pool

Meaning

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.

Concepts

pool

pond

puddle

lake

swimming pool

tank

billiards

basin

reservoir

well

kitty

associate

join

swimming-bath

merge

marsh

snooker

combine

come together

underwriting group

bowl

consortium

syndicate

blend

pocket billiards

waterhole

mere

pelvis

swamp

dam

joint venture

water basin

cistern

swimming-pool

bring together

collect

gather

tub

water hole

gully

lagoon

mar

bathroom

river

joint management

depression

pit

shallow lake

water-well

bog

morass

millipond

millpond

provisions

tarn

any reservoir of water

piece of water

small pond

large sheet of water

fresh pool

deep hole in a stream

plash

creek

back-water

weel

pool of water

small lake

poolroom

bank

base

depository

library

storehouse

warehouse

collecting basin

farm pond

desilter

flow tank

precipitation tank

sedimentation basin

sedimentation tank

settling basin

settling tank

affiliation

joint-operation

jointly-operate

pooling

depth

etc.

vehicle

assemble

backwater

indoor swimming pool

indoor swimming bath

swimming bath

fusion

merger

union

trough

patch

splodge

splotch

spot

service

utility

crowd

lot

jackpot

pot

chantry

fund

complect

annex

ascribe

assimilate

bind

bond

bridge

close

coalesce

colligate

comfit

compound

conjoin

connect

couple

couple on

fuse

immingle

integrate

interconnect

joint

knit

link

link up

mix

piece

pull together

put through

put together

relate

summate

tee

tie

tie in

totalise

totalize

twin

unify

unite

weld

complexion

conjugation

moist

rain

sink

divide

share

body of water

water-hole

stream

water

slough

club together

billabong

den

small pit

mer-

island

waterfront

Pronounced as (IPA)

/puːl/

Etymology

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”).

Sentences

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