(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.
Poop
Definition:
(n.) See 2d Poppy.
(v. i.) To make a noise; to pop; also, to break wind.
(n.) A deck raised above the after part of a vessel; the hindmost or after part of a vessel's hull; also, a cabin covered by such a deck. See Poop deck, under Deck. See also Roundhouse.
(v. t.) To break over the poop or stern, as a wave.
(v. t.) To strike in the stern, as by collision.
Example Sentences:
(1) In horrible, snowy weather, these owners pick up the steaming piles of poop from city streets so that passers by don’t kick frozen poopsicles.
(2) I don't want to sound like a judgmental piece of poop.
(3) On the poop deck of a party boat puttering slowly out into the Adriatic stands a gently balding and teetotal Canadian in studious specs and sandals.
(4) That’s on top of the poop smeared all over the house.” Most of the time the mess is concentrated to a small area, something that Becca credits to a feature that leads the Roomba to go over an area repeatedly if it thinks it has detected a particularly dirty spot.
(5) The first time it happened he came back from work to find “tread-marks of caked-in poop all over the house”.
(6) (Other options like sheep poop appear to encourage pests.)
(7) "When he didn't like somebody or something that was going on, he would pick up some poop and throw it at them," Priest said.
(8) One can wear a dozen powerful sensors, own a smart mattress and even do a close daily reading of one's poop – as some self-tracking aficionados are wont to do – but those injustices would still be nowhere to be seen, for they are not the kind of stuff that can be measured with a sensor.
(9) It's probably only Bob Crow slurping cocktails and getting sunburnt on that poop deck.
(10) People are really hacked off with local things – potholes, damp in houses and dog dirt.” A team of Ukip councillors was due to come to Stoke for a poop-scooping session, he added, determinedly exuding good humour.
(11) "At least England are young and have only let in three," poops Mark Ireland.
(12) It's one step away from sending pictures of your poop."
(13) One of the other women had dogs that weren't housebroken and "many a late night or early morning we stepped in her dog's pee, or worse, poop," writes St James.
(14) As Newton explains in a graphic Facebook post , the Roomba ran over the dog feces and then continued its cleaning cycle around the house, spreading the mess over “every conceivable surface” and resulting in “a home that closely resembles a Jackson Pollock poop painting”.
(15) In fact, the game’s co-founder Max Temkin, as well as the game’s official Twitter account , went out of his way to inform them on Twitter that they would be receiving a box of, er, poop.
(16) David Carr, the New York Times's influential media critic, memorably assailed its style as "putting on a safari hat and looking at some poop" , while Dan Rather, one of US broadcasting's elder statesmen, recently dismissed Vice as "more Jackass than journalism".
(17) In her mission to create a waterless loo that uses no energy and turns the waste into a useable product, Gardiner has exhibited a bowl moulded from horse manure and monitored the activity of composting worms in her bathroom, turning "poop" into fertile soil, she said.
(18) Actress, comedian and professional poop joke generator Jenny Slate is what you'd call a rising star.
(19) The poop gets stuck in these tiny treads in the wheels, gets sucked inside and in all the brushes,” Becca explained.
(20) "When we used to go to see Hef on Friday morning to get our allowances, we always had to wait a few minutes as he walked around to pick up the poops .