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pool

//puːl//

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Verb

A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

Note for pool

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Forms

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Plural
pools

Verb

A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

present (v1)
pool
past (v2)
pooled
past participle (v3)
pooled
present participle
pooling
3rd person singular
pools

Definitions

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

  1. 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. 2.Any small body of standing or stagnant water; a puddle.

  3. 3.A set of resources that are kept ready to use.

  4. 4.Ellipsis of swimming pool.

Verb

A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

  1. 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. 2.To combine or contribute with others, as for a commercial, speculative, or gambling transaction.

  3. 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”).

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