pool

Значение (Английский)

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.

pond

puddle

swimming-bath

underwriting group

water basin

swimming-pool

settling tank

joint management

piece of water

small lake

pool of water

precipitation tank

shallow lake

water-well

millipond

back-water

sedimentation tank

sedimentation basin

any reservoir of water

large sheet of water

small pond

fresh pool

deep hole in a stream

settling basin

weel

collecting basin

flow tank

small pit

farm pond

jointly-operate

joint-operation

indoor swimming bath

couple on

indoor swimming pool

Частота

Произносится как (IPA)

/puːl/

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”).