pool
n. 池, 水塘, 石油层, 联营 vt. 合伙经营, 共享, 采掘, 汇聚成 vi. 汇合成塘, 淤积, 联营
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A small and rather deep area of (usually) fresh water, as one supplied by a spring, or occurring in the course of a stream or river; a reservoir for water.
the pools of Solomon
the Pool of London
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Any small body of standing or stagnant water; a puddle.
水池
池子
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Ellipsis of swimming pool.
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A set of resources that are kept ready to use.
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Any group of like things.
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A small amount of liquid on a surface.
a pool of blood
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A localized glow of light.
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A supply of resources.
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A supply of resources.
A number of people when considered as a resource.
dating pool
There is a limited pool of candidates from which to choose the new manager.
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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.
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A cue sport played on a pool table. There are 15 balls, 7 of one colour or solids, 7 of another color or stripes, and the black ball (also called the 8 ball). A player must pocket all their own colour balls and then the black ball in order to win.
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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.
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A group of fencers taking part in a competition.
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A set of teams playing each other in the same division, while not during the same period playing any teams that belong to other sets in the division.
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Any gambling or commercial venture in which several persons join.
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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.
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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.
The pool took all the wheat offered below the limit.
He put $10,000 into the pool.
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A set of players in quadrille etc.
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A mutual arrangement between competing lines, by which the receipts of all are aggregated, and then distributed pro rata according to agreement.
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An aggregation of properties or rights, belonging to different people in a community, in a common fund, to be charged with common liabilities.
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To form a pool.
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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.
及物We must pool our resources.
27 February 2010, Barack Obama, Presidential Weekly Address - Time for Us to Act Many on both sides agreed that we should give small businesses and individuals the ability to participate in a new insurance marketplace – which members of Congress would also use – that would allow them to pool their purchasing power and get a better deal from insurance companies.
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To combine or contribute with others, as for a commercial, speculative, or gambling transaction.
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From Middle English pool, pole, pol, from Old English pōl (“pool”), from Proto-West Germanic pōl, from Proto-Germanic *pōlaz (“pool, pond”), from Proto-Indo-European *bōlos (“bog, marsh”). Cognate with Scots puil (“pool”), Saterland Frisian Pol (“pool”), West Frisian poel (“pool”), Dutch poel (“pool”), German Low German Pohl, Pool, Pul (“pool”), German Pfuhl (“quagmire, mudhole”), Danish pøl (“puddle”), Swedish pöl (“puddle, pool”), Icelandic pollur (“puddle”), Lithuanian bala (“puddle”), Latvian bala (“a muddly, treeless depression”), Russian боло́то (bolóto, “swamp, bog, marsh”). For the meaning development to a supply of resources compare typologically Russian пруд пруди́ (prud prudí) (< пруд (prud)).
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