Pool 158025 225397635 2008-07-13T13:46:51Z Swedish fusilier 5072303 [[WP:UNDO|Undid]] revision 225397610 by [[Special:Contributions/71.100.86.73|71.100.86.73]] ([[User talk:71.100.86.73|talk]]) {{wiktionarypar|pool}} {{TOCright}} '''Pool''' may refer to: ==Bodies of 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 **[[Capitol Reflection Pool]], western most element of the United States Capitol Building Grounds **[[Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool]], 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 by oceans that are filled with seawater ==Sports, games and gambling== *[[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 (soccer) betting pool *[[Footy pool]], Australian-rules football pool *[[Pool betting]], betting system in which all bets of a particular type are placed together in a pool *[[Pool 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 ==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 ==Geography== *[[Pool, Cornwall]], in England *[[Pool-in-Wharfedale]], [[West Yorkshire]], [[England]] *[[Pool Region]], in the [[Republic of the Congo]] *[[Pool, West Virginia]], in the [[United States]] ==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), Senator from North Carolina *[[Walter F. Pool]] (1850–1883), Congressman from North Carolina ==General== *[[Gene pool]], complete set of unique alleles in a species or population *[[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 ==See also== *[[AIDS]] *[[Poole (disambiguation)]] *[[Poel]] (disambiguation page) *[[Poul]] (disambiguation page) {{disambig}} [[de:Pool]] [[fr:Pool]] [[it:Pool]] [[nl:Pool]] [[ja:プール (曖昧さ回避)]] [[simple:Pool]] [[sv:Pool]]