Synonyms for pool
pulpool

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:3.5 / 4 votes

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. Wenjie Ding:

   China certainly has the industrial capabilities, market scale and talent pool to create a mega-sized company.

2. Rich Elliott:

   You just don't know how many extra doses, so you have to have this flexible pool of people sort of waiting in the wings on 10 minutes notice to get the vaccine, we did it with teachers.

3. Bernie Sanders:

   And maybe, just maybe, instead of spending $ 1.8 trillion a year globally on weapons of destruction, maybe an American president -- i.e. Bernie Sanders -- can lead the world. Instead of spending money to kill each other, maybe we pool our resources and fight our common enemy, which is climate change.

4. Lincoln Eatmon:

   We have entered Briana Williams in the 100m and the 4x100 relay, subject of course to clearance, jonielle Smith is the reserve for the 100m and is a part of the 4x100 relay pool.

5. Scott Thompson:

   [ Big Blue Swim School is ] tapping into unmet demand for this service. Financially Big Blue Swim School was Big Blue Swim School and we especially liked that the business owns its own proprietary technology, while the kids are in the pool, there's also staff walking alongside watching and providing information and progress reports back to the parents in real-time via an iPad.