(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.
Slop
Definition:
(n.) Water or other liquid carelessly spilled or thrown aboyt, as upon a table or a floor; a puddle; a soiled spot.
(n.) Mean and weak drink or liquid food; -- usually in the plural.
(n.) Dirty water; water in which anything has been washed or rinsed; water from wash-bowls, etc.
(v. t.) To cause to overflow, as a liquid, by the motion of the vessel containing it; to spill.
(v. t.) To spill liquid upon; to soil with a liquid spilled.
(v. i.) To overflow or be spilled as a liquid, by the motion of the vessel containing it; -- often with over.
(v. i.) Any kind of outer garment made of linen or cotton, as a night dress, or a smock frock.
(v. i.) A loose lower garment; loose breeches; chiefly used in the plural.
(v. i.) Ready-made clothes; also, among seamen, clothing, bedding, and other furnishings.
Example Sentences:
(1) One trader wrote, on 10 March 2006: "I don't know how we dispose of the slops and I don't imply we would dump them, but for sure, there must be some way to pay someone to take them."
(2) The crude slop gave better results than the diluted or centrifuged liquors.
(3) The company has said the "slops" were dumped by a licensed local independent contractor, Compagnie Tommy, which was appointed in good faith.
(4) Their new album continues the generic cross-breeding that Funkadelic practised – on Standing on the Verge of Getting It On, Cosmic Slop, etc – from the black side of the racial border.
(5) Towers of pre-buttered bread, greasy counters and tubs of slop were dispiritingly common: Pret was clean, sleek and sensibly designed.
(6) Water slops from the pool on to the parquet where, in a few days, a baby will hopefully be sleeping in a moses basket.
(7) So if there is a heatwave this summer, it would be best for us, too, to slip on a shirt, slop on sunscreen and slap on a hat.
(8) A perfectionist, this old-school hotelier strives to make even the most uncivilised environment palatable: his delicate approach to serving prison slop brings one of the film's funniest moments.
(9) This was especially true for the slop displacement test, which revealed large amounts of displacement after a single moderate torsional load, whereas in the underreamed groups significantly less loosening was found.
(10) One might agree that the mechanically recovered slop that is the main ingredient of these balls should not be called “meat”.
(11) You could water window boxes with dish-slop, though, and that was another tip: take a shower by standing under Selfridges' petunias, which were given a pretty upmarket daily dousing in water largely free from bits of crud and washing-up-liquid slick.
(12) They repeated denials that the slops could have caused death or serious injury, and were highly toxic.
(13) The hull rolled high and slid off to the right, dumping Claude Ledet into the terrible slop, and as he went under, his mind came back to a splintered version of the present, and he knew at once that he had to get back to the surface because the boy, he felt sure, would jump after him, and a news account he'd read thirty years before of a grandfather and grandson gone fishing and not coming back in at the appointed time bloomed into his head, because when the sheriff's men dragged the canal the next morning the hooks brought up together the grandfather and a four-year-old boy wrapped tightly in his arms.
(14) You know exactly what's going to happen on the long and grisly way out: the hoists, nappies, hernia, commodes, aphasia, swallowing problems and being spoon-fed slop.
(15) ), just bubblegum pap, and televised slop, for the masses.
(16) The good news is that a combination of sunscreen and covering up can reduce melanoma rates, as shown by Australian figures from their slip, slop, slap campaign .
(17) Unlike the accelerated Britpunk of much west-coast hardcore, the Peppers’ influences are mainly American – the Germs, Ohio Players, Jimi Hendrix, P-Funk, Dead Kennedys, Captain Beefheart, etc – yet the most audible ingredient of their cosmic slop is the Gang of Four’s judderfunk.
(18) Total cerebral blood flow was caliculated by bicompartmental analysis and compared to the two minutes initial slop index.
(19) Rotational micromotion, permanent rotational displacement, and slop displacement between bone and implant were measured with linearly variable differential transducers under torsional loading.
(20) Graphs of minute ventilation (V) versus mean CO2 for families of oscillation sizes (0.5%, 1% and 2%) showed that the ventilatory sensitivity (slop) was least for the 2% oscillations and greatest for the 0.5% oscillations.