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Pool

noun

1.

An excavation that is (usually) filled with water.

2.

A small lake. Synonym: pond.

3.

An organization of people or resources that can be shared. "A secretarial pool" , "When he was first hired he was assigned to the pool"

4.

An association of companies for some definite purpose. Synonyms: consortium, syndicate.

5.

Any communal combination of funds.

6.

A small body of standing water (rainwater) or other liquid. Synonym: puddle. "The body lay in a pool of blood"

7.

The combined stakes of the betters. Synonym: kitty.

8.

Something resembling a pool of liquid. Synonym: puddle. "His chair sat in a puddle of books and magazines"

9.

Any of various games played on a pool table having 6 pockets. Synonym: pocket billiards.

verb

(past & past part. pooled; pres. part. pooling)

1.

Combine into a common fund.

2.

Join or form a pool of people.

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"Pool" Quotes from Famous Books

... mirror, in whose bright pool there yearly bathed hundreds of women's bodies, divested of skirts and bodices, whose unruffled surface reflected daily a dozen women's souls divested of everything, her eyes became as bright as steel; but having ...

— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy

... Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard his spots?' says the Hebrew. And we all know what the answer to that question is. The problem that is set before a man when you tell him to effect self-improvement is something like that which confronted that poor paralytic lying in the porch at the pool: 'If you can walk you will be able to get to the pool that will make you able to walk. But you have got to be cured before you can do what you need to do in order to be cured.' Only one knife can cut the knot. The Gospel of Jesus Christ presents itself, not as ...

— Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) • Alexander Maclaren

... service and that for some other people—running errands, mending fences, bearing messages, building, and tearing down; and they all demand equal service in return. Thus a large part of mankind keeps itself in constant motion like bubbles of water racing around a pool at the foot of a water-fall—or like rabbits hurrying into their warrens and immediately hurrying out again. Whereas, while these antics amuse and sadden us, we for the most part remain where we are. Hence our wants are few; they are generally most courteously ...

— The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume II • Burton J. Hendrick

... nature of my passion, and the thought of doing more than embrace and kiss him in an innocent manner never crossed my mind. For two summers I had nights of tossing on my bed (although I almost never was sleepless for any cause) when I would see his dear face and form, in and out of the swimming pool, or engaged perhaps in singing or in showing his beautiful teeth. I seldom was smitten with little girls, and I found myself embarrassed in their company after my ninth year; yet I thought well enough of their looks and ways to enjoy their company at dances. The girls liked me ...

— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis

... baker who misconducted himself in the matter of the composition of his bread was condemned to be shut up in a basket which was fixed at the end of a long pole, and let down so many times to the bottom of a pool of dirty water. In the year 1456 two grocers, together with a female assistant, were burnt alive at Nuernberg for adulterating saffron and spices, and a similar instance happened at Augsburg in 1492. From what we have said it will be seen that guild life, like the life of the town as a whole, ...

— German Culture Past and Present • Ernest Belfort Bax

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