pool

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

1. 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.
2. Any small body of standing or stagnant water; a puddle.
3. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis) Ellipsis of swimming pool.
4. (broadly) A set of resources that are kept ready to use.
5. (broadly) Any group of like things.
6. A small amount of liquid on a surface.
7. A localized glow of light.

Verb

To form a pool.

Verb

1. (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.
2. (intransitive) To combine or contribute with others, as for a commercial, speculative, or gambling transaction.

Sinonieme

pond

puddle

lake

swimming pool

tank

billiards

reservoir

basin

kitty

associate

join

well

swimming-bath

combine

snooker

come together

merge

marsh

blend

underwriting group

syndicate

pocket billiards

waterhole

mere

bowl

consortium

gather

collect

water basin

swimming-pool

tub

cistern

swamp

dam

water hole

pelvis

lagoon

gully

joint venture

mar

bring together

complexion

complect

comfit

bind

backwater

colligate

fusion

fuse

coalesce

Vertalings

piscina

piscina

mare

piscine

piscina

étang

estanque

pozza

Teich

pozzanghera

Tümpel

flaque

stagno

Becken

cagnotte

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/puːl/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: pool

Geërf van Old English: pōl

Verwante met Skots: puil

Verwante met Saterfriesisch: Pol

Verwante met Fries: poel

Verwante met Nederlands: poel

Verwante met Duits: Pfuhl

Verwante met Deens: pøl

Verwante met Sweeds: pöl

Verwante met Yslands: pollur

Verwante met Litaus: bala

Verwante met Letties: bala

Verwante met Russies: боло́то

In summary

From Middle English pool, pole, pol, from Old English pōl (“pool”), from Proto-West Germanic pōl, from Proto-Germanic *pōlaz (“pool, pond”), from Proto-Indo-European *bōlos (“bog, marsh”).
Cognate with Scots puil (“pool”), Saterland Frisian Pol (“pool”), West Frisian poel (“pool”), Dutch poel (“pool”), German Low German Pohl, Pool, Pul (“pool”), German Pfuhl (“quagmire, mudhole”), Danish pøl (“puddle”), Swedish pöl (“puddle, pool”), Icelandic pollur (“puddle”), Lithuanian bala (“puddle”), Latvian bala (“a muddly, treeless depression”), Russian боло́то (bolóto, “swamp, bog, marsh”).
For the meaning development to a supply of resources compare typologically Russian пруд пруди́ (prud prudí) (< пруд (prud)).

Sinne

There is also an outdoor swimming pool in the constituent community of Rottenberg.