pool
//puːl//
Forms
- Plural
- pools
- present (v1)
- pool
- past (v2)
- pooled
- past participle (v3)
- pooled
- present participle
- pooling
- 3rd person singular
- pools
Definitions
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.A set of resources that are kept ready to use.
4.Ellipsis of swimming pool.
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.
- We must pool our resources.
2.To combine or contribute with others, as for a commercial, speculative, or gambling transaction.
3.To form a pool.
Frequency
Overall
Common· #1830
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Uncommon
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Uncommon
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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”).