pool

Signification (Anglais)

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.

Concepts

mare

piscine

étang

flaque

cagnotte

marigot

syndicat de prise ferme

tour de table

consortium

grouper

bassin

pool

fontaine

⛲

bol

pistoche

rassembler

regrouper

regroupement

groupe

réservoir

bâche

billard

lac

profondeur

association

s’accoupler

syndicat

mettre en commun

tub

entreprise conjointe

consortium bancaire

syndicat financier

syndicat bancaire

billard américain

Synonymes

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

Traductions

piscina

piscina

piscina

estanque

pozza

Tümpel

pozzanghera

Teich

stagno

havuz

poça

zwembad

charco

Becken

piscina

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/puːl/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: pool

Hérité de ancien anglais: pōl

Appartenant à écossais: puil

Appartenant à saterlandais: Pol

Appartenant à frison occidental: poel

Appartenant à néerlandais: poel

Appartenant à allemand: Pfuhl

Appartenant à danois: pøl

Appartenant à suédois: pöl

Appartenant à islandais: pollur

Appartenant à lituanien: bala

Appartenant à letton: bala

Appartenant à russe: 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)).

Phrases

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

Il y a aussi une piscine extérieure dans la communauté constituante de Rottenberg.