Pool

/puːl/ · noun

Meaning

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..

Definitions by Sense

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. Ellipsis of swimming pool.
4. (by extension, computing) A set of resources that are kept ready to use.
5. (by extension) Any group of like things.
6. A small amount of liquid on a surface.
7. A localized glow of light.
8. (intransitive, of a liquid) To form a pool.

Example Sentences

the pools of Solomon

the Pool of London

[…] at laſt I left them I’ th’ filthy mantled poole beyond your Cell, There dancing vp to th’ chins, that the fowle Lake Ore-ſtunck their feet.

A Single Life doth well with Church-men : For Charitie will hardly water the Ground, where it muſt firſt fill a Poole.

I loved the brimming wave that swam Thro’ quiet meadows round the mill, The sleepy pool above the dam, The pool beneath it never still, The meal-sacks on the whiten’d floor, The dark round of the dripping wheel, The very air about the door Made misty with the floating meal.

a pool of blood

He walked slowly, passing through one pool of light after another, his shadow running tall across the fronts of the barber shop, the Western Auto, the video-rental shop.

The 4-BEP and 4-CEP stock is maintained in a common pool for both Chatham and South Eastern fast main-line services.

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Word Forms

• pools
• poole
• pooling
• pooled

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