Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - pool
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1. n. & v. --n. 1 a small body of still water, usu. of natural formation. 2 a small shallow body of any liquid. 3 = swimming-pool (see SWIM). 4 a deep place in a river. --v. 1 tr. form into a pool. 2 intr. (of blood) become static. Etymology: OE pol, MLG, MDu. pol, OHG pfuol f. WG 2. n. & v. --n. 1 a (often attrib.) a common supply of persons, vehicles, commodities, etc. for sharing by a group of people (a typing pool; a pool car). b a group of persons sharing duties etc. 2 a the collective amount of players' stakes in gambling etc. b a receptacle for this. 3 a a joint commercial venture, esp. an arrangement between competing parties to fix prices and share business to eliminate competition. b the common funding for this. 4 a US a game on a billiard-table with usu. 16 balls. b Brit. a game on a billiard-table in which each player has a ball of a different colour with which he tries to pocket the others in fixed order, the winner taking all of the stakes. 5 a group of contestants who compete against each other in a tournament for the right to advance to the next round. --v.tr. 1 put (resources etc.) into a common fund. 2 share (things) in common. 3 (of transport or organizations etc.) share (traffic, receipts). 4 Austral. sl. a involve (a person) in a scheme etc., often by deception. b implicate, inform on. Phrases and idioms the pools Brit. = football pool. Etymology: F poule (= hen) in same sense: assoc. with POOL(1)
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I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English pōl; akin to Old High German pfuol ~ Date: before 12th century 1. a. a small and rather deep body of usually fresh water, a quiet place in a stream, a body of water forming above a dam, something resembling a ~ , a small body of standing liquid, a continuous area of porous sedimentary rock that yields petroleum or gas, swimming ~, II. intransitive verb Date: 1626 to form a ~, to accumulate or become static (as in the veins of a bodily part), III. noun see: pullet Date: 1708 1. an aggregate stake to which each player of a game has contributed, all the money bet by a number of persons on a particular event, 2. a game played on an English billiard table in which each of the players stakes a sum and the winner takes all, any of various games of billiards played on an oblong table having 6 pockets with usually 15 object balls, an aggregation of the interests or property of different persons made to further a joint undertaking by subjecting them to the same control and a common liability, a readily available supply: as, the whole quantity of a particular material present in the body and available for function or the satisfying of metabolic demands, a body product (as blood) collected from many donors and stored for later use, a group of people available for some purpose , gene ~, a group of journalists from usually several news organizations using ~ed resources (as television equipment) to produce shared coverage especially of events to which access is restricted, IV. transitive verb Date: 1879 to combine (as resources) in a common ~ or effort ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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