Pool (redirected from pooler)

pool, game: see billiards.

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pool

 or pocket billiards

Billiards game played on an oblong table having six pockets with 15 object balls and a white cue ball. At the beginning of play, the balls are arranged (racked) in a pyramid formation with its apex on a spot near the foot of the table. The first player breaks the formation by driving the cue ball into it; to continue play, he or she must hit a ball into a pocket. In the popular “8-ball” game, the first player (or team) to sink either the seven solid-coloured balls (numbered 1–7) or the seven banded (striped) balls (9–15), finishing with the black 8-ball, wins. In “9-ball,” only the balls numbered 1–9 are used, and they must be sunk sequentially; the player who sinks the 9-ball wins. Pool probably reached its present form in England and France by c. 1800; today it is most popular in North America.

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pool¹

1. a deep part of a stream or river where the water runs very slowly

2. an underground accumulation of oil or gas, usually forming a reservoir in porous sedimentary rock

3. See swimming pool

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pool²

1. the combined stakes of the betters in many gambling sports or games; kitty

2. Commerce a group of producers who conspire to establish and maintain output levels and high prices, each member of the group being allocated a maximum quota; price ring

3. any of various billiard games in which the object is to pot all the balls with the cue ball, esp that played with 15 coloured and numbered balls; pocket billiards

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pool [pül]

(civil engineering)

A body of water contained in a reservoir, by a dam, or by the gates of a lock.

(geology)

Underground accumulation of petroleum.

(hydrology)

A small deep body of water, often fed by a spring.

(mining engineering)

To wedge for splitting in quarrying or mining.

To undermine or undercut.

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swimming pool

Any basin or tank containing an artificial body of water sufficiently deep for swimming.

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POOL - Parallel Object-Oriented Language. A series of languages from Philips Research Labs. See POOL2, POOL-I, POOL-T.

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Pool 

in architecture, an artificial body of water, usually part of the architectural complex of a garden or park. The first pools, known in the countries of the ancient East and later in ancient Greece and Rome, had a rectangular form and were used primarily for washing; in the second half of the 16th century decorative pools appeared in Italy. Beginning in the 18th century, pools with fountains or reflecting pools of rectangular or more complex shapes became an important compositional element in the architecture of parks, primarily in geometrical parks, such as Peterhof, now Petrodvorets, and Versailles. Pools are widely used in contemporary architecture (decorative pools, wading pools in children’s parks, and so on). Covered or open structures containing water for swimming are also called pools.

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Pool 

a type of monopolistic association that is usually characterized by being temporary. Participants in a trading pool agree to accumulate and postpone the sale of a product in order to create a shortage and a markup in prices. Option pools are created to speculate in stocks, while patent pools are formed for the joint accumulation and exploitation of patents. Participants in patent pools agree on which inventions to use and which to hold back. Pools establish rules for the distribution of total expenditures and monopolistic profits.