Pools of water

• Swimming pool
  Swimming pool
  A swimming pool, swimming bath, wading pool, or simply a pool, is a container filled with water intended for swimming or water-based recreation. There are many standard sizes; the largest is the Olympic-size swimming pool...
  
  , an artificially enclosed body of water intended for swimming
• Reflecting pool
  Reflecting pool
  A reflecting pool or reflection pool is a water feature found in gardens, parks, and at memorial sites. It usually consists of a shallow pool of water, undisturbed by fountain jets, for a calm reflective...
  
  , a shallow pool designed to reflect a structure and its surroundings:
• Tide pool
  Tide pool
  Tide pools are rocky pools by oceans that are filled with seawater. Many of these pools exist as separate entities only at low tide.Tide pools are habitats of uniquely adaptable animals that have engaged the special attention of naturalists and marine biologists, as well as philosophical...
  
  , a rocky pool on an ocean shore that remains filled with seawater when the tide goes out
• Plunge pool
  Plunge pool
  A plunge pool can be a natural hydrologic fluvial landform feature or a constructed recreational garden feature...
  
  , a small, deep body of water
• Stream pool
  Stream pool
  A stream pool, in hydrology, is a stretch of a river or stream in which the water depth is above average and the water velocity is quite below average.-Formation:...
  
  , a quiet slow-moving portion of a stream

Sports and gambling

• Pool (cue sports), a group of games played on a pool table
• Pool (poker) or pot, money wagered during a single hand of poker
• Pool betting or parimutuel betting, a betting system in which all bets of a particular type are placed together
  • Betting pool
    Betting pool
    A betting pool, sports lottery, sweep or office pool if done at work, is a form of gambling, specifically a variant of parimutuel betting influenced by lotteries, where gamblers pay a fixed price into a pool , and then make a selection on some outcome, usually related to sport...
    
    , a form of pool betting where gamblers pay a fixed price into a pool
    • Football pool, an association football (soccer) betting pool
• Pool play or group stages, the round robin stage of many sporting championships
• Singapore Pools
  Singapore Pools
  Singapore Pools is the only legal lottery operator in Singapore, incorporated in 1968 to curb illegal gambling. It provides a legal avenue for betting in Singapore....
  
  , Singapore's sole legal lottery

Geography

• Pool, Cornwall
  Pool, Cornwall
  The village of Pool is bypassed by the A30 in West Cornwall, situated on the A3047 between Camborne and Redruth, between Tuckingmill and Illogan Highway.Not to be confused with:* Poole, the town in Dorset....
  
  , in England
• Pool, West Virginia
  Pool, West Virginia
  Pool is an unincorporated community in southwestern Nicholas County, West Virginia, United States. It lies along CR 41-7 just east of Route 41, south of the town of Summersville, the county seat of Nicholas County. Its elevation is 2,142 feet . Although Pool is unincorporated, it has a post...
  
  , in the United States
• Pool Department, a division of the Republic of the Congo
• Pool-in-Wharfedale
  Pool-in-Wharfedale
  Pool in Wharfedale is a village and civil parish in the Lower Wharfedale area, 10 miles north of Leeds city centre and 2 miles east of Otley. It is in the City of Leeds metropolitan borough, West Yorkshire and within the historic boundaries of the West Riding of Yorkshire. It is in the LS21 ...
  
  , in West Yorkshire, England
• Pool of London
  Pool of London
  The Pool of London is a part of the Tideway of the River Thames from London Bridge to below Tower Bridge. It was the original part of the Port of London. The Pool of London is divided into two parts, the Upper Pool and Lower Pool...
  
  , a stretch of the River Thames
• River Pool (London), a river in England, tributary to the River Ravensbourne
• River Pool, Cumbria, a river in Cumbria, England, tributary to the Gilpin

Computing

• Pool (computer science)
  Pool (Computer science)
  A pool in computer science is a set of initialised resources that are kept ready to use, rather than allocated and destroyed on demand. A client of the pool will request an object from the pool and perform operations on the returned object...
  
  , a set of initialised resources that are kept ready to use
• Connection pool
  Connection Pool
  In software engineering,a connection pool is a cache of database connections maintained so that the connections can be reused when future requests to the database are required....
  
  , a cache of database connections maintained by the database
• Memory pool
  Memory pool
  Memory pools, also called fixed-size-blocks allocation, allow dynamic memory allocation comparable to malloc or C++'s operator new. As those implementations suffer from fragmentation because of variable block sizes, it can be impossible to use them in a real time system due to performance...
  
  , a dynamic memory allocation method
• Memory Pool System
  Memory Pool System
  The Memory Pool System is a flexible and modular memory management system that was developed by Harlequin to support both their ScriptWorks PostScript RIP, and their Harlequin Dylan compiler and IDE for the Dylan programming language...
  
  , a memory management system
• Object pool pattern, a pattern to construct sets of initialised programming objects that are kept ready to use
• Thread pool pattern
  Thread pool pattern
  In computer programming, the thread pool pattern is where a number of threads are created to perform a number of tasks, which are usually organized in a queue. Typically, there are many more tasks than threads. As soon as a thread completes its task, it will request the next task from the queue...
  
  , a programming method where a number of threads are created to perform a number of tasks

Media

• Pool (album)
  Pool (album)
  Pool is an album by John Zorn featuring his early "game piece" composition of the same name. The album, first released on vinyl on Parachute Records in 1980, and later released on CD on Tzadik Records with an additional bonus track featuring a test recording of Archery as part of the The Parachute...
  
  , an album by John Zorn
• The Pool (2004 film), a short British film
• The Pool (2007 film), a 2007 drama film co-written and directed by Chris Smith
• The Pool (2009 film), an adaptation of the 2006 play
• The Pool (game), a role-playing game by James V. West
• The Pool (play)
  The Pool (play)
  The Pool is a play written by and starring James Brough and Helen Elizabeth. The plot follows David , a Londoner who finds himself stranded in Liverpool, where he meets Tina . David persuades Tina to take the day off work and the two spend a day in the city together. The play is a mixture of verse...
  
  , a 2006 play by James Brough and Helen Elizabeth

Other uses

• Pool (surname)
  Pool (surname)
  Pool is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:*Albert-Jan Pool , Dutch type designer*Andre Pool, member of the National Assembly of Seychelles...
  
  , a surname (and list of people with the surname)
• Pooling (resource management), grouping together of resources or effort
  • Press pool
    Press pool
    Press pool refers to a group of news gathering organizations that combine their resources in the collection of news. A pool feed is then distributed to members of the broadcast pool who are free to edit it or use it as they see fit. In the case of print reporters, a written pool report is...
    
    , group of news gathering organizations pooling their resources
  • Secretarial pool
    Secretarial pool
    A secretarial pool or typing pool is a group of secretaries working at a company available to assist any executive without a permanently assigned secretary. These groups have been reduced or eliminated where executives have been assigned responsibility for writing their own letters and other...
    
    , group of secretaries available to assist executives
• Egyptian pool
  Egyptian pool
  The pool symbol in Egyptian mythology represents water. It is a rectangle, longer horizontally than vertically, with seven equally spaced vertical zigzag lines within it....
  
  , a water symbol used in ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic writing
• Risk pool
  Risk pool
  A risk pool is one of the forms of risk management mostly practiced by insurance companies. Under this system, insurance companies come together to form a pool, which can provide protection to insurance companies against catastrophic risks such as floods, earthquakes etc. The term is also used...
  
  

See also

• Gene pool
  Gene pool
  In population genetics, a gene pool is the complete set of unique alleles in a species or population.- Description :A large gene pool indicates extensive genetic diversity, which is associated with robust populations that can survive bouts of intense selection...
  
  , complete set of unique alleles in a species or population
• Poel
  Poel
  Poel or Poel Island ), is an island in the Baltic Sea. It builds the natural northern and eastern boundaries of the Bay of Wismar on the German coast. The northern coast of the island is also on the south side of the large gulf known as the Bay of Mecklenburg, which Wismar Bay enters in to...
  
  , an island in the Baltic Sea
• Pool Group
  Pool Group
  The Pool Group were a trio of interwar period artists, filmmakers and poets consisting of Hilda Doolittle, Kenneth Macpherson and Bryher . Their work has been studied by poetry and film historians as well as by scholars of mysticism, feminism, psychoanalysis and LGBT history...
  
  , a trio of inter-war experimental artists and film-makers
• Pool-type reactor, nuclear reactor that has a core immersed in an open pool of water
• Poole (disambiguation)
  Poole (disambiguation)
  Poole is a town in Dorset, England.This is home to, or gives its name to:* The Lighthouse , an arts centre* Lilliput, Poole, a district* Poole Bay, a stretch of sea* Poole Bridge* Poole Grammar School, an all boys school...
  
  
• Poul
  Poul
  Poul is a masculine given name and is the Danish equivalent to the English Paul. Notable people with the name include:*Poul Adado*Poul Agger*Poul Andersen*Poul Anderson*Poul Anker Bech *Poul Bang*Poul Bjerre*Poul Bjørndahl Astrup*Poul Bundgaard...
  
  , a given name
• Winter Pool
  Winter Pool
  The Winter Pool or inter-College Pool is an important part of the undergraduate application process for Cambridge University in England, intended to ensure that the best applicants are offered places if they are not selected by the college to which they applied...
  
  , a part of the admissions process for Cambridge University