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( pools, pooling, pooled)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
A pool is the same as a swimming pool .
...a heated indoor pool...
During winter, many people swim and the pool is crowded.
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2.
A pool is a fairly small area of still water.
The pool had dried up and was full of bracken and reeds.
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see also rock pool
3.
A pool of liquid or light is a small area of it on the ground or on a surface.
She was found lying in a pool of blood...
The lamps on the side-tables threw warm pools of light on the polished wood.
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4.
A pool of people, money, or things is a quantity or number of them that is available for an organization or group to use.
The new proposal would create a reserve pool of cash.
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see also car pool
5.
If a group of people or organizations pool their money, knowledge, or equipment, they share it or put it together so that it can be used for a particular purpose.
We pooled ideas and information...
VERB : V n
6.
Pool is a game played on a large table covered with a cloth. Players use a long stick called a cue to hit a white ball across the table so that it knocks coloured balls with numbers on them into six holes around the edge of the table.
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7.
If you do the pools , you take part in a gambling competition in which people try to win money by guessing correctly the results of football matches. ( BRIT )
The odds of winning the pools are about one in 20 million.
= football pools
N-PLURAL : the N