Usually means: Water contained for swimming, recreation.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. pool: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. pool, pool: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pool, pool: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. pool: Collins English Dictionary
  5. pool: Vocabulary.com
  6. Pool, pool: Wordnik
  7. pool: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. pool: Wiktionary
  9. pool: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. pool: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. pool: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. pool: Dictionary.com
  13. pool (1), pool (2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. pool: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Pool (John Zorn album), Pool (Porches album), Pool (billiards), Pool (computer science), Pool (cue sport), Pool (cue sports), Pool (disambiguation), Pool (game), Pool (website), Pool, The Pool (Central Park), The Pool (play): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Pool: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. pool: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. pool: Rhymezone
  19. pool, pool (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. pool: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. pool: Free Dictionary
  22. pool: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. pool: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. POOL: Accounting Glossary
  4. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  5. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  6. eyefortransport e-commerce transportation glossary (No longer online)
  7. Pool: Futures and Options Market Terminology
  8. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  9. Comprehensive Financial (No longer online)
  10. pool: Legal dictionary
  11. pool: Financial dictionary
  12. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)
  13. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. POOL: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Data Formats and Their Sugggested File Extensions (No longer online)
  3. pool: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. pool: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. POOL: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Pool: Easton Bible
  2. Pool: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. pool, pool: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Pool: Urban Dictionary

Sports (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Canoe Terminology (No longer online)
  2. Pool: Croquet
  3. Pool, Pool: Gambling Glossary
  4. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  5. Texas Hold'em Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Pool: Sports Definitions

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  3. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Pool: Science In Your Watershed: Hydrologic Definitions

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  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.
noun:  Any small body of standing or stagnant water; a puddle.
noun:  A supply of resources.
noun:  (by extension, computing) A set of resources that are kept ready to use.
noun:  A small amount of liquid on a surface.
noun:  A localized glow of light.
verb:  (intransitive, of a liquid) To form a pool.
noun:  (games, uncountable) 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.
noun:  (sports) 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.
noun:  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.
noun:  (fencing) A group of fencers taking part in a competition.
noun:  (rugby union) 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.
noun:  Any gambling or commercial venture in which several persons join.
noun:  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.
noun:  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.
noun:  A set of players in quadrille etc.
noun:  (rail transport) A mutual arrangement between competing lines, by which the receipts of all are aggregated, and then distributed pro rata according to agreement.
noun:  (law) An aggregation of properties or rights, belonging to different people in a community, in a common fund, to be charged with common liabilities.
verb:  (transitive) 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.
verb:  (intransitive) To combine or contribute with others, as for a commercial, speculative, or gambling transaction.
noun:  A village in Carn Brea parish, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW6641).
noun:  A civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, also known as Pool in Wharfedale.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Nicholas County, West Virginia, United States.
noun:  Ellipsis of swimming pool. [A pool of water used for swimming, usually one which has been artificially constructed.]
noun:  Short for Pool-in-Wharfedale. [A village in Pool parish, Metropolitan Borough of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE2445).]

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