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pool

/pool/US // pul //UK // (puːl) //

池,水池,池子,池塘

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a small body of standing water; pond.
    • : a still, deep place in a stream.
    • : any small collection of liquid on a surface: a pool of blood.
    • : a puddle.
    • : swimming pool.
    • : a subterranean accumulation of oil or gas held in porous and permeable sedimentary rock .
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to form a pool.
    • : to accumulate in a body part or organ.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to cause pools to form in.
    • : to cause to form pools.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of or for a pool: pool filters.
    • : taking place or occurring around or near a pool: a pool party.

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Examples

  • “When families and communities are in crisis, that’s when they come together to pool and share resources,” says Prado, a fifth-year doctoral student in education at the University of California, Irvine.

  • That is a smaller pool of recipients than the $600 enhanced checks, which weren’t limited in this manner.

  • Swimply is an online pool sharing marketplace by 23- year-old brainchild Bunim Laskin.

  • A beach ball, on the other hand, has very little mass but takes up a lot of space, so if it were placed at the bottom of a pool, it would bob to the surface.

  • When you’re not going to those conventions, when you’re not going to those meetings … that’s going to affect your talent pool.

  • Flesh encircled him at the main pool of the Paradise Hotel and Residences at Boca.

  • Marvin takes off his T-shirt and dives into his swimming pool.

  • There may be no entrapped pool of human talent left on earth with the dollar value of Cuban athletes.

  • In the course of her remarkable travels Thecla baptizes herself by diving into a pool of “man-eating seals.”

  • They include “The Goldfish Pool at Chartwell” painted in 1932 and “The Harbour, Cannes,” painted circa 1933.

  • Big Reginald took their lives at pool, and pocketed their half-crowns in an easy genial way, which almost made losing a pleasure.

  • Captains Spotstroke and Pool were equally careful; the rest of those present drank freely.

  • John was baptizing at a large pool called Ænon-by-Saleim,—probably allegorical, meaning “Fountain of Repose.”

  • The pool was drained in 1866, and, having been filled up, its site will ere long be covered with streets of houses.

  • A germ flies from a stagnant pool, and the laughing child, its mother's darling, dies dreadfully of diphtheria.