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- Dictionarypool/puːl/
noun
- 1. a shared supply of vehicles or resources to be drawn on when needed: "a car pool" Similar
- 2. a game played on a small billiard table using two sets of seven coloured and numbered balls together with one black ball and a white cue ball, with the aim of pocketing all one's own balls and then the black.
verb
- 1. (of two or more people or organizations) put (money or other assets) into a common fund: "they entered a contract to pool any gains and invest them profitably"
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POOL definition: 1. a small area of usually still water: 2. a small amount of liquid on a surface: 3. a swimming…. Learn more.
: a small and rather deep body of usually fresh water. (2) : a quiet place in a stream. (3) : a body of water forming above a dam. b. : something resembling a pool. a pool of light. 2. : a small body of standing liquid. 3. : a continuous area of porous sedimentary rock that yields petroleum or gas. 4. : swimming pool. pool. 2 of 4. verb (1)
a number of people or a quantity of a particular thing, such as money, collected together for shared use by several people or organizations: Patrick crashed a Ford that he'd borrowed from the car pool at work. As unemployment rises, the pool of cheap labor increases. More examples. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. pool noun (MONEY)
8. uncountable noun. Pool is a game played on a large table covered with a cloth. Players use a long stick called a cue to hit a white ball across the table so that it knocks coloured balls with numbers on them into six holes around the edge of the table. We played pool together and were good mates.
noun. a small body of standing water; pond. a still, deep place in a stream. any small collection of liquid on a surface: a pool of blood. a puddle. swimming pool. a subterranean accumulation of oil or gas held in porous and permeable sedimentary rock reservoir. verb (used without object) to form a pool.
n. 1. A small body of still water. 2. An accumulation of standing liquid; a puddle: a pool of blood. 3. A deep or still place in a stream. 4. A swimming pool. 5. An underground accumulation of petroleum or gas in porous sedimentary rock. intr.v. pooled, pool·ing, pools. 1.
A pool is a small body of water, like the tide pools that form on rocky beaches at low tide, or the town pool where you take swimming lessons. Pool is a common word with many different meanings.
Definition of pool noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. pool. noun. /puːl/ for swimming. (also swimming pool) [countable] an area of water that has been created for people to swim in. an indoor/outdoor pool. Does the hotel have a pool? relaxing by the pool. see also infinity pool, paddling pool, plunge pool, wading pool.
POOL definition: 1. an area of water that has been made for people to swim in: 2. a small area of water or a small…. Learn more.
noun. 1 a small area of still water, typically one formed naturally. Example sentences Synonyms. 1.1 a shallow patch of liquid lying on a surface: a pool of blood the lamps cast pools of light on the wet streets figurative. More example sentences. 1.2 a swimming pool: I spent all my time lounging around the pool. More example sentences Synonyms.
