pool1 nounpool2 verb
poolpool1 /puːl/ ●●● S2 W2 noun 
WORD ORIGINpool1
Origin:
1-3 Old English pol4, 5-8 1600-1700 French poule ‘hen’; perhaps because a chicken was the target or prize in a gameEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- A pool of oil had collected under the car.
- a pool of volunteers for community projects
- a secretarial pool
- He won $50,000 from the pool.
- I spent the entire afternoon relaxing by the pool.
- Kids were looking at the starfish and anemones in the tide pools.
- Most countries have a pool of surplus labour.
- The Kohlers' have a pool in their backyard.
- There is a much smaller pool of houses to rent than there used to be.
- Trautman was lying in a pool of blood.
- Anna was gazing at the pool of fluid, and the corners of her mouth began to droop.
- Below us in the center of the compound there was a swimming pool, set amidst flower beds and rows of palms.
- But even more intriguing was the third pool, Heart pool.
- Going too fast would result in his jumping over the pool and crashing into the far end.
- Huge pools of eyes stared back at her from the dead white planes of the face.
- Littlewoods, the pools promoter, calculates each punter has a 1:39 chance of a win.
- There had been the world, with the pool in the middle and the petals round the edge.
- What Mr Milken did was to make huge pools of capital available to finance takeovers.
THESAURUSplaces where people do sport
(also pitch British English) a large area of ground, usually covered with grass, where team sports are played: · A few kids were playing on the football field.· a hockey field
a large sports field with seats all around it for people to watch team sports or track and field competitions: · The atmosphere in the Olympic Stadium was amazing.· a football stadium
British English a sports field and the seats and buildings around it, belonging to a particular football, rugby, or cricket team: · I met my friends inside the ground.
American English a stadium where baseball is played: · Busch Stadium is one of the newest ballparks in Major League.
an area with lines painted on the ground, for tennis, badminton, basketball, or volleyball: · The hotel has four tennis courts and a volleyball court.
the area in a baseball field that is within the shape formed by the four bases. The diamond can also be the whole field: · The pitcher stands in the middle of the diamond.· There’s a playground, a picnic area, and a baseball diamond.
a circular path with lines on it, for running on: · In the relay, each runner runs once around the track.
a room with machines which you can use to do exercises: · He spends an hour in the gym every day.
a place where you can swim: · He jumped into the deep end of the pool.· I’ll meet you outside the swimming pool.
British English, sports center American English a building where you can play many types of indoor sports: · Why not do exercise classes at your local sports centre?
a small sports centre, where you pay to be a member: · How much does it cost to join a health club?
Longman Language Activatoran amount of something that you have available to use · More donors are needed as blood supplies run low.supply of · The supermarket donated a year's supply of groceries to one needy family.
an amount of something that you keep and can use when you need to: · The government has said it has no need for chemical weapons and will destroy its stocks entirely.stock of: · Jodie always had a large stock of brandy in her cupboard.
an amount of money, goods etc that a country or organization has available to be used if they are needed: · The government has exhausted almost all its foreign currency reserves.reserves of: · Kuwait has large reserves of oil.
an amount or number of workers, cars, money etc that can be shared or used by a number of people: · Most countries have a pool of surplus labour.· There is a much smaller pool of houses to rent than there used to be.
an amount of liquid a very small amount of liquid in a round shape, that falls from somewhere : drop of: · Big drops of rain slid down the window pane.· Add a few drops of vanilla essence, the egg white and half the butter.· She applied a few drops of perfume behind her ears and smiled at her reflection in the mirror.
a drop or small amount of thick liquid: blob of paint/glue/wax/grease etc: · Rita dropped a blob of paint on the new carpet.· Blobs of wax had dripped from the candle onto the table cloth.· Put a blob of glue on each surface and carefully press together.
an area of liquid lying on a surface: pool of: · Trautman was lying in a pool of blood.· A pool of oil had collected under the car.
a place where you do a sport a large area of ground, usually covered in grass, where team sports are played: · The crowd cheered as the players ran onto the field.baseball/football/sports etc field: · The football field was too muddy to play on, so the game was cancelled· Some open spaces north of the city will be made into sports fields for leisure activities.playing field: · Several school playing fields have been sold off to raise money.
British a sports field: · Some of the fans rushed onto the pitch at the end of the matchcricket/football etc pitch: · The village has attractive playing fields, with a football and cricket pitch.
an area with lines painted on the ground, where two people or teams play a game such as tennis or basketball: · The courts are floodlit at night so that you can play all the year round.tennis/basketball/squash etc court: · The new leisure complex has a sauna, jacuzzi, swimming pool and tennis courts.
British a building where you can do various different sports: · The council is planning to build a multi-million pound leisure centre outside the town.
a building where there are machines that you can use to do exercises that make you fitter and stronger, or where you can do exercise classes etc. A gym is also a large room that is built especially for sports to be played in, for example in a school or university: · I've just signed up for an exercise class at the gym.· Ed goes to the gym to do weight training several times a week.· It was raining, so we had to play football in the gym this afternoon.
a place where you can swim, consisting of a large hole in the ground that has been built and filled with water, either outdoors or inside a building: · The house, with its own tennis court and swimming-pool, is for sale at £700.000.· There's an open air pool at Woodstock that's great when it's really hot.· What we want is a hotel with a big heated pool, in case it rains.
a large sports field with seats all around it, where people go to watch sports: · The stadium has a capacity of at least 10,000.football/baseball/sports stadium: · Denver has a new airport, a new baseball stadium, and a reputation as a good place to live.
WORD SETSbar billiards, nounbeanbag, nounbilliards, nounblind man's buff, nounchicken, nouncrazy golf, nouncrossword, nouncue, nouncue ball, nouncushion, noundoll's house, noundomino, noundouble-Dutch, noundressing-up, nounducks and drakes, nounflag football, nounframe, nounhide-and-seek, nounkeep-away, nounkickball, nounkite-flying, nounleapfrog, nounmarble, nounmaze, nounmusical chairs, nounninepins, nounnoughts and crosses, nounpaper chase, nounparlour game, nounpeekaboo, interjectionplay, verbpocket, verbpool, nounpool hall, nounpot, verbpuzzle, nounsack race, nounskip, verbskipping rope, nounskittle, nounsnowball, nounsnowman, nounYo-Yo, nounzap, verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY
We went to the pub and played pool. The region has a large and talented labour pool. I do the pools sometimes. Dad won £40 on the pools.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
We went to the pub and played pool. The region has a large and talented labour pool. I do the pools sometimes. Dad won £40 on the pools.· A dark pool of blood was spreading from his head.
(=all the genes in a particular species)· It is hoped that these new wolves will mate with the native population and increase the wolves' gene pool.
(=an area of light)· They stood in the pool of light cast by the streetlamp.
(=put together the resources that each of you have)· They decided to pool their resources and buy a business together.
(=someone who uses their skill at pool or cards to cheat other players out of money)
(=lots of talented people)· Employers can draw on an enormous pool of talent in this area.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· He paid, walked down a dark corridor and pushed through a curtain into a deep pool of sound and flickering light.· She leaves the coach and wanders through fields for many miles until between trees she sees a deep black pool of water.· His skin was translucent with age and he had dark brown eyes like two deep pools.· In the dry season, the wonderfully cool river water is a stunning blue-green in the deep pools below the falls.· Yanek fell into the deep pool and was drowned.· During his walk Van Cheele came to a deep pool under some tall trees.· He had large dark eyes, like pears set in port wine aspic, deep pools in a thin, delicate face.
· The small heated swimming pool hidden from view near the rose walk was a wedding gift from the Army.· Free indoor heated swimming pool with small bar.· It includes a heated swimming pool for the 220 pupils.· The gardens shelter a heated swimming pool and a private sun deck with panoramic views.· Next to the lake is a heated outdoor swimming pool and children's pool.· The indoor heated pool is free to guests, as is the sauna three times a week.· There is a small cellar bar, a sun terrace, a large garden and small heated outdoor swimming pool.· Leogang also has a super leisure and fitness centre, with a heated open-air swimming pool.
· Our hotel had an indoor pool, a nightclub and good food - notably, reindeer stew with cranberry sauce.· Seven purpose-built conference suits, exclusive health club and heated indoor pool and gymnasium.· The town of Andover had no legal requirement for a fence around the indoor pool.· The hotel has a new indoor pool leading directly on to the well-kept gardens with table tennis and sun-bathing lawns.· Within the park there is a large swimming pool, a separate children's pool, and an indoor pool.· Gymnasium, sauna, steam room, beauty salon, indoor pool.· Zell am See also has an excellent Sports Centre, with an indoor swimming pool and sauna.
· One of the keys to the success of software companies in Northern Ireland is the large local pool of talented labour.· But many business groups and some unions would welcome the ability to tap a large pool of legal workers.· Within the park there is a large swimming pool, a separate children's pool, and an indoor pool.· Outside, a large swimming pool is surrounded by private cabanas.· Between five and 15 consultants chosen from a large pool of employees are typically called upon to review any given idea memorandum.· That means producing more work per worker as well as creating a larger pool of workers to exploit.· He would make less stir in the larger Aintree pool.· It formed urban areas, with their large pools of labour, shopping centres and transport networks.
· Well recommended food. 2.5 acres of terraced lawns with 25 metre heated outdoor pool.· The Form has a bar, sauna and massage rooms, an outdoor swimming pool as well as clock golf and a tennis court.· Next to the lake is a heated outdoor swimming pool and children's pool.· In addition there is a billiard room, solarium, cinema, indoor and outdoor pools, bowling alley and gym.· Optimum Sports Centre: Indoor and outdoor pools, sauna, solarium, massage rooms and outside whirlpool.· There is a small cellar bar, a sun terrace, a large garden and small heated outdoor swimming pool.· There are indoor and outdoor pools, sauna, solarium, massage facilities and sunbathing lawns.· In the resort itself are indoor and outdoor swimming pools.
· Mating takes place at night in shallow pools in dunes and other sandy areas.· Picture a shallow pool with a glassy surface, and in the pool picture minnows fluttering their tail fins but otherwise stationary.· And they mate, laying their eggs in the shallow tepid pools.· The stomach is mostly empty-the whisky is lying in a shallow pool where it is now mixed with highly acidic gastric juices.· She picked up the stick and hurled it, skimming it low over the shallow pools left by the tide.· Shortly thereafter we enter a stretch of shallow pools and channels cut into the rock by a millennium of erosion.· The resulting shallow pits and pools, often extending over many hectares, accumulate salts and nutrients from year to year.· It grows in shallow water in pools and ponds, most frequently on substrates ranging from sand to fine silt.
· If you were to visit it you would be struck by the quietness of the small pool.· They stood beside a small, gurgling pool at the foot of the altar and professed their faith.· The small heated swimming pool hidden from view near the rose walk was a wedding gift from the Army.· Water is using sparingly, not wasted on thirsty lawns but displayed in fountains and small pools.· Start with a puddle and progress slowly to a small pool and shallow stream.· That's enough to fill a small blow-up swimming pool in a couple of minutes.· Outside, there is a sun terrace, small pool, children's pool and whirlpool with sea views.· The hotel's extensive grounds include colourful gardens, a small swimming pool, and a short tennis court.
· There was a swimming pool and a distant view of the donkey field.· More than 40 homes were flooded, valuable shop stocks were ruined, and the local theatre turned into a swimming pool.· Hotel guests can use the swimming pool and pleasant garden of the nearby Hotel Imperial, under the same management.· Sports facilities include a swimming pool and 4 tennis courts.· Zell am See also has an excellent Sports Centre, with an indoor swimming pool and sauna.· It includes a heated swimming pool for the 220 pupils.· A swimming pool is available throughout the season.· There's a swimming pool and large sun terrace and guests are welcome to use the facilities of the Montanamar hotel opposite.
NOUN· The service operates rather like a car pool.
· With home shopping out of the way, Pitcher will be able to concentrate on the football pools and high street retailing.· Stephano and Trinculo are the football pools.· We will raise revenue for investment in safety by increasing levies on footballs pools and betting.· But the great dream was winning the football pools.· Winnings from betting, football pools, and premium bonds.
· The gene pool of the resulting subgroups would be too small to ensure the viability of the population.· Because the gene pool for a growing breed is slight, munchkins are generally bred with other cats.· Even the gene pools in the South are drying up.· People have to be executed, removed from the gene pool.· The net result was a widening gene pool and an altogether hardier national herd.· In the long term, the loss of genetic diversity will reduce the gene pool available for agricultural crops.· A plague of uniformity is sweeping the world, numbing the taste buds and reducing the gene pool.· The genes themselves don't evolve, they merely survive or fail to survive in the gene pool.
· When they fished me out I made a few phone calls, fed a few meters, hung round the pool halls.· Lawrence was a big fifteen-year-old, and sometimes made money playing for dances in the Strasburg pool hall.· Seen through the lacy walls of the village pool hall the polystyrene floats of the fish farm bobbed busily.
· Others crouched over rock pool, teasing out sea anemones.· Explore perfectly recreated rock pools and enjoy daily talks and feeding displays.· Bathing is safe and children can have lots of fun, paddling and shrimping in the rock pools and making sand castles.· A bottle swept up to his feet and rolled in a rock pool.
· Recreation areas have telephones and pool tables.· But the pool table proved to be a bigger bone of contention.· The Tirajana has two pool tables, a bar and supermarket.· I had met Evan in the basement near the pool table.· For those who prefer something a little more energetic, there's also a darts board and a pool table.· Two television sets and a pair of pool tables will be added to the setting.· For the energetic there is snorkelling and fishing, tennis, table tennis and a pool table.· There was a pool table in the cellar, a good big professional-size pool table.
· You can also relax on the terrace of the lovely fresh water pool sipping a cool drink form the bar.· Hot water pools beneath these flanges, creating unique hazards for a pilot ascending the structure.· There is a fresh water pool with bar, a panoramic sunbathing terrace and an airy, first-floor restaurant with sea views.· First, they decreased the depth of the water pools.· There is a fresh water pool, tennis court, peak season beach restaurant and sound proofed discotheque.
VERB· Downlighters can also be recessed into ceilings, to create atmospheric pools of light on the surface below.· Reaganomics created a pool of scabs as big as Lake Michigan.· Floor lamps Use a floor lamp to create enticing pools of light.· That means producing more work per worker as well as creating a larger pool of workers to exploit.· Lamps glowed here and there in the room, creating pools of warm light.· Rocky and shallow coastlines create the most spectacular pools, where small seaside animals become temporarily trapped in these natural aquariums.· The countenances of all three were radiant, which created a special pool of light on the gospel side.· When the filthy yellow flow reached the desk-top, it created a pool about the size of a Kennedy half-dollar.
· It was a dead Hearthware, lying in a dark pool of blood.· A guard found him lying in a pool of blood, and a doctor saved him.· Behind a grey stone wall lay a little pool.· The stomach is mostly empty-the whisky is lying in a shallow pool where it is now mixed with highly acidic gastric juices.· Even after they have dropped, they are valuable, lying in a blood-red pool under the dense thicket of branches.· Some people will always want to lie around the pool.· She found him lying in a pool of blood in his cot.· The Elle-men are stooped and old, and are happiest when lying in a pool of sunlight to warm their withered limbs.
· I play pool, but I am really brutal.· There is a games room where you can play pool or table-tennis, and live music is planned for the summer.· There were sewer backups in both cities, which added to the odor; children played in stagnant pools.· She reported that when members play pool they pay 10p.· I have fond memories of Sussex-playing pool and, much more to the point, the excellent discussions on science.· He left the house less and less frequently and spent more and more time in the cellar playing pool.
· Therefore, finding a job is akin to winning the pools.· So will all of us trying to win Oscar party pools.· For shareholders, it must have been like winning the pools.· Maybe she'd win the pools or walk off with first prize in the national lottery!· New member Peter Lambert won the match and pool with three good dabs.· Now when you've done that, it's almost like winning the pools.· But the great dream was winning the football pools.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRYPHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
1- A pool of light, expanding circles, merging, dragging me down.
- A guard found him lying in a pool of blood, and a doctor saved him.
- After they are replaced, the spent fuel rods are cooled for several years in pools of water at the plants.
- His black telephone sat captive in a pool of light, ready for interrogation.
- She leaves the coach and wanders through fields for many miles until between trees she sees a deep black pool of water.
- The kind of pool of light depends on whether the bulb fitted inside is a spot, flood or an ordinary bulb.
- Then on the fifth day, mid-morning, a pool of light as pale and clear as moonstone appeared on the horizon.
- There was a pool of blood on the tarmac now, around his head.
- Bare granite peaks towered over the south all day and the pools and falls seemed to grow bigger and better every mile.
- But that hotel has been gone for years, and the pools must be crawling with snakes.
- But the business is fighting back, revamping betting shops, simplifying the pools coupons and advertising better odds.
- If there is heavy rain during their exposed period, the pools are rendered brackish, rather than saline.
- It had sounded to him as if the shot had come from somewhere near the pools.
- Littlewoods, the pools promoter, calculates each punter has a 1:39 chance of a win.
- The organisers of the pools believe that huge jackpots are their best weapon in fighting the threat posed by a national lottery.
- Therefore, finding a job is akin to winning the pools.
- The place is empty but for the bar and three or four slightly-built lads shooting pool without words.
- They went out, he in a white suit, and he told her they were going to shoot pool.
for swimming [countable] a hole or container that has been specially made and filled with water so that people can swim or play in it SYN swimming pool: They have a nice pool in their backyard. a shallow pool suitable for children2area of water [countable] a small area of still water in a hollow place: pools of water with tiny fish in them Mosquitoes breed in stagnant pools of water.3pool of water/blood/light etc a small area of liquid or light on a surface: A guard found him lying in a pool of blood. a pool of light formed by the street lamp above4game [uncountable] a game in which you use a stick to hit numbered balls into holes around a table, which is often played in barsshoot/play pool We went to the pub and played pool.5group of people [countable] a group of people who are available to work or to do an activity when they are neededpool of a pool of talented applicants to choose from The region has a large and talented labour pool.6shared money/things [countable usually singular] a number of things that are shared or an amount of money that is shared by a group of people: Both partners put money into a common pool.7the pools a system in Britain in which people try to win money each week by guessing the results of football games: I do the pools sometimes. Dad won £40 on the pools.8sports [countable] American English a game in which people try to win money by guessing the result of a sports game, or the money that is collected from these people for this: the office basketball poolpool1 nounpool2 verb
poolpool2 verb [transitive] VERB TABLE
pool
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | pool |
| he, she, it | pools | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | pooled |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have pooled |
| he, she, it | has pooled | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had pooled |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will pool |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have pooled |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am pooling |
| he, she, it | is pooling | |
| you, we, they | are pooling | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was pooling |
| you, we, they | were pooling | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been pooling |
| he, she, it | has been pooling | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been pooling |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be pooling |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been pooling |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- If we all pool our money I'm sure we'll have enough to buy her a present.
- Why don't we get together and pool our ideas?
- All information can be pooled at the report session, and problems discussed and clarified.
- If constitutional independence is what sovereignty is, I do not know how one can reduce it by pooling it.
- Other voluntary hospitals with such funds lost them to the Exchequer, which pooled them in a central fund.
- Usually they pool their financial resources and their business acumen.
- We will be pooling our sovereignty, not losing it.
Longman Language Activatorto use something with another person
if two or more people share something, they all use it together or all have the right to use it: · We don't have enough books, so some of you will have to share.· I have my own room, but we share the kitchen and bathroom.share something with somebody: · You could share a taxi with me if you like.share with: · If two adults share with two children under 16 (=share a room), the children stay free.
: pool your ideas/money/resources etc if people pool their ideas etc, they put them together so that everyone can use them and gain from them: · Why don't we get together and pool our ideas?· If we all pool our money I'm sure we'll have enough to buy her a present.
used by two or more people: · Eventually, Tim, Laura, and Ann moved into a shared house.· Many drug addicts become infected with HIV by using shared needles.· The problem with having a shared telephone is that someone else always seems to be using it.
shared by a group of people who live together: · There are four bedrooms in the house, and a large communal kitchen.· The college has communal dining rooms, nurseries and clinics.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY Investors agreed to pool their resources to develop the property.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Investors agreed to pool their resources to develop the property.· A dark pool of blood was spreading from his head.
(=all the genes in a particular species)· It is hoped that these new wolves will mate with the native population and increase the wolves' gene pool.
(=an area of light)· They stood in the pool of light cast by the streetlamp.
(=put together the resources that each of you have)· They decided to pool their resources and buy a business together.
(=someone who uses their skill at pool or cards to cheat other players out of money)
(=lots of talented people)· Employers can draw on an enormous pool of talent in this area.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN· It seemed that the men pooled their money to help survive.· Partners can pool their money capital and are usually somewhat better risks in the eyes of bankers.· The idea was to give small investors the chance to pool their money and so spread their risk and get better returns.
· The front door stood open, water pooling in the hallway.· The trapped water pools and backs up under the shingles, where it can leak into the house.· She saw the water pooling in the kitchen sink.
VERB· She has a picture of herself and the boy by a swimming pool at the Fountainebleu Hotel in Miami.· Those of us with tadpoles for children have made local swimming pools our summer homes.· Approved a measure requiring electrical wiring in older swimming pools to be retrofitted.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
to combine your money, ideas, skills etc with those of other people so that you can all use them: - The place is empty but for the bar and three or four slightly-built lads shooting pool without words.
- They went out, he in a white suit, and he told her they were going to shoot pool.
Investors agreed to pool their resources to develop the property. The students worked together, pooling their knowledge.