- pool
- [[t]pu͟ːl[/t]]
♦♦♦pools, pooling, pooled1) N-COUNT A pool is the same as a swimming pool.
...a heated indoor pool...
During winter, many people swim and the pool is crowded.
2) N-COUNT A pool is a fairly small area of still water.→ See also rock poolThe pool had dried up and was full of bracken and reeds.
...beautiful gardens filled with pools, fountains and rare birds.
3) N-COUNT: N of n A pool of liquid or light is a small area of it on the ground or on a surface.She was found lying in a pool of blood...
It was raining quietly and steadily and there were little pools of water on the gravel drive...
The lamps on the side-tables threw warm pools of light on the polished wood.
4) N-COUNT: with supp, usu N of n A pool of people, money, or things is a quantity or number of them that is available for an organization or group to use.→ See also car poolThe available pool of healthy manpower was not as large as military officials had expected...
The new proposal would create a reserve pool of cash.
5) VERB If a group of people or organizations pool their money, knowledge, or equipment, they share it or put it together so that it can be used for a particular purpose.[V n] We pooled ideas and information...
[V n] Philip and I pooled our savings to start up my business.
6) N-UNCOUNT Pool is a game played on a large table covered with a cloth. Players use a long stick called a cue to hit a white ball across the table so that it knocks coloured balls with numbers on them into six holes around the edge of the table.We played pool together and were good mates...
The Seaman was a bar for pool players and hard drinkers...
He was shooting pool with two other men.
7) N-PLURAL: the N If you do the pools, you take part in a gambling competition in which people try to win money by guessing correctly the results of football matches. [BRIT]The odds of winning the pools are about one in 20 million.
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English dictionary. 2008.
