pool meaning
EN
[puːl] [-uːl] 
US WPool
- Pool may refer to:
- NounPLpools
- A small and rather deep collection of (usually) fresh water, as one supplied by a spring, or occurring in the course of a stream; a reservoir for water.
- the pools of Solomon
- A small body of standing or stagnant water; a puddle.
- A swimming pool.
- A supply of resources.
- (uncountable) A game at billiards, in which each of the players stakes a certain sum, the winner taking the whole; also, in public billiard rooms, a game in which the loser pays the entrance fee for all who engage in the game; a game of skill in pocketing the balls on a pool table.
- In rifle shooting, a contest in which each competitor pays a certain sum for every shot he makes, the net proceeds being divided among the winners.
- Any gambling or commercial venture in which several persons join.
- The stake played for in certain games of cards, billiards, etc.; an aggregated stake to which each player has contributed a share; also, the receptacle for the stakes.
- A combination of persons contributing money to be used for the purpose of increasing or depressing the market price of stocks, grain, or other commodities; also, the aggregate of the sums so contributed.
- The pool took all the wheat offered below the limit.
- He put $10,000 into the pool.
- (rail transport) A mutual arrangement between competing lines, by which the receipts of all are aggregated, and then distributed pro rata according to agreement.
- (law) An aggregation of properties or rights, belonging to different people in a community, in a common fund, to be charged with common liabilities.
- A small and rather deep collection of (usually) fresh water, as one supplied by a spring, or occurring in the course of a stream; a reservoir for water.
- VerbSGpoolsPRpoolingPT, PPpooled
- (intransitive, of a liquid) to form a pool.
- (transitive) 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; as, the companies pooled their traffic.
- (intransitive) to combine or contribute with others, as for a commercial, speculative, or gambling transaction.
- (intransitive, of a liquid) to form a pool.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- This validated approach replaces individual genotyping of every person by allelotyping of pools of individuals.
- The cat might fall into the pool if you're not careful.
- The positive fractions were pooled and observed in SDS PAGE and zimography.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- He sweetened the pot since there were no takers in the office pool.
- For exercise, we like to swim laps around the pool.
- In films many people are murdered by being submerged in a swimming pool.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of pool in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Singularia tantum
- Uncountable nouns
- Uncountable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Verbs
- Intransitive verbs
- Transitive verbs
- Intransitive verbs
- Nouns
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "pool" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun and a singularia tantum. It's also a verb, more specifically, an intransitive verb and a transitive verb.