English-Russian translations for pool

Definition of pool

  • A small and rather deep collection of fresh water, as one supplied by a spring, or occurring in the course of a stream; a reservoir for water
  • A small body of standing or stagnant water; a puddle
  • A supply of resources
  • A set of resources that are kept ready to use
  • A localized glow of light
  • To form a pool
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • A set of players in quadrille etc
  • An aggregation of properties or rights, belonging to different people in a community, in a common fund, to be charged with common liabilities
  • 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
  • To combine or contribute with others, as for a commercial, speculative, or gambling transaction

Examples

  • the pools of Solomon
  • There is a limited pool of candidates from which to choose the new manager
  • dating pool
  • a pool of blood
  • The pool took all the wheat offered below the limit.
  • He put $10,000 into the pool.
  • We must pool our resources

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