pool

Significado

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. Ellipsis of swimming pool.
4. A supply of resources.
5. A set of resources that are kept ready to use.
6. A small amount of liquid on a surface.
7. A localized glow of light.

Verb

To form a pool.

Verb

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

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/puːl/

Etimología

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 (“bog, marsh, swamp, pool”), Latvian bala (“a muddly, treeless depression”), Russian боло́то (bolóto, “swamp, bog, marsh”).

Oraciones

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

También hay una piscina al aire libre en la comunidad constituyente de Rottenberg.