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• Swimming pool, an artificially enclosed body of water intended for swimming, diving, recreation, etc.
• Reflecting pool, a shallow pool of water designed to reflect a structure
• Pond, a body of water smaller than a lake
• Puddle, a very small body of water
• Stream pool, a quiet slow moving portion of a stream

This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... One famous reflecting pool lies between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C.. A reflecting pool is a structure often used in memorials. ... Two people reflected in a fish pond A pond is typically a man made body of water smaller than a lake. ... A puddle in a forest clearing A water puddle on a Danish beach A puddle is a small accumulation of liquid, usually water, uncontained on a surface. ... A stream pool, in hydrology, is a stretch of a river or creek in which the water depth is above average and the stream velocity is quite low. ...

Sport

• Pocket billiards, including eight-ball, nine-ball, straight pool and one-pocket among others.
• Betting pool, also known as an office pool
  • Football pools, a betting pool gambling in the UK
• Parimutuel betting
• Pot (poker), the money wagered during a single hand or game
• Pool checkers, a variant of draughts
• Pool play, another name for the Group stage of a sports tournament such as a world cup
• nickname of football club Liverpool F.C.

Pocket billiards at a pub in Groningen, Netherlands 8 ball pool in Beijing, China Pocket billiards, most commonly referred to as pool, is the general term for a family of games played on a specific class of billiards table, having 6 receptacles called pockets (or holes) along the rails, in... Eight ball players Eight ball is a billiards game played with a cue ball and 15 billiard balls on a pool table with 6 pockets. ... A correct nine ball rack Nine ball is a contemporary variation of pocket billiards, with historical beginnings rooted in the United States and traceable to the 1920s. ... A straight pool rack, right before the opening break. ... Please wikify (format) this article as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Footy tipping. ... Football pools, often referred to as The Pools, are football betting pool based on predicting the outcome of male association football matches set to take place in the coming week. ... Parimutuel betting (from the French language: pari mutuel, mutual betting) is a betting system in which all bets of a particular type are placed together in a pool; taxes and a house take are removed, and payoff odds are calculated by sharing the pool among all placed bets. ... The pot in poker refers to the sum of money that players wager during a single hand or game, according to the betting rules of the variant being played. ... Pool checkers, or also called American pool checkers, is a variant of draughts, in which men can jump backwards and there are flying kings. ... A group stage (also known as pool play or the pool stage) is the round robin stage of many sporting championships, particularly a sports world cup. ... Liverpool Football Club are an English professional football club based in Liverpool, Merseyside, who play in the Premier League; they are historically the most successful club in the history of English football, having won more trophies than any other English club. ...

Other

• POOL literary magazine
• Pool petrol, motor fuel sold in the United Kingdom during World War II. It was a mixture of fuels supplied by several companies.
• Pool-type reactor, a type of Nuclear reactor
• Pooling, the grouping together of resources
• Intergovernmental Risk Pool
• Press pool
• Secretarial pool
• Pool Corporation stock ticker symbol

Pool-type reactors are a type of nuclear reactor that has a core immersed in an open pool of water. ... The term Pooling is the grouping together of assets, samples, equipment etc. ... Intergovernmental risk pools are organizations made up of public entities joined together to provide alternative risk financing/transfer mechanisms to themselves and other public entities through which particular types of risk are underwritten with contributions (premiums), losses and expenses shared in agreed rations. ... Press pool refers to a group of news gathering organizations pooling their resources in the collection of news. ... A secretarial pool is a group of secretaries working at a company available to assist any executive without a permenantly assigned secretary. ...

Computing

• Memory pool
• Thread pool pattern
• Object pool
• Connection Pool

Memory pools allow dynamic memory allocation comparable to malloc or the Operator new in C++. As those implementations suffer from fragmentation because of variable block sizes, it can be impossible to use them in a real time system due to performance. ... In the thread pool pattern in programming, a number of N threads are created to perform a number of M tasks, usually organized in a queue. ... In computer programming, an object pool is a construct of objects which can be used concurrently. ... A Connection Pool is a cache of database connections maintained in the databases memory so that the connections can be reused when the database receives future requests for data. ...

Geography

• Pool Region, in the Republic of the Congo
• Pool-in-Wharfedale, West Yorkshire
• River Pool
• Pool, Cornwall

Pool is a region of the Republic of the Congo in the southeastern part of the country. ... Pool in Wharfedale is a small village in the Lower Wharfedale area just 10 miles north of Leeds and 2 miles east of the larger Otley. ... The Pool River is a tributary of the River Ravensbourne. ... Pool is a village in Kerrier district, Cornwall between Redruth and Camborne. ...

Persons

• Albert-Jan Pool

Albert-Jan Pool is a Dutch type designer. ...

See also

• Poole (disambiguation)
• Poel
• Poul