Pool

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A small and rather deep area of (usually) fresh water, as one supplied by a spring, or occurring in the course of a stream or river; a reservoir for water.

   “the pools of Solomon”

2. isim Any small body of standing or stagnant water; a puddle.
3. isim Ellipsis of swimming pool.
4. isim A set of resources that are kept ready to use.
5. isim Any group of like things.
6. isim A small amount of liquid on a surface.

   “a pool of blood”

7. isim A localized glow of light.

   “He walked slowly, passing through one pool of light after another, his shadow running tall across the fronts of the barber shop, the Western Auto, the video-rental shop.”

8. fiil To form a pool.
9. isim A supply of resources.

   “The 4-BEP and 4-CEP stock is maintained in a common pool for both Chatham and South Eastern fast main-line services.”

10. isim A number of people when considered as a resource.

    “dating pool”

11. isim 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.
12. isim A cue sport played on a pool table. There are 15 balls, 7 of one colour or solids, 7 of another color or stripes, and the black ball (also called the 8 ball). A player must pocket all their own colour balls and then the black ball in order to win.

    “He plays pool at the billiard-houses, and may be seen engaged at cards and dominoes of forenoons.”

13. isim 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.
14. isim A group of fencers taking part in a competition.
15. isim A set of teams playing each other in the same division, while not during the same period playing any teams that belong to other sets in the division.
16. isim Any gambling or commercial venture in which several persons join.
17. isim 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.
18. isim A combination of persons contributing money to be used for the purpose of increasing or depressing the market price of stocks, grain, or other commodities; also, the aggregate of the sums so contributed.

    “The pool took all the wheat offered below the limit.”

19. isim A set of players in quadrille etc.
20. isim A mutual arrangement between competing lines, by which the receipts of all are aggregated, and then distributed pro rata according to agreement.
21. isim An aggregation of properties or rights, belonging to different people in a community, in a common fund, to be charged with common liabilities.
22. fiil 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.

    “We must pool our resources.”

23. fiil To combine or contribute with others, as for a commercial, speculative, or gambling transaction.
24. özel isim A village in Carn Brea parish, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW6641).
25. özel isim Ellipsis of Pool-in-Wharfedale.
26. özel isim A civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, also known as Pool in Wharfedale.
27. özel isim An unincorporated community in Nicholas County, West Virginia, United States.
28. özel isim A department of the Republic of the Congo.