pool – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
pool
v.
join, attach; combine, unite; deposit into a communal fund
n.
communal fund; treasury, general financial fund; any of a number of games played on a cloth covered table with cues and balls, billiards
n.
swimming pool, man-made tank used for swimming; pond, small lake; puddle, very small and shallow body of water
POOL
+POOL (or
+Pool) is an initiative to bring a floating
swimming pool to the
East River, on the
Manhattan and/or
Brooklyn banks, in
New York City; a permanent location has yet to been determined. The pool would be filled with water filtered from the river it floats in. The two companies behind it, Family New York and PlayLab, have been using the
crowdfunding website
Kickstarter to raise money for the project.
Pool
Pool may refer to:
Water pool
- Swimming pool, a usually artificial container of water intended for swimming
- Reflecting pool, a shallow pool designed to reflect a structure and its surroundings
- Tide pool, a rocky pool on an ocean shore that remains filled with seawater when the tide goes out
- Plunge pool, a small, deep body of water
- Stream pool, a quiet slow-moving portion of a stream
- Spent fuel pool, a storage facility for used fuel rods from a nuclear reactor
pool
Noun
1. an excavation that is (usually) filled with water
(hypernym) excavation, hole in the ground
(hyponym) cistern
2. a small lake; "the pond was too small for sailing"
(synonym) pond
(hypernym) lake
(hyponym) fishpond
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"
(hypernym) organization, organisation
(hyponym) typing pool
4. an association of companies for some definite purpose
(synonym) consortium, syndicate
(hypernym) association
(hyponym) trust, corporate trust, combine, cartel
5. any communal combination of funds; "everyone contributed to the pool"
(hypernym) reserve account, reserve fund
(part-meronym) stake, stakes, bet, wager
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"
(synonym) puddle
(hypernym) body of water, water
(hyponym) billabong
7. the combined stakes of the betters
(synonym) kitty
(hypernym) stake, stakes, bet, wager
8. something resembling a pool of liquid; "he stood in a pool of light"; "his chair sat in a puddle of books and magazines"
(synonym) puddle
(hypernym) topographic point, place, spot
9. any of various games played on a pool table having 6 pockets
(synonym) pocket billiards
(hypernym) table game
(hyponym) snooker
(part-meronym) break
Verb
1. combine into a common fund; "We pooled resources"
(hypernym) share
2. join or form a pool of people
(hypernym) group, aggroup
Pool (der)
nm.
pool, communal fund, general financial fund
pool
nm.
pool, any of a number of games played on a cloth covered table with cues and balls, billiards
