• Irish: linn
• Serbian: kupelj (swimming pool)
• Spanish: estanque
• Welsh: pwll

• Hebrew: מאגר

• ttbc Czech: bazén (1)
• ttbc German: Becken
• ttbc French: piscine
• ttbc Hungarian: medence
• ttbc Irish: linn (1)
• ttbc Italian: piscina
• ttbc Serbian: kupelj (swimming pool)
• ttbc Spanish: italbrac Mexico, pileta, italbrac Argentina

Etymology 2

poule

Noun

pool

1. 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. 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.
5. A mutual arrangement between competing lines, by which the receipts of all are aggregated, and then distributed pro rata according to agreement.
6. An aggregation of properties or rights, belonging to different people in a community, in a common fund, to be charged with common liabilities.

Derived terms

• blind pool
• bumper pool
• carpool
• cesspool
• dirty pool
• gene pool
• kelly pool (3)
• motor pool
• pool hall
• pool table
• poolroom
• tidal pool
• vanpool

Verb

1. 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.

1. combine or contribute with others, as for a commercial,speculative, or gambling transaction.

Anagrams

• loop
• polo

Dutch

Noun

pool

1. pole (extreme point of an axis)

Estonian

Noun

pool

1. half

Pool may refer to:

Bodies of water

• Plunge pool, small, deep body of water
• The River Pool, river in England tributary to the River Ravensbourne
• Reflecting pool, shallow pool of water designed to reflect a structure
  • Capitol Reflection Pool, western most element of the United States Capitol Building Grounds
  • Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, in Washington, D.C.
• Stream pool, a quiet slow moving portion of a stream
• Swimming pool, artificially enclosed body of water intended for swimming
• Tide pool, rocky pools by oceans that are filled with seawater

Sports, games and gambling

• Betting pool, form of pool betting where gamblers pay a fixed price into a pool
  • Dead pool, betting pool on the date of death of celebrities
  • Hockey pool, simplified version of fantasy hockey
  • Football pools, football (soccer) betting pool
  • Footy pool, Australian-rules football pool
• Pool (poker), money wagered during a single hand of poker
• Pool checkers, variant of checkers (draughts)
• Pool betting, betting system in which all bets of a particular type are placed together in a pool
• Pool billiards, family of games played on a pocket billiards table
• Pool play, round robin stage of many sporting championships
• Singapore Pools, Singapore's sole legal lottery

Computing

• Memory pool, dynamic memory allocation method
• Memory Pool System, memory management system
• Thread pool pattern, programming method where a number of threads are created to perform a number of tasks
• Object pool, set of initialised programming objects that are kept ready to use
• Connection pool, cache of database connections maintained by the database

Geography

• Pool Region, in the Republic of the Congo
• Pool-in-Wharfedale, West Yorkshire, England
• Pool, Cornwall, in England

Persons

• Albert-Jan Pool (b. 1960), Dutch type designer
• Ithiel de Sola Pool (1917–1984), pioneer in the development of social science

General

• Pooling (resource management), grouping together of resources or effort
  • Secretarial pool, group of secretaries available to assist executives
  • Press pool, group of news gathering organizations pooling their resources
• Gene pool, complete set of unique alleles in a species or population
• Pool-type reactor, nuclear reactor that has a core immersed in an open pool of water

See also

• Poole (disambiguation)
• Poel (disambiguation page)
• Poul (disambiguation page)
• AIDS

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