pool
US: /ˈpuɫ/
UK: /pˈuːl/
UK: /pˈuːl/
English Vietnamese dictionary
pool /pu:l/
- danh từ
- vũng
- ao; bể bơi (bơi)
- vực (chỗ nước sâu và lặng ở con sông)
- ngoại động từ
- đào (lỗ) để đóng nêm phá đá
- đào xới chân (vĩa than...)
- danh từ
- tiền góp; hộp đựng tiền góp (đánh bài)
- trò đánh cá góp tiền; tiền góp đánh cá
- football pool: trò đánh cá bóng đá (ai đoán trúng thì được giải trích ở tiền góp)
- vốn chung, vốn góp
- Pun (tổ hợp các nhà kinh doanh hoặc sản xuất để loại trừ sự cạnh tranh lẫn nhau); khối thị trường chung
- trò chơi pun (một lối chơi bi-a)
- ngoại động từ
- góp thành vốn chung
- chia phần, chung phần (tiền thu được...)
Advanced English dictionary
noun, verb
+ noun
for swimming
1 [C] = SWIMMING POOL: Does the hotel have a pool? + relaxing by the pool
of water
2 [C] a small area of still water, especially one that has formed naturally: freshwater pools + a rock pool (= between rocks by the sea)
of liquid / light
3 [C] ~ (of sth) a small amount of liquid or light lying on a surface: The body was lying in a pool of blood. + a pool of light
group of things / people
4 [C] ~ (of sth) a supply of things or money that is shared by a group of people and can be used when needed: a pool of cars used by the firm's salesmen + a pool car
5 [C] ~ (of sth) a group of people available for work when needed: a large pool of software engineers + a pool of cheap labour + a typing pool (= a group of people who share a company's typing work)
game
6 [U] a game for two people played with 16 coloured balls on a table, often in pubs and bars. Players use CUES (= long sticks) to try to hit the balls into pockets at the edge of the table: a pool table / hall + to shoot (= play) pool
Compare: BILLIARDS, SNOOKER
football
7 (the pools) = FOOTBALL POOLS: He does the pools every week. + a pools winner
See also -
+ verb [VN] to collect money, information, etc. from different people so that it can be used by all of them: The students work individually, then pool their ideas in groups of six. + Police forces across the country are pooling resources in order to solve this crime.(also pool)
+ noun
1 an area of water that has been created for people to swim in: an indoor / outdoor swimming pool + a heated swimming pool + an open-air swimming pool
2 the building that contains a public swimming pool: She trained five times a week at her local swimming pool.
Thesaurus dictionary
n.
1 pond, lake, tarn, mere, lagoon; swimming-pool, leisure pool, wading pool, Brit paddling pool, US wading pool, Formal natatorium:
We found an icy mountain pool where we went for a swim.
2 collection, fund(s), purse, stakes, reserve(s), bank, Colloq pot, jackpot, kitty:
So far we have too little money in the pool for an office party at Christmas
3 syndicate, trust, group, consortium, cartel, combine:
The object of the pool was the private regulation of market prices, which is illegal.
v.
4 accumulate, collect, gather, combine, merge, consolidate, amalgamate, league, bring or come or band or get together, team (up) with:
We would do better if we pooled our resources.
Collocation dictionary
1 swimming pool, etc.
ADJ.
paddling, swimming | birthing
babies born in birthing pools
| big | little, small | deep | empty | indoor | open-air, outdoor | heated | inflatable
We gave the children an inflatable paddling pool for Christmas.
VERB + POOL
swim in | dive/jump/plunge into
POOL + NOUN
attendant
PHRASES
the bottom/edge/middle/side of the pool, a length of the pool
He swam three lengths of the pool.
2 small shallow area of water
ADJ.
big, large | little, small | deep | shallow | stagnant, still | freshwater, salt-water | muddy | rock | ornamental
PREP.
in a/the ~
The children waded in the shallow rock pools.
| ~ of
pools of water
3 small area of liquid/light
ADJ.
big | little, small | dark | mud
VERB + POOL
lie in
The body lay in a dark pool of blood.
PREP.
in a/the ~
animals wallowing in the mud pools
| ~ of
pools of light
4 supply of sth
ADJ.
big, huge, large | small | common
drawing on funds from a common pool
| car, labour, typing
PREP.
~ of
a large pool of cheap labour
Concise English dictionary
pools|pooled|poolingpuːl
noun
+an excavation that is (usually) filled with water
+a small lake
+an organization of people or resources that can be shared
+an association of companies for some definite purpose
+any communal combination of funds
+a small body of standing water (rainwater) or other liquid
+the combined stakes of the betters
+something resembling a pool of liquid
+any of various games played on a pool table having 6 pockets
verb
+combine into a common fund
+join or form a pool of people
