What (who) is POOL - definition
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Pool
·noun A small body of standing or stagnant water; a puddle.
II. Pool ·noun Any gambling or commercial venture in which several persons join.
III. Pool ·vi To combine or contribute with others, as for a commercial, speculative, or gambling transaction.
IV. Pool ·noun An aggregation of properties or rights, belonging to different people in a community, in a common fund, to be charged with common liabilities.
V. Pool ·noun A mutual arrangement between competing lines, by which the receipts of all are aggregated, and then distributed pro rata according to agreement.
VI. Pool ·noun 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.
VII. Pool ·noun The stake played for in certain games of cards, billiards, ·etc.; an aggregated stake to which each player has contributed a snare; also, the receptacle for the stakes.
VIII. Pool ·vt To put together; to 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.
IX. Pool ·noun 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.
X. Pool ·noun 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.
XI. Pool ·noun 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; as, the pool took all the wheat offered below the limit; he put $10,000 into the pool.
pool
n.
1.
Pond (small), mere, lake, loch.
2.
Puddle, plash, collection of standing water.
POOL
Parallel Object-Oriented Language.
A series of languages from Philips Research Labs.
See POOL2, POOL-I, POOL-T.
(1995-02-07)
Pronunciation examples for POOL
1. pool.
Developers And Depression _ Greg Baugues _ Talks at Google
2. right pool of talent and pool support.
The Downtown Project _ Zach Ware _ Talks at Google
3. the pool.
HomeAway _ Brian Sharples _ Talks at Google
4. The pool?
RISE UP! _ Kacey McCallister _ Talks at Google
5. So swimming pool is still a swimming pool.
Singapore Paralympian Gold Winners _ Yip Pin Xiu & Teresa Goh _ Talks at Google
Examples of use of POOL
1. Heineken Cup draw÷ Pool 1÷ Munster, Castres Olympique, Sale Sharks, Newport Gwent Dragons Pool 2÷ Rugby Calvisano, Perpignan, Leeds Tykes, Cardiff Blues Pool 3÷ Ospreys, Stade Francais Paris, Leicester Tigers, Clermont Auvergne Pool 4÷ Biarritz Olympique, Saracens, Ulster, Benetton Treviso Pool 5÷ Glasgow Rugby, Bourgoin, Bath Rugby, Leinster Pool 6÷ London Wasps, Toulouse, Llanelli Scarlets, Edinburgh Rugby
2. Nablus has a pool reserved for women, and an Olympic pool.
3. The Pool Romp The swimming pool orgy was one of the biggest shocks of the show.
4. Twenty minutes later a pool cleaner reported that a body was floating in the swimming pool.
5. If your pool is unprotected, make sure all doors leading to the pool area are locked to prevent young children from getting to the pool without supervision.