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pool noun1. [pu:l]
[Old English pol = Old Frisian, Middle & mod. Low German, Middle Dutch pol (Dutch poel), Old High German pfuol (German Pfuhl), from West Germanic.]
A small body of standing or still water, esp. one of natural formation. OE.
rock pool, tide pool, etc.
J. M. Barrie I was searching the pools for little fishes.
b. A small shallow accumulation of any liquid; a puddle. M19.
A. Paton The rain came down through the roof. The pools formed on the floor.
A deep still place in a river or stream. OE.
Scotsman Rescuers..searched the deep pools of a salmon river.
transf. & fig. A thing resembling a pool (senses 1, 2) in shape, stillness, depth, etc. L16.
F. Herbert Hawat's eyes were two pools of alertness in a dark and deeply seamed face. G. Harris In the pool of light below the hatchway stood a young man robed in crimson. R. Thomas She lay in a pool of deepening isolation.
A tank or other artificially constructed receptacle (to be) filled with water for swimming, diving, etc. Freq. with specifying word. E17.
paddling pool, swimming pool, etc.
An oil-producing area (rare). Also (more fully oil pool), an extent of rock which contains an unbroken reservoir of oil. L19.
Phrases: solar pool: see SOLAR adjective1. the Pool spec. the city of Liverpool.
Comb.: pool cathode Electricity a cathode consisting of a pool of mercury; pool house (chiefly US) (a) a house by a swimming pool, for the use of bathers; (b) a building containing a swimming pool; pool-measure, pool-price the measure or price of coal at the Pool of London on the River Thames; pool room noun1 a room with a swimming-pool in it; poolside noun & attrib. adjective (located at) the side of a swimming-pool.
pooly adjective (rare) resembling a pool; having many pools, swampy: E19.