pool
Other forms: pools; pooled; pooling
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. Pools are natural and human-made collections of water, from deep plunge pools at the base of a waterfall to rectangular reflecting pools in parks. A pool is also a supply of something, like workers or money. As a verb, pool means "to combine": "Let's pool our resources and go to Disneyland!" Then there's the game called pool, whose name comes from players vying for a pool of cash.
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a small body of standing water (rainwater) or other liquidsynonyms: puddletypes:billabonga stagnant pool of water in the bed of a stream that flows intermittentlymud puddlea puddle of mudwallowa puddle where animals go to wallowtype of:body of water, waterthe part of the earth's surface covered with water (such as a river or lake or ocean)
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an excavation that is (usually) filled with watertypes:cisternan artificial reservoir for storing liquids; especially an underground tank for storing rainwaterwading poola shallow pool for childrenwater jumpa pool or stream in a steeplechase or similar contestrain barrela barrel used as a cistern to hold rainwatertype of:excavationa hole in the ground made by excavating
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a small lakesynonyms: pondtypes:fishponda freshwater pond with fishhorseponda pond for watering horsesmerea small pond of standing watermillponda pond formed by damming a stream to provide a head of water to turn a mill wheelswimming holea small body of water (usually in a creek) that is deep enough to use for swimmingwater holea natural hole or hollow containing waterwatering holea natural pond or pool from which animals drink regularlytype of:lakea body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land
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something resembling a pool of liquid
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an organization of people or resources that can be shared“a car pool”“a secretarial pool”“when he was first hired he was assigned to the pool”types:typing poola group of typists who can work for different personstype of:
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an association of companies for some definite purposesynonyms: consortium, syndicatetypes:cartel, combine, corporate trust, trusta consortium of independent organizations formed to limit competition by controlling the production and distribution of a product or servicedrug cartelan illicit cartel formed to control the production and distribution of narcotic drugsoil cartela cartel of companies or nations formed to control the production and distribution of oiltype of:associationa formal organization of people or groups of people
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any communal combination of funds“everyone contributed to the pool”type of:reserve account, reserve fundfunds taken out of earnings to provide for anticipated future payments
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the combined stakes of the betters
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join or form a pool of people
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combine into a common fund“We pooled resources”type of:shareuse jointly or in common
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any of various games played on a pool table having 6 pocketssynonyms: pocket billiardstypes:snookera form of pool played with 15 red balls and six balls of other colors and a cue balltype of:table gamea game that is played on a table
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People who think they're cool usually are not. In her poem, Gwendolyn Brooks takes on the voice of pool players but actually draws a chalk outline around their lives. Here are all the word lists to support the reading of Grade 9 Unit 4's texts from SpringBoard's Common Core ELA series: Poetry, poemcrazy, Nikki-Rosa, We Real Cool, Fast Break, Identity, Ego Tripping, Hanging Fire, odes, Sonnet 18, In Response to Executive Order 9066, Young, Poetry Cafe, poems by Nikki Giovanni
