pool /ˈpu(ə)l/
 池,水塘,撞球,石油層,聯營,全部賭注(vt.)合夥經營,共用,採掘


 pool /ˈpul/ 不及物動詞
 池,庫群


 pool
 儲存場;池;儲庫;儲存區


 pool
 池 集用場


 Pool, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pooled p. pr. & vb. n. Pooling.] To put together; to 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.
    Finally, it favors the poolingof all issues.   --U. S. Grant.


 Pool, v. i. To combine or contribute with others, as for a commercial, speculative, or gambling transaction.

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 Pool n.
 1. 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; as, the pools of Solomon.
    Charity will hardly water the ground where it must first fill a pool.   --Bacon.
    The sleepy pool above the dam.   --Tennyson.
 2. A small body of standing or stagnant water; a puddle. “The filthy mantled pool beyond your cell.”


 Pool, n.  [Written also poule.]
 1. The stake played for in certain games of cards, billiards, etc.; an aggregated stake to which each player has contributed a snare; also, the receptacle for the stakes.
 2. 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.
 Note: ☞ This game is played variously, but commonly with fifteen balls, besides one cue ball, the contest being to drive the most balls into the pockets.
    He plays pool at the billiard houses.   --Thackeray.
 3. 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.
 4. Any gambling or commercial venture in which several persons join.
 5. 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; as, the pool took all the wheat offered below the limit; he put $10,000 into the pool.
 6. Railroads A mutual arrangement between competing lines, by which the receipts of all are aggregated, and then distributed pro rata according to agreement.
 7. Law An aggregation of properties or rights, belonging to different people in a community, in a common fund, to be charged with common liabilities.
 Pin pool, a variety of the game of billiards in which small wooden pins are set up to be knocked down by the balls.
 Pool ball, one of the colored ivory balls used in playing the game at billiards called pool.
 Pool snipe Zool., the European redshank. [Prov. Eng.]
 Pool table, a billiard table with pockets.


 pool
      n 1: an excavation that is (usually) filled with water
      2: a small lake; "the pond was too small for sailing" [syn: pond]
      3: an organization of people or resources that can be shared;
         "a car pool"; "a secretarial pool"; "when he was first
         hired he was assigned to the pool"
      4: an association of companies for some definite purpose [syn:
         consortium, syndicate]
      5: any communal combination of funds; "everyone contributed to
         the pool"
      6: a small body of standing water (rainwater) or other liquid;
         "there were puddles of muddy water in the road after the
         rain"; "the body lay in a pool of blood" [syn: puddle]
      7: the combined stakes of the betters [syn: kitty]
      8: something resembling a pool of liquid; "he stood in a pool
         of light"; "his chair sat in a puddle of books and
         magazines" [syn: puddle]
      9: any of various games played on a pool table having 6 pockets
         [syn: pocket billiards]
      v 1: combine into a common fund; "We pooled resources"
      2: join or form a pool of people


 Pool
    a pond, or reservoir, for holding water (Heb. berekhah; modern
    Arabic, birket), an artificial cistern or tank. Mention is made
    of the pool of Gibeon (2 Sam. 2:13); the pool of Hebron (4:12);
    the upper pool at Jerusalem (2 Kings 18:17; 20:20); the pool of
    Samaria (1 Kings 22:38); the king's pool (Neh. 2:14); the pool
    of Siloah (Neh. 3:15; Eccles. 2:6); the fishpools of Heshbon
    (Cant. 7:4); the "lower pool," and the "old pool" (Isa.
    22:9,11).

      The "pool of Bethesda" (John 5:2,4, 7) and the "pool of
    Siloam" (John 9:7, 11) are also mentioned. Isaiah (35:7) says,
    "The parched ground shall become a pool." This is rendered in
    the Revised Version "glowing sand," etc. (marg., "the mirage,"
    etc.). The Arabs call the mirage "serab," plainly the same as
    the Hebrew word _sarab_, here rendered "parched ground." "The
    mirage shall become a pool", i.e., the mock-lake of the burning
    desert shall become a real lake, "the pledge of refreshment and
    joy." The "pools" spoken of in Isa. 14:23 are the marshes caused
    by the ruin of the canals of the Euphrates in the neighbourhood
    of Babylon.

      The cisterns or pools of the Holy City are for the most part
    excavations beneath the surface. Such are the vast cisterns in
    the temple hill that have recently been discovered by the
    engineers of the Palestine Exploration Fund. These underground
    caverns are about thirty-five in number, and are capable of
    storing about ten million gallons of water. They are connected
    with one another by passages and tunnels.