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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

... from the old mill pond on the way to Davis Swimming Pool lives a very old negro woman. Her name is Daphney Wright, though that name has never been heard by those who affectionately know her as "Aunt Affie". She says she is 106 years old. She comes to the door without a cane and greets her guests with accustomed curtsey. She is neatly ...

— Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves • Works Projects Administration

... scum of pool or clod, God-spawn of lizard-footed clans, And those dog-headed hulks that trod Swart necks of the old Egyptians, Raw draughts ...

— A Channel Passage and Other Poems - Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles - Swinburne--Vol VI • Algernon Charles Swinburne

... somewhat rounded; at the farther end it was flat and irregular; but between the two ends it sank into a deep hollow, where he saw that which at once excited a tumult of hope and fear. It was a pool of water at least fifty feet in diameter, and deep too, since the sides of the rock went down steeply. But was it fresh or salt? Was it the accumulation from the showers of the rainy season of the tropics, or was it but the result of the past night's storm, which had hurled ...

— Cord and Creese • James de Mille

... crossed by a stone bridge close to its confluence with the Mirk Esk. Above the bridge, a footpath among the huge boulders winds its way by the side of the rushing beck to Thomasin Foss, where the little river falls in two or three broad silver bands into a considerable pool. Great masses of overhanging rock, shaded by a leafy roof, shut ...

— Yorkshire Painted And Described • Gordon Home

... contemplation Ate the sausage thick and fat; Ate the kraut that never sourer Tasted to my lips than here; Smoked my pipe of strong canaster, Sipped my fifteenth jug of beer; Gazed upon the glancing river, Gazed upon the tranquil pool, Whence the silver-voiced Undine, When the nights were calm and cool, As the Baron Fouque tells us, Rose from out her shelly grot, Casting glamour o'er the waters, Witching that enchanted spot. From the shadow which the coppice Flings across the rippling stream, ...

— The Bon Gaultier Ballads • William Edmonstoune Aytoun

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