pool

pool is a 4-letter English word with 22 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A small and rather deep collection of (usually) fresh water, as one supplied by a spring, or occurring in the course of a stream; a reservoir for water; as, the pools of Solomon. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 8 · 22 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A small and rather deep collection of (usually) fresh water, as one supplied by a spring, or occurring in the course of a stream; a reservoir for water; as, the pools of Solomon.
2. noun. A small body of standing or stagnant water; a puddle.
3. noun. The stake played for in certain games of cards, billiards, etc.; an aggregated stake to which each player has contributed a snare; also, the receptacle for the stakes.
4. noun. 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; a game of skill in pocketing the balls on a pool table.
5. 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.
6. noun. Any gambling or commercial venture in which several persons join.
7. 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; as, the pool took all the wheat offered below the limit; he put $10,000 into the pool.
8. noun. A mutual arrangement between competing lines, by which the receipts of all are aggregated, and then distributed pro rata according to agreement.
9. noun. An aggregation of properties or rights, belonging to different people in a community, in a common fund, to be charged with common liabilities.
10. transitive verb. To put together; to contribute to a common fund, on the basis of a mutual division of profits or losses; to make a common interest of; as, the companies pooled their traffic.
11. intransitive verb. To combine or contribute with others, as for a commercial, speculative, or gambling transaction.
12. noun. any of various games played on a pool table having 6 pockets
13. noun. an excavation that is (usually) filled with water
14. noun. an association of companies for some definite purpose

    Synonyms: consortium, syndicate

15. noun. an organization of people or resources that can be shared

    "a car pool"

    "a secretarial pool"

16. noun. something resembling a pool of liquid

    "he stood in a pool of light"

    "his chair sat in a puddle of books and magazines"

    Synonyms: puddle

17. noun. a small lake

    "the pond was too small for sailing"

    Synonyms: pond

18. noun. a small body of standing water (rainwater) or other liquid

    "there were puddles of muddy water in the road after the rain"

    "the body lay in a pool of blood"

    Synonyms: puddle

19. noun. the combined stakes of the betters

    Synonyms: kitty

20. noun. any communal combination of funds

    "everyone contributed to the pool"

21. verb. join or form a pool of people
22. verb. combine into a common fund

    "We pooled resources"

Synonyms

consortium, syndicate, puddle, pond, kitty

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in pool:

loop, polo

Common word forms

pools, pooled, pooler, pooling

Words from these letters

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