Direct Cross-Language Association: “Pool” in German
This word also exists in German! Meaning: “ellipsis of Swimmingpool”
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Definitions & Usage
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.
Ellipsis of swimming pool.
(by extension, computing) A set of resources that are kept ready to use.
(by extension) Any group of like things.
A small amount of liquid on a surface.
A localized glow of light.
(intransitive, of a liquid) To form a pool.
A supply of resources.
(games, 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.
(sports) A cue sport played on a pool table. There are 15 balls, 7 of one colour or solids, 7 of another color or stripes, 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.
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.
(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.
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.
(rail transport) A mutual arrangement between competing lines, by which the receipts of all are aggregated, and then distributed pro rata according to agreement.
(law) 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.
Notable Literary & Historical Quotes
“[…] at laſt I left them I’ th’ filthy mantled poole beyond your Cell, There dancing vp to th’ chins, that the fowle Lake Ore-ſtunck their feet.”
— 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 15, column 2:
“A Single Life doth well with Church-men : For Charitie will hardly water the Ground, where it muſt firſt fill a Poole.”
— 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Marriage And Single Life. VIII.”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC, page 37:
“I loved the brimming wave that swam Thro’ quiet meadows round the mill, The sleepy pool above the dam, The pool beneath it never still, The meal-sacks on the whiten’d floor, The dark round of the dripping wheel, The very air about the door Made misty with the floating meal.”
— 1833, Alfred Tennyson, “The Miller's Daughter”, in Poems, 5th edition, Edward Moxon, published 1848, page 86: