Pool vs. Group

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

Groupnoun

A number of things or persons being in some relation to one another.

Groupnoun

(group theory) A set with an associative binary operation, under which there exists an identity element, and such that each element has an inverse.

Groupnoun

An effective divisor on a curve.

Groupnoun

A (usually small) group of people who perform music together.

Groupnoun

(astronomy) A small number (up to about fifty) of galaxies that are near each other.

Groupnoun

(chemistry) A column in the periodic table of chemical elements.

Groupnoun

(chemistry) A functional group.

Groupnoun

(sociology) A subset of a culture or of a society.

Groupnoun

(military) An air force formation.

Groupnoun

(geology) A collection of formations or rock strata.

Groupnoun

(computing) A number of users with same rights with respect to accession, modification, and execution of files, computers and peripherals.

Groupnoun

An element of an espresso machine from which hot water pours into the portafilter.

Groupnoun

(music) A number of eighth, sixteenth, etc., notes joined at the stems; sometimes rather indefinitely applied to any ornament made up of a few short notes.

Groupnoun

(sports) A set of teams playing each other in the same division, while not during the same period playing any teams that belong to other sets in the division.

Groupnoun

(business) A commercial organization.

Groupverb

(transitive) To put together to form a group.

Groupverb

(intransitive) To come together to form a group.

Groupnoun

A cluster, crowd, or throng; an assemblage, either of persons or things, collected without any regular form or arrangement; as, a group of men or of trees; a group of isles.

Groupnoun

An assemblage of objects in a certain order or relation, or having some resemblance or common characteristic; as, groups of strata.

Groupnoun

A variously limited assemblage of animals or plants, having some resemblance, or common characteristics in form or structure. The term has different uses, and may be made to include certain species of a genus, or a whole genus, or certain genera, or even several orders.

Groupnoun

A number of eighth, sixteenth, etc., notes joined at the stems; - sometimes rather indefinitely applied to any ornament made up of a few short notes.

Groupverb

To form a group of; to arrange or combine in a group or in groups, often with reference to mutual relation and the best effect; to form an assemblage of.

Groupnoun

any number of entities (members) considered as a unit

Groupnoun

(chemistry) two or more atoms bound together as a single unit and forming part of a molecule

Groupnoun

a set that is closed, associative, has an identity element and every element has an inverse

Groupverb

arrange into a group or groups;

Groupverb

form a group or group together