pool

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A small amount of liquid lying on a surface.

   There was a pool of water on the kitchen floor.

2. 2
   noun

   A small, deep area of still water in a stream or fed by a spring.

   We found a clear pool below the waterfall.

3. 3
   noun

   A shared supply of people, money, or resources.

   Several families joined a car pool to save money.

4. 4
   verb

   To combine money or resources for shared use.

   The students pooled their money to buy a gift.

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 mea…

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