an organization of people or resources that can be shared
<noun.group> a car pool a secretarial pool when he was first hired he was assigned to the pool
an association of companies for some definite purpose
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any communal combination of funds
<noun.possession> everyone contributed to the pool
a small body of standing water (rainwater) or other liquid
<noun.object> there were puddles of muddy water in the road after the rain the body lay in a pool of blood
the combined stakes of the betters
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something resembling a pool of liquid
<noun.location> he stood in a pool of light his chair sat in a puddle of books and magazines
any of various games played on a pool table having 6 pockets
<noun.act> [ verb ]
combine into a common fund
<verb.possession> We pooled resources
join or form a pool of people
<verb.competition>
Pool \Pool\, n. [AS. p[=o]l; akin to LG. pool, pohl, D. poel, G. pfuhl; cf. Icel. pollr, also W. pwll, Gael. poll.] 1. 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. --Wyclif.
Charity will hardly water the ground where it must first fill a pool. --Bacon.
The sleepy pool above the dam. --Tennyson.
2. A small body of standing or stagnant water; a puddle. ``The filthy mantled pool beyond your cell.'' --Shak.
Pool \Pool\, n. [F. poule, properly, a hen. See {Pullet}.] [Written also {poule}.] 1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. Any gambling or commercial venture in which several persons join.
5. 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.
6. (Railroads) A mutual arrangement between competing lines, by which the receipts of all are aggregated, and then distributed pro rata according to agreement.
7. (Law) An aggregation of properties or rights, belonging to different people in a community, in a common fund, to be charged with common liabilities.
{Pin pool}, a variety of the game of billiards in which small wooden pins are set up to be knocked down by the balls.
{Pool ball}, one of the colored ivory balls used in playing the game at billiards called pool.
{Pool snipe} (Zo["o]l.), the European redshank. [Prov. Eng.]
{Pool table}, a billiard table with pockets.
Pool \Pool\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pooled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pooling}.] 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.
Finally, it favors the poolingof all issues. --U. S. Grant.
Pool \Pool\, v. i. To combine or contribute with others, as for a commercial, speculative, or gambling transaction.
She told the Post in an interview published Sunday that some of the money may have become "mingled" into improvements on her home that included a swimming pool, a $2,500 wide-screen television and renovations to her basement.
Yet in Colorado, competing resorts have begun to pool resources to try to resolve their problems together.
Hyatt alone is building three such resorts in Hawaii, including one that will feature a swimming pool nearly an acre in size, with waterfalls and swim-up bars.
We even have our own little pool going here at the store just in case," said Adria Singleton, assistant manager at the Ramona Village convenience market in Chino.
The swim club's pool policy became the talk of the town, though, after it refused to admit the black church members who were part of a group of 66 who had spent the day renovating a dilapidated home.
A Navy admiral has rejected the appeals of four rescue instructors charged in the death of an airman who was dragged into a swimming pool while classmates sang to drown out his screams for help.
"It's going well," he said. "I feel like (blacks) will start coming to the pool." Jamie Willis, 17, who is white, said they probably wouldn't.
Heine Securities Corp., a New York money-management concern, boosted its clients' stake in Cambrian & General Securities PLC, the British investment pool formerly run by Ivan F. Boesky.
They got the rod to return to the protective pool and rendered the equipment inoperable, the Canadian news agency said.
He fell to the pool deck.
In those charges, the CFTC said the pool operator, Stotler Funds, violated anti-fraud laws by effectively making $5.5 million in loans from two pools to parent Stotler Group.
That's when Salomon will dole out a $130-million deferred compensation pool to the firm's managing directors.
The Black group advises Altus under the name of Lion Advisors; it also invests a separate pool of capital under the name of Apollo Investments.
The fact that my client is a lawyer and a politician, does that create any problem?" A pool of 96 prospective jurors was called for questioning.
The danger is that if too much radioactive steam is released, the reactor cavity -about twice the size of those in the west - could burst. Normally, when pressure valves break, the steam is channelled to a condensation pool.
"The Osservatore Romano (the Vatican daily newspaper) has written that we live in a pool of immorality.
The government also cited a transaction in which First Nationwide acquired a share in a pool of loans from an affiliate S&L, based on a six-month-old review of the loan portfolio.
And the donor pool is definitely not increasing." After Tuesday, American businesses, from the loftiest Fortune 500 company to the smallest corner grocery, won't get just a warning the first time they're caught employing illegal immigrants.
If the pool's credit quality and market value are re-examined and the pool is readjusted frequently, the required overcollateralization would move toward the lower end of the scale.
If the pool's credit quality and market value are re-examined and the pool is readjusted frequently, the required overcollateralization would move toward the lower end of the scale.
Through member contributions, he said he hoped to raise an equity pool "of a few hundred million dollars or more."
It has a heated swimming pool and a three-car garage.
A study mandated by Congress in 1984 found that fewer than 400 of 2,000 11th graders could adequately write a note applying for a summer job at a swimming pool.
Earlier, they went along with the limited, two-camera pool coverage of other Bush meetings, including the start of the budget summit with congressional leaders Tuesday.
Rebels attacked Monrovia on Monday in a two-pronged offensive that cut all major land routes from the capital, according to a pool report filed by journalists there.
Later in the morning, Gesell added four other people to the pool of potential jurors, bringing the total to 11 of the 50 the judge wants to have from which to choose.
'It will guarantee that shares in companies that are prospecting have liquidity.' The second initiative is to pool information and resources at the federal and state levels and share them with companies that hold mining permits in relevant regions.
The package includes a central intelligence-gathering system, a school for narcotics agents and an international reserve pool of narcotics agents and intelligence operatives.
It said a separate regional pool of reporters currently in the Middle East will visit the aircraft carrier USS Independence in the Gulf of Oman.
In the past, job guarantee programs cost Ford very little, because steady attrition allowed the company to take workers quickly out of the "protected pool," and put them back into the plant.