pool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /puːl/
ipa: /pul/
ipa: /pʉl/
rhymes: -uːl
homophone: Poole
homophone: pull (accents with FOOT-GOOSE merger or full-fool merger)
homophone: pall (accents with fool-fall merger)
homophone: Paul (accents with fool-fall merger)
Forms: form: pools
form: poole
Etymology: 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 meaning development to a supply of resources compare typologically Russian пруд пруди́ (prud prudí) (< пруд (prud)).
Senses: examples: text: the pools of Solomon
text: the Pool of London
text: […] at laſt I left them
I’ th’ filthy mantled poole beyond your Cell,
There dancing vp to th’ chins, that the fowle Lake
Ore-ſtunck their feet.
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 15, column 2:
text: A Single Life doth well with Church-men : For Charitie will hardly water the Ground, where it muſt firſt fill a Poole.
ref: 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Marriage And Single Life. VIII.”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC, page 37:
text: I loved the brimming wave that swam
Thro’ quiet meadows round the mill,
The sleepy pool above the dam,
The pool beneath it never still,
The meal-sacks on the whiten’d floor,
The dark round of the dripping wheel,
The very air about the door
Made misty with the floating meal.
ref: 1833, Alfred Tennyson, “The Miller's Daughter”, in Poems, 5th edition, Edward Moxon, published 1848, page 86:
glosses: 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.
glosses: Any small body of standing or stagnant water; a puddle.
glosses: Ellipsis of swimming pool.
topics: computing
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natural-sciences
physical-sciences
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glosses: A set of resources that are kept ready to use.
glosses: Any group of like things.
examples: text: a pool of blood
glosses: A small amount of liquid on a surface.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things:
glosses: A localized glow of light.
Derived terms: ball pool
bank pool
birthing pool
black pool
brine pool
Bromborough Pool
carpool
cow pool
cowpool
dark pool
dead pool
death pool
drop the kiddies off at the pool
drop the kids off at the pool
everlasting pool
fishpool
flood pool
football pool
hot pool
infinity-edge pool
infinity pool
jury pool
Kelly pool
kiddie pool
lap-pool
lap pool
liquidity pool
meme pool
mere pool
micropool
millpool
mining pool
minus pool
moon-pool
moon pool
mud pool
multipool
nigger pool
object pool pattern
overflow pool
paddling pool
patent pool
pin pool
plunge pool
pocket-pool
pocket pool
pool at the crook
pool boy
poolboy
pool chair
pool diaper
poolfish
poolful
poolgoer
pool house
poolhouse
poolless
pool-like
Pool Malebo
pool nappy
pool noodle
pool of death
pool party
pool reporter
poolscape
poolside
pool snipe
pool toy
poolward
poolwater
press pool
prize pool
pyramid pool
rainpool
reflecting pool
rockpool
rock pool
spa pool
spool
Stanley Pool
steno pool
straight pool
stream pool
swimming pool
swimming pool acid
thread pool
tidepool
tide pool
touch pool
typing pool
vernal pool
wading pool
wave pool
whirlpool
zero-edge pool