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# pool

«pool» in Mova's school dictionary: **a place filled with water to swim in** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (pool, pools); verb (pool, pools, pooled, pooling)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A pool is a place filled with water to swim in. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pool/#m1)

2) A pool is a small area of liquid: a pool of rainwater. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pool/#m2)

3) To pool is to put money or things together so everyone can share them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pool/#m3)

4) A pool is a group of things or people shared: a car pool. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pool/#m4)

5) Pool is also a game played with balls and a stick on a table. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pool/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In maths: a place to swim; water filled; laps; money pooled together; volume of a pool. In everyday life and safety: swimming lessons, pool rules. In science: puddles and rock pools by the sea, evaporation. In stories: «a pool of moonlight».

### examples

- The pool holds 5000 liters of water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pool/#x1)
- She swims 10 laps in the pool. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pool/#x2)
- The pool is 25 meters long. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pool/#x3)
- They pooled their money to buy a gift. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pool/#x4)
- No running by the pool! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pool/#x5)
- We found crabs in the rock pools. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pool/#x6)
- A pool of water formed under the leaky tap. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pool/#x7)
- The parents set up a car pool for school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pool/#x8)
- Dad played pool with his friends. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pool/#x9)
- A thirsty Stag went down to a pool to drink. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pool/#x10)

### note

Water filled at a rate: time = volume ÷ rate. «Pooled» money = add. Trap: laps are lengths, so distance = laps × pool length. Safety: swim only when an adult is watching; walk, do not run, near pools. «Pool» in the UK is often «swimming pool» or «swimming baths».

### In the corpora

- [Walking sharks can survive for hours with very little oxygen when a rock pool gets warm and stale at low tide.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/311-sharks-by-kind-small-and-strange-walking-sharks-wobbegongs-cookiecutters-and-goblin-sharks/7/)
- [She sheds "gallons of tears", making a pool about four inches deep that reaches half down the hall.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/3-alice-ch2-part1-curiouser-and-curiouser/11/)
- [First, we found crabs in rock pools.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/23-reading-non-fiction-recount-instructions-report/2/)
- [Inflatable armbands and pool toys are not life-saving devices.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/7-swimming-and-water/15/)
- [Wet pool edges are slippery, so you should walk, not run.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/7-swimming-and-water/18/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «pool» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pool/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.