, belonging to different people in a community, in a common fund, to be charged with common liabilities
  8. This word needs a definition. Please help out and add a definition, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
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pool (third-person singular simple present pools, present participle pooling, simple past and past participle pooled)

  1. (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; as, the companies pooled their traffic
    • Finally, it favors the pooling of all issues. -- Grant
  2. (intransitive) to combine or contribute with others, as for a commercial, speculative, or gambling transaction
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to put together

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[edit] Dutch

[edit] Etymology 1

From Latin polus, which itself is from Ancient Greek πόλος (polos, “axis”). Cognate with English pole.

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pool c. (plural polen, ??? please provide the diminutive!)

  1. magnetic pole (especially of the Earth and other celestial bodies)
  2. electrical pole (eg. of a battery)
  3. (figuratively) an opposing side of a principle or a doctrine
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[edit] Etymology 2

From English pool

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pool m. (plural pools, diminutive pooltje)

  1. a gambling venture such as a football pool
  2. the stake involved in such a venture
  3. an arrangement where people pool in money to share one resource such as a carpool
  4. (sports) snooker
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[edit] Etymology 3

Possibly from Anglo-Norman pyle, or maybe Middle Dutch pijl (“thin hair”); both from Latin pilus (“hair”). Cognate with English pile

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pool c. (??? please provide the plural and diminutive!)

  1. the pile (upstanding usually fine hair) on certain fabrics, velvet or carpeting

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[edit] Estonian

[edit] Etymology

Loaned from a Slavic language; ultimately from Proto-Slavic *polъ (“half”); cognate with Russian пол (“half”), Finnish puoli (“half”).

[edit] Noun

pool (genitive poole, partitive poolt)

  1. half
  2. side
    tagumine pool — back side
    koledam pool — the ugly side

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This Estonian entry needs a declension template

[edit] Postposition

pool

  1. at, to, towards
    minu pool — at my place
    põhja pool — to the north, in the north
    igal pool — everywhere

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