Fool vs. Pool

Foolnoun

(pejorative) A person with poor judgment or little intelligence.

Foolnoun

(historical) A jester; a person whose role was to entertain a sovereign and the court (or lower personages).

Foolnoun

(informal) Someone who derives pleasure from something specified.

Foolnoun

Buddy, dude, person.

Foolnoun

(cooking) A type of dessert made of puréed fruit and custard or cream.

Foolnoun

A particular card in a tarot deck, representing a jester.

Foolverb

To trick; to deceive

Foolverb

To act in an idiotic manner; to act foolishly

Fooladjective

(informal) foolish

Foolnoun

A compound of gooseberries scalded and crushed, with cream; - commonly called gooseberry fool.

Foolnoun

One destitute of reason, or of the common powers of understanding; an idiot; a natural.

Foolnoun

A person deficient in intellect; one who acts absurdly, or pursues a course contrary to the dictates of wisdom; one without judgment; a simpleton; a dolt.

Foolnoun

One who acts contrary to moral and religious wisdom; a wicked person.

Foolnoun

One who counterfeits folly; a professional jester or buffoon; a retainer formerly kept to make sport, dressed fantastically in motley, with ridiculous accouterments.

Foolverb

To play the fool; to trifle; to toy; to spend time in idle sport or mirth.

Foolverb

To infatuate; to make foolish.

Foolverb

To use as a fool; to deceive in a shameful or mortifying manner; to impose upon; to cheat by inspiring foolish confidence; as, to fool one out of his money.

Foolnoun

a person who lacks good judgment

Foolnoun

a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of

Foolnoun

a professional clown employed to entertain a king or nobleman in the middle ages

Foolverb

make a fool or dupe of

Foolverb

spend frivolously and unwisely;

Foolverb

fool or hoax;

Foolverb

indulge in horseplay;

Foolnoun

a person who acts unwisely or imprudently; a silly person

Foolnoun

a person who is duped or imposed on

Foolnoun

a jester or clown, especially one retained in a royal or noble household.

Foolnoun

a cold dessert made of pureed fruit mixed or served with cream or custard

Foolverb

trick or deceive (someone); dupe

Foolverb

act in a joking, frivolous, or teasing way

Foolverb

engage in casual or extramarital sexual activity.

Fooladjective

foolish; silly

Poolnoun

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.

Poolnoun

A small body of standing or stagnant water; a puddle.

Poolnoun

ellipsis of swimming pool.

Poolnoun

A supply of resources.

Poolnoun

A set of resources that are kept ready to use.

Poolnoun

A small amount of liquid on a surface, such as a pool of blood.

Poolnoun

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

Poolnoun

(sport) A cue sport played on a pool table. There are 15 balls, 7 of one colour, 7 of another, and the black ball (also called the 8 ball). A player must pocket all their own colour balls and then the black ball in order to win.

Poolnoun

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.

Poolnoun

Any gambling or commercial venture in which several persons join.

Poolnoun

The stake played for in certain games of cards, billiards, etc.; an aggregated stake to which each player has contributed a share; also, the receptacle for the stakes.

Poolnoun

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.

Poolnoun

(rail transport) A mutual arrangement between competing lines, by which the receipts of all are aggregated, and then distributed pro rata according to agreement.

Poolnoun

(legal) An aggregation of properties or rights, belonging to different people in a community, in a common fund, to be charged with common liabilities.

Poolverb

to form a pool

Poolverb

(transitive) to put together; contribute to a common fund, on the basis of a mutual division of profits or losses; to make a common interest of

Poolverb

(intransitive) to combine or contribute with others, as for a commercial, speculative, or gambling transaction

Poolnoun

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.

Poolnoun

A small body of standing or stagnant water; a puddle.

Poolnoun

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.

Poolnoun

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.

Poolnoun

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.

Poolnoun

Any gambling or commercial venture in which several persons join.

Poolnoun

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.

Poolnoun

A mutual arrangement between competing lines, by which the receipts of all are aggregated, and then distributed pro rata according to agreement.

Poolnoun

An aggregation of properties or rights, belonging to different people in a community, in a common fund, to be charged with common liabilities.

Poolverb

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.

Poolverb

To combine or contribute with others, as for a commercial, speculative, or gambling transaction.

Poolnoun

an excavation that is (usually) filled with water

Poolnoun

a small lake;

Poolnoun

an organization of people or resources that can be shared;

Poolnoun

an association of companies for some definite purpose

Poolnoun

any communal combination of funds;

Poolnoun

a small body of standing water (rainwater) or other liquid;

Poolnoun

the combined stakes of the betters

Poolnoun

something resembling a pool of liquid;

Poolnoun

any of various games played on a pool table having 6 pockets

Poolverb

combine into a common fund;

Poolverb

join or form a pool of people