Pool
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Pool may refer to:
[edit] Water
- Plunge pool, small, deep body of water
- The River Pool, river in England, tributary to the River Ravensbourne
- Reflecting pool, shallow pool of water designed to reflect a structure and its surroundings:
- Capitol Reflection Pool, westernmost element of the United States Capitol Building Grounds, in Washington, D.C.
- Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, the largest of the reflecting pools in Washington, D.C.
- Stream pool, a quiet slow moving portion of a stream
- Swimming pool, artificially enclosed body of water intended for swimming
- Tide pool, rocky pools on ocean shores that remain filled with seawater when the tide goes out
[edit] Sports, games and gambling
- The Pool (game), universal independent role-playing game which was written in year 2000 by James V. West
- Betting pool, form of pool betting where gamblers pay a fixed price into a pool
- Dead pool, betting pool on the date of death of celebrities
- Hockey pool, simplified version of fantasy hockey
- Football pools, football betting pool
- Footy pool, Australian-rules football pool
- Pool betting, betting system in which all bets of a particular type are placed
- Pocket billiards, family of games played on a pocket billiards table
- Pool checkers, variant of checkers (draughts)
- Pool play, round robin stage of many sporting championships
- Pool (poker), money wagered during a single hand of poker
- Singapore Pools, Singapore's sole legal lottery
- Billiards, also known as pool
- Pool table, the table on which pocket billiards is played
[edit] Computing
- Connection pool, cache of database connections maintained by the database
- Object pool, set of initialised programming objects that are kept ready to use
- Memory pool, dynamic memory allocation method
- Memory Pool System, memory management system
- Thread pool pattern, programming method where a number of threads are created to perform a number of tasks
[edit] Geography
- Pool, Cornwall, in England
- Pool-in-Wharfedale, in West Yorkshire, England
- Pool Region, in the Republic of the Congo
- Pool, West Virginia, in the United States
[edit] Persons
- Albert-Jan Pool (b. 1960), Dutch type designer
- Ithiel de Sola Pool (1917–1984), pioneer in the development of social science
- John Pool (1826–1884), American Senator from North Carolina
- Walter F. Pool (1850–1883), American Congressman from North Carolina
- Pool Group, a trio of inter-war experimental artists and film-makers
[edit] General
- Gene pool, complete set of unique alleles in a species or population
- The Pool (film), a 2007 drama film
- Pool-type reactor, nuclear reactor that has a core immersed in an open pool of water
- Pooling (resource management), grouping together of resources or effort
- Secretarial pool, group of secretaries available to assist executives
- Press pool, group of news gathering organizations pooling their resources
- Saskatchewan Wheat Pool, a defunct agricultural company
- The Pool (play), a 2006 play
- The Pool (2009 film), a 2009 film adaptation of the play
[edit] See also
- Poole (disambiguation)
- Poel (disambiguation page)
- Poul (disambiguation page)
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