pool

See also Pool

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle English pool, pole, pol, from Old English pōl (“pool”), from Proto-Germanic *pōlaz (“pool, pond”), from Proto-Indo-European *bale- (“bog, marsh”). Cognate with Scots puil (“pool”), Saterland Frisian Pol (“pool”), West Frisian poel (“pool”), Dutch poel (“pool”), Low German Pohl, Pul (“pool”), German Pfuhl (“quagmire, mudhole”), Danish pøl (“puddle”), Swedish pöl (“puddle, pool”), Icelandic pollur (“puddle”), Lithuanian bala (“bog, marsh, swamp, pool”), Latvian bala (“a muddly, treeless depression”), Russian болото (boloto, “swamp, bog, marsh”).

Noun

A pool (as one supplied by a spring or occurring in the course of a stream)

pool (plural pools)

  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.
    the pools of Solomon
  2. A small body of standing or stagnant water; a puddle.
  3. A swimming pool.
  4. A supply of resources.
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations
body of water
small body of standing or stagnant water; a puddle
swimming pool — see swimming pool
supply of resources
The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Help:How to check translations.
Translations to be checked

Etymology 2

French poule (“collective stakes in a game”) (The OED suggests that this may be a transferred use of poule (“hen”), but the derivation is uncertain.)

Noun

pool (plural pools)

  1. (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
  2. 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
  3. Any gambling or commercial venture in which several persons join
  4. 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
  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; for example, as the pool took all the wheat offered below the limit, he put $10,000 into the pool
  6. (rail transport) 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
  8. This word needs a definition. Please help out and add a definition, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
Derived terms

Verb

pool (third-person singular simple present pools, present participle pooling, simple past and past participle pooled)

  1. (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
    • (Can we date this quote?) Grant:
      Finally, it favors the pooling of all issues.
  2. (intransitive) to combine or contribute with others, as for a commercial, speculative, or gambling transaction
Translations
to put together
to combine or contribute with others

Anagrams

↑Jump back a section

Dutch

Etymology 1

From Latin polus, which itself is from Ancient Greek πόλος (polos, “axis”). Cognate with English pole.

Noun

pool c (plural polen, ??? please provide the diminutive!)

  1. magnetic pole (especially of the Earth and other celestial bodies)
  2. electrical pole (eg. of a battery)
  3. (figuratively) an opposing side of a principle or a doctrine
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From English pool

Noun

pool m (plural pools, diminutive pooltje)

  1. a gambling venture such as a football pool
  2. the stake involved in such a venture
  3. an arrangement where people pool in money to share one resource such as a carpool
  4. (sports) snooker
Derived terms

Etymology 3

Possibly from Anglo-Norman pyle, or maybe Middle Dutch pijl (“thin hair”); both from Latin pilus (“hair”). Cognate with English pile

Noun

pool c (??? please provide the plural!, ??? please provide the diminutive!)

  1. the pile (upstanding usually fine hair) on certain fabrics, velvet or carpeting

Anagrams

↑Jump back a section

Estonian

Etymology 1

Loaned from a Slavic language; ultimately from Proto-Slavic *polъ (“half”); cognate with Russian пол (“half”), Finnish puoli (“half”).

Pronounced with unpalatalised l.

Noun

pool (genitive poole, partitive poolt)

  1. half
  2. side
    tagumine pool — back side
    koledam pool — the ugly side
Declension
Declension of pool (type suur)
singular plural
nominative pool pooled
genitive poole poolte
partitive poolt pooli
illative poolde
poolesse		 pooltesse
poolisse
inessive pooles pooltes
poolis
elative poolest pooltest
poolist
allative poolele pooltele
poolile
adessive poolel pooltel
poolil
ablative poolelt pooltelt
poolilt
translative pooleks poolteks
pooliks
terminative pooleni poolteni
essive poolena pooltena
abessive pooleta poolteta
comitative poolega pooltega

The nonstandard plural partitive poolesid is common in colloquial use.

Postposition

pool

  1. at, to, towards
    minu pool — at my place
    põhja pool — to the north, in the north
    igal pool — everywhere
Declension

allative: poole
adessive: pool
ablative: poolt

Etymology 2

Pronounced with palatalised l.

Noun

pool (genitive pooli, partitive pooli)

  1. bobbin, coil
Declension
Declension of pool (type paks)
singular plural
nominative pool poolid
genitive pooli poolide
partitive pooli poole
poolisid
illative pooli
poolisse		 poolidesse
inessive poolis poolides
elative poolist poolidest
allative poolile poolidele
adessive poolil poolidel
ablative poolilt poolidelt
translative pooliks poolideks
terminative poolini poolideni
essive poolina poolidena
abessive poolita poolideta
comitative pooliga poolidega
↑Jump back a section
Last modified on 20 May 2013, at 18:43