Pool vs Blood - What's the difference?
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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.
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A small body of standing or stagnant water; a puddle.
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A swimming pool.
A supply of resources.
(uncountable) 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.
* (rfdate) (William Makepeace Thackeray):
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.
Any gambling or commercial venture in which several persons join.
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.
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.
(rail transport) A mutual arrangement between competing lines, by which the receipts of all are aggregated, and then distributed pro rata according to agreement.
(legal) An aggregation of properties or rights, belonging to different people in a community, in a common fund, to be charged with common liabilities.
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; as, the companies pooled their traffic
* (rfdate) Grant:
to combine or contribute with others, as for a commercial, speculative, or gambling transaction
A vital liquid flowing in the bodies of many types of animals that usually conveys nutrients and oxygen. In vertebrates, it is colored red by hemoglobin, is conveyed by arteries and veins, is pumped by the heart and is usually generated in bone marrow.
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A family relationship due to birth, such as that between siblings; contrasted with relationships due to marriage or adoption. (See blood relative, blood relation, by blood.)
* (Edmund Waller) (1606-1687)
* Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
A blood test or blood sample.
The sap or juice which flows in or from plants.
* 1841 , Benjamin Parsons,
* 1901 , Levi Leslie Lamborn, American Carnation Culture , fourth edition, page 57:
* 1916 , John Gordon Dorrance, The Story of the Forest , page 44:
(label) The juice of anything, especially if red.
* Bible, (w) xiix. 11
(label) Temper of mind; disposition; state of the passions.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
(label) A lively, showy man; a rake.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
* (William Makepeace Thackeray) (1811-1863)
(member of a certain gang).
To cause something to be covered with blood; to bloody.
To let blood (from); to bleed.
* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, page 121:
To initiate into warfare or a blood sport.
As nouns the difference between pool and blood
is that pool is a (l) (male person ) while blood is .pool
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) pool, pole, pol, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- the pools of Solomon
- Charity will hardly water the ground where it must first fill a pool .
- The sleepy pool above the dam.
- The filthy mantled pool beyond your cell.
Derived terms
* swimming pool * tidepool * whirlpoolDescendants
* Japanese:Etymology 2
(etyl) , which has been explained anecdotally as deriving from an old informal betting game in France - 'jeu de poule' - Game of Chicken (or Hen, literally) in which poule became synonymous with the combined money pot claimed by the winner)Noun
(en noun)- He plays pool at the billiard houses.
- The pool took all the wheat offered below the limit.
- He put $10,000 into the pool .
Derived terms
* blind pool * bumper pool * carpool * cesspool * dirty pool * gene pool * kelly pool * motor pool * pool hall * pool table * poolroom * tidal pool * vanpoolVerb
(en verb)- Finally, it favors the pooling of all issues.
Anagrams
* * * 1000 English basic words ----blood
English
(wikipedia blood)Alternative forms
* bloud (obsolete)Noun
F. E. Penny
Pulling the Strings, passage=The case was that of a murder. It had an element of mystery about it, however, which was puzzling the authorities. A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff.}}
citation, passage=An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.}}
- a friend of our own blood
- to share the blood of Saxon royalty
Anti-Bacchus, page 95:
- It is no tautology to call the blood of the grape red or purple, because the juice of that fruit was sometimes white and sometimes black or dark. The arterial blood of our bodies is red, but the venous is called "black blood."
- Disbudding is merely a species of pruning, and should be done as soon as the lateral buds begin to develop on the cane. It diverts the flow of the plant's blood from many buds into one or a few, thus increasing the size of the flower, [...]
- Look at a leaf. On it are many little raised lines which reach out to all parts of the leaf and back to the stem and twig. These are "veins," full of the tree's blood . It is white and looks very much like water; [...]
- He washedhis clothes in the blood of grapes.
- when you perceive his blood inclined to mirth
- Seest thou nothow giddily 'a turns about all the hot bloods between fourteen and five and thirty?
- It was the morning costume of a dandy or blood .