Synonyms for pool
pulpool

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1. poolnoun

   an excavation that is (usually) filled with water

   Synonyms:
   kitty, syndicate, pocket billiards, puddle, pond, consortium

2. pond, poolnoun

   a small lake

   "the pond was too small for sailing"

   Synonyms:
   kitty, syndicate, pocket billiards, puddle, pond, consortium

3. poolnoun

   an organization of people or resources that can be shared

   "a car pool"; "a secretarial pool"; "when he was first hired he was assigned to the pool"

   Synonyms:
   kitty, syndicate, pocket billiards, puddle, pond, consortium

4. consortium, pool, syndicatenoun

   an association of companies for some definite purpose

   Synonyms:
   kitty, syndicate, crime syndicate, mob, puddle, pond, consortium, family, pocket billiards

5. poolnoun

   any communal combination of funds

   "everyone contributed to the pool"

   Synonyms:
   kitty, syndicate, pocket billiards, puddle, pond, consortium

6. pool, puddlenoun

   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:
   kitty, syndicate, pocket billiards, puddle, pond, consortium

7. pool, kittynoun

   the combined stakes of the betters

   Synonyms:
   puss, kitty, syndicate, jackpot, pussy, puddle, pond, pussycat, consortium, pot, kitty-cat, kitten, pocket billiards

8. pool, puddlenoun

   something resembling a pool of liquid

   "he stood in a pool of light"; "his chair sat in a puddle of books and magazines"

   Synonyms:
   kitty, syndicate, pocket billiards, puddle, pond, consortium

9. pool, pocket billiardsverb

   any of various games played on a pool table having 6 pockets

   Synonyms:
   kitty, syndicate, pocket billiards, puddle, pond, consortium

10. poolverb

    combine into a common fund

    "We pooled resources"

11. poolverb

    join or form a pool of people

Matched Categories

1. • Association
   • Body Of Water
   • Excavation
   • Group
   • Lake
   • Organization
   • Reserve Account
   • Share
   • Stake
   • Topographic Point

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. poolnoun

   Synonyms:
   pond (small), mere, LOCH, lake

2. poolnoun

   Synonyms:
   puddle, plash, collection of standing water

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "pool":

   basin, pools, grouping, pond, repository, bassin, reserve, reservoir, group, reservation, pelvis, billard, tank, puddle, watershed, pooling, cluster, bundle, sharing, clustering, repertoire

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How to use pool in a sentence?

1. American Austin Tice:

   Spent the day at an FSA pool party with music by @taylorswift13, they even brought me whiskey. Hands down, best birthday ever.

2. Nancy Hogshead-Makar:

   It would n’t take away a slot from anybody else, but they would be able to be in the pool and compete, everybody would welcome that and everybody would be cheering for Lia Thomas. But right now, when Lia Thomas touches the wall, nobody cheers until the second-place finisher.

3. Joyce Lignell:

   When you engage in DNA testing with 23andMe, you make a choice [about which testing and cost model you prefer], but you make the assumption (wrongly) that this is their business model -- e.g., charge me for a kit and provide the service. But as we’ve discovered, that is not the case. Their actual business model is based upon selling their ever-growing data pool of DNA results to whoever wants to purchase it.

4. Elijah Cummings:

   We were trying to integrate an Olympic-size pool near my house, and we had been constrained to a wading pool in the black community.

5. Lucas Weaver:

   They had to lift me out of the pool, hundreds of people were watching.