OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 7440

pool

/puːl/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
billar
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.
He plays pool at the billiard-houses, and may be seen engaged at cards and dominoes of forenoons.
Word forms
📚 verb • entry_id 7441

pool

/puːl/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
compartir • reunir
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.
We must pool our resources.
“She must be exceedingly clever to have beaten the police the way she has for the last few years; and—er—I worship at the shrine of cleverness—especially if it be a woman’s. The id…
participar
To combine or contribute with others, as for a commercial, speculative, or gambling transaction.
Phrases