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POOL

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various games played on a pool table having 6 pockets

Synonyms:

pocket billiards; pool

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("pool" is a kind of...):

table game (a game that is played on a table)

Meronyms (parts of "pool"):

break (the opening shot that scatters the balls in billiards or pool)

cannon; carom (a shot in billiards in which the cue ball contacts one object ball and then the other)

masse; masse shot (a shot in billiards made by hitting the cue ball with the cue held nearly vertically; the cue ball spins around another ball before hitting the object ball)

miscue (a faulty shot in billiards; the cue tip slips off the cue ball)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pool"):

snooker (a form of pool played with 15 red balls and six balls of other colors and a cue ball)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An excavation that is (usually) filled with water

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("pool" is a kind of...):

excavation (a hole in the ground made by excavating)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pool"):

cistern (an artificial reservoir for storing liquids; especially an underground tank for storing rainwater)

natatorium; swimming bath; swimming pool (pool that provides a facility for swimming)

wading pool (a shallow pool for children)

water jump (a pool or stream in a steeplechase or similar contest)

Sense 3

Meaning:

An association of companies for some definite purpose

Synonyms:

consortium; pool; syndicate

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("pool" is a kind of...):

association (a formal organization of people or groups of people)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pool"):

cartel; combine; corporate trust; trust (a consortium of independent organizations formed to limit competition by controlling the production and distribution of a product or service)

Sense 4

Meaning:

An organization of people or resources that can be shared

Example:

when he was first hired he was assigned to the pool

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("pool" is a kind of...):

organisation; organization (a group of people who work together)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pool"):

typing pool (a group of typists who can work for different persons)

Derivation:

pool (join or form a pool of people)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Something resembling a pool of liquid

Example:

his chair sat in a puddle of books and magazines

Synonyms:

pool; puddle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("pool" is a kind of...):

place; spot; topographic point (a point located with respect to surface features of some region)

Sense 6

Meaning:

A small lake

Example:

the pond was too small for sailing

Synonyms:

pond; pool

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Hypernyms ("pool" is a kind of...):

lake (a body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pool"):

fishpond (a freshwater pond with fish)

horsepond (a pond for watering horses)

mere (a small pond of standing water)

millpond (a pond formed by damming a stream to provide a head of water to turn a mill wheel)

swimming hole (a small body of water (usually in a creek) that is deep enough to use for swimming)

water hole (a natural hole or hollow containing water)

Sense 7

Meaning:

A small body of standing water (rainwater) or other liquid

Example:

the body lay in a pool of blood

Synonyms:

pool; puddle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Hypernyms ("pool" is a kind of...):

body of water; water (the part of the earth's surface covered with water (such as a river or lake or ocean))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pool"):

billabong (a stagnant pool of water in the bed of a stream that flows intermittently)

mud puddle (a puddle of mud)

Sense 8

Meaning:

The combined stakes of the betters

Synonyms:

kitty; pool

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("pool" is a kind of...):

bet; stake; stakes; wager (the money risked on a gamble)

Sense 9

Meaning:

Any communal combination of funds

Example:

everyone contributed to the pool

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("pool" is a kind of...):

reserve account; reserve fund (funds taken out of earnings to provide for anticipated future payments)

Meronyms (parts of "pool"):

bet; stake; stakes; wager (the money risked on a gamble)

Derivation:

pool (combine into a common fund)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Join or form a pool of people

Classified under:

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities

Hypernyms (to "pool" is one way to...):

aggroup; group (form a group or group together)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

pool (an organization of people or resources that can be shared)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Combine into a common fund

Example:

We pooled resources

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "pool" is one way to...):

share (use jointly or in common)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

pool (any communal combination of funds)

Credits

 Context examples: 

The exoplanet is at a distance from its star that allows temperatures mild enough for liquid water to pool on its surface.

(ESO Discovers Earth-Size Planet in Habitable Zone of Nearest Star, NASA)

In traditional Chinese medicine, a condition described as slowing or pooling of blood, which may cause pain or other symptoms.

(Blood stasis, NCI Dictionary)

The study also presented an evidence that there are places on the Earth’s surface, such as the Dallol pools, which are sterile even though they contain liquid water.

(Place discovered on earth with no microbial life, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Thornton’s desperate struggle was fresh-written on the earth, and Buck scented every detail of it down to the edge of a deep pool.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

A carcinoma of the breast characterized by pools of mucin and islands of malignant squamous cells.

(Mucoepidermoid Breast Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A variant of gastric adenocarcinoma with more than half of the tumor containing extracellular mucinous pools.

(Mucinous Gastric Adenocarcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes 7,8-dihydro-8-oxoguanine triphosphatase protein, is involved in the hydrolysis of 8-oxo-dGTP in the free nucleotide pool.

(NUDT1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

"Cold? Yes,—and standing in a pool! Go, then, Jane; go!" But he still retained my hand, and I could not free it.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It was situated against the back of the cottage and surrounded on the sides which were exposed by a pig sty and a clear pool of water.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Preschoolers are most likely to drown in a swimming pool.

(Drowning, NIH)