Pool

Pool

Pool may refer to:

Bodies of water

*Plunge pool, small, deep body of water
*The River Pool, river in England, tributary to the River Ravensbourne
*Reflecting pool, shallow pool of water designed to reflect a structure and its surroundings:
**Capitol Reflection Pool, westernmost element of the United States Capitol Building Grounds
**Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, in Washington, D.C.
*Stream pool, a quiet slow moving portion of a stream
*Swimming pool, artificially enclosed body of water intended for swimming
*Tide pool, rocky pools by oceans that are remain filled with seawater when the tide goes out

ports, games and gambling

*Betting pool, form of pool betting where gamblers pay a fixed price into a pool
*Dead pool, betting pool on the date of death of celebrities
*Hockey pool, simplified version of fantasy hockey
*Football pools, football (soccer) betting pool
*Footy pool, Australian-rules football pool
*Pool betting, betting system in which all bets of a particular type are placed together in a pool
*Pool billiards, family of games played on a pocket billiards table
*Pool checkers, variant of checkers (draughts)
*Pool play, round robin stage of many sporting championships
*Pool (poker), money wagered during a single hand of poker
*Singapore Pools, Singapore's sole legal lottery

Computing

*Connection pool, cache of database connections maintained by the database
*Object pool, set of initialised programming objects that are kept ready to use
*Memory pool, dynamic memory allocation method
*Memory Pool System, memory management system
*Thread pool pattern, programming method where a number of threads are created to perform a number of tasks

Geography

*Pool, Cornwall, in England
*Pool-in-Wharfedale, West Yorkshire, England
*Pool Region, in the Republic of the Congo
*Pool, West Virginia, in the United States

Persons

*Albert-Jan Pool (b. 1960), Dutch type designer
*Ithiel de Sola Pool (1917–1984), pioneer in the development of social science
*John Pool (1826–1884), Senator from North Carolina
*Walter F. Pool (1850–1883), Congressman from North Carolina

General

*Gene pool, complete set of unique alleles in a species or population
*The Pool (film), a 2007 drama film
*Pool-type reactor, nuclear reactor that has a core immersed in an open pool of water
*Pooling (resource management), grouping together of resources or effort
**Secretarial pool, group of secretaries available to assist executives
**Press pool, group of news gathering organizations pooling their resources

ee also

*Poole (disambiguation)
*Poel (disambiguation page)
*Poul (disambiguation page)


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  • pool — pool …   Dictionnaire des rimes

  • pool — [ pul ] n. m. • 1887; mot angl.→ 2. poule ♦ Anglic. 1 ♦ Groupement (de personnes physiques ou morales) assurant la gestion commune d une opération, de ressources, de moyens. ⇒ coopération; cartel, entente, groupe. Le pool charbon acier : la… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

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  • Pool — Pool, n. [F. poule, properly, a hen. See {Pullet}.] [Written also {poule}.] 1. The stake played for in certain games of cards, billiards, etc.; an aggregated stake to which each player has contributed a snare; also, the receptacle for the stakes …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • pool — 1 n 1: an aggregation of the interests, obligations, or undertakings of several parties working together an insurance pool 2: a group of people available for some purpose see also jury pool pool 2 vt: to combine (as a …   Law dictionary

  • pool — pool1 [po͞ol] n. [ME < OE pol, akin to Du poel & Ger pfuhl, prob. ult. < IE base * bhel , to shine, glimmer] 1. a small pond, as in a garden 2. a small collection of liquid, as a puddle 3. SWIMMING POOL 4. a deep, still spot in a river ☆ …   English World dictionary

  • pool — s.m.inv. ES ingl. {{wmetafile0}} 1. TS econ., fin. aggregazione, coalizione di imprese operanti nello stesso settore economico, o in settori complementari, per l adozione di comuni politiche di mercato 2. TS econ. organismo internazionale… …   Dizionario italiano

  • Pool — Pool, n. [AS. p[=o]l; akin to LG. pool, pohl, D. poel, G. pfuhl; cf. Icel. pollr, also W. pwll, Gael. poll.] 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… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • pool — Ⅰ. pool [1] ► NOUN 1) a small area of still water. 2) (also swimming pool) an artificial pool for swimming in. 3) a small, shallow patch of liquid lying on a surface. 4) a deep place in a river. ORIGIN Old English …   English terms dictionary

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