Pool
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Pool can have several meanings:
- Any of several games related to billiards, distinguished by using a table that has one pocket at each corner and one in the middle of each of the two longer sides. See Eight ball, Nine ball and Straight pool.
- A small body of water. See Pond.
- Naturally occurring in rivers. See Pool (river).
- Made by man to swim in. See Swimming pool.
- A group of businesses or individuals who unite to further their interests, such as the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool. See Pooling.
- A form of gambling in which a group collectively bets on an outcome of a sports team or other happening. This is also called a kitty.
- In American football: resembles a casino game in which the winner is determined by a wheel with numbered frets, each corresponding to a square in the payoff matrix.
- In British soccer: contests based on predicting the outcome of each week's major soccer matches.
- The total money wagered on a specific type of bet in a parimutuel betting operation.
- Another word for a poker pot.
- A container for money to which many people contribute, and also a container for messages in an anonymous remailer.
- An area of computer data storage reserved to be allocated in a special, regular way. See Memory pool.
- A region of the Republic of the Congo (named after the "Stanley Pool" in the Congo River, near Brazzaville). See Pool (region).