What's the difference between pooh and pool?

Pooh


Definition:

  • (interj.) Pshaw! pish! nonsense! -- an expression of scorn, dislike, or contempt.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But instead of investigating it, they just pooh-poohed it and I never heard anything about the tape again.
  • (2) If it were a choice between Manchester United and Tottenham, he would choose the former, and the knowledge of this might explain why some employees at White Hart Lane had started to pooh-pooh the idea of Van Gaal coming to them even before Moyes' dismissal.
  • (3) He is happy there" - considering the lack of enthusiasm with which his client moves from the edge of the area to the six-yard box, it's no surprise that Dimitar Berbatov's Mr 15% Emil Dantchev has pooh-poohed the notion of the Bulgarian setting off for Bayern Munich or AC Milan.
  • (4) Pooh-poohing pigeon I’m sure Finns won’t appreciate a lecture from a citizen of a country that wiped out its wolves four centuries ago, and I was reminded of our own attitude towards ​killing ​wild animals outside my local butcher’s the other day.
  • (5) Kazan felt sex tapes had added something different, but Radcliffe pooh-poohed the theory.
  • (6) BBC Worldwide has sold an 85% stake in BBC Audiobooks, which publishes titles including Richard Burton's Under Milk Wood, Winnie the Pooh and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, in a deal understood to be worth at least £10m.
  • (7) What you are seeing is a guy who in public everybody pooh-poohs, but in private every guy says: that's the life I want.
  • (8) A 2007 New York Times story recounted how Arredondo took a pickup truck around the country, carrying a flag-draped coffin and photos and mementos of Alexander, including a football and his Winnie the Pooh toy.
  • (9) Berlin is already pooh-poohing the notion, unwilling to "mutualise" liability for other country's savers or banks any time soon.
  • (10) When the No Turning Back group (of Tory young Turks such as me) urged her to adopt our idea for grant-maintained schools, she pooh-poohed our political naivety (before eventually adopting the policy).
  • (11) FCO ministers in replies to me and other MPs have also pooh-poohed the idea of actually doing something to hold Russia to account over Magnitsky's death.
  • (12) Great for helping with imaginary games, playing Pooh sticks, building things."
  • (13) From the pile of canvases stacked up on the trestle table, and hung from its metal framework, the buyer had selected Kids on Guns – two sweet little children standing on a hillock of guns and bombs – and Pooh Bear, a version of AA Milne's winsome creation sitting weeping under a tree, honey pot (labelled with a dollar sign) discarded and his foot stuck in a bear trap.
  • (14) Funny and likable, even when he errs it's cute, like a shaved Winnie the Pooh accidentally eating all the honey.
  • (15) Saturday 8 September 2001 found Simon and Elizabeth Turner in John Lewis trying to decide whether, in addition to the bottles, the bedding and the baby monitors, their imminent first child really needed a complete Winnie the Pooh dining set.
  • (16) It's natural to pooh-pooh spring stats, especially for a pitcher of Lincecum's caliber, but after a wild 2012, eyebrows were raised in Scottsdale , and so this first start would be vital.
  • (17) If he was a cartoon character, he’d be… the owl from Winnie the Pooh.
  • (18) One of the best scenes in Saving Mr Banks shows Travers, played by Thompson, overwhelmed with horror to find that her LA hotel room has been stuffed with soft cuddly toys from the Disney Corporation's celluloid bestiary, including Winnie-the-Pooh.
  • (19) For younger kids there’s a Winnie-the-Pooh-themed 100 Aker Wood and an indoor play barn for rainy days.
  • (20) Anna Sewell's Black Beauty was fourth, and Winnie the Pooh fifth, with the top 10 rounded out by Alice in Wonderland , The BFG , The Wind in the Willows , the Mr Men series and a third Dahl title, Matilda .

Pool


Definition:

  • (n.) A small and rather deep collection of (usually) fresh water, as one supplied by a spring, or occurring in the course of a stream; a reservoir for water; as, the pools of Solomon.
  • (n.) A small body of standing or stagnant water; a puddle.
  • (n.) The stake played for in certain games of cards, billiards, etc.; an aggregated stake to which each player has contributed a snare; also, the receptacle for the stakes.
  • (n.) A game at billiards, in which each of the players stakes a certain sum, the winner taking the whole; also, in public billiard rooms, a game in which the loser pays the entrance fee for all who engage in the game; a game of skill in pocketing the balls on a pool table.
  • (n.) In rifle shooting, a contest in which each competitor pays a certain sum for every shot he makes, the net proceeds being divided among the winners.
  • (n.) Any gambling or commercial venture in which several persons join.
  • (n.) A combination of persons contributing money to be used for the purpose of increasing or depressing the market price of stocks, grain, or other commodities; also, the aggregate of the sums so contributed; as, the pool took all the wheat offered below the limit; he put $10,000 into the pool.
  • (n.) A mutual arrangement between competing lines, by which the receipts of all are aggregated, and then distributed pro rata according to agreement.
  • (n.) An aggregation of properties or rights, belonging to different people in a community, in a common fund, to be charged with common liabilities.
  • (v. t.) To put together; to contribute to a common fund, on the basis of a mutual division of profits or losses; to make a common interest of; as, the companies pooled their traffic.
  • (v. i.) To combine or contribute with others, as for a commercial, speculative, or gambling transaction.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We conclude that first-transit and blood-pool techniques are equally accurate methods for determining EF when the time-activity method of analysis is employed.
  • (2) These observations were confirmed by the killing curves in pooled serum obtained at peak and trough levels.
  • (3) The amino acid pools in Chinese hamster lung V79 cells were measured as a function of time during hyperthermic exposure at 40.5 degrees and 45.0 degrees C. Sixteen of the 20 protein amino acids were present in sufficient quantity to measure accurately.
  • (4) When pooled data were analysed, this difference was highly significant (p = 0.0001) with a relative risk of schizophrenia in homozygotes of 2.61 (95% confidence intervals 1.60-4.26).
  • (5) Mieko Nagaoka took just under an hour and 16 minutes to finish the race as the sole competitor in the 100 to 104-year-old category at a short course pool in Ehime, western Japan , on Saturday.
  • (6) After absorption of labeled glucose, two pools of trehalose are found in dormant spores, one of which is extractable without breaking the spores, and the other, only after the spores are disintegrated.
  • (7) In patients who had undergone gastric operations, the efficacy of a parenteral rehabilitation with plasma, human albumin and Aminofusin L forte was determined by assessing the extravascular albumin pool.
  • (8) Over the years the farm dams filled less frequently while the suburbs crept further into the countryside, their swimming pools oblivious to the great drying.
  • (9) Alkaline borohydride treatment released over 95% of the oligosaccharide units in pool I and approximately 30% of the oligosaccharide units in pool III.
  • (10) Cultures of Streptococcus mutans HS-6, OMZ-176, Ingbritt C, 6715-wt13, and pooled human plaque were grown in trypticase soy media with or without 1% sucrose.
  • (11) F(ab')2 fragment of IgG prepared from pooled immune sera was administered intravenously without side effects.
  • (12) The release of possible peptide hormones into the interpeduncular cistern, where a pool of cerebrospinal fluid and large blood vessels occur, cannot be excluded.
  • (13) It is suggested that the cause of this inhibition resides in depletion of the NADPH pool due to the high rate at which NADPH is oxidized by 2-ketogluconate reductase.
  • (14) When the results of the different studies are pooled, however, there is a significant difference between those patients with true infarction, and those in whom infarction was excluded, in terms of overall mortality (12% and 7%; P less than 0.0001) and the development of subsequent non-fatal infarction (11% and 6%; P less than 0.05) when the results are analysed for a period of follow-up of one year.
  • (15) Term pregnancy (TP) or nonpregnancy (NP) pooled sera were fractionated on a S-300 neutral column.
  • (16) Observations were also made in pooled plasma of 6 months old infants.
  • (17) Starting from the observation that the part above 6 Hz of the power spectrum of force tremor during isometric contractions can be related to the unfused twitches of motor units firing asynchronously, an attempt was made to study the usefulness of force tremor spectral analysis as a global descriptor of motoneurone pool activity.
  • (18) On land, the pits' stagnant pools of water become breeding grounds for dengue fever and malaria.
  • (19) These findings suggest an increased central pool free cholesterol synthesis in individuals possessing the apo epsilon-4 versus epsilon-2 allele.
  • (20) But prealbumin-2, which has lower affinity towards thyroxine, participates mainly in a rapid flux of the free thyroxine pool.

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